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| 2018-02-03 |
| [The Hill] Mark Penn (Mark Penn served as pollster and adviser to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, including during President Clinton’s impeachment, and today is chairman of the Harris Poll.) Both the New York Times and the Washington Post yesterday ran editorials calling for prior restraint on a memo written by the duly elected chairman of the House Intelligence Committee after he and his staff reviewed classified documents related to the so-called Russia investigation. These editorials are a stain on American journalism, much like the Japanese internment camps were a stain on the record of the Supreme Court. They should ‐ and, I think, will over time ‐ regret them. I have no idea what is in this memo, but it’s a memo. It’s speech. It’s from the very staff and people our Constitution assigns to oversee the Justice Department and the FBI. And the elected officials who wrote it think I should see it. The people who don’t want me to see it are the elected officials and leaders of the Democratic Party, the institutions and individuals whose actions are being reviewed, and several of the same newspapers that went to court to publish the "Pentagon Papers." Whether the Nunes memo is a smoking gun or a pop gun, it deserves to see the light of day ‐ and the editorial writers should think about how they came to support prior restraint over sunshine and open debate. Perhaps more importantly, the news pages need to stop covering a story that has brought down six senior officials as just partisan sniping and recognize that the actions of the FBI and the Justice Department in relation to both these investigations need to come out of the darkness and be fully revealed to the American public. |
| Posted by:KBK |
| #3 IRS need an enema too, if we're just looking at the worst offenders. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-02-03 18:04 |
| #2 By all means get all the facts out. IMO the Clintons and Obama turned government agencies into weapons to be used against citizens and anyone who might be a threat to them. The list is long of their abuses and criminality. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-03 10:18 |
| #1 When the FBI told the Jihadi shooters who attacked a draw Muhammed event in Garland, Texas to "tear Texas up", and when the ATF were running guns to the Sinaloa cartel and when agents forced LaVoy Finicum off the road as he was on the way to see a Sheriff and then was shot at by the FBI which caused him to leave his vehicle to draw fire away from his passengers... Ya know, I have a lot of questions for the FBI also. That includes Mueller who was Director of the FBI when all of the above happened on his watch. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-02-03 00:40 |