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(WaPo) Trump asked Coats & Rogers to intervene in Comey's investigation; refused

WaPo.

Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and NSA Director Mike Rogers both allegedly asked by Trump to interfere with, undermine, and/or publicly refute Comey's investigation into Flynn/Russia on multiple occasions. Both refused:

The nation's top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.

On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.

Coats will testify on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Lawmakers on the panel said they would press him for information about his interactions with the president regarding the FBI investigation.

A day or two after the March 22 meeting, the president followed up with a phone call to Coats, according to officials familiar with the discussions. In the call, Trump asked Coats to issue a public statement denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between his campaign and the Russian government. Again, Coats decided not to act on the request.

Trump similarly approached Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, to ask him to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of coordination, as The Post previously reported, according to current and former officials. Like Coats, Rogers refused to comply with the president's request.

Full story at the link.
 

Linkura

Member
This should be in the OP:

Coats will testify on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Lawmakers on the panel said they would press him for information about his interactions with the president regarding the FBI investigation.

lolololol

Edit: And these:

A day or two after the March 22 meeting, the president followed up with a phone call to Coats, according to officials familiar with the discussions. In the call, Trump asked the DNI to issue a public statement denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. Again, Coats decided not to act on the request.

Trump similarly approached Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, to ask him to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of coordination between the Russians and the Trump campaign, as the Post previously reported, according to current and former officials. Like Coats, Rogers refused to comply with the president's request.

This is a juicy article.
 

rambis

Banned
Tick tock tick.

But of course he did. I really hope no one bought that bullshit statement abkut executive priviledge.
 
God, democrats are such useless losers. Just complete doormats. Utter garbage.

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Escape Goat

Member
Where are their chants of "lock him up"? Instead it's a constant refrain of: well you know we need to see this investigation through, so far there is no evidence blah blah.

And what would their chant accomplish? Who exactly should be chanting?
 
Where are their chants of "lock him up"? Instead it's a constant refrain of: well you know we need to see this investigation through, so far there is no evidence blah blah.

Chants won't do much when the people they work on think the news is fake
 
Where are their chants of "lock him up"? Instead it's a constant refrain of: well you know we need to see this investigation through, so far there is no evidence blah blah.

You have not paid any attention, and you watch too much Bill Maher.
 

theWB27

Member
Where are their chants of "lock him up"? Instead it's a constant refrain of: well you know we need to see this investigation through, so far there is no evidence blah blah.

Yea.... you're shitting on anything no matter what. If they dragged trump to prison your next post would bash everyone for carrying out a thorough investigation.

You've officially crossed into the nothing will happen crowd.
 

Tovarisc

Member
Coates testifies tomorrow

Ah, true.

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Comey informed Sessions that Trump is overstepping and being inappropriate towards him / FBI. Session, apparently, didn't do shit.

Trump asked heads of NSA and CIA to intervene and mess with FBI probe (Nixon would be proud), but they didn't enlist to this shady shit.

Today was good news day.
 
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