[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #611 Deadline for Barr

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Op woensdag 3 april 2019 21:37 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Heb geen zin om de discussie over te doen. Nogmaals, ik geloof in eigen verantwoordelijkheid. Mensen zijn de baas over hun eigen lichaam. Meer argumenten zijn voor mij niet nodig.

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He flew across the ocean to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary with the largest and most important member of the military alliance. So to outsiders it appeared to be an awkward moment on Tuesday for Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, as he sat stiffly by while President Trump criticized German defense spending and predicted that the United States would get along with Russia.

“I accept there are differences, but when it comes to defense spending we all agree,” Mr. Stoltenberg said in an interview after his meeting with Mr. Trump, putting a positive spin on the situation.

He said the president had helped push member states to budget an additional $100 billion in defense spending and credited Mr. Trump with “having a real impact.”

“I say that because it is a fact,” Mr. Stoltenberg said. “Allies are now really stepping up.”

But not all. Germany will most likely slow the growth of its defense spending — meaning that Europe’s economic powerhouse will defy a spending target set by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And other member states are struggling to reach the current goal of spending 2 percent of their economic output on the military by the end of 2024.

The scene on Tuesday was just the latest example of Mr. Stoltenberg’s unenviable efforts to bridge seemingly irreconcilable positions between Europe and the United States.

He is the European leader who has shown the most deft hand with Mr. Trump. A trained statistician, Mr. Stoltenberg came to the White House with charts showing how defense spending has risen.

But his credit of Mr. Trump for the spending increases has annoyed European leaders.

“He is a little too diplomatic,” said Jim Townsend, a former Pentagon official who oversaw relations with NATO and is now a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “Sometimes he has a hard time whacking an ally over the head.”

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The morning after President Trump claimed that noise from wind turbines can cause cancer, a bipartisan group of 19 senators announced a push for “robust” funding of federal programs to support the industry, calling it an “American success story.”

A letter, spearheaded by Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), to an appropriations panel noted that the wind industry employs more than 100,000 U.S. citizens and said funding was needed “to ensure America remains a leader in wind energy technology.”

Those who signed the letter, including five Democratic presidential candidates, did not mention Trump’s comments at a fundraising dinner on Tuesday.

But in a call with reporters, Grassley called the president’s comments “idiotic,” according to the Des Moines Register.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 03-04-2019 om 23:50:02 Inbox: On April 9, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism. This hearing will examine hate crimes, the impact white nationalist groups have on American communities and the spread of white identity ideology. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 3 april 2019 23:43 schreef Mint_Clansell het volgende:
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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 00:05:35 Breaking: The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has formally requested that the IRS hand over six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns.https://t.co/PwBsBT1Rm9 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 00:15:13 Richard Neal has given the IRS until April 10 to comply with the request. That's a week from today. https://t.co/JJgSTcRvJN reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 3 april 2019 21:35 schreef JimmyDean het volgende:

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Je maakt een redeneerfout. Het gaat om het legaliseren van een nu illegale, schadelijke stof. Dan dien je dat op de merits te bespreken en niet over te gaan op "ja maar die stof is ook slecht", dat zal allemaal wel maar dat is niet het onderwerp van discussie, en ook niet vergelijkbaar overigens.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 01:28:28 Breaking from NYT: Some of Mueller's investigators have told associates that A.G. Bill Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for Trump than Barr indicated. https://t.co/Q23c1w4aBV reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 4 april 2019 01:30 schreef Szura het volgende:
Goh dus Barr heeft precies gedaan waarvoor hij als loopjongen is aangesteld door peetvader Trump? What a surprise.

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Op donderdag 4 april 2019 01:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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We zullen het zien zodra het gepubliceerd wordt, maar niet voordat Barr er met een zwarte stift doorheen is gegaan om "geheime informatie" weg te lakken.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 01:28:28 Breaking from NYT: Some of Mueller's investigators have told associates that A.G. Bill Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for Trump than Barr indicated. https://t.co/Q23c1w4aBV reageer retweet

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Some of Robert S. Mueller III's investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.

At stake in the dispute -- the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel's office -- is who shapes the public's initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history. Some members of Mr. Mueller's team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel's findings, Americans' views will have hardened before the investigation's conclusions become public.

Mr. Barr has said he would move quickly to release the nearly 400-page report but needed time to scrub out confidential information. The special counsel's investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report, and some team members believe that Mr. Barr should have included more of their material in the four-page letter he wrote on March 24 laying out their main conclusions, according to government officials familiar with the investigation. Mr. Barr only briefly cited the special counsel's work in his letter.

However, the special counsel's office never asked Mr. Barr to release the summaries soon after he received the report, a person familiar with the investigation said. And the Justice Department quickly determined that the summaries contain sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand-jury testimony and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.

Mr. Barr was also wary of departing from Justice Department practice not to disclose derogatory details in closing an investigation, according to two government officials familiar with Mr. Barr's thinking. They pointed to the decision by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, to harshly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016 while announcing that he was recommending no charges in the inquiry into her email practices.

The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel's investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained, although the report is believed to examine Mr. Trump's efforts to thwart the investigation. It was unclear how much discussion Mr. Mueller and his investigators had with senior Justice Department officials about how their findings would be made public. It was also unclear how widespread the vexation is among the special counsel team, which included 19 lawyers, about 40 F.B.I. agents and other personnel.

At the same time, Mr. Barr and his advisers have expressed their own frustrations about Mr. Mueller and his team. Mr. Barr and other Justice Department officials believe the special counsel's investigators fell short of their task by declining to decide whether Mr. Trump illegally obstructed the inquiry, according to the two government officials. After Mr. Mueller made no judgment on the obstruction matter, Mr. Barr stepped in to declare that he had cleared Mr. Trump of wrongdoing.

Representatives for the Justice Department and the special counsel declined to comment on Wednesday on views inside both Mr. Mueller's office and the Justice Department. They pointed to departmental regulations requiring Mr. Mueller to file a confidential report to the attorney general detailing prosecution decisions and to Mr. Barr's separate vow to send a redacted version of that report to Congress. Under the regulations, Mr. Barr can publicly release as much of the document as he deems appropriate.

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Op donderdag 4 april 2019 01:30 schreef Szura het volgende:
Goh dus Barr heeft precies gedaan waarvoor hij als loopjongen is aangesteld door peetvader Trump? What a surprise.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 02:20:22 Fmr. Assistant FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi: "If this is indeed the first leakage we're seeing from the special counsel's team, we need to stand up and pay attention to that ... That tells us they are not happy with what the attorney general is doing." @allinwithchris reageer retweet

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PhilipRucker twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 04:12:52 "Why didn't [Barr] release a summary produced by Bob Mueller himself instead of trying to shape it in his own words?" @AdamSchiff asks on MSNBC, reacting to NYT story. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 04:47:26 No one on Mueller's team leaked for the last two years.Now, suddenly, *multiple* people from the team are saying that the report they and Bob Mueller compiled is worse for Trump then AG Barr is pretending. How upset do you think they had to be at Barr to suddenly start leaking? reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 01:45:05 The senior White House official whose security clearance was denied last year because of concerns about foreign influence, private business interests and personal conduct is Jared Kushner, WaPo reports. https://t.co/C9RWwnAeBd reageer retweet

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The senior White House official whose security clearance was denied last year because of concerns about foreign influence, private business interests and personal conduct is presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to people familiar with documents and testimony provided to the House Oversight Committee.

Kushner was identified only as “Senior White House Official 1” in committee documents released this week describing the testimony of Tricia Newbold, a whistleblower in the White House’s personnel security office who said she and another career employee determined that Kushner had too many “significant disqualifying factors” to receive a clearance.

Their decision was overruled by Carl Kline, the political appointee who then headed the office, according to Newbold’s interview with committee staff.

The new details about the internal debate over Kushner’s clearance revives questions about the severity of the issues flagged in his background investigation and Kushner’s access to government secrets.

Last year, President Trump directed his then-chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to give Kushner a top-secret security clearance, despite concerns expressed by career intelligence officers.

Security clearance experts said the issues raised in Kushner’s background investigation were significant.

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ddale8 twitterde op donderdag 04-04-2019 om 05:45:47 The Post's version: https://t.co/8ZfW7l25Nl https://t.co/fKOVV2JbFR reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 4 april 2019 00:17 schreef Ensiferum het volgende:

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Don Trump was zeker misschien geweest, sinds hij volgens sommigen leider van een criminele organisatie is

Een verwachte prent, leuk, maar bijna te makkelijk.

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Op donderdag 4 april 2019 06:38 schreef KingRadler het volgende:
De Democraten worden steeds zieliger. Ga eens regeren dan steeds aan de poten van de president zagen.

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Op donderdag 4 april 2019 06:38 schreef KingRadler het volgende:
De Democraten worden steeds zieliger. Ga eens regeren dan steeds aan de poten van de president zagen.