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| Thom Hartmann |
If Trump shared American secrets with Putin, our intelligence agencies are not going to call a press conference to let us all know.
Similarly, short of a trial for treason, it’s extremely unlikely such an allegation — even if true — will show up in a court of law.
Lawyers, judges, and juries just don’t have the security clearances necessary, so the documents brought to court are almost certainly not among the very most sensitive: they’re just enough to get a conviction.
As former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissman told MSNBC yesterday:
And Attorney General Merrick Garland himself said:
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Lawyers, judges, and juries just don’t have the security clearances necessary, so the documents brought to court are almost certainly not among the very most sensitive: they’re just enough to get a conviction.
As former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissman told MSNBC yesterday:
(There)] is a subset of the secret or top secret documents that I think that's something we will not see more of because that is probably the intelligence community saying there are things so sensitive we do not want you to use that in court. The material in the indictment is shocking. You can imagine what was left out.
And Attorney General Merrick Garland himself said:
We do not do our investigations in public. This is the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into.”
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Paul Keely McIlroy comments
ReplyDeleteTHE WAR IN UKRAINE
How much does the west have to pay for a mercenary army?
Does it take a few crumbs from the table or a few billion dollars? Or does the fact that the Russian economy is so depleted by western sanctions that it can't supply ammunition to Wagner's mercenaries?
Whether you believe that Russia is a socialist country trying to protect its borders from the ever increasing threat of NATO, or u believe that Ukraine is defending the last border between the communist east and capitalist west/east, THE ONLY PEOPLE WINNING ARE THOSE THAT TRADE IN WEAPONS OR OIL!
It is a war between liberal democracy and reactionary autocracy built on a pyramid of lies that is collapsing as I post this. It is truth that will win in the end just as it defeated Trump and Johnson.
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