Saying he wants him to be"fair," President Donald Trump on Friday described why he has given Attorney General William Barr sweeping powers to declassify intelligence as part of his review into how the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election began and the resulting surveillance on the Trump campaign.
“It's not payback,” he said. “I don't care about payback. I think it's very important for our country to find out what happened.” "The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information," according to the statement.
"You know the thing that's interesting about this is that this was handled at a very senior level of these departments. It wasn't handled in the ordinary way that investigations or counterintelligence activities are conducted. It was sort of an ad hoc small group and most of these people are no longer with the FBI or the CIA or the other agencies involved," Barr said on Fox.
Giving Barr the power to declassify information is"really extraordinary." according to one former National Security Agency attorney.
See how that’s eloquently put? “We can’t release certain information bc it might damage national security.” These people CREATE conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones with this kind of logic, and then use the media like ABC News to shut them down when they say things that...
Putin won't be able to thank Trump enough if Barr declassifies sources for investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election which led to indictment of Internet Research Agency and Russian military intelligence agency GRU officers. Большое спасибо, Президент Трамп.
News Orgs shouldn't resist saying the obvious about last night's Trump Reveal Your Sources Prob. At best, it's a fishing exercise and an attempt to weed out career non political but patriots who won't BendTheKnee but at worst, it's Putin's dream, No US Intel. Isn't this obvious?
Clown Trump lies
Ummm........are we suppose to believe this? Pretty sure this will say what 45 wants it to.
Funny.
ButtBird for President
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 However, my hope is low that William Barr will actually do so.
Wow, I'm surprised ABC is reporting on this. You have been an arm of the conspiracy against our President and country for almost 3 years now.
Nah...this is Coates saying (in govspeak) Nah...we're not playing your game. We'll release information using the same standards we used before the nitwit in chief gave you this 'authority.'
You gotta be kidding!
In other words, 'Screw you, Barr:
Remember last summer
I'm not confident.
The Obama justice dept and Clinton Campaign attempted an overthrow of a legally elected President of the United States and are now upset that the Attorney General is investigating their Failed Coup attempt
How is it every time someone says those exact words, they are proven wrong immediately...especially when it's in connection with the Trump administration. Smh
I, on the other hand, am far less confident.
national security - translation: the banks or any action that makes us look bad
Exactly, ... one could assume this is all part of the plan or a plan, no?
We HOPE you are right!!! He has already abused his office, is acting on behalf of Trump and not the people. He could easily put us all at risk here!!!
You are not confident at all about this you liar.
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