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I previously criticized the changes in the ACLU from an independent champion of civil liberties to a more political, anti-Trump organization. jonathanturley.org/2020/05/19/the…
Now the ACLU is calling for the dissolution of the Homeland Security Department. thehill.com/regulation/nat…...
The ACLU has filed 400 lawsuits against the Administration. wbez.org/stories/see-yo… There was a time when the ACLU was as concerned with making bad precedent as it was good precedent. It is now engaged in a saturated bombing strategy of litigation. ...
...Calling for the dissolution of Homeland Security and its officers as carrying a “badge of shame” shows how the group has slipped its original moorings. For those of us in the "old guard," the change under the current leadership is crushing...
...The ACLU was once wonderfully contrarian-beholden to neither party. It was unabashedly pro-free speech regardless of the content. It now appears reluctant to acknowledge, let alone defend, rights for those on the right while repeating talking points from the left.
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The question is why this document has received virtually no media attention -- as with earlier declassified documents.  It is at best misleading by omission and at worse intentionally false in its briefing of a congressional intelligence committee. jonathanturley.org/2020/08/10/new…
...The problem is that there seems a virtual new blackout on the new evidence being declassified. After using tanker loads of ink on the unfounded collusion theories, the media seem unwilling to use a drop of ink on the evidence of misconduct in pursuing that investigation.
The statement that most stands out from the briefing is that the Primary Sub-source “did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it.” That statement was known in 2018 to be demonstrably untrue.
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The FBI briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee was just declassified. It states that the sub-source for Steele confirmed that the information was not fabricated in the Report. By that point, the FBI knew the sub-source ridiculed the Report and the use of his information...
...The document at best is misleading by omission. At worst, it is untrue by design. The question is who was the briefer and who signed off on the briefing. By 2017, the FBI had already heard from both the CIA and the sub source that the Steele Report was unreliable.
...By the time of this briefing, Congress was already looking into allegations that the Steele dossier funding by the Clinton campaign was based on false information. That raises the question of whether Congress was given false information...
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The DC Circuit just issued an order for the counsel in Flynn to be prepared to answer questions about mandatory recusal or removal conditions for judges... jonathanturley.org/2020/06/28/mak…
...The only potentially applicable part of 28 U.S.C. 455 includes mandatory recusal "where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding."
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28…
The order is interesting because the briefing already raises bias, but the order is preparing for argument on whether this was not just a case of judicial error but a matter for mandatory disqualification. It is the difference between judging wrong and the wrong judge in a case.
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