Corruption! Acting AG Matt Whitaker Whispered DOJ Secrets In Edwin Meese's Ear

[UCmeNdc]

On Wednesday, before what can only be described as shameful pandering to Donald Trump in a cabinet meeting, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker met up with Ronald Reagan's notoriously corrupt Attorney General, Edwin Meese, III for a little powwow about DOJ business and also some breakfast.

The news first broke with a tweet from AP reporter Eric Tucker who wrote that Meese told him "Whitaker told him John Huber continues his investigation into various FBI-related concerns raised in the last year by GOP lawmakers, including claims of improper surveillance."

That is wrong on so many levels. First, that they reanimated Meese. And then once the spell was cast, he was actually briefed on current and ongoing DOJ investigations, a topic so hot we had weeks and weeks of speculation about whether Loretta Lynch talked to Bill Clinton about grandkids or emails. Remember that?

MSNBC Legal Analyst and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance jumped right on that tweet, writing, "Whitaker has to be replaced immediately. It violates DOJ rules, and could conceivably be a federal felony if grand jury material was disclosed, to brief someone outside of DOJ on an ongoing criminal investigation. Unreal."



https://crooksandliars.com/2019/01/acting-ag-matt-whitaker-whispered-doj

[dembotoz]

1. Rules just don't apply

[babylonsister]

2. Where the heck did Meese come from? Now this 'admin'

is borrowing from other swamps?

[safeinOhio]

3. Another former football player that

took too many shots to the head and now has drian bamge.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Thought Meese was dead

but apparently not. I recall Meese was an unindicted crook during the Reagan years. I guess it's not surprising that two crooks, Whitaker and Meese, would find each other.

[RVN VET71]

5. A t-shirt that got a delivery person fired

simply read "Meese is a Pig." The delivery person was delivering a package to DOJ (entry to Federal building pre-9/11 was much friendlier, security much more lenient in those days. He was, however, refused admission to the building and Meese the Pig's accolytes issued an angry complaint to the guys boss).

Guy lost his job over the t-shirt which, ironically, only posted a message about Ed Meese that everyone knew to be true. It was true then and remains true to this day.

Littler Mattie the Meathead doesn't rise to the level of "pig", being nothing more than a slavishly butt-kissing nematoad in the lower digestive tract of Individual-1.

It is amusing that the nematode broke the law by confiding in the pig, and even more amusing that the pig would then blab it to the press.

Jaysus, conservatives are stupid. (Dangerous as hell, but also stupid.)

[watoos]

6. No disrespect, but you should apologize to all pigs.

[RVN VET71]

11. I feel admonished

Real pigs, actual pigs, are actually intelligent and decent animals. Ed Meese never has and never will rise to that level. I do, however, stand by my characterization of the nematode as a nematode. (I'd post a picture, but nematodes are really disgusting, whether up a human butt or in the Attorney General's office.)

[spike91nz]

7. Paper claims

Meese run by soviets via Israeli go-between. A lot of parallels with the current situation. Worth the read.

https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1988/eirv15n10-19880304/eirv15n10-19880304_064-the_meese_scandal_its_much_more.pdf

[JHB]

9. Larouche? Seriously?

[JHB]

8. Rerminder: Meese has continued to be active in holding conservatives together

He hasn't been gone, he's just been under the radar. He's been one of the zealots who make it their daily work to demonize compromise and have Republicans toe the conservative line - or else.

In other words, another "conservative elder statesman" who is responsible for making the Republican party into what it is today, the Party of Trump.

From 2011:
https://www.rollcall.com/news/Edwin-Meese-Helps-Social-Conservatives-Stay-Relevant-207602-1.html

Meese Helps Social Conservatives to Stay Relevant
Posted Jul 22, 2011 1:31 PM
Janie Lorber

Every Wednesday morning, about a dozen prominent conservatives led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese huddle over a Dunkin’ Donuts breakfast in a quest to prevent their movement from fragmenting.

The strategy sessions — held at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. — bring together some of the old guard’s familiar figures, including Meese, who ran the Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan; Tony Perkins, the president of the council; and Alfred Regnery, former head of the conservative publishing house bearing his family’s name, according to sources familiar with the gatherings.

For the past two years they have served as ambassadors to the days when advocates for conservative social causes and fiscal causes were united at the hip — and the ballot box. The group is trying to reinforce the notion in conservative circles that issues such as faith, gay marriage and abortion are inherently tied to deficit reduction and limited government.

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The breakfast meetings, led by Meese, began in 2009 as an outgrowth of the Council for National Policy, a group founded 30 years ago by the Rev. Tim LaHaye, an evangelical minister, with the help of Paul Weyrich, an iconic conservative political organizer, sources said.

[Roy Rolling]

10. I hate Meeses to Pieces. N/t