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Trump blocked the Dem memo release.
I disagree with this course of action. Wonder what happened to change his mind.
The Don McGahn letter to House Intel today explained it this way:
In a letter to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, White House counsel Don McGahn said that while the president is “inclined” to declassify the memo, he will not “at this time” due to it containing “numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages.”
Didn't McGahn mean to write IMproperly classified and especially sensitive passages?
Freudian slip anyone?
Pulled up the actual letter to make sure it wasn't a Yahoo typo.
And there is it. "Properly." Where's Rob Portman when you really need him?
The Don McGahn letter to House Intel today explained it this way:
In a letter to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, White House counsel Don McGahn said that while the president is “inclined” to declassify the memo, he will not “at this time” due to it containing “numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages.”
Didn't McGahn mean to write IMproperly classified and especially sensitive passages?
Freudian slip anyone?
Pulled up the actual letter to make sure it wasn't a Yahoo typo.
And there is it. "Properly." Where's Rob Portman when you really need him?
The optics of this are really bad, and McGahn's credibility isn't exactly stellar after learning that he covered up for the wife beater for a year...I wonder if he also covered up for the speechwriter girlfriend abuser they canned today
The optics of this are really bad, and McGahn's credibility isn't exactly stellar after learning that he covered up for the wife beater for a year...I wonder if he also covered up for the speechwriter girlfriend abuser they canned today
No ... I just finished reading the whole letter (or that portion of it that's not cut off on Twitter). McGahn isn't rejecting a redacted version (my first take) for improper classifications ... but saying that too much of it is "properly" classified - with the inference being it's too much work then to redact them.
There are a couple of ways to release a document that contains "classified information."
One is to identify the classified portions, then redact them to create a public version. The other is to declassify it. The President appeared to have declassified the Nunes memo (?) and released it in its entirety, I believe. He could have done the same with the Minority memo but declined to do so indicating that it contained too much classified and sensitive memo per the Director National Intelligence and the DOJ.
But didn't the DOJ, at least, ALSO object to the release of the Nunes memo?
So HERE we have the person - Trump - who clearly has a vested interested in the issue (per his own post-Nunes memo tweet) ignoring the first recommendation NOT to release but then turning around and using a do-not-release recommendation as the excuse to hold back the Minority memo?
Instead, he sent it back for a rewrite.
Per Spartacus, the supposition is that the Democrats set up this situation by including particularly sensitive material?
Wonder what House procedures are for a release with redaction?
It appears that the Democrats intentionally included information on sources and methods that they knew would need to be redacted, so as to create a reason around which they could posture as a victim, and whine and cry like the petulant children that they are to the mass media about how they are being treated unfairly when the information was redacted.
In all probability, this memo is explaining the need for those redactions.
Yes ... this is what I was assuming would happen, too. Redactions, if need be.
But Trump doesn't seem to be giving them the opportunity. Instead, he's letting them "revise."
Redact and you can often keep the conclusion. Revise?
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The Don McGahn letter to House Intel today explained it this way:
In a letter to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, White House counsel Don McGahn said that while the president is “inclined” to declassify the memo, he will not “at this time” due to it containing “numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages.”
Didn't McGahn mean to write IMproperly classified and especially sensitive passages?
Freudian slip anyone?
Pulled up the actual letter to make sure it wasn't a Yahoo typo.
And there is it. "Properly." Where's Rob Portman when you really need him?
Wonder if the WH also confuses flammable and inflammable.
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