Monday, May 21, 2018

Dum, da dum dum, duuuuuuuuuuuum






You think he'll ask for loyalty oaths or backtrack his position on Twitter?

UPDATE:

“He wants them to turn over the information that exists about the informant to the House and Senate committees — all the memos they have,” Giuliani said of the meeting scheduled for 3 p.m. between the president, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence.

The documents, Giuliani said, will "indicate what the informant found." Then, the memos "should be made available to us on a confidential basis," he added. "We should be at least allowed to read them so we know this exculpatory evidence is being preserved.”

[...]

Giuliani predicted the Justice Department would place redactions on some parts of the material.

“But as long as they turn over the vast majority of it it gives you a real sense” of what the FBI was doing. “The question is what are the justifications for it? Did the justifications continue? Did they pick up anything valuable? That’s the most important thing to do. We think they didn’t.”

  
And that's obviously what the whole move was about: getting to see what Mueller has on Trump.
Trump’s demand could place both Rosenstein and Wray in an untenable position: being ordered to breach long-standing DOJ precedent and reveal to Congress details about a secret source.

Justice Department officials have previously argued that such a disclosure to lawmakers would endanger national security and risk lives.

But Republicans on Capitol Hill demanding the information have rejected that contention and accused Justice officials of stonewalling. The confrontation was, until Trump's involvement, defused after calls between the White House, DOJ officials and top lawmakers.
Making it more arguable that Trump's move is a further obstruction of justice.

UPDATE 5/21:

Exactly what I was saying....they want to know what the guy told Mueller.  Otherwise, Trump will get caught in a lie.

One of Donald Trump’s lawyers said Monday that the president can’t agree to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team without first learning more about the secret FBI informant who spoke with members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 race.

“We can’t let our guy go in and be questioned without knowing this,” Rudy Giuliani said in an interview with HuffPost on Monday afternoon.

  HuffPo
They know his name. It's been published now. And they know who he talked to in the campaign. They could ask those people what they told him. Any other person being investigated would not have this power.  Obstruction of justice.

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