{"id":377978,"date":"2018-09-20T23:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/justice-dept-likely-to-slow-walk\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:09:43","slug":"justice-dept-likely-to-slow-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/justice-dept-likely-to-slow-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept Likely To Slow-Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don\u2019t hold your breath. While the media is breathlessly describing yesterday\u2019s order by President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cto provide for the\u00a0immediate\u00a0<\/b><\/i>(emphasis added) declassification\u201d of Russia-gate materials as a \u201cshowdown,\u201d any likely showdown is months away, if it comes at all.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cimmediate\u201d can mean different things to different people. Had the President set a deadline, or had he given the declassification task to his own National Security Council, the word \u201cshowdown\u201d might be closer to what to expect.<\/p>\n

The tragic-comedy now on stage in Washington is beyond bizarre. Can President Trump be unaware that those he \u201cordered\u201d to do the declassification \u2014 top officials of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the intelligence agencies \u2014 have zero incentive to comply \u201cimmediately.\u201d And they have minus-zero incentive, as the top echelons see it, to throw their former bosses, colleagues, and co-conspirators under the bus by releasing the family jewels.<\/p>\n

Most of today\u2019s commentary by anonymous officials on declassification are transparently bogus. To suggest, for example, that \u201cdeath could occur,\u201d as one MSNBC pundit predicted this afternoon, is beyond ludicrous. Do not expect Establishment media, however, to stop its feeding frenzy at the Deep State trough.
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Stakes High For Russia-gate Pundits<\/b><\/p>\n

The stakes could hardly be higher not only for the Deep State, but also for the media \u2014 including erstwhile \u201cprogressive\u201d pundits not yet recovered, after 22 months, from the virulent virus I call \u201cHWHW\u201d (Hillary Would Have Won). Observations by Mark Twain and, more recently, Patrick Lawrence apply in spades to the widely shared…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don\u2019t hold your breath. While the media is breathlessly describing yesterday\u2019s order by President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cto provide for the\u00a0immediate\u00a0(emphasis added) declassification\u201d of Russia-gate materials as a \u201cshowdown,\u201d any likely showdown is months away, if it comes at all. The word \u201cimmediate\u201d can mean different things to different people. Had the President set a deadline, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}