#Classified Information and State Secrets

[porterdavis]

I have no doubt these are even more damning than the Ukraine call logs. I also have no doubt that they will be destroyed before ever seeing the light of day..

Pity there is no one trustworthy who could be sent in to secure them. The Justice Department is completely compromised by Barr. Who else? FBI? Marines? Boy Scouts? There isn’t anyone who could do it...

What’s needed now is someone brave enough and patriotic enough to make copies and give them to Congress. History will laud you forever, whoever you are.

[wazafam]

By Unknown Author from Opinion in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/opinion/letters/pentagon-papers-daniel-ellsberg.html?partner=IFTTT Floyd Abrams, who represented The Times in the litigation, and others reflect on the publication of the papers 50 years ago. Also: Arresting a 7-year-old; killing living things. Daniel Ellsberg’s ‘Heroic Conduct’ in Leaking the Pentagon Papers New York Times

[youthchronical]

Fact-Checking Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech on Crime, Immigration and His Cases

President Trump repeated a number of well-trodden falsehoods on Friday in a grievance-fueled speech at the Justice Department, veering from prepared remarks to single out lawyers and prosecutors and assail the criminal investigations into him. His remarks, billed as a policy address, were wide-ranging, touching on immigration, crime and the price of eggs. Here’s a fact-check. His legal…

[trumpbites]

For Trump, the Legal Shoes Finally Drop - The New York Times

For Trump, the Legal Shoes Finally Drop – The New York Times

Criminal Referrals: In its final public session, the Jan. 6 House committee accused Mr. Trump of inciting insurrection and other federal crimes as it referred him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution. Cassidy Hutchinson: The former White House aide told the panel in September that a lawyer aligned with Mr. Trump had attempted to influence her testimony. A Diminished Trump: The…

[newstrendingzone]

Author: BY JULIAN E. BARNES AND DAVID E. SANGER - Publish Date: October 11, 2021 at 01:50AM

Jonathan Toebbe and his wife tried several times to pass information on nuclear propulsion systems to a foreign government, according to a criminal complaint.

[youthchronical]

Trump Administration Opens Leak Investigations

The Trump administration has opened its first known investigations into what it called “politically motivated leaks,” fulfilling promises to pursue the sources of stories involving national security revelations. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, announced the investigations in a statement on Friday. Among the accusations, she said The Washington Post had published leaked…

[wazafam]

By BY CAROL ROSENBERG from Times Insider in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/insider/guantanamo-prisoners-database.html?partner=IFTTT A Times team has revamped an online database that makes it easier to learn about the roughly 780 prisoners who were taken there, including the 40 who remain. An Updated Tool for Tracking the Detainees of Guantánamo Bay New York Times

[saharanewsporn]

By BY WILLIAM J. BROAD from Science in the New York Times-https://ift.tt/3rX3kxU Linda Zall is disclosing how she toiled anonymously within the intelligence agency to help scientists intensify their studies of a changing planet. Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth New York Times

[buddylistsocial]

Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into John Bolton’s Book

Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into John Bolton’s Book

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton unlawfully disclosed classified information when he published a memoir this summer, a case that the department opened after it failed to stop the book’s publication this summer, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The department…

[youthchronical]

Trump to Deliver Speech to Justice Dept. After Triumph in Battles Against It

In June 2023, Donald J. Trump’s lawyers arrived at Justice Department headquarters, grimly scooped up visitors badges and were ushered upstairs to ask prosecutors for details about Mr. Trump’s imminent indictment over the hoarding of documents at Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump never faced a trial and is now the president. Two members of his defense team have permanent department badges, because they run…

[wazafam]

By BY CHARLIE SAVAGE from U.S. in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/us/politics/leak-investigations-justice-department.html?partner=IFTTT Attorney General Merrick B. Garland met with news media executives amid fallout over prosecutors’ seizures of records from phone and tech companies for leak inquiries. Justice Dept. Will Toughen Rules for Seizing Lawmakers’ Data, Garland Says New York Times

[shamefulright]

Pompeo Ties Coronavirus to China Lab, Despite Spy Agencies’ Uncertainty

Pompeo Ties Coronavirus to China Lab, Despite Spy Agencies’ Uncertainty

The secretary of state cited “enormous evidence” that the virus came from a research laboratory in Wuhan, backing an assertion by President Trump.