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re: Watch Live: Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:20 pm to Iosh
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:20 pm to Iosh
quote:so any member of the cabinet is free to repeat to anyone at will any and all conversations with the president without giving the president the opportunity to exert the privilege?
Sessions wouldn't be violating it if Trump hasn't already asserted it. Executive privilege isn't automatically created like attorney-client privilege or whatever, it has to be affirmatively asserted by the President.
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Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:20 pm to fouldeliverer
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We wouldn't have these hearings if it is nothing.
You might want to rethink this kind of logic. It doesn't apply to the political hacks we continue to elect. This is nothing more than a dog and pony show.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:20 pm to Iosh
long history of AG and POTUS having confidential convos...
also latest rumor of the day firing of Mueller from a source...
also latest rumor of the day firing of Mueller from a source...
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:22 pm to cajunangelle
Is this the senator from the great state of Infowars?
#punchingback
#punchingback
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:22 pm to FutureRATeammember
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This entire russia narrative regarding trump appears to be a totally media driven story.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:22 pm to drexyl
quote:Pretty much. If they recite the conversation verbatim and it contains information covered by some statutory scheme (like classified information) they might get in trouble for that, but executive privilege has to be affirmatively asserted.
so any member of the cabinet is free to repeat to anyone at will any and all conversations with the president without giving the president the opportunity to exert the privilege?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:24 pm to a want
Lankford would earn his retainer fee.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:24 pm to cajunangelle
Lankford droppings bombs left and right...
That was microphone drop worthy
That was microphone drop worthy
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:25 pm to Iosh
Yeah you can't refuse to answer a question because the president might want to invoke executive privilege. Sessions is just pulling an Eric Holder and straight up refusing to answer an answerable question in an open session.
This post was edited on 6/13/17 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:26 pm to Govt Tide
I cant watch but is it going well?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:26 pm to SlowFlowPro
An apt analogy is attorney-client privilege. If another attorney thinks a conversation I had with a client isn't privileged, I don't just reveal its contents without a court or judicial order requiring me to. Then if I still refuse to, I am in contempt. Sessions and his lawyers are more experienced than any of us as to how to answer these questions.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:27 pm to FutureRATeammember
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I don't really care for sessions, but this hearing really makes clear how little the dems actually have. This entire russia narrative regarding trump appears to be a totally media driven story.
How much money does this cost the taxpayer?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:27 pm to Iosh
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executive privilege
Dear people, when the AG speaks with the President privately and gives advice it is the good old attorney client privilege. The President is his client.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:27 pm to cahoots
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Sessions is just pulling an Eric Holder and straight up refusing to answer an answerable question in an open session.
And Holder was deserving of criticism for it, and so should Sessions.
For god's sake people they work for us! We either want government transparency and accountability or we don't. It was not justified for Holder and it shouldn't be now.
If it isn't executive privilege answer the damn questions.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:28 pm to Pax Regis
Covfefe!
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:28 pm to SCLibertarian
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An apt analogy is attorney-client privilege. If another attorney thinks a conversation I had with a client isn't privileged, I don't just reveal its contents without a court or judicial order requiring me to.
basically
there is literally no reason to take the risk, for ethical, legal, and professional reasons
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:30 pm to fouldeliverer
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If it isn't executive privilege answer the damn questions.
Exactly. The question can be answered. Sessions doesn't want to, just like Holder didn't want to. Yet a lot of people are going to be inconsistent in their criticisms.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:30 pm to SlowFlowPro
i like Manchin
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:31 pm to LosLobos111
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I cant watch but is it going well?
It's going okay. We are still in the early stages of trying to come up with a theory of what might of happened that was illegal or nefarious so we will know better what to investigate. Investigating what we should investigate is hard work. Patience. Fishing expeditions take time.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 3:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
Cotton is up.
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