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Kurt Eichenwald
@kurteichenwald
As a flood of details of the Trump MaraLago case come out, Trump, commentators etc say Smith's team is leaking. As someone who has covered these kinds of cases many times, that is almost certainly not true. And the fact that this much is coming out is a bad sign for Trump.../1 ...as investigations near their close, there are scores of people who know what is going on. Every witness has a lawyer, and all the lawyers speak to each other to make sure that their clients have not made an error in their testimony to the grand jury. Reporters always have../2...standing relationships with the lawyers and usually with the witnesses. We all know that, at some point, all of the lawyers will know everything and most of the witnesses will know that they are not in danger of indictment, and this is when everyone starts talking.../3...with some exceptions, the reporters usually have establish relationships within the DOJ or independent counsel's office, but they rarely will say anything other than to wave you off if your article is completely wrong. They w ...Ken Starr personally leaked like a sieve. He even publicly admitted that in a tape recorded interview with Steven Brill, which was published in a now-defunct magazine called Content. Brett Kavenaugh on the Starr team also personally leaked (and now he is a SCOTUS justice).../6ill let you be vaguely wrong, which is why you.../4...you need strong relationships with everyone with contact to the investigation. Reporters are not simply sitting there waiting to lap up information from the prosecutors or FBI. With one exception, it never happens. The exception: Ken Starr and the Lewinsky investigation.../5...Ken Starr personally leaked like a sieve. He even publicly admitted that in a tape recorded interview with Steven Brill, which was published in a now-defunct magazine called Content. Brett Kavenaugh on the Starr team also personally leaked (and now he is a SCOTUS justice).../6...reporters did a horrible job during the Lewinsky investigation for that very reason. They were easily manipulated because they thought they were getting the straight dope, but Starr & Co. were using them to put pressure on other potential witnesses by often making it.../7..that the decision to impeach was for Congress, not for him. Starr exercised no such respect for the role that had become the traditional position for special prosecutors. And remember - Starr was appointed by a court *after* the previous Special prosecutor, Bob Fisk.../8...(fiske) concluded that there was nothing to the Whitewater case. Starr started from scratch, found nothing, and then pursued the Lewinsky case like it was the crime of the century. So, bottom line: The vast amount of info coming out now indicates Smith is reaching.../9...the end of the investigation. There is literally no motivation any prosecutor would have at this stage to leak - not even a partisan like Ken Starr. And the lawyers/witnesses know pretty much the whole case, and near the end is when they all start blabbing.
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Oops!
They will let you be vaguely wrong, which is why you.../4 ...you need strong relationships with everyone with contact to the investigation. Reporters are not simply sitting there waiting to lap up information from the prosecutors or FBI. With one exception, it never happens. The exception: Ken Starr and the Lewinsky investigation.../5
Missed it, sorry. :)
No. of Recommendations: 2
Reporters are not simply sitting there waiting to lap up information from the prosecutors or FBI.
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Yep, CNN just happened to have a camera crew set up at Roger Stones house at just the time to video the predawn raid by a heavily armed FBI swat team. Strictly good journalism. Probably has their camera crew hiding in the bushes for weeks or months just in case something newsworthy might occur outside of his home.
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Yep, CNN just happened to have a camera crew set up at Roger Stones house at just the time to video the predawn raid by a heavily armed FBI swat team. Strictly good journalism. Probably has their camera crew hiding in the bushes for weeks or months just in case something newsworthy might occur outside of his home. That was three, four years ago. You did note he gave exceptions? So you dismiss a veteran reporters commentary on how he knows these progress? We are talking leaks here and who is doing them, not arrests.
Here:
The rare, dramatic video from CNN Friday capturing the early morning FBI raid of longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone's Florida home was the product of good instincts, some key clues, more than a year of observing comings at the DC federal courthouse and the special counsel's office ' and a little luck on the timing.
CNN producer David Shortell and photojournalist Gilbert De La Rosa were outside Stone's home Friday morning to witness the FBI approaching Stone's door to arrest him on a seven-count indictment that special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury approved a day earlier.
They were there staking out Stone because there was just enough evidence lurking in the special counsel's activity over the past week that CNN's team covering the Mueller investigation placed a bet that Stone could be arrested as early as Friday.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/politics/roger-ston...
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Meanwhile, Roe gone down the poop chute along with student loan relief.
While debt and defense spending skyrocket.
And the world heats up while the debt deal might make some fossil fuel permitting easier......
Hey Liberals- must be great huh?
Keep your eyes on the prize.
Buy a surf board too......
No. of Recommendations: 3
Reporters are not simply sitting there waiting to lap up information from the prosecutors or FBI.
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Of course the FBI doesn't leak to reporters. After all the "I" stands for integrity. So they use a third party as necessary....
Several days later, Comey said, he woke up in the middle of the night and realized he had to take action.
'It didn't dawn on me, originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation [there] might be a tape, my judgement was I needed get that out into the public square and so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter,' he said.
He didn't leak to the media himself, he said, because he was worried it would be like 'feeding seagulls at the beach.'
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bighairymike: Of course the FBI doesn't leak to reporters. After all the "I" stands for integrity. So they use a third party as necessary....
Several days later, Comey said, he woke up...
Why did you leave off the first sentence of that quote?
This one: "The president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there's not tapes.
Comey was no longer with the FBI. So in this case the FBI did not leak to reporters (that happened in 2016 by the FBI's New York Office personnel who did not like Clinton and leaked like a sieve).
Besides, it's not a crime to disclose the contents of conversations with the president, at least so long as those are not conversations involving classified information or national defense information.
The real irony here is that in harming Clinton and helping elect Trump, the FBI ended up with someone who did more damage to the FBI than anyone in history.
No. of Recommendations: 6
The real irony here is that in harming Clinton and helping elect Trump, the FBI ended up with someone who did more damage to the FBI than anyone in history.
Similar to the irony of Trumpism. The easily duped voting against their interests.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Reporters are not simply sitting there waiting to lap up information from the prosecutors or FBI.
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Mike: Of course the FBI doesn't leak to reporters.
I think you misread his commentary. The situation here is the end of an investigation before indictments.
