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(1) Information obtained from the Grand Jury.
(2) Security information.
(3) Information stifled by executive privilege.
My question, in reference to Grand Jury is, if the same information can also be obtained from other means, can it be shared?
Perrenial Voter
(173 posts)sentence.
Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)but you can expect it to be a given.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Rosenstein letter to Grassley
https://www.justice.gov/ola/page/file/1080041/download
"We also have a duty to prevent the disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnish people who are not charged with crimes."
Put that all together.
Lots for the lawyers to fight over that will drag it out before we ever see much.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...and Congress can get information like that without compromising the accused, or running afoul of some disclosure law.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)I don't agree with it.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)They can take him to court. And he can fight them over it. He's got four fence posts to hang on to.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...mark that.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)They're still hanging on to stuff from the Kennedy assassination
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/04/26/trump-keeps-jfk-documents-sealed-archives-release-final-batch
Some of the Watergate stuff was just released recently.
https://www.upi.com/Long-sealed-Watergate-Road-Map-unsealed/7861541008689/
Whatever gets released will be a heavily redacted document to appease public demand.
I'm in my 60s. I know that I will not live to see this entire report. It is not going to happen.
Our best hopes might begin in 2020 if a Democrat wins the White House ...
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...no sense in turning away right as our newly elected Congress steps up to bat.
Obviously, not enough was kept from Congress and the public to keep them from ousting Nixon.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)A decision Kavanaugh doesn't agree with ...
But they can drag it out to the courts
In 1972, Dems controlled the House 242-192 and the Senate 56-42
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...and we'll push for a Democratic Senate to confront Trump, if we improbably fail to vote him out.
LiberalFighter
(51,026 posts)They are not under the same guidelines.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,026 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...here's just one:
Nadler: Tens of thousands of documents delivered in Trump obstruction probe
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/18/nadler-documents-trump-obstruction-1226461
LiberalFighter
(51,026 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Trump's 5-4 Supreme Court....
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...some legal risk, maybe, but the potential is there if they feel something is being improperly withheld.