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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released documents governing intelligence community dissemination of information regarding members of Congress and congressional staff, known as the "Gates Procedures" after former Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates.
Between this and the 11th hour change to EO 12333 by Obama set up the nefarious actions of the Obama administration to carry on after he was gone. Clapper signed the rules on Dec. 15 and Loretta Lynch signed them on Jan. 3. The new rules allowing the NSA to disseminate "raw signals intelligence information."drcrinum said:
Look at the date...one day before the Inauguration!
Don't even get me started on my wild theory of the kabuki going on surrounding this.aggiehawg said:
Actually, I don't think Manafort has anything of value on Trump that Mueller wants or needs. Soo, put on a good show for Trump.
Very true, if he does anything with Manafort.aggiehawg said:Agree. If he does anything, it will be commutation of his sentence(s).RoscoePColtrane said:Commutation more than likely.aggiehawg said:You mean "pardon"?drcrinum said:
Parole shopping?
Aw c'mon, let's hear it! You got nothing better to do.RoscoePColtrane said:Don't even get me started on my wild theory of the kabuki going on surrounding this.aggiehawg said:
Actually, I don't think Manafort has anything of value on Trump that Mueller wants or needs. Soo, put on a good show for Trump.
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FINALLY.
Public DOMAIN.
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[RR] exonerated Manafort FOR THE SAME CHARGES (8) years ago.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/03/mueller-paul-manafort-probe-rosenstein-approves-497701[url=https://archive.today/newest/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/03/mueller-paul-manafort-probe-rosenstein-approves-497701][/url]
Can you locate the orig court docs?
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No need to troll.coyote68 said:
Just a matter of time before Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strozk, Lynch, Yates et al are going through what Manafort is having to endure. I hope each is held in solitary and given the maximum sentence for their crimes. What a bunch of trash.
That's my what else is new face, bored, no surprisedBMX Bandit said:
why the face?
that appeal had no chance.
BMX Bandit said:
why the face?
that appeal had no chance.
MelvinUdall said:BMX Bandit said:
why the face?
that appeal had no chance.
It's Roscoe's go to face for most of his posts.
Nothing noted in the court record about it.aggiehawg said:
This jury is not going to be sequestered, correct?
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In making their opening remarks in the trial in Alexandria, Va., prosecutors spent more than twenty minutes outlining expensive purchases they said Manafort made with money he earned doing work for Ukranian oligarchs and the Ukrainian government, including since-deposed pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye told the jury that Manafort considered himself above the law as he funneled tens of millions of dollars through offshore accounts to pay for personal expenses such as a $21,000 watch and a $15,000 jacket made of ostrich.
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Judge T.S. Ellis III interjected to remind jurors that wealth alone is not criminal, and he rebuked Asonye in front of the jury for saying that the "evidence will show" Manafort's guilt.
"It isn't a crime to have a lot of money and be profligate in your spending," Ellis said.
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Attorney Thomas Zehnle said in his opening statement that Manafort trusted others to keep track of the millions of dollars he was earning from his Ukrainian political work, and had misplaced his trust in Gates.
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"Money's coming in fast. It's a lot, and Paul Manafort trusted that Rick Gates was keeping track of it," Zehnle said. "That's what Rick Gates was being paid to do."
He also claimed that Manafort's foreign business contacts insisted on paying him using the overseas accounts.
"This is the way that they required it to be done," Zehnle said. "Paul Manafort traveled in circles that most people will never know and he's gotten handsomely rewarded for it. We do not dispute that."
Manafort's team also denied he was trying to hide money, saying he simply did not understand all the complexities of the tax code, like many Americans -- and that his penalty should be an audit, not the possibility of hundreds of years in prison.
Yeppers. Getting off to good start, aren't they?blindey said:
Wow....the judge interrupted an opening statement???
FIFYtechno-ag said:
Attacking wealth? Sounds like Democrats.....while stockpiling wealth for themselves.
That's the authoritarian socialist way.Zombie Jon Snow said:FIFYtechno-ag said:
Attacking wealth? Sounds like Democrats.....while stockpiling wealth for themselves.
That is highly dependent on the judge so I would not necessarily agree with that as a blanket statement. I'm not familiar enough with Ellis to say if this is a big deal or not, especially since he interrupted both sides' opening statements. He may be one of the ones more prone to that, which is not all that unusualaggiehawg said:
Point being, attorneys are given wide latitude in opening statements. Judges very seldom interrupt them and I mean very seldom.