Adam Schiff Just Cut Off Barr's Efforts To Declassify Secrets

[applegrove]

Adam Schiff Just Cut Off Barr’s Efforts To Declassify Secrets

By Jason Easley at Politicus USA

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-barr-intel.html

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House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made sure that Barr won’t be able to declassify the nation’s secrets behind the backs of Congress.

Rep. Schiff wrote in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, “This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement.”

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Adam Schiff’s demand carries a ton of weight. It’s his committee that is responsible for oversight of the intelligence community. Rep. Schiff isn’t going let William Barr declassify secret sources and methods to help Donald Trump cook up a conspiracy that they hope will save the president’s reelection campaign. The intelligence community is required by law to keep Congress informed of Barr’s activities.

Trump was wrong to believe that he gave Barr unlimited power to build a “deep state” conspiracy that he can use to muddy the political waters in 2020. Adam Schiff is watching, and the chairman just cut Barr’s efforts to work in secret off at the knees.



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[Iliyah]

1. Barr thinks he is the law.

The only law. He is above any man made law. He is superior. He is sick as hell, just like his master.

[Nitram]

24. Barr is a lickspittle lackey. He doesn't "think." He obeys.

[AJT]

2. The heads of IC agencies can be fired by 45 and replaced with people who will obey him.

I am not sure anything, other than the courts(which have been stacked by the right), can stop him.

[BlueJac]

3. K&R

[Turbineguy]

4. That's good

Our Allies will know that at least somebody is watching the store. When the trump cabal is gone we can go back to normalcy.

[onetexan]

5. Thank God for leaders like Adam Schiff

[myohmy2]

25. +1

...

[dlk]

6. Schiff Sent a Great Letter, However, Coats is a Republican...

I’m not sure any Republican is trustworthy at this point.

[LTG]

7. Can't Trump order anything he wants declassified?

I believe Barr could simply prepare a list, Trump orders the agencies to give him the files and Trump orders declassified whatever he pleases.

If Barr has seen the information he need only list the information and Trump need not even talk to the agencies before declassification.

[former9thward]

19. Yes, any president can.

The OP is wrong.

[mitch96]

21. "Can't Trump order anything he wants declassified?"

Don't you mean Putin?
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[yuiyoshida]

8. K&R, Tweeted

n/t

[spanone]

9. Thank you Adam Schiff

saving our democracy

[Jarqui]

10. I wonder because that assumes Barr and the Trump criminal cabal

will abide by the rule of law ... which they have repeatedly demonstrated that they will not.

If the GOP Senate and House were not so corrupt, an impeachment inquiry would have started long before the 2018 midterms.

[watoos]

11. Stay the course

More very stern letters.

[certainot]

12. the 'deep state coup' meme is baked in with 2 years of talk radio repetition while

democrats were laughing at fox. the same benghazi base is enabling these asshat GOP teabags and many of them actually believe limbaugh, who might have gotten a lot of this from some kremlin think tank. all this could have been avoided if the dem party had been giving talk radio the credit it deserved. for years none of the dem party staff i've talked to have any clue talk radio is a problem.

if schiff stops them they're going to howl it's a coverup. it's a lose lose situation for dems as long as we ignore talk radio

[sakabatou]

13. Barr would harm the US just to protect Trump

Thank you Adam Schiff.

[RainCaster]

14. Barr DID harm the US...

[Lochloosa]

17. Barr IS harming the US.

[Bob Loblaw]

29. Barr will continue to harm the U.S.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread applegrove.

[applegrove]

16. You're most welcome uncle Joe.

[former9thward]

18. No he didn't.

Schiff has no authority over Barr. He can ask to see what Barr has done but that is about it.

[panfluteman]

20. A Good, Noble and Necessary Effort by Adam Schiff, I Am Sure,

But I remain skeptical about its ultimate and lasting effectiveness, especially in the face of the absolute lawlessness of this president and his administration. In resisting this criminal administration, I don't believe we can rely exclusively on any one tactic, strategy or approach -we need to attack it from every possible angle simultaneously to finally subdue it, and bring the criminals to justice. What we have here is a new American civil war. Unfortunately, the battle lines are not as neatly drawn as they were for the first civil war, between north and south; you could say that the two coasts are predominantly anti-Trump, whereas everything in between is a potential battleground.

[Honeycombe8]

23. I think so, too. It doesn't cut off the effort.

It seems to put the intel agencies on notice that Congress is watching, and maybe having to notify Schiff's committee. But if Barr declassifies certain things and Schiff knows it, I don't know if he can stop it. ??? Although knowing is better than not knowing.

[Lucinda]

22. KNR

[Kablooie]

26. Now let's see if Barr ignores this and barrels on ahead anyway.

They seem to think the law means nothing so why should this deter them?

[robbedvoter]

27. This particular blog tends to be overly optimistic - stopped reading long time ago

takes facts and interprets them wildly.

[oasis]

28. Adam Schiff is one of the smartest members of congress. Unshakeable.

[smirkymonkey]

30. Bill Barr is the Mrs. Baylock of American Politics

Put a stake in him.

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[Stinky The Clown]

31. This will be handled much like subpoenas, tax returns, and testimonial records

Which is to say from Barr to Congress fuck you

[lark]

32. Thonk Schiff tried, but seriously doubt he thwarted drumpf or Barr for even 1 minute.

Coates is part of the rw Russian Repug clown show, he obviously doesn't care that hostile nations are making our national security decisions or he wouldn't be there. He would have done the honorable thing like Tillerson and Mattis and get the hell out of Dodge. The only reason Russia hasn't had this information before is that drumpf is too fucking lazy to get it himself. Now that he has another thoroughly corrupted ass in place, he's assigned the job to him so he can give every bit of the information to Russia and MBS and Israel - none of whom have our best interests at heart and who want to use us for their own purposes