Anonymous ID: a247b8 Sept. 12, 2018, 11:01 a.m. No.2991599   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1624

>>2991548

Basically most of the WH counsel team is recused from making any decisions about muh Russia because they are fact witnesses in the Flynn firing.

 

So, they can't be tapped to help in any decisions regarding releasing FISA or other DOJ/FBI 'classified' information.

Anonymous ID: a247b8 Sept. 12, 2018, 11:06 a.m. No.2991675   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>2991592

>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/09/11/white-house-lawyers-reviewing-the-declassification-conundrum/

 

I think they are just stalling so they can time this with something else (the storm?)

 

From the WH counsels office there are some legitimate concerns surrounding executive power. From their position they don’t want to establish a precedent; however, it’s not really a precedent inasmuch as it appears to be is more of a first-deployment of already existing executive authority. The President holds unilateral executive power constitutionally, but no prior President has used that power for declassification of intelligence, against the advice of his own cabinet, that is seemingly self-interested.

 

If Rosenstein/Wray refuse to unredact and declassify “sources and methods”, and President Trump demands “sources and methods” be declassified, this would be a first.

 

Arguably the sunlight will exonerate President Trump, so the argument goes that all ends justify the means. Additionally, from Trump’s perspective if no-one in the executive has anything to hide, then declassification is no risk. However, WH legal counselors worry about what happens when Democrats control the House and make similar declassification demands of the executive in the future; or if the executive is held by opposition and uses declassification to target their political opposition. [I know, the irony!]