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yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2019-04-10 10:35 am
yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2019-04-10 10:35 am
Спайгейт!
southpaw:
А Пападопулоса нужно представить к званию героя, я считаю. Раз уж пошла такая пьянка.
P.S. Да, и Natasha Bertrand:
“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” Barr says, explaining why he’s ordered an investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation at the FBI and intelligence agencies. “I think spying did occur,” he adds when Sen. Shaheen asks for clarification.Во время президентской избирательной кампании я писал про convergence of the talking points кампании Трампа и России. И ничего, нормально прошло. Даже успешно.
The convergence of the talking points of the Office of the Attorney General and George Papadopoulos is really something to behold.
А Пападопулоса нужно представить к званию героя, я считаю. Раз уж пошла такая пьянка.
P.S. Да, и Natasha Bertrand:
Either Barr isn’t aware that the FISA on Carter Page came after he left the campaign, or he’s indicating in an open hearing that the FBI had other open FISAs in 2016.Update: LOL:
And then adds later that he has no evidence he can cite right now of FBI wrongdoing.
At the end of the hearing, Barr backed off his most sensational claim.Так что случилось? "Spying did occur", но это был proper, заслуженный spying? Отличный AG!
“I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred. I am saying that I am concerned about it and I’m looking into it,” AG Barr clarifies bear the end of his Senate Appropriations testimony.
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В самом лучшем случае - офицер принесет портфель на начало сессии, проверит пашпорта у всех присутствующих, соберет письменные клятвы о неразглашении, а в конце сессии унесет все обратно в IRS.
В худшем случае - лоеры Трампа подадут в суд о неконституционности этого закона, а дальше как с баном мусульман, DACA - многие лета до Высшего Суда (и Кавано. А там еще [не дай бог] RBG преставитcя).
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А налоги и законы бывают не только федеральные.
For more than two years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has railed against President Trump, attacking his policies on everything from immigration and reproductive rights to his handling of the disaster response in Puerto Rico.
Now, Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, has said he would throw his weight behind an attempt to obtain what may be some of the president’s most sensitive secrets: those that could be buried in Mr. Trump’s state tax returns.
Mr. Cuomo’s office said late Monday that it would back a new bill that would permit the New York Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return — including the president’s — if it were requested by leaders of three congressional committees for any “specified and legitimate legislative purpose.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/nyregion/trump-tax-returns-cuomo.html
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An analyst with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was charged for leaking Michael Cohen’s bank records to creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti and The New Yorker.
Fry faces five years in prison if convicted. His next court appearance is March 27.
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Back in October 2018 a U.S. Treasury employee named Natalie Mayflower Sours-Edwards was arrested and charged with leaking to numerous reporters multiple financial reports about suspicious financial transactions related to: Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, Maria Butina, and others.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/21/irs-intelligence-analyst-john-fry-charged-with-leaking-cohen-financial-records-to-creepy-porn-lawyer/
> would back a new bill
На который тоже подать в суд за неконституционность.
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В Конституции написано, что Конгресс является равновеликой ветвью власти. А в федеральном законе написано, что председатель комиссии Конгресса может получить налоговую декларацию любого прохвоста.
Особенно - прохвоста, который в нарушение Конституции злоупотребляет служебным положением ради личного обогащения.
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"only when sitting in closed executive session" и то все сомневаются:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/polls/2019/apr/8/should-president-trump-release-his-tax-returns/
Poll: Should President Trump release his tax returns?
Yes 253 (12%)
No 1808 (87%)
Это не первый закон, который будет признан неконституционным.
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9 из 10 входящих звонков сейчас - robospam, и умные люди не отвечают на незнакомые номера.
"unless such taxpayer otherwise consents in writing to such disclosure."
Кстати это означает, IRS должен письмено спросить разрешение у налогоплательщика.
Что дает еще пару месяцев на почту.
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Что же касается попыток чиновников саботировать запросы Конгресса, закон предусматривает за это однозначное наказание - потерю должности и до пяти лет тюрьмы.
Under Section 6103 of our tax code, Treasury officials “shall” turn over the tax returns “upon written request” of the chair of either congressional tax committee or the federal employee who runs Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. No request has ever been refused, a host of former congressional tax aides tell me.
There is, however, a law requiring every federal “employee” who touches the tax system to do their duty or be removed from office.
The crystal-clear language of this law applies to Trump, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Mnuchin and Rettig, federal employees all.
The law says all of them "shall" be removed from office if they fail to comply with the request from Representative Richard Neal, the Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee.
There are no qualifiers in Section 6103 that shield Trump from delivering, in confidence, his tax returns to Congress. No wiggle room at all.
Another provision in our tax code, Section 7214(a), provides that “Any officer or employee of the United States acting in connection with any revenue law of the United States… who with intent to defeat the application of any provision of this title fails to perform any of the duties of his office or employment… shall be dismissed from office or discharged from employment and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than 5 years or both.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-the-law-that-requires-steven-mnuchin-to-turn-over-trumps-taxes-or-lose-his-office-and-go-to-prison
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"наказание" - в Конгрессе нет своей тюрьмы.
Они посылают письмо с просьбой наказать в ... DOJ. Т.е. тому же Барру:
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said his committee will consider a Department of Justice official to be in contempt if he does not comply with a subpoena to testify.
Cummings, in a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday, wrote that Barr appears “to be instructing” John Gore, a principal deputy assistant attorney general, “to defy a duly authorized congressional subpoena” requesting his testimony.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438489-house-chairman-threatens-to-find-justice-official-in-contempt-of-congress
Петросян отдыхает.
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Джон Митчелл, который служил генпрокурором у Никсона, сел в тюрьму во время Уотергейта.
Барр может чувствовать себя сейчас на коне, но насушить сухарей не помешает.