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Republican or a Democrat, you need to read the Whistleblower Complaint. It’s a smoking gun laid next to the corpse of Rule of Law. The only questions are: Whose fingerprints—beyond @realDonaldTrump & @RudyGiuliani—will we find on it? And was the corpse also poisoned and stabbed?
These caught my eye too. What they say is White House officials abused security and classification systems to ensure evidence of other Trump crimes was locked down.
If that in any way impeded Mueller’s investigation: obstruction of justice.
If that in any way impeded Mueller’s investigation: obstruction of justice.
Executive Order 13256 spells out procedure for classification. It details who can classify at Top Secret level—POTUS, VP or a minimal number of delegated agency heads or cabinet officers—and is written to ensure info isn’t misclassified. The clearly impeachable breaches are here. 
The breach of trust here went beyond mere classification—it abused encryption systems designed to prevent ANY eyes from seeing info that should’ve been transparently available—but undoubtedly as a result classification was routinely abused. Full EO 13256: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR…
Who’s in the line of fire for this?
POTUS wouldn’t have been secretly classifying and locking down his own transcripts as an “embarrassment.”
That leaves VP Pence and likely, Barr, Mulvaney and Kelly. Wild cards: Mattis, and in a massive breakdown of WH authority, Jared/Ivanka.
POTUS wouldn’t have been secretly classifying and locking down his own transcripts as an “embarrassment.”
That leaves VP Pence and likely, Barr, Mulvaney and Kelly. Wild cards: Mattis, and in a massive breakdown of WH authority, Jared/Ivanka.
And oof, anyone on the NSC is likely at least aware of this impeachable mishandling of classification and encryption systems to protect the president from embarrassment—thus passively responsible it not actively.
This impeachment process is going to go off like a neutron bomb.
This impeachment process is going to go off like a neutron bomb.
