Jill Stein defies Senate "overbroad" document request

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 04/26/2018 - 8:32pm

Jill Stein finally stood up to this McCarthyist witchhunt.

The Jill Stein campaign is refusing to comply fully with a Senate intelligence committee request for documents and other correspondence, made as part of the committee’s probe into Russian activities in the 2016 election, according to a letter to be delivered Thursday to the panel by an attorney for the campaign.
The Green Party campaign will agree to turn over some documents, but raised constitutional objections to the breadth of the inquiry, which was first made in November 2017, arguing that elements of it infringe on basic political rights enshrined in the First Amendment.

In the letter responding to committee chair Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va., Stein’s campaign has now said it will refuse some of the requests, calling them “so overbroad in reach as to demand constitutionally protected materials.”

I'm personally waiting for someone to accuse Stein of being the one to pee on Trump, while Putin took photos.

The request also calls for “all communications with Russian persons, or representatives of Russian government, media, or business interests, including but not limited to any communications, discussions, or offers related to opposition research, from February 6, 2015 to the present.”
Stein’s campaign told The Intercept that they have already provided to the committee all communications with people affiliated with the Russian government and Russian media, but not with all people of Russian descent.

In the view of the Stein campaign, this is a request that unfairly puts all people of Russian descent under suspicion.

Oh, shit. I know people of Russian descent.
I better get a lawyer.

Give 'em Hell, Jill.

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Submitted by Pricknick on Thu, 04/26/2018 - 9:33pm

I feel vindicated once again.

I voted green in 2016.
This is not only broad overreach, it stinks of McCarthyism.
The Salem Witch Trials also come to mind being a pagan as I am.

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Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Thu, 04/26/2018 - 9:42pm

Long may the Bourgeoisie and their Pig Workers rot.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 04/26/2018 - 10:27pm

Good for her!

The Jill Stein campaign is refusing to comply fully with a Senate intelligence committee request for documents and other correspondence, made as part of the committee’s probe into Russian activities in the 2016 election

It's past time for someone to say enough! Enough of this effingly stupid Russia Gate! There has been so much information that shows that it was made up by Hillary Clinton after the DNC computer files were placed online. Wikileaks released her email between her and Podesta where she admits that they could be a problem for her campaign.

Won't someone ask the democrats if they have any decency? This McCarthyism has gone on long enough, hasn't it? Oh well, it keeps the democrats looking busy since they aren't going to try to work on issues that we're begging them for.

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Submitted by Lookout on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:36am

Seems to me they doubled down with their suit

@snoopydawg

...and would rather combat a free and open press in order to distract from their blatant rigging of elections themselves.

I find politics a hopeless endeavor. Elections between oligarchs to see which corporations have dominate control. I'll keep voting for people like Jill, but it does not accomplish much.

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Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 1:43pm

Keeps Democrats looking busy

@snoopydawg while Rome burns, yupper snoop!

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Submitted by GreatLakeSailor on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:35am

I got this email from Stein yesterday

Jill2016

Dear GLS,

Today, I’m breaking months of silence on the targeting of our campaign by the political establishment - both Democrats and Republicans - in their investigation of alleged Russian election interference.

Let’s be clear: this was a baseless and politically-motivated act of intimidation against an independent political movement that both establishment parties see as a threat. But we’re used to that sort of thing.

So having been dragged into the battle over election interference, we have an incredible opportunity to fight for critical solutions to the very real problems that threaten our elections - and to knock down the establishment’s false solutions of warmongering, censorship and repression.

Please take a moment to read my statement on “Russiagate” ( https://www.jill2016.com/stein_senate_statement ) and help spread the word by sharing it on Facebook and Twitter.

You may be getting tired of the media’s obsession with “Russiagate” - and believe me, so am I. That’s why it’s so critical that we seize this rare opportunity to focus the discussion on real, urgent threats to our elections - many of which were uncovered by the 2016 recount effort - and how we can fix them.

And we must push back against the effort to twist legitimate concerns about election interference into a campaign of warmongering, censorship and political repression.

Thank you for all that you do to build the movement for peace and real democracy.

It’s in our hands!

Jill

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Submitted by Azazello on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 9:05am

Here's Part 2 of the interview:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGQcjNPBc4 width:500 height:300]

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Submitted by Linda Wood on Fri, 04/27/2018 - 1:28pm

As far as we can see,

because the evidence supporting the assessment that Russia attacked our democracy is classified, there is no crime. All we have is this part of the de-classified report to the people:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution

6 January 2017
Annex B

ESTIMATIVE LANGUAGE

Estimative language consists of two elements: judgments about the likelihood of developments or events occurring and levels of confidence in the sources and analytic reasoning supporting the judgments. Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation, and precedents.

I have a difficult time understanding what Jill Stein or anyone else called upon to supply documents would be required to supply. Documents in relation to what? I get it that Mueller et al suggests there's a crime, but if they can't publish evidence, doesn't that open everyone in the country to such requirements related to anything the intelligence community assesses?