5/16/2018: AUTHORITARIAN RULE BY OUR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

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5/16/2018: AUTHORITARIAN RULE BY OUR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

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This is the third campaign that was approved unanimously at our 5/16/2018 meeting.

It comprises the following letter sent certified mail to Attorney General Jeff Sessions --
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Issues Raised When The Letter Was Circulated To Meeting Attendees For Comment

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First, why address the campaign to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

It was unanimously agreed that the Attorney General is responsible for the entire Department of Justice even though he has recused himself from the so-called Russia investigation.

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Second, why the campaign didn’t take the traditional form of an already-prepared e-mail that could be sent to America's decision makers which, with only a few computer keyboard key strokes, can be sent by each of our members (1) to the decision maker, and (2) to all of the member's friends and acquaintances requesting them to do the same in an unending chain.

It was unanimously agreed that https://www.justice.gov/contact-us does NOT have even the pretense (as do Senatorial/Congressional websites and the White House website) that you can send an e-mail to the Attorney General.

[Instead of purporting to send your e-mail to the President, a Senator or a Congressperson, the Department of Justice website “hits you between the eyes” that you are merely sending your e-mail to the Department of Justice!!! Moreover, the “contact” e-mail form has a drop-down menu for “Subject” that contains 35 choices, one of which is “Inspector General” and another of which is “Solicitor General” -- but for the Attorney General the prescribed subject is only “Messages for the Attorney General” which makes it painfully obvious that some staffer will screen the e-mails and make a low-level determination of whether your e-mail merits the attention of the Attorney General!!!]

Moreover, unlike an e-mail campaign to a politician such as the President, a Senator or a Congressperson, all of whom presumably would be impressed by how many e-mails are received in making her/his political decision, this is a “matter of conscience” made by the nation’s chief prosecutor.

Accordingly, it was unanimously agreed that the campaign take the form of a Certified Mail letter addressed directly to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and “a pox on his house” if it fails to reach him!!!

HOWEVER, IF ANY READER HAS DIRECT ACCESS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS AND IS WILLING TO ACT AS “A GOOD SAMARITAN,” PLEASE FORWARD TO HIM THE ADOBE.PDF FILE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD APPEARING ABOVE.

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Third, why a four-page letter didn’t include an Executive Summary.

[Usually, letters that are more than one page begin with an Executive Summary that is less than one page.]

It was unanimously agreed that --

(1) all of the information is important and cannot be summarized, and

(2) since American Democracy itself (vs. Orwell’s “1984”) is at stake, Attorney General Sessions should take the time to read a mere four pages.

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The Difference Between The Decisions of Our 12/13/2017 Meeting and Our 5/16/2017 Meeting

The “Conclusion” for our letter of today (5/30/2018) to Attorney General Sessions requests that for the sake of American Democracy --

“Accordingly, it was the unanimous opinion of the participants at our 5/16/2018 meeting that you should institute prosecutions for such obvious criminal behavior imperiling our national security as (A) the Clinton Foundation in general and Uranium One in particular, (B) Hillary putting top-secret documents on a personal computer server that was less secure than g-mail and that was hacked by at least 5 foreign governments, (C) Hillary and the DNC buying false “opposition research” from the Kremlin and distributing it to the mainstream media while masking their deeds by using the Perkins Coie law firm as their agent to accomplish these illegal activities, and (D) rigging the Democratic Primaries against Bernie Sanders who was the only candidate in 2016, other than Donald Trump, standing up for American workers (which should comprise a “slam dunk” case of criminally defrauding all of Bernie Sanders’ zillions of small campaign contributors).”

As explained in the letter to Attorney General Sessions, the attendees of our 12/13/2017 meeting voted 6-3 for an e-mail campaign OPPOSING the extension of FISA Sec. 702 unless two conditions were met, the first of which was the same as the just-quoted request for the sake of American Democracy.

Since our e-mail campaigns require either unanimous approval or, at most, one dissent -- that e-mail campaign was NOT approved.

However, it was clear that the three dissenters were more concerned with security than George Orwell’s “1984”!!!

In other words (which words were featured both in the meeting materials and in the discussion), the three dissenters did NOT believe in “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”!!!

Accordingly, it was unanimously agreed at our 5/16/2018 meeting that there is a difference between sacrificing American Democracy on the altar of security, and the hope that American Democracy can be preserved within the constraint of exalting security above all other concerns.

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