The Jared Exception
The White House is refusing to give the House Oversight Committee any information about Jared Kushner’s security clearance.
On March 1, the Oversight Committee requested information about the context surrounding the White House granting Kushner’s security clearance after the New York Times reported that the president ordered then-chief of staff John Kelly to give it to him — in spite of security issues raised the CIA.
Kelly and then-White House counsel Don McGahn were both reportedly so concerned by the order that they both wrote contemporaneous memos about it.
Their argument seems to be that they don’t have to give Congress much of anything and that they are nice people and that should be enough proof that Jared is not selling secrets to Saudi Arabia in exchange for money. So there.
Since 81 subpoenas were issued and this is the first they jumped on, that tells you which one we really, really need to see.
Jared’s Dad went to prison to cover for him but I would not count on Trump doing that.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
whoever is tasked with preparing subpoenas is going to get writers’ cramp
1Both Jared and Ivanka need to at the least, be forced out of the White House. I prefer prison for them both.
2Jared is just there to find cash for the Trump crime family. As long as he is successful he will be fine, the first slip up on the money side and he will be a goner.
3Here is Congressman Cummings response to the White House. https://tinyurl.com/y3qsxmmc
4Remember that the Laws allowing Congressional access to tax returns and other information of people in the executive branch was in a large case inspired by anther thuglican cabinet official accepting bribes.
5The Teapot Dome scandal.
Reading history and looking at today one can see that the thuglicans have not changed and are still of the opinion that thuglicans cannot be crooks no matter the reality.
I wonder if the Orangutrump spent any time at the casino tables or just the dancer’s dressing rooms?
The reason being is that the House is going to call his bluff after drawing an Ace.
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday it had hired a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan with experience investigating Russian mobsters and white-collar crime to lead its probe into the Trump administration.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-house/house-panel-taps-veteran-prosecutor-to-lead-trump-probe-idUSKCN1QM2BQ
6@ megasoid
Remember that the demented one finally got his ray cohn in as AG and if anyone thinks that an AG who made his bones printing up pardons for criminals to protect his political owner will hold his oath superior to his groveling subservience to the one who owns him now is probably sadly mistaken.
7Any criminal referrals have to be referred to and prosecuted by the DoJ.
With barr in charge of the DoJ nobody in the crime family will ever be held responsible for anything.
Toss in the pet judges that have been ensconced onto the bench and the odds of any of these crooks being held responsible is somewhere between mimimual and non existent.
It’s not at the subpoena stage yet, I don’t think. Wasn’t the first step just document requests or something like that? I’m sure there will be some subpoenas rolling out after they see who lawyers up and/or doesn’t respond to the “requests”.
8Oh yeah. His goose is cooked.
Does Subway still need a replacement Jared?
“Feel Like A Million With A $5 Footlong!
9You Don’t Have To Hunt For Our New $2 Two Inch Trumpwich!”
@AK Lynne. Those subpoenas have been issued. The House is not proceeding by way of action and re-action. They knew how this fight would proceed and are working on multiple fronts considering the witnesses who would be lawyered up.
That was the message from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who issued subpoenas Monday to over 80 individuals and organizations as part of a wide ranging effort to, as Nadler explained on Sunday in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos, investigate the president on a number of potential crimes.
The subpoenas and investigations come in part from last week’s testimony from former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen who, Nadler said, “directly implicated the president in various crimes—both while seeking the office of president and while in the White House.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/04/democrats-subpoena-list-trump-world-reads-article-actually-many-articles-impeachment
10@megasold: These are NOT subpoenas. They are “document requests” so says the source links provided in your link and the Justice Committee’s own website.
11I had already posted on Facebook that the whirring sound heard from DC to New York City is the shredders.
12From the article: That was the message from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who issued subpoenas Monday to over 80 individuals and organizations
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/04/democrats-subpoena-list-trump-world-reads-article-actually-many-articles-impeachment
13I’m not a lawyer but I smell like one sometimes.
Subpoena is a court order or a writ sent to a person, ordering him/her to go to a deposition, give evidence OR documents relating to a case to the plaintiff.
DuckDuckGo
14If I was a cool-headed elected official I’d send a nice letter to the target of my investigation asking ever so politely for their records.
Of course, I’d do this after I printed no-knock search warrants for my search teams.
15@Micr Ha, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
16@megasold
Turns out I tolerate heretics better than snacilbupeR. Who wudda thought?
17With all the new legal fronts opening up I make the recommendation that the White House/personal legal “team/s” adopt Shel Silverstien’s Song.
18“I am being eaten by a boa constrictor…”
I suggest they ensure rights before using it.
My guess is that what the Trump WH is afraid of is public scrutiny of the report that detailed WHY Jared should not get clearance.
19There’s a thrum that quite a few people on the list are very, very happy and excited to provide information they were not given opportunity nor an avenue to reveal previously thanks to the GOP’s refusing investigations. I believe it was Nadler, during an interview last night, that stated they’ve have already received some docs and responses.
20Trying hard not to think of how all of this sordid Trump **ap will play out in the future as mini-series on TV, epic motion pictures in theaters and Lord save us, unending streams of books! And it ain’t working!!!
21What would it matter about the clearances? We know Drumpf can’t keep his mouth shut. I would bet he shares US secrets with Hannity, Stone, Putin and anyone else he thinks he holds sway with or wants to. Our country cannot afford this twat on so many levels — security-wise, financially, environmentally. You name it.
22@maggie:
If we survive this, I’m sure the Trump administration will provide future Political Science doctoral students with an unending source of material.
23I can translate that legal argument to plain English. “Trump could sell security clearances from the front steps of the White House and there ain’t a damn thing you, Congress, could do about it.”
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