We'll take
any indication that the law enforcement and intelligence communities are standing up for the rule of law, for protecting the on- going Trump- Russia investigation and for national security interests as rays of light in this dystopian, criminal regime:
President Donald Trump has demanded the “immediate declassification” of sensitive materials about the Russia investigation, but the agencies responsible are expected to propose redactions that would keep some information secret, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence are going through a methodical review and can’t offer a timeline for finishing, said the people, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive matter. [snip]
The Justice Department and FBI are expected to submit their documents and proposed redactions to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which will assemble all the material into a package and hand it over to the White House, according to the people.
While the agencies want to guard against revealing classified sources and methods about the ongoing Russia investigation, doing so could put them in direct conflict with Trump, who as president has the power to override the agencies and declassify material on his own.
Slow- walking, then proffering documents that are still partially redacted seems to be, according to this report, the operating strategy to postpone the reckoning that would result from allowing Putin asset
Donald "Rump" Trump and his band of co- conspirators in the Republican Congress unprecedented access to sensitive, probably self- incriminating investigatory materials,
only to make mischief with cherry- picked information as they have tried in the past. One hopes the slow- walking is intended to get past the mid- term elections, so that Republicans can't use cherry- picked snippets in their deflecting fog machine. We'll wait to see what actually materializes, and then what the reaction is from Rump and his Republican Congressional lickspitttles before speculating further.
