• Trump authorizes Barr to declassify intelligence, orders intel agencies to help
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/23/trump-barr-mueller-report-investigation After years of shrugging his shoulders at the Russian attack on the 2016 election, Donald Trump has accelerated an inquiry into the US intelligence agencies whose investigation of the Russian plot ultimately focused on his presidential campaign. The president gave the attorney general, William Barr, the unilateral authority to declassify intelligence documents and ordered the US intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Barr’s work, in an official memorandum issued late on Thursday. Former intelligence officials warned that the move represented a dangerous enlargement of Barr’s authority and that it could undermine ongoing investigations of ongoing hostile activity by Russia. Trump has accused former FBI officials of “treason” and calls the investigation of his campaign, which had hundreds of secret contacts with Russian operatives as Moscow attacked the US election, a “witch-hunt”. Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a report issued earlier this spring that an investigation had uncovered no evidence of any Trump campaign member knowingly entering into the Russian conspiracy. Trump’s ire at Mueller has in recent weeks produced a multi-pronged “investigation of the investigators” led by Barr, who appointed a US attorney to investigate the FBI counterintelligence investigation and who has called surveillance of the Trump campaign conducted with a court-issued warrant “spying”.
Oh boy here comes FOIAs on the "potentially millions of pages" of declassified docs Trump authorized. Plus more impeachable conduct by the President.
Two can play hardball if you're that bent on your own destruction.
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