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Трамписты-республиканцы в Конгрессе во главе с Нунесом продолжают атаки на Министерство юстиции с целью пустить под откос расследование Мюллера. Новая тактика - запрашивать по повестке секретные документы из расследования с тем, чтобы либо слить их Трампу, либо получить повод для импичмента Рода Розенштейна в случае отказа.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), one of Trump’s leading allies on the Hill, privately urged Republican colleagues Tuesday to consider holding Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department does not provide him with documents he has sought about the Russia probe in coming days.
Nunes is readying proceedings and keeping several House Republicans briefed on his plans, including members of the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Nunes has also spoken in the past week with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which has been supportive of Trump, about how a potential contempt effort could unfold.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-probe-into-trumps-lawyer-seeks-records-about-two-women-who-alleged-affairs-with-the-president/2018/04/10/624104a2-3cda-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html

Получив доступ к секретным документам, Нунес не удосуживается их читать.

Facing the growing pressure, and outrage from President Donald Trump, Rosenstein finally relented in early April -- and granted Nunes and Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina access to the document with only minimal redactions to protect the name of a foreign country and agent, along with all members of the House Intelligence Committee. But when the pair arrived at the Justice Department to review the electronic communication, officials were caught off-guard by his next move. Nunes -- sitting with a copy of the document in an unopened folder directly in front of him -- opted not to read it, according to four sources with knowledge of the situation.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/devin-nunes-electronic-communication/index.html

Enjoyed dinner with the brightest political mind in America! @RogerJStoneJr #sayfie #MAGA pic.twitter.com/FjF0s7RAIE

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) July 9, 2017

Нунес не одинок. Среди конгрессменов образовалась целая команда "цепных псов" Трампа, которые за подачки с президентского стола пытаются расправиться с Мюллером и Розенштейном.

President Donald Trump calls them his "warriors": a band of four House Republicans defending Trump with a relentless counterattack against the Justice Department’s Russia investigation that thrills the president even as it unsettles some House GOP colleagues who think they’re going too far.
This crew of hard-charging conservatives, whom Trump singled out by name in late April, have emerged as some of Washington’s most prominent Republicans, enjoying direct lines to the Trump White House and flights on Air Force One.
"Look, we have some absolute warriors," Trump told Fox News on April 26 when asked about his relationship with Congress, name-checking "Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and Matt Gaetz and [Ron] DeSantis.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/07/trump-mueller-republican-warriors-congress-571562

Розенштейн не сдается. Отказываясь выдавать секретные документы из текущего расследования, он ссылается на исторический прецедент, установленный его героем, легендарным юристом Робертом Джексоном.

In 1941, Congressman Carl Vinson wrote a letter to Attorney General Robert Jackson. He requested FBI and DOJ reports made in connection with an investigation of labor disputes involving Navy contracts. Vinson’s committee had oversight for such issues, which is why he wanted the documents.
Attorney General Jackson flatly refused the request. He did not compromise at all. Jackson explained that disclosing investigative reports would harm the national interest in a number of different ways.
First, it would “seriously prejudice law enforcement” by providing defense counsel with the government’s confidential impressions of the case.
Second, disclosing certain investigative reports would give aid to our enemies and jeopardize our national security.
Third, investigative reports often contain information about witnesses and informants. Releasing the information could stifle the FBI’s ability to obtain sources and could even put lives at risk.
The fourth reason is often overlooked. Jackson explained that handing over the documents could harm the reputations of innocent people. Being a subject of an investigation – or even a target – is not the same as being guilty of a crime. The Department of Justice conducts many investigations that never see the light of day because there is insufficient evidence to support the allegations.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-j-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-bar-association-montgomery



Президент Франклин Д. Рузвельт прочил Джексона себе в преемники, пока не решил в 1940 избираться на третьий срок. После работы на разных должностях в правительстве, включая генерального прокурора, Джексон стал судьей Верховного суда. В 1944 он голосовал против позорного решения в деле Korematsu v. United States, связанного с интернированиям в лагеря американских японцев во время войны.

"The chief restraint upon those who command the physical forces of the country, in the future as in the past, must be their responsibility to the political judgments of their contemporaries and to the moral judgments of history."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/323/214#writing-USSC_CR_0323_0214_ZD2

В 1945-1946 Джексон взял перерыв, чтобы работать представителем США на процессе над нацистскими преступниками в Нюрнберге. Пока он был в Германии, президент Трумен обнес его, назначив другого человека (Фреда Винсона) на обещанное Рузвельтом Джексону место Главного судьи.



Другой человек, которого обидел Трумен, был генерал Дуглас Макартрур.

Макартур вошел в историю успешной "сменой режима" в Японии. Но, как это иногда бывает с престарелыми генералами, переоценил свои таланты и возможности в провальной корейской войне. Трумен, который понюхал пороху, участвуя в самой масштабной операции первой мировой (Мёз-Аргоннском наступлении) и имел о генералах свое мнение, отправил Макартура в отставку в то время, когда тот рвался шарахнуть по Китаю атомной бомбой.



Увольнение популярного Макартура добавило к падению популярности Трумена и демократов и приходу к власти Эйзенхауера, другого популярного генерала.

При этом американскими расистами война с японцами и корейцами (а позже - вьетнамцами) безусловно воспринималась, как сакральная битва за превосходство белой расы.

Макартура пытались пихать в президенты в 1948, но он провалился на праймериз в Висконсине и выпал из гонки. Пихал его в частности Robert E. Wood, председатель довоенного движения America First. В книжке The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War пишется “The general’s most passionate enthusiasts were isolationists — though MacArthur was not one himself, he was willing to dance with them — nativists, racists, anti-Semites, and labor haters. They were absolutely convinced that they were the truest representatives of what they called Americanism.”

Один из соратников Макартура, начальник его военной разведки Чарльз Уилоуби, которого Макартур любовно называл "my pet fascist", ездил в Испанию консультировать Франко. Другой его помощник, Уильям Гейл, основал движение Posse Comitatus, предвестник нынешних антиправительственных течений, включая "конституционных шерифов".

Gale became involved with the white supremacist Aryan Nations after the war while a stockbroker in Southern California. In the mid-1970s, Gale, who liked to be called Rev. Gale, established the Identity Church in a mobile home on a remote ranch near Mariposa. He delivered stinging attacks on blacks and Jews from a pulpit backed by a huge Confederate flag.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-04/news/mn-1880_1_other-racist-groups

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - General Douglas MacArthur

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2013

Трамп упоминал генерала Макартура многократно и с восхищением. Обсуждаю иракскую войну в 2003 на Fox News oн говорил “Well, I’m starting to think that people are much more focused now on the economy. They’re getting a little bit tired of hearing ‘We’re going in, we’re not going in.’ Whatever happened to the days of Douglas MacArthur? Either do it or don’t do it.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/27/2003-clip-backs-up-trump-on-iraq-war-opposition.html

На первых дебатах с Клинтон он говорил "She's telling us how to fight ISIS. Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.5df4e521f37f

На трампинге в Колорадо в конце октября 2016: "Remember when we were young, we studied General MacArthur, General George Patton, these were tough people, smart people, smart people. General Douglas MacArthur, I think to this day, used to be when I was in school, to this day had the highest grades ever in the history of West Point. That's great. I think that's great. I'm a person that believes in that kind of stuff. Maybe I'm wrong but it's pretty impressive. General Douglas MacArthur was a great general. General Patton was a rough guy. His people would do anything for him. They would die for him. Today he couldn't make it because he is too tough. Today, we have guys that are politically correct. We have politically correct people."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/29/cnr.05.html

Не является ли одержимость Кореей и ядерным оружием детским желанием вернуться и довоевать за генерала Макартура его "политически некорректную" войну?

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В 1988 Рейган подписал принятый демократическим Конгрессом закон о выплате компенсаций семьям интернированных американских японцев https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988

Подписывая дополнение к закону в 1992, президент Буш сказал: “No monetary payments can ever fully compensate loyal Japanese Americans for one of the darkest incidents in American constitutional history. We must do everything possible to ensure that such a grave wrong is never repeated.” http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=21521

Памятник пострадавшим открылся в Вашингтоне в 1999.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_Memorial_to_Patriotism_During_World_War_II



В том же году Билл Клинтон создал President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders и назначил председателем комиссии своего министра торговли Норма Минету, который был интернирован с родителями в лагерь во время войны. Минета продолжил служить министром транспорта в кабинете Буша, но азиатская комиссия при президенте ушла на второй план. Обама возродил ее новым указом в 2009:

I'm signing this executive order today, reestablishing the advisory commission and White House initiative created by President Clinton 10 years ago. Because when any of our citizens are unable to fulfill their potential due to factors that have nothing to do with their talent, character, or work ethic, then I believe there's a role for our government to play. Not to guarantee anybody's success or to solve everybody's problems, but to ensure that we're living up to our nation's ideals; to ensure that we can each pursue our own version of happiness, and that we continue to be a nation where all things are still possible for all people. That's the impact that our government can have.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-aapi-initiative-executive-order-signing-and-diwali-event

В 2017 из 20 членов комиссии 16 ушли в отставку в знак протеста против политики Трампа.

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Выступая в 2000 на тему привлечения американцев азиатского происхождения, Клинтон говорил:

I also want to say that just as we are enhanced when we tap the strengths of all Americans, we are diminished when any American is targeted unfairly because of his or her heritage. Stereotyping, discrimination, racism have no place. And if we can overcome it, America has no limit to what we can achieve.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=58546

Клинтон использовал эту выступления для того, чтобы агитировать за дочь китайских иммигрантов по имени Долли Джи, которую он номинировал на пост федерального судьи в Калифорнии.

But we still have too many nominees who have waited too long.
One of them is a woman named Dolly Gee. I met with her yesterday; I'm going to embarrass her a little bit now. I nominated her for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She has some good news in her life: She got married last weekend. The bad news is she's supposed to be on her honeymoon. [Laughter] The worst news is her husband is on her honeymoon—[laughter]—in London. But because she wanted to be here with you, she sent him there without her. [Laughter] And I think every one of you should take it as a personal responsibility to try to persuade the Senate to confirm her.
Dolly, stand up there. [Applause]



Номинация была заблокирована республиканским Сенатом, и вскоре избранный Буш назначил на ту же вакансию другого судью (белого мужчину). Долли Джи дождалась нового назначения от Обамы в 2009.

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>> Не является ли одержимость Кореей и ядерным оружием детским желанием вернуться и довоевать за генерала Макартура его "политически некорректную" войну?

Трампу, наверно, психологически комфортно ассоциировать себя с властью, богатством и успешными людьми. Тем самым он как бы приманивает удачу, словно водитель фуры, который обклеивает свою кабину изнутри плакатами полуголых грудастых девиц или японок в кимоно в прическах-нихонгами. Зенит популярности Макартура пришелся на 19 апреля 1951 года, когда в Нью-Йорке на парад приветствовать его пришло полмиллиона человек. Я думаю, когда Трамп упоминает всуе имя генерала, в его голове крутится только эта картинка – машина с открытым верхом, а вокруг ликующие люди с флажками и конфетти. Трамп хочет подобного для себя и заряжает окружающих себя сильными положительными образами. Мысли позитивно, и всё у тебя получится. С таким же успехом он мог бы окружить себя Гаем Юлием Цезарем, Гераклом и Биттлзами.

Репутация у Маккартура неоднозначная. В 1942 во время Филиппинского фиаско он потерял целую дивизию (это единственный раз за всю историю США, когда дивизию пришлось расформировывать), а также стряс с президента Филиппин полмиллиона долларов перед тем, как драпать с островов. Вряд ли Трамп это имел в виду, когда писал «quitting wrinkles the soul».

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К Макартуру много претензий. Но если бы не провал в Корее, он вошёл бы в историю великим полководцем. «Карманный фашист» Макартура Чарльз Уилоуби (урожденный Adolph Karl Weidenbach) игнорировал доклады ЦРУ и не верил в то, что Китай вмешается в войну, частично из-за расистских представлений о том, что китайцы трусливы и не умеют воевать.

Even the first encounters with Chinese forces on the battlefield did not shake the faulty intelligence estimate. In late October the Eighth Army fought a bitter and costly battle with CCF forces at Unsan in the North. The Americans were routed, but then the Chinese pulled back. They wanted to entice the Eighth Army northward to trap it far from its supply lines and to isolate it near the Chinese frontier. Willoughby dismissed the Unsan battle as unimportant and continued to claim that the Chinese would not intervene in force. So did MacArthur. The Chinese decision to trap an American unit in Unsan, then stop and regroup, would be unerringly similar to the Chinese invasion of India twelve years later in 1962 in which they used the same tactic—attack, halt, and then attack again—to defeat the Indian army.
MacArthur made one of his lightning quick trips to Korea from Tokyo on November 24, 1950, telling the U.S. ambassador in Seoul there were only 25,000 Chinese troops in Korea. Then he had his return flight to Tokyo fly along the Yalu River, making possible a personal reconnaissance intended to impress the media. His report to Washington dismissed the danger of Chinese intervention. Three days later Peng’s armies struck the American forces as they were driving to the Yalu River.
The result was a disaster. The Eighth Army was routed again and its South Korean allies destroyed. Thousands of allied troops died and were wounded. As the British military historian Max Hastings described later, the total disintegration “resembled the collapse of the French in 1940 to the Nazis and the British at Singapore in 1942 to the Japanese.” By December 31, 1950, the Americans had been driven 120 miles south back to the 38th parallel and were still retreating. Seoul would fall to Peng’s armies in early 1951. It was by far the worst military debacle the U.S. armed forces suffered in the entire twentieth century.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/09/13/catastrophe-on-the-yalu-americas-intelligence-failure-in-korea/

Трампу в 1951 было 5 лет. О Макартуре он слышал либо от отца, либо когда учился в New York Military Academy, частной школе военного образца https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/68945.html

В мае 2017 Эрик Принс (https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/107762.html) (замешанный в Рашагейте глава печально известного частного военного предприятия Blackwater) опубликовал статью “The MacArthur Model for Afghanistan”, в которой, ссылаясь на Макартура в Японии, пытался подсказывать Трампу, как надо обустроить Афганистан.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-macarthur-model-for-afghanistan-1496269058

Недавно выяснилось, что липовый американский патриот Принс продает свои услуги по тренировке военных наёмников в Китае.

In November, Frontier graduated its first class of “overseas security specialists,” who were given “strict, strenuous and systematic” training to manage security in “high risk environments, warzones and operations across the globe,” according to a Frontier promotional statement. Prince delivered the commencement address by video link.
The school’s promotional materials boast that Frontier has trained more than 5,000 Chinese military personnel, 200 plainclothes police officers, 500 SWAT specialists, 200 railway police officers and 300 overseas military police officers. A slogan painted on the school’s wall reads, “Training ground for warriors.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/05/04/feature/a-warrior-goes-to-china-did-erik-prince-cross-a-line/

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вау, я и не знал, что Китай и Индия воевали в 1962.

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В СССР это называли пограничным конфликтом.

The buildup and offensive from China occurred concurrently with the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis (16–28 October 1962) that saw both the United States and the Soviet Union confronting each other, and India did not receive assistance from either of these world powers until the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

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прикольно. Ему и путин потому нравится.

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Washington Post пишет, что в противостоянии с Нунесом Министерство юстиции и ФБР защищают личность ценного информатора разведки - гражданина США.

Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an urgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes could endanger a top-secret intelligence source.
Top White House officials, with the assent of President Trump, agreed to back the decision to withhold the information. They were persuaded that turning over Justice Department documents could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI, according to multiple people familiar with the discussion and the person’s role.
The showdown marked a rare moment of alignment between the Justice Department and Trump, who has relentlessly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other top Justice officials for the probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
But it is unclear whether Trump was alerted to a key fact — that information developed by the intelligence source had been provided to the Mueller investigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/risk-to-intelligence-source-who-aided-russia-investigation-at-center-of-latest-showdown-between-nunes-and-justice-dept/2018/05/08/d6fb66f8-5223-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html