Jay Sekulow Vomits Lies Into Sean Hannity's Hungry Mouth

Mmmmm, tasty LIE VOMIT.

Yesterday, Fox and Friends started the day whining about coordination between Democrats and "the mainstream media," and ended it by inviting the president's personal lawyer on air to hock rancid globs of phlegm at Sean Hannity and see if any of them would stick. The jury's still out on that one, although Hannity and his audience are well primed to believe just about any crazy shit, so ... odds are good they're going to slurp this right up.

Yeah, that's gross, but get a load of this shit! Here's part of a blogpost Sekulow wrote on his own site which Fox was kind enough to republish before his Hannity appearance! (They were also kind enough to edit out the part about the "Obama FBI using the faulty, unverified Steele Dossier it new [sic] was salacious," so Sekulow would look like less of A IDIOT.)

Stunning new information just released by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) shows that the Obama administration stepped up efforts – just days before President Trump took office – to undermine Trump and his administration.

The ACLJ, where I serve as chief counsel, has obtained records that show the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, under Director James Clapper , eagerly pushed to get new procedures as part of an anti-Trump effort. The procedures increased access to raw signals intelligence before the conclusion of the Obama administration, just days before President Trump was inaugurated.

Sekulow is no stranger to grift, but even by his debased standards, this one's a whopper .

Here's the back story. In July 2008, outgoing President Bush modified a 2004 Executive Order (which was itself a modification of a 1981 EO signed by Ronald Reagan) on intelligence sharing. The new executive order made it easier for the National Security Agency (NSA), to share the vast quantities of data it was collecting with other members of the intelligence community (IC), particularly the CIA and FBI. Reasonable people can argue, as Edward Snowden did, that the NSA is amassing dangerous amounts of data and needs to be reined in. But after 9-11, the IC was roundly blamed for failing to share information that might have prevented the attacks. So George W. Bush, a Republican, ordered the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Defense to put their heads together and come up with some procedures for intelligence sharing between the agencies. These are the procedures Jay Sekulow is pretending were instituted to enable the DEEP STATE to spy on Donald Trump.

Which makes no goddamn sense, but HEY HELLO have you seen this email from Office of the DNI's General Counsel Robert Litt saying, "Really, really want to get this done ... and so does the Boss"? What if you knew that SOMEONE sent an email saying, "We could have a signature from the AG as early as this week, certainly prior to the 20th Jan?" Would you then be convinced that these plans which had been in the work for eight years were part of a sinister plot to tapp Trump's fraying, orange wires?

By greatly expanding access to classified information by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, the Obama administration paved the way for a shadow government to leak classified information – endangering our national security and severely jeopardizing the integrity and reputation of our critical national security apparatus – in an attempt to undermine President Trump.

Hooboy, there's some serious methane coming off that one! Check out the 26 pages of procedures for unaccountability to provide "classified information" to those "bureaucrats" at the FBI and CIA who have satisfied legally binding criteria establishing their need for it and undergone extensive training on how to keep it secure. Pretty nefarious of James Clapper and Loretta Lynch to want to get this signed before leaving office, huh Jay? 

Was it to bolster up a shadow government to undermine the incoming administration? Could this explain all the leaks that have been happening during this current administration? We were all in agreement that it's clear the intent was to have as many eyes on the incoming administration as possible, in order to leak as much information as they could.

UHHHHHH ...

Moreover, as Marcy Wheeler points out, Trump could have rescinded that executive order any time in the past two-and-a-half years if he thought it was a license to spy on him. But he didn't give a damn until his lawyer managed to cherry-pick three pages from a document dump -- uploading them as three, separate PDFs with zero context is a nice touch -- and launched himself into a rant about DEEP STATE OBAMA FBI CONSPIRACY ARGLEBARGLE HENGHHHHHH.

These are EO-related procedures. If Trump G.A.F. he could rescind them. If Trump G.A.F., he would have vetoed the… https: //t.co/OpTefuBJS2

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) 1561511604.0 

Whatever! Jay Sekulow knows a DEEP STATE PLOT when he sees one. And you can too if you watch him splaining it to Hannity last night.

Sean Hannity 6/25/19 | Sean Hannity Fox News June 25, 2019    www.youtube.com 

The best part is where Hannity claims it was Obama's executive order that got this whole thing started. He's a very serious journalist, you guys. You can tell because this timehe actually disclosed that Sekulow had previously been his own personal lawyer.#Ethics

And now we are all dumber.

[ Fox / ACLJ Word Vomit / ACLJ Exhibit: Litt Email / ACLJ Exhibit: DNI Email Confirming Signatures / ACLJ Exhibit: DNI Talking Points / NYT / Procedures for Dissemination of Raw SIGINT ]

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