Lindsey Graham Announces Intent to Abdicate Judiciary Chair Following 2020 Election…

Lindsey GrahamSundance – Senator Lindsey Graham, who has increasingly come under pressure for doing nothing as the powerful Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announces today that he will be abdicating his chairmanship immediately after the 2020 presidential election:

(Via Politico) Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) plans to hand the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee back to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) in the next Congress.  Graham took over the panel this year from Grassley, who left to chair the Senate Finance Committee.

In an interview Thursday, Graham said Grassley asked to come back after his tenure on the Senate Finance Committee. Graham responded “absolutely.”

“Love Chuck Grassley. That’s the way the Senate works,” Graham said. “He took the Finance Committee so I could be chairman, and he’ll come back and fill out his time, and I’ll come back, and somebody else will come along.” (read more)

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Barr Is The Man For The Job. It Scares The Heck Out Of Those He’s Investigating.

BarrSara Carter – Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr is the perfect man for the job. He is methodical, attentive, calm and rides the storm of chaos with the demeanor of a man who knows he is standing on the side of truth.

It is evident that former senior Obama administration officials and opponents of President Trump know that and fear it. It began last night with the ‘non-story’ that Special Counsel Robert Mueller prosecutors weren’t happy with Barr’s four page letter explaining their report on the Russia investigation.

“We did not understand exactly why the special counsel was not reaching a decision,” Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“We don’t conduct criminal investigations just to collect information and put it out to the public. We do so to make a decision,” Barr told lawmakers. He suggested that Mueller should have come to a decision but avoided the criticism of Democrats by passing the ball to him with regard to obstruction. Continue reading

AG William Barr’s written testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee

attorney generalAttorney General William Barr – Good morning, Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Members of the Committee.

Thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the conclusion of the investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, and the confidential report he submitted to me, which I recently released to the public after applying necessary redactions.

When I appeared before this Committee just a few months ago for my confirmation hearing, Senators asked for two commitments concerning the Special Counsel’s investigation: first, that I would allow the Special Counsel to finish his investigation without interference; and second, that I would release his report to Congress and to the American public.

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Loretta Lynch Called To Testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee

lynchAmerican Patriot – Things keep getting worse for Loretta Lynch.

Former FBI Director James Comey dropped a bombshell that she interfered in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Now news is breaking that could land her in serious trouble.

After Comey’s testimony that Lynch had ordered him to refer to the Clinton investigation as a “matter” – so the FBI’s public statements would line up with the Clinton campaign’s talking points and downplay the seriousness of the investigation – calls heated up for a special prosecutor.

This came on the heels of reports that FBI Director Comey had gone public with his findings on the Clinton investigation because they were in possession of an email obtained by Russian hackers where one Democrat National Committee staffer claimed Lynch would take care of the investigation.

Senate Republicans immediately called for her to testify.

The New York Post reports:

“Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are pressuring Chairman Chuck Grassley to ask former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to testify before the panel on whether she interfered with the Justice Department’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

An aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told The Post on Monday that the Texas Republican wants Lynch to respond under oath to bipartisan concerns that she attempted to influence the Clinton probe – an explosive claim made by ousted FBI Director James Comey during his testimony last week.

Comey told senators that Lynch directed him to call the email probe a “matter” instead of an investigation, a move he said “confused and concerned” him.

“Cruz absolutely supports Lynch testifying before [the] Judiciary committee,” said Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the Texas senator.”

But in even more troubling developments, Lynch’s conduct could become fodder for an obstruction of justice investigation for a special counsel.

Paul Sperry writes at The New York Post:

“The findings of the powerful panel, which has oversight of the Justice Department and FBI, could lead to a separate criminal investigation and the naming of another special counsel — exactly what Trump needs to distract attention from his growing legal woes.

What Lynch did reeks of obstruction. According to Comey, his ex-boss:

  •  Ordered him to mislead the public about the criminal investigation of Clinton by calling it a “matter” rather than an investigation. (He complied with her wish, even though it made him feel “queasy.”)
  •  Refused to recuse herself from the case after Comey confronted her about a secret June 2016 meeting she had with former President Bill Clinton — five days before his wife was scheduled to be interviewed by the FBI. (Hillary was cleared three days later.)

There are also concerns, raised by a New York Times report, that Lynch privately assured the Clinton campaign she would keep FBI agents in check and wouldn’t let their investigation “go too far,” according to a message the FBI intercepted involving then-Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”

It’s clear from all the available evidence and testimony that the real crimes – obstruction of justice, illegal surveillance, leaking of classified information – were committed by Obama administration officials.

Yet the special counsel is directing a witch hunt into Trump based on fake news stories spread by the so-called “mainstream” media.

The revelation of Lynch’s misconduct during the Clinton investigation could lead Trump to either appoint a special counsel to probe these allegations or have special counsel Mueller take up the inquiry.

We will keep you up to date on any new developments.

SF Source American Patriot Daily Jun 2017

Morgan Little ~ Email Privacy Bill Passes Committee In The Senate

Los Angeles Times | November 29 2012 | Thanks, Minty

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislationrequiring that police obtain a search warrant to gain access to private emails and other forms of electronic communication.

The bill, championed by committee Chairman Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), updates legislation developed before the widespread adoption of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol that forms the backbone of modern email networks, let alone Facebook or Twitter.

Privacy advocates, such as the ACLU, applauded the vote.

“This is an important gain for privacy,” ACLU legislative counsel Chris Calabrese said in a statement. “We believe law enforcement should use the same standard to search your inbox that they do to search your home.”

And Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Lee Tien described the vote as “a strong message to the Department of Justice that our digital 4th Amendment rights don’t expire after six months.”

But Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the committee, was critical of the bill, calling for a more open debate and input from more interested parties from both sides.

“Given that the House isn’t going to take this bill up, we should work to ensure we strike the proper balance between privacy and safety, just as we did in 1986 when we first passed ECPA,” the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, he said.

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