The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SUBJECT: Agency Cooperation with Attorney General's Review of Intelligence Activities Relating to the 2016 Presidential Campaigns
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:
Section 1. Agency Cooperation.
The Attorney General is currently conducting a review of intelligence activities relating to the campaigns in the 2016 Presidential election and certain related matters. The heads of elements of the intelligence community, as defined in 50 U.S.C. 3003(4), and the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the intelligence community shall promptly provide such assistance and information as the Attorney General may request in connection with that review.
Sec. 2. Declassification and Downgrading. With respect to any matter classified under Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009 (Classified National Security Information), the Attorney General may, by applying the standard set forth in either section 3.1(a) or section 3.1(d) of Executive Order 13526, declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence that relates to the Attorney General's review referred to in section 1 of this memorandum. Before exercising this authority, the Attorney General should, to the extent he deems it practicable, consult with the head of the originating intelligence community element or department. This authority is not delegable and applies notwithstanding any other authorization or limitation set forth in Executive Order 13526.
Sec. 3. General Provisions.
(a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) The authority in this memorandum shall terminate upon a vacancy in the office of Attorney General, unless expressly extended by the President.
(d) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(e) The Attorney General is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
DONALD J. TRUMP
This is BIG people...I thought you would all be thrilled....this is a tough audience :2popcorn:
I wonder if nancy is still praying for POTUS Trump.... :silly:
This is BIG people...I thought you would all be thrilled....this is a tough audience :2popcorn:
Trump sends a memo.... yeah, okay.
Brennan in handcuffs and refused bail, that's big.
@corbe
Please start a poll betting which one of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse is going to 'unexpectedly' die first.
Brennan, Clapper, Comey, or Lynch?
Trump has had his own people, Pompeo, Haspel, Wray, and Coates in place for years. He’s had the information and could have declassified anything, at any time, if something was there, beyond what we already know. The only thing the statement lacked was a Hannity-esque ‘tick-tock’ at the end. When this prom night promise falls flat, it’ll be because the dastardly deep state was just too entrenched. *****rollingeyes*****
Byron York â€Verified account @ByronYork
7m7 minutes ago
Talking to plugged-in Republicans about Trump declassification order. They see giving AG Barr authority will speed the process.
Added benefit: Quick declassification could allow DOJ IG Horowitz to include more stuff in his upcoming report.
Adam Schiff
Verified account @RepAdamSchiff
While Trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice,
Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies.
The coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase.
This is un-American.
6:57 PM - 23 May 2019
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1131740851909083137?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Jim Hoft
â€Verified account @gatewaypundit
3m3 minutes ago
BREAKING..... IT'S HAPPENING! President Trump Releases Statement -- Calls on DOJ to Declassify Intel Related to Spying on Trump Campaign
It shows you just how screwed up everything is in DC when it takes a Presidential Directive to 'prod' certain Department Heads to cooperate with the United States Attorney General.
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Uh...this isn't chess. Hell...it isn't even checkers!
President Trump has sandbagged Pelosi and the Democrats.
This is timed to break around the same time of the year when he rode that escalator...going into 2020.
In 2016, he said we were getting ripped off, etc.. and he wanted to stem the flood of Mexico's not-finest.
in 2020, he's going to hold up the indictments and evidence that will see a super-majority Republican Party going forward.
....I can dream, can't I?
Trump Orders Declassification of Obama-Era Russia Probe Intel
Real Clear Politics, May 24, 2019
[...]
The declassification process will undoubtedly shed new light on the role FBI officials, including former Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, as well as former FBI agent Peter Strzok, lawyer Lisa Page and former Associate Deputy Director Bruce Ohr, played in seeking the warrant application under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to begin spying on Page.
The move also could help detail the role former CIA Director John Brennan played in pushing the narrative regarding Russian efforts to penetrate the Trump campaign. The first evidence of those efforts, according to media reports, came from foreign intelligence sources’ tipoffs, based on voice intercepts, computer traffic or human sources based outside the United States, dating back to 2015.
Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper has argued that the unproven “Russian dossier†that Steele composed — and which was bankrolled by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign — was not the primary source for the FISA warrants. If not, then the declassified FISA-related documents will undoubtedly show what other information officials used to secure the surveillance warrants.
More: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/24/trump_orders_declassification_of_obama-era_russia_probe_intel__140417.html (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/24/trump_orders_declassification_of_obama-era_russia_probe_intel__140417.html)
Right now it really sucks to have been a Clinton, Obama loyalist.
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Right now it really sucks to have been a Clinton, Obama loyalist.Not if you're trying to sell books or get more bookings on news shows.
It should!
I watched Austan Goolsby on Hannity's show last night. I watched it because Dan Bongino was hosting. He shut Goolsby right down. Wouldn't let him get away with the usual lies. Very satisfying.
:laughingdog:
I am all for going after the people who have been wasting American taxpayer money with this circus. But I am tired of the story and tired that National matters like the invasion at the border is taking the back seat to all this excitement. Not right.
I had thought the 'O'riginal Fusion GPS dossier started with the Rubio campaign as opposition research on Trump, am I wrong (again) @Cyber Liberty
AG William Barr given power to declassify documents on surveillance activities into Trump campaign
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-william-barr-given-power-to-declassify-documents-on-surveillance-activities-into-trump-campaign (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-william-barr-given-power-to-declassify-documents-on-surveillance-activities-into-trump-campaign)
Don't get too excited too quickly.'Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!' Vizzini "The Princess bride."
Barr is a serious minded fellow. He will be very careful about what he releases, especially if he is going to seek indictments.
I think this is all going to take time. However, I would bet Pelosi probably wishes she kept her mouth shut. She is the one who let this get out of hand with her impeachment and cover up talk. The Rats just haven't learned. Trump is not a typical Pub. He fights back!
@corbe
Please start a poll betting which one of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse is going to 'unexpectedly' die first.
Brennan, Clapper, Comey, or Lynch?
@DCPatriot
@corbe
I'd go with Comey falling on his sword, out of this group.
Waiting for arrests and indictments. :pop41:
Comey hired CIA spook Stefan Halper to work Papadopoulos. Enticed him to foreign soil and presented him with $10K as a good-faith retainer.
I would love to see it, but I wouldn't get too excited. Trump had to have known about this information long ago. If there truly was something there, why would he wait till now?? Certainly you would think that he would have exposed all to ensure the win during the mid terms. He's never going to be able to take down Clinton, Comey, Holder, Jaret, Bammy, etc. The Mueller investigation was used to cover up all. Almost two years in the making, the cover-up was completed, otherwise Mueller would have kept on.
Nope.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/papadopoulos-foreign-agent-israel/
Headline has nothing to do with my statement. Never claimed Halper was a foreign agent...but you can bet your ass he is/was.
I'm saying that it was Halper who first met Papadopoulos about an opportunity abroad.
Good bye.
Headline has nothing to do with my statement. Never claimed Halper was a foreign agent...but you can bet your ass he is/was.
I'm saying that it was Halper who first met Papadopoulos about an opportunity abroad.
Good bye.
No, you just said that Halper was the one that gave Papadopoulos the $10K. In fact, it was given by an Israeli-American businessman, related to oil/gas consulting. You can’t create a case on things that didn’t actually occur.
Later.
Halper introduced Papadopoulos to the $$$ man. Halper only told Papadopoulos of the business opportunity...met him there.
Geezuz try to keep up.
22222frying pan
edpc DCP
He wasn't running during the midterms.
Oh, good grief. Of course he wasn't and that is not what I meant. The House would have never gone to the DEMS had Trump exposed whatever dirt he supposedly has on them.
He wasn't running during the midterms.
This declassification order was never going to be able to be made until after the Mueller investigation had completed. Aside from the public perception issue that Trump was "obstructing justice" by declassifying and potentially releasing some of these documents, Mueller's investigators pretty much had frozen a large number of potential documents as being part of their ongoing investigations.
Very Important point @EdJames @GrouchoTex
This declassification order was never going to be able to be made until after the Mueller investigation had completed. Aside from the public perception issue that Trump was "obstructing justice" by declassifying and potentially releasing some of these documents, Mueller's investigators pretty much had frozen a large number of potential documents as being part of their ongoing investigations.
That is exactly correct. Thanks @EdJames
This is BIG people...I thought you would all be thrilled....this is a tough audience :2popcorn:
@mystery-ak
It has the potential to be YUGE!
I say "potential" because we need to wait and see how many Dim bills pass through Congress to stop this,and how many other roadblocks are put in the way to stop it until at least after the next elections.
Does anyone REALLY think the evil criminal creatures that run the DNC and their bosses are going to take this lying down? It is a DIRECT threat to their power,and they just can't sit still ad let it slide past them unopposed.
@sneakypeteTrue. Somehow, Someway, the American political system today has mysteriously evolved in such a way that unknown, unelected Judges from anywhere have VETO power over anything the President does. This needs to be fixed.
I expect the Rats will use their favorite method to stop this: A Federal District Judge in a leftist circuit will issue an injunction.
True. Somehow, Someway, the American political system today has mysteriously evolved in such a way that unknown, unelected Judges from anywhere have VETO power over anything the President does. This needs to be fixed.
It makes no sense at all.
@sneakypete
I expect the Rats will use their favorite method to stop this: A Federal District Judge in a leftist circuit will issue an injunction.
I'm not so sure that will be necessary.
IMO the pushback is going to come from the agency chiefs regarding what Barr wants access to. Even though Trump has given Barr the power to request what he believes that he needs, I'm not so sure that they are going to comply very easily. That will set up some direct faceoffs between Barr and the chiefs. How far will Barr push it?
And even though Trump has appointed them, it is naive to believe that Wray, Haspel, Coats are "Trump people." We always need to remember that it is a small set of people that the Senate (regardless of which party controls it) will deem 'acceptable' as appointments to these positions.
I'm not so sure that will be necessary.
IMO the pushback is going to come from the agency chiefs regarding what Barr wants access to. Even though Trump has given Barr the power to request what he believes that he needs, I'm not so sure that they are going to comply very easily. That will set up some direct faceoffs between Barr and the chiefs. How far will Barr push it?
And even though Trump has appointed them, it is naive to believe that Wray, Haspel, Coats are "Trump people." We always need to remember that it is a small set of people that the Senate (regardless of which party controls it) will deem 'acceptable' as appointments to these positions.
Yes, @EdJames analysis, as often, is poignant and an asset to these discussions.
@Bigun
@TomSea
@Cyber Liberty
Thanks guys. All three of you guys add a lot more to the conversations here than my sporadic "lucid" posts!!
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