Law and order
May. 17th, 2017 09:57 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)

Вторая информационная бомба, сброшенная вчера New York Times оказалась еще разрушительней:
President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.
“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.
The existence of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html
Другие СМИ независимо подтверждают информацию.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-asked-comey-to-drop-flynn-investigation-according-to-memo-written-by-former-fbi-director-1494974774
Налицо явная попытка помешать правосудию (obstruction of justice). Из-за подобного Никсон в свое время попал под угрозу импичмента и вынужден был уйти в отставку.

Джейсон Чаффетс, глава могущественной комиссии Конгресса (House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform), который незадолго до этого объявил, что не будет переизбираться в 2018 и может даже покинуть Конгресс до конца срока, немедленно запросил у ФБР копии записей разговоров, которые делал Коми.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-16-JEC-to-McCabe-FBI-Memos.pdf
Его демократический заместитель, Elijah Cummings, требует вызвать Коми для дачи показаний на открытых слушаниях, а также отправить официальные повестки в Белый дом для документов про Флинна, которые они до сих пор отказывались предоставить.
In addition, in March—just a month after this meeting between the President and Director Comey—I sent a bipartisan letter to the White House with Chairman Jason Chaffetz requesting documents relating to General Flynn. But the White House has obstructed our congressional investigation, covered up for General Flynn, and refused to provide a single document. https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-issues-statement-on-reports-that-president-asked-director-comey-to-end
33 демократических конгрессменa из двух профильных комиссий немедленно потребовали открытия официального расследования.
“We are writing to request that the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee launch an immediate joint investigation into whether President Donald Trump and his top officials are engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to obstruct the criminal, counter-intelligence, and oversight investigations currently being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice, and Congress into members of his presidential campaign and their contacts with Russian officials.”
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/all-dems-on-oversight-and-judiciary-committees-demand-immediate-investigation-of
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