{"id":7458,"date":"2020-10-21T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2020-10-21T06:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:05:49","slug":"deep-state-remains-fully-in-charge-as-justice-department-ignores-trumps-order-to-declassify-all-russian-collusion-docs-naturalnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/deep-state-remains-fully-in-charge-as-justice-department-ignores-trumps-order-to-declassify-all-russian-collusion-docs-naturalnews-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep state remains fully in charge as Justice Department ignores Trump\u2019s order to declassify all \u201cRussian collusion\u201d docs \u2013 NaturalNews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2020-10-19-deep-state-fully-in-charge-justice-department-ignores-trumps-declassification-order.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Donald-Trump-Departs-for-South-Carolina.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Deep state remains fully in charge as Justice Department ignores Trump\u2019s order to declassify all \u201cRussian collusion\u201d docs\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2020-10-19-deep-state-fully-in-charge-justice-department-ignores-trumps-declassification-order.html\">Deep state remains fully in charge as Justice Department ignores Trump\u2019s order to declassify all \u201cRussian collusion\u201d docs \u2013 NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 19, 2020 by:\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by JD Heyes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/author\/jdheyes\" rel=\"author\">JD Heyes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/\">Natural News<\/a>) It\u2019s been blatantly obvious for years now that the deep state involving elements of the Justice Department and FBI, the \u2018mainstream\u2019 media and the intelligence community were involved in a seditious plot to overthrow President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The plot,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2020-10-14-newly-declassified-docs-reveal-hillary-clinton-plotted-russian-collusion-hoax.html\">devised by none other than Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u00a0during the 2016 campaign (probably when it became obvious to her internal polling staff she wasn\u2019t going to win the election), involved multiple players from several agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Their names are familiar now: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan, Peter Strzok, Andy McCabe, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>But now that they\u2019ve at least been outed, not indicted (yet), and President Trump has Attorney General William Barr overseeing the Justice Department, things are on the right track again, right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this fall when it became apparent that no one who is primarily responsible for the sedition was going to be held to account, the president began authorizing Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to begin to declassify as much material related to the Russian collusion and \u201cSpygate\u201d scandals as possible without legitimately harming U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsecurity.news\/\">national security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe began doing that, which is how America learned that Clinton was behind the collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<p>But suddenly, as more documents and more damning evidence began to expose more deep state figures, someone from inside threw a wrench into the declassification process,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/doj-president-trumps-proposed-total-declassification-of-russia-gate-documents-will-not-be-implemented\/\">as\u00a0<em>Big League Politics<\/em>\u00a0reported last week<\/a>:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Department of Justice (DOJ) is\u00a0overruling President Donald Trump\u2019s declaration\u00a0that all Russia-gate documents are to be declassified without redactions.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The DOJ made it clear \u2026 that President Trump has no real power, and the deep state remains fully in charge. As such, their secrets will be protected, and the American public will stay in the dark.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=healthranger&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1313640512025513984&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturalnews.com%2F2020-10-19-deep-state-fully-in-charge-justice-department-ignores-trumps-declassification-order.html&amp;siteScreenName=healthranger&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1313640512025513984\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/13\/doj-trumps-declassification-russiagate-429257\">Added Politico<\/a>:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>DOJ attorneys told a judge that the White House Counsel\u2019s Office effectively told DOJ to disregard Trump\u2019s tweets on the matter. They weren\u2019t accompanied by an actual declassification order, and DOJ will proceed as though the tweets hadn\u2019t occurred, continuing to redact and release documents at its discretion. \u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The tweet drew immediate accolades from some of Trump\u2019s closest allies, who have long claimed hidden documents would expose the Russia investigation as a politically motivated assault on the Trump presidency. But DOJ made clear that Trump\u2019s pronouncement had no actual force.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House Counsel\u2019s Office informed the Department that there is no order requiring wholesale declassification or disclosure of documents at issue in this matter,\u201d Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-23e3-d24a-a77d-67f7b6860000\">wrote in a\u00a0filing\u00a0with U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton<\/a>, who had ordered the Justice Department to clarify its position following the president\u2019s tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a tweet isn\u2019t an order \u2014 got it. But we have to believe that Trump\u2019s tweet\u00a0<i>reflects<\/i>\u00a0a verbal or written order to declassify documents related to the separate investigations, both of which turned out to be bogus (given that even James Comey\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2016\/07\/fbi-director-james-comey-press-conference-live\/\">suggested that Hillary had broken national security laws<\/a>\u00a0by mishandling classified emails by routing them through her own personal, and unsecured, email server, but that she wasn\u2019t going to be prosecuted for it).<\/p>\n<p>And if the president did give a verbal or written order to have all related materials declassified, 1) Why would a federal judge need \u2018clarification\u2019 of it; and 2) why would\u2019t the DoJ simply follow the orders given by the chief of the Executive Branch, to whom the DoJ answers?<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>only<\/i>\u00a0thing that makes sense is that this is nothing more than the same, old stalling tactics and outright insubordination from the deep state that is continuing to protect itself from exposure by a president dedicated to forcing them out into the open.<\/p>\n<p>If for no other reason, that one alone is why Trump should be given another four years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Deep state remains fully in charge as Justice Department ignores Trump\u2019s order to declassify all \u201cRussian collusion\u201d docs \u2013 NaturalNews.com Monday, October 19, 2020 by:\u00a0JD Heyes (Natural News) It\u2019s been blatantly obvious for years now that the deep state involving elements of the Justice Department and FBI, the \u2018mainstream\u2019 media and the intelligence community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/deep-state-remains-fully-in-charge-as-justice-department-ignores-trumps-order-to-declassify-all-russian-collusion-docs-naturalnews-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deep state remains fully in charge as Justice Department ignores Trump\u2019s order to declassify all \u201cRussian collusion\u201d docs \u2013 NaturalNews.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7460,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}