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Hello!That’s a very good question actually.The answer is yes, absolutely.Former FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, whose “f#ck the fat orange guy running for president” text messages with another FBI employee were leaked to the media, is suing the Justice Department and the FBI for being messy AF and rightfully so!This is from CBS News:Her attorneys argue in the suit that the revelation of her text messages violates the Privacy Act, which bars “disclosing a covered record ‘about’ an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure.”The Justice Department declined on Tuesday to comment on the lawsuit.About 375 of Page’s text messages with former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who led the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State, were released in December 2017. In the texts, exchanged during the presidential campaign, the two often expressed distaste for Mr. Trump.Strzok calls Mr. Trump “awful” and “an idiot” in one exchange with Page, with whom he was having an extramarital affair. Page, in one text in July 2016, wrote of Mr. Trump, “He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?”The lawsuit claims that the Justice Department inspector general obtained the text messages in December 2017 as part of an internal investigation into whether the FBI was pro-Clinton when looking into her email server.According to CBS News, the FBI IG reviewed “text messages that had been sent and received on FBI-issued cell phones by employees involved in the probe, including those of Page and Strzok. The June 2018 IG report said that it questioned whether Strzok had taken actions in the Clinton email investigation ‘based on his political views,’ but ultimately found that he was not the ‘sole decision maker’ for the investigative decisions that were examined.” CBS NewsWhat’s been left out of the story is that Strzok and Page were actually pushing for “more aggressive measures” in the Clinton email probe. Republicans don’t tell you that, do they??The Office of the Inspector General found that political bias didn’t affect the investigation, but that didn’t matter, because an affair that included some Trump bashing-text messages has become the soundbite that Trump can’t let go of.Either way, her rather compact and well-drawn complaint, filed on her behalf by the A-List D.C. law firm of Arnold and Porter, describes some rather sleazy conduct by the Department of Justice. It also describes knowledge of guilt, although that is not an element Lisa Page has to prove. Hours before scheduled key Congressional testimony by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in the middle of the night, the DOJ engineered the most sordid of government leaks:From her complaint, which you can read here.44. The Department and Attorney General Sessions were already fending off a months-long barrage of criticism by the President, centered on what the President portrayed as the Attorney General’s failure to protect him and pursue his political enemies. See ¶¶ 27–29. Disclosure of the text messages before Rosenstein’s hearing would serve multiple goals: it would protect the Deputy Attorney General from criticism during his testimony; it would show that the Department was addressing matters of concern to the President; and it would dominate coverage of the hearing,which otherwise could be unfavorable for the Department. And the Department could achieve all of this at the relatively low cost (in the Department’s view) of the privacy of two FBI employees: Ms. Page, a longtime DOJ and FBI attorney, and Mr. Strzok, a career FBI agent.45. On the evening of December 12, [2017], mere hours before Rosenstein’s scheduled testimony, DOJ officials, including then-DOJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores, summoned a select group of reporters to the Department’s offices. There, they allowed the reporters to view the 375 text messages. The reporters were told they were not permitted to remove or copy the messagesand could not source the messages to DOJ.46. Senior DOJ leadership authorized the disclosure of these messages to reporters.47. On information and belief, the Department provided the messages to reporters to influence the public reception of Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein’s December 13 testimony and to ingratiate Attorney General Sessions and DOJ with the President, among other improperand impermissible purposes.48. Also on the evening of December 12, DOJ made arrangements to deliver copies ofthe text messages to certain members of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee before which Mr. Rosenstein was scheduled to testify the following morning. Although the Privacy Act does not permit disclosures to the media, it does contain an exception for certain transmissions of agency records to Congress. But it was already late in the evening when DOJ officials arranged to deliver the messages to congressional members, and publicly available e-mail messages show that members of Congress and staff would not be in a position to receive and review the messages prior to the hearing scheduled to begin the next morning.49. On information and belief, DOJ and/or FBI officials disclosed the messages directly to a select group of reporters to ensure they would become public in time for the Deputy Attorney General’s testimony on the morning of Wednesday, December 13.. . .57. The attempt to prevent reporters from divulging the true source of the messages was unsuccessful, and DOJ officials were forced to admit that DOJ had deliberately released the text messages to the media and attempted to conceal that release. In his testimony the morning of December 13 before the House Judiciary Committee, Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein confirmed a congressman’s summary that “the Department of Justice . . . last evening, invited agroup of reporters to its offices to view the private text messages that were sent during the electionby Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.” Oversight Hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:Hearing Before the H. Comm. on the Judiciary on Dec. 13, 2017, 115 Cong. 37 (2018). [Emphasis added.]Believe me when I tell you that she has a very good chance of winning this. It will take a while until it will all unfold but she will prevail eventually. There will doubtless be a motion to dismiss, which is unlikely to succeed. If the S.O.P. motion to dismiss fails (as I predict), the suit will be allowed thereupon to move to discovery.My initial take is that Trump will not be a witness but that Sessions, a leprechaun famous for when he stood up for the rights of LGBT Americans to be told “F#ck No You Can’t Buy a Cake Here,” and for the right Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to not be laughed at by no uppity broads, and the world-class hypocrite Rowdy Rod Rosenstein will.The midnight nature of the disclosure to hand-picked reporters and the attempt to cover it up will undercut any effort to defend the conduct as necessary to the public interest. It is obvious that the unlawful midnight leak was intended to kiss up to Sessions’ (and Rosenstein’s) boss Donald Trump…Sources: Everyone linked in the text and Lisa Page Sues DOJ and FBI in Fed Court, DC, for Breach of Privacy Act in Release of Text Messages

Ummm…first of all, “people” are not whining. As others here have pointed out, the President’s golfing is a complete non-issue for anyone—even his harshest critics—in light of all the other, much more serious issues surrounding his presidency.To the extent that it has even been mentioned by anyone, it has been to note simply one more example of the unprecedented hypocrisy that has permeated this administration. That’s because the first (and virtually only) person to whine about presidential golfing was…Donald Trump!Trump made critiquing Obama for golfing a part of his 2016 message."I love golf, I think it's one of the greats, but I don't have time," then-President-elect Trump said during a December 2016 rally in Michigan. "He played more golf last year than Tiger Woods. We don't have time for this. We don't have time for this. We have to work."And before he ran for president, Trump would tweet about Obama's golfing."Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump tweeted in October 2014. "Worse than Carter."Now, citing the President's privacy, Trump's aides are left trying to conceal the President's frequent golfing.Trump, critic of Obama's golfing, regularly hits the links

Has anyone here heard of the ‘Alien and Sedition Act’? Most of it was a grossly unconstiutional law that made it illegal to criticize the president in word or in print. If it were passed today, the sitting president would almost certainly be villified by the public at large.It was passed by John Adams, our second president.And yet, we survived.A lot of people are losing their heads after today’s storming of the US Capitol Building; I’m tempted to do the same. But we must remember, that while this attack is a horrific act of treason and sedition, America has been through a lot worse.Some of the older folks out there may remember the 1960s. The decade where we got involved in a stupid war which killed many of our good young men, and when many of our political leaders were murdered.And guess what?America survived.January 6th, 2021, may very well be—to quote Franklin Roosevelt—”a day that lives in infamy,” but we must remember that the day which FDR was refering to when he said that, December 7th, 1941, was far worse than January 6th, 2021.We thought we were screwed in 1770, 1812, 1850, the 1860s, 1872, 1917, 1929, 1941, 1963, 2001, and now, 2021.This is a dark time, but we will most definitely pull through. Yes, America will eventually go the way the Romans did, but statistics say that that time is probably not now.While it’s important to acknowledge the atrocities which occured in Washington earlier today, we need to let cooler heads prevail and recognize that today will probably be an insignificant blip in overall history of this great nation.I’m Komrade Krause, and I approve this message