Showing posts with label decision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decision. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2020

The Michael Flynn court ruling by Judge Neomi Rao is astonishingly bad - Vox

Judge Neomi Rao’s opinion in In re: Michael T. Flynn is simply astonishing. It involves the Justice Department’s surprising decision to drop charges against one of President Trump’s former top aides — nearly three years after that aide plead guilty to lying to the FBI. And Rao’s opinion takes extraordinary liberties with the law.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/24/21301826/michael-flynn-court-dismiss-charges-neomi-rao-karen-henderson-robert-wilkins

Sunday, March 1, 2020

“Final decision rests with POTUS”: Newly Released Defense Department Emails Show Esper, Pompeo and Bolton Thought Ukraine Aid Should Have Continued - American Oversight

Senior members of the Trump administration, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and then–National Security Adviser John Bolton had agreed that U.S. security assistance funding to Ukraine should “continue as planned,” according to a new email from August released by the Department of Defense on Friday to American Oversight. The August 26, 2019, email from a senior career Pentagon official states that there was “no ongoing interagency review process with respect to USAI [Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative],” and states clearly: “Final decision rests with POTUS.”
https://www.americanoversight.org/final-decision-rests-with-potus








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