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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
(51,899 posts)but you can expect it to be a given.
Jarqui
(10,860 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
(93,734 posts)...and Congress can get information like that without compromising the accused, or running afoul of some disclosure law.
Jarqui
(10,860 posts)I don't agree with it.
bigtree
(93,734 posts)Jarqui
(10,860 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
(93,734 posts)...mark that.
Jarqui
(10,860 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
(93,734 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
(10,860 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
(93,734 posts)...and we'll push for a Democratic Senate to confront Trump, if we improbably fail to vote him out.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)They are not under the same guidelines.
Chin music
(24,999 posts)LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Chin music
(24,999 posts)bigtree
(93,734 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
(53,544 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Trump's 5-4 Supreme Court....
bigtree
(93,734 posts)...some legal risk, maybe, but the potential is there if they feel something is being improperly withheld.
