[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #626 Tu quoque, Foxnews?

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Op dinsdag 21 mei 2019 22:17 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Dan toon je dat aan met feitelijke onderbouwing. Maar dat doe je nooit.

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Op dinsdag 21 mei 2019 22:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hopester! Trump gaat zo helemaal uit zijn dak.

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In fact, Donaldson may have incentives to cooperate. While quite successful, she is not even a decade out of law school and has a long career ahead of her. Reading the Special Counsel's report, one gets the sense that Donaldson is a smart and careful lawyer -- one who can read relevant case law, such as Committee on the Judiciary v. Miers, and recognize that she has no valid claim for resisting a subpoena to testify before Congress. A good lawyer at this stage in her career might reasonably decide that illegitimate defiance of Congress's constitutional authority is not the way to preserve her career.

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The vote by the State Assembly, which is dominated by Democrats, comes even as the White House continues to defy congressional attempts to investigate the behavior of President Trump and his subordinates.

The New York State Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday that would allow state prosecutors to pursue charges against any individual granted a presidential pardon for similar federal crimes, closing a loophole that lawmakers said could be exploited by President Trump in a bid to indemnify former associates.

The bill, which has already passed the State Senate and has the support of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, would exempt the state’s so-called double jeopardy law from cases involving presidential pardons, something supporters say is necessary to stave off the threat of maneuvers from Mr. Trump to protect associates.

On Wednesday, the Legislature is expected to pass a separate bill that would allow three congressional committees to seek Mr. Trump’s state tax returns; that bill also has Mr. Cuomo’s support.

The legislative efforts may prove a viable way to circumvent the White House’s stonewalling of attempts by the House of Representatives to investigate behavior of Mr. Trump and his subordinates. On Tuesday, Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, ignored a House subpoena to testify on attempts to obstruct the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 21-05-2019 om 23:35:50 New: DOJ says in new letter that its efforts to accommodate House Intel's requests for the full unredacted Mueller report have been "extraordinary," and won't identify/produce the docs Schiff wants if his committee votes to hold Barr in contempt tomorrow. https://t.co/mXiUQCminM reageer retweet

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The latest offer from DOJ does not appear substantially different from the original offer, which Schiff called “unacceptable” and said “places the department at risk of unlawfully withholding foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information from the committee.”

After the May 15 deadline came and went with no new documents provided to the committee, Schiff told reporters that he would be consulting with the House Intelligence Committee’s general counsel on some kind of “enforcement action” that the panel may vote on as soon as Wednesday.

Boyd seemed eager to avoid that, telling Schiff that should the panel avoid a contempt vote on Wednesday, DOJ will “host a meeting with the committee’s senior staff” on May 23 and 24 to update them on the status of its own review of the requested documents. Boyd called it “an extraordinary accommodation” on DOJ’s part.

Schiff has expressed frustration over what he’s described as an unexplained delay in receiving a briefing from the FBI on the counterintelligence portion of the special counsel probe. He’s also claimed that the intelligence community “is obligated to share” grand-jury information with the House Intelligence committee, citing an exception that allows DOJ “to provide information of a counterintelligence or foreign intelligence nature” to the panel.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 22-05-2019 om 00:20:05 House Judiciary Cmte.'s Rep. Steve Cohen tells @TheBeatWithAri that 80-90% of the Judiciary Committee is on board to go forward with an impeachment inquiry against Trump. reageer retweet

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A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The memo contradicts the Trump administration’s justification for denying lawmakers’ request for President Trump’s tax returns, exposing fissures in the executive branch.

Trump has refused to turn over his tax returns but has not invoked executive privilege. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has instead denied the returns by arguing there is no legislative purpose for demanding them.

But, according to the IRS memo, which has not been previously reported, the disclosure of tax returns to the committee “is mandatory, requiring the Secretary to disclose returns, and return information, requested by the tax-writing Chairs.”

The 10-page document says the law “does not allow the Secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met” and directly rejects the reason that Mnuchin has cited for witholding the information.

“[T]he Secretary’s obligation to disclose return and return information would not be affected by the failure of a tax writing committee ... to state a reason for the request,” it says. It adds that the “only basis the agency’s refusal to comply with a committee’s subpoena would be the invocation of the doctrine of executive privilege.”

The memo is the first sign of potential dissent within the administration over its approach to the tax returns issue. The IRS said the memo, titled “Congressional Access to Returns and Return Information,” was a draft document authored by a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel and did not represent the agency’s “official position.” The memo is stamped “DRAFT,” it is not signed, and it doesn’t reference Trump.

The agency says the memo was prepared last fall. At the time, Democrats were making clear they would likely seek copies of Trump’s tax returns under a 1924 law that states that the IRS “shall” turn over tax returns to Congress.

Precisely who wrote the memo and reviewed it could not be learned. The agency says IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and current chief counsel Michael Desmond, who took over in February, were not familiar with it until a Washington Post inquiry this week. The IRS says it was never forwarded to Treasury.

Executive privilege is generally defined as the president’s ability to deny requests for information about internal administration talks and deliberations.

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Op dinsdag 21 mei 2019 17:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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markknoller twitterde op dinsdag 21-05-2019 om 02:24:23 Pres ended 62 min speech, with one last swipe at @:JoeBiden, saying he deserted Pennsylvania. "He left you for another state," said Trump. And he said Biden "didn't take care of you because he didn't take care of your jobs." https://t.co/s9F10GXTY2 reageer retweet

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JakeSherman twitterde op dinsdag 21-05-2019 om 15:15:38 Biden left Pennsylvania at 11 years old. https://t.co/GRdLPwkNSz reageer retweet

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jmartNYT twitterde op woensdag 22-05-2019 om 01:28:24 and here’s @JoeBiden at a fundraiser in FL tonight swinging back at Trump >“’He left Scranton!’” Biden said, quoting Trump. “I did, I was 10 years old, man. My dad left for a reason [Trump] couldn’t possibly understand. He left when coal died and there were no jobs...” reageer retweet

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Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke with the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs committee on Tuesday in a lengthy session that, an aide said, touched on his time working in the Trump administration, the frictions he had with the president’s son in law, and efforts to tackle issues like Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Tillerson’s appearance, first reported by The Daily Beast, took place as virtually every other Trumpworld luminary has been stonewalling congressional oversight efforts. At the same time that the former Secretary of State was speaking before lawmakers, former White House counsel Don McGahn was ignoring a subpoena to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee.

Tillerson’s arrival at the Capitol was handled with extreme secrecy. No media advisories or press releases were sent out announcing his appearance. And he took a little noticed route into the building in order to avoid being seen by members of the media.

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HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday defended the Trump administration’s proposal to purge undocumented immigrants — and their U.S.-born children — from government-subsidized housing, citing the years-long waiting list of millions of “legal citizens.”

“It seems only logical that taxpaying American citizens should be taken care of first,” Carson said during a three-and-a-half-hour congressional hearing on oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “It’s not that we’re cruel, mean-hearted. It’s that we are logical. This is common sense. You take care of your own first.”

Democratic lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee expressed concern about the proposed rule. An internal agency analysis found it could put up to 55,000 children who are legal U.S. residents or citizens at risk of eviction and homelessness.

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Op dinsdag 21 mei 2019 22:15 schreef Ensiferum het volgende:

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Ik zie een hoop uiterst onbetrouwbare cijfers en vage definities. De studie geeft een ander beeld dan twee bronnen die extreem veel baat hebben bij het verhaal dat zij de lucht in slingeren. Nee, ik ben sceptisch. Ook met FBI cijfers die slecht gedifinieerd zijn.
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En wees gerust, ik doe niet aan TR's, zo onzeker ben ik niet.

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Op woensdag 22 mei 2019 06:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 21-05-2019 om 21:01:26 #BREAKING: Justice Dept will give House Intel Mueller probe material if Schiff drops Barr contempt threat https://t.co/u3Ob3Bn2ll https://t.co/BqwspFxriH reageer retweet

Beetje laat.

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In a letter to the panel’s chairman Adam Schiff on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd again offered members of the committee to review a “minimally redacted” version of Mueller’s report — tripling the number of lawmakers allowed to view the report from 12 to 34.

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The less-redacted document does not include grand jury material or the requested foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information Mueller’s team gathered as it investigated Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

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The latest offer from DOJ does not appear substantially different from the original offer, which Schiff called “unacceptable” and said “places the department at risk of unlawfully withholding foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information from the committee.”

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Op dinsdag 21 mei 2019 16:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Mueller is nog wel steeds in dienst:
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Op woensdag 22 mei 2019 09:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dan vragen ze gewoon de nummer twee van het team.

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Op woensdag 22 mei 2019 06:32 schreef Beathoven het volgende:

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Sceptisch zijn werkt twee kanten op. De scheidsrechterspositie. In jouw geval is het meer dat je een hooligan bent voor je club en je je hoofd maar niet uit het zwarte gat van je idool krijgt.