Dear Colleague: The American People Have a Right to the Truth, The Watchword is Transparency

[toddwv]

I'm posting the whole thing because this is a public document and shouldn't be subject to copyright rules.

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/32319/

March 23, 2019

Dear Democratic Colleague,

Today, we are having an emergency Caucus conference call at 3:00 p.m. E.T. to discuss the transmittal of the Mueller report to the Department of Justice (DOJ). While we do not know the substance of the report, we will have the relevant Committees of jurisdiction on the call today to update Members on where we go from here.

Leader Schumer and I yesterday issued a joint statement reiterating Democrats’ call for transparency, stating that, “Now that Special Counsel Mueller has submitted his report to the Attorney General, it is imperative for Mr. Barr to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to Congress.” Our six distinguished Committee chairs of jurisdiction also stated their call for transparency in a joint statement available here.

This transparency is even more urgent because of Attorney General Barr’s letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees yesterday in which he writes, “I am reviewing the report and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise [the Judiciary Committee Chairs and Ranking Members] of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.” We are insisting that any briefings to any Committees be unclassified so that Members can speak freely about every aspect of the report and not be confined to what DOJ chooses to release publicly.

Even if DOJ chooses not to prosecute additional individuals, the underlying findings must be provided to Congress and the American people. The Attorney General’s offer to provide the Committees with a summary of the report’s conclusions is insufficient. Congress requires the full report and the underlying documents so that the Committees can proceed with their independent work, including oversight and legislating to address any issues the Mueller report may raise.

The American people deserve the truth. I have great confidence in our Committee Chairs and Members to honor our Congressional responsibility For the People.

Thank you for your leadership.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Absolutely. The American people deserve the full, unfettered truth. No ifs, buts, or thens. ...

The whole truth. Even rump said to let us know what's in the report.

[BigmanPigman]

2. And we want Mueller's evidence too.

[DanSpillane]

3. Gotta Love transparency...

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Always love the Government looking after itself--kinda sorta. Sometimes needs a few s**tkickers...and after all, people who want to rise up with their kin are safe in a modern Democracy, right?(?) And safe under the 1st Amendment...not to mention(alas) the Eighth.

Oh, yes. 2003...
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/05/technology/l-voting-by-computer-986623.html
https://www.salon.com/2003/02/20/voting_machines_3/

And here I am in 2019, as I sit in the "historic" Starbucks in Seattle where I first met a lively woman in late 2002 and where I handed over a pivotal document to her which I hoped...just might lead to some small change to the world of voting. And besides, my Sister's family was abroad in the military; I would feel proud to serve them the gift of a better voting system far and away from the U, S, and A.

The document would later be in an HBO special(wtf!)...based on what came to pass; I wonder if it's in the Smithsonian by now, with a snapshot of the woman? (half joking--but half serious).

Little did I know henceforth from the Starbucks meeting came the start of a revolution, and the woman would ride upon a skyrocket of Red, White, and Blue.

After a brief jaunt in the limelight for me--and in news near and far--I watched from an increasing distance enjoying the colorful fireworks of Democracy in action...but as the gap grew, I was only dimly aware what was pulling me away was so gravely vile and colorless; and what seemed like a collection of chance events were everything but.

Daniel Spillane, "Beyond the Black Box..." (forthcoming on DU)
Seattle, WA USA
March 23, 2019

Dedicated to my Father
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/daniel-spillane-obituary?pid=154709428


And no, I got peanuts no where near 475,000; whistleblowing is overrated.
https://www.securityfocus.com/news/2705

[fleabiscuit]

4. Thanks for sharing that. Pioneers get the arrows.

My condolences on your loss.

[DanSpillane]

5. "Mum's Special Bandage for Arrow Wounds, circa. 1789s"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/eighth_amendment

"Mum's Special Hospital for Cannon Wounds"
https://www.amnesty.org

[Brother Buzz]

6. Is Bev Harris the lively woman you met in the "historic" Starbucks in Seattle?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x108750

[DanSpillane]

7. Yes of course Bev Harris of Black Box Voting

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My lead-in technique...hope you liked, and guessed right.

Bev and I had an "amorous and fateful" date at Starbucks in late 2002.

I like a writing style which brings out curiosity, then questions. I wonder if I should stay here on DU or move. There is a site with rdrship 400k/mo which has invited me. In that case I would mirror here, in installments.

My story will take several unexpected turns. I'll just say it--my world was turned over after being the first voting whistleblower worldwide; as I began to revisit it and turn more stones in 2014, a series of shocking--and beyond terrifying events beset me and my family, friends, and neighbors (and fuzzies).

What would happen to a person who stepped on the wrong toes, if they were a swell whistleblower and writer, but actually suffered from disabilities which left then so much more wide open to perils--the same beyond vile?

...So further then, in my series I shall unmask what snuck out to race into the shadows, once the Black Box was opened--safely (for certain offenders) after the wind-down from the 2006 HBO movie.

I didn't mention Amnesty for just one reason, as will become ever more clear. I will avoid using the "T" word, with respect for the many that experienced such worse than I.

The readers shall be the Judge in the Court of Public Opinion.

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