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Trump personally ordered restrictions for Bannon's testimony, report says - CNBC today

JacksinPA said:
I think he did by ordering Bannon to not answer certain questions before Congress.
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The President must invoke the privilege. It is NOT for the witness to invent the privilege and invoke it. And there is no letter or announcement or notice of any kind that the President has invoked the privilege. Nothing.

They are trying to have it both ways - getting the witness protected under the guise of the privilege without actually having to invoke it and be subject to the criticism of hiding something and the fight that could then ensue.
 
MovingPictures said:
Gee, I thought it was all a "hoax" and a "nothingburger"?

If they're so innocent, why are they doing everything they can to fight testimony that will do nothing but make the investigation end quicker, and clear them of any wrongdoing?
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As co-equal branches of government the idea is that one center of power may not attack another. Conversations between a president and his advisers are considered off limits Do you want new rules because you hate Trump?
 
JacksinPA said:
That doesn't apply to the time he was not yet in office, such as the June meeting in Trump Tower, Cliff.
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The NSA was already listening in to these conversations. Obama ordered it.
 
haymarket said:
The President must invoke the privilege. It is NOT for the witness to invent the privilege and invoke it. And there is no letter or announcement or notice of any kind that the President has invoked the privilege. Nothing.

They are trying to have it both ways - getting the witness protected under the guise of the privilege without actually having to invoke it and be subject to the criticism of hiding something and the fight that could then ensue.
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If you read the title of the Thread it was "Trump personally ordered restrictions for Bannon's testimony, report says - CNBC today"

So Trump ordered Bannon not to testify regarding any privileged conversations, the fact that you hate Trump doesn't alter executive privilege.

You people appear to me to be demented and dangerous with your TDS; You may wish to seek help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_privilege
 
SirGareth said:
If you read the title of the Thread it was "Trump personally ordered restrictions for Bannon's testimony, report says - CNBC today"

So Trump ordered Bannon not to testify regarding any privileged conversations, the fact that you hate Trump doesn't alter executive privilege.

You people appear to me to be demented and dangerous with your TDS; You may wish to seek help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_privilege
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The people with TDS are the Trump excusers , toadies and sycophants who enable him with their ass kissing and refusal to hold him accountable. That is TDS on steroids.

I would urge you to read this

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/17/5786...g-questions-about-executive-privilege-lawyers

Did Trump invoke executive privilege? Provide the statement from him which says that. It is the President who invokes the privilege - not a witness who wants to pretend he is protected by something that has not even been invoked.
 
haymarket said:
The people with TDS are the Trump excusers , toadies and sycophants who enable him with their ass kissing and refusal to hold him accountable. That is TDS on steroids.

I would urge you to read this

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/17/5786...g-questions-about-executive-privilege-lawyers

Did Trump invoke executive privilege? Provide the statement from him which says that. It is the President who invokes the privilege - not a witness who wants to pretend he is protected by something that has not even been invoked.
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There is no federal form for exerting executive privilege, the statement is enough. When Trump speaks people listen.

NPR? Isn't that the socialist broadcasting network?
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Have you ever heard of Executive Privilege?
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How can I know, I wasn't there EITHER, but I think the general gist of the story was that the committee asked Bannon questions that did NOT involve conversations with the President (the "Executive") and Bannon refused to answer them, invoking Executive Priviledge. Not sure why, after issuing the subpoena, that committee members didn't hold him in contempt of Congress.
Again, I wasn't there, so if someone WAS there and wants to correct me here, I'm all ears, but that's my understanding of it.
He didn't seem to have any problem spilling LOTs of info to Mr. Wolff, so I'm not sure why the clam-up now...
 
SirGareth said:
The NSA was already listening in to these conversations. Obama ordered it.
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Well that clears it up, thanks! Of course you have EVIDENCE to back that up, right?
 
"In our constitutional system, the burden is on the executive to prove that it has the right to withhold information and not on Congress to prove that it has the right to investigate.

Executive privilege should be reserved for the most compelling reasons. It is not a power that should be routinely used to deny those with compulsory power the right of access to information. Short of a strong showing by the executive branch of a need to withhold information, Congress’s right to investigate must be upheld.

To enable the executive to withhold whatever information it wants would be to establish a bad constitutional precedent – one that would erode a core function of the legislative branch and upset the delicate balance of powers in our system.

There have been proposals in Congress to develop a clear statutory definition of executive privilege. Yet no such legislation has ever passed and it is unlikely that such an effort would reduce interbranch conflicts over access to information. To date the branches have relied on their existing constitutional powers to negotiate disputes over assertions of executive privilege. For the most part the system has worked well without a legislative solution."


The Constitution and Executive Privilege - Law & Liberty
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SirGareth said:
There is no federal form for exerting executive privilege, the statement is enough. When Trump speaks people listen.

NPR? Isn't that the socialist broadcasting network?
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So produce the statement from Trump invoking executive privilege.
 
SirGareth said:
The NSA was already listening in to these conversations. Obama ordered it.
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Obama ordered who to listen in on whose conversations from the June meeting? And by listened in, you mean the office was bugged with listening devices?
 
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