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MineralMan

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3. Not always. The fact of a specific investigation

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:40 AM

Mar 2017

is classified, and won't be discussed in this hearing. General questions only will be answered. Anyone who expects otherwise is going to be disappointed. It's part of their jobs.

It may be frustrating to all of us, but, they really have no choice. Again, they will discuss it in a closed hearing.

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Please note: Comey and Rogers simply cannot talk about [View all] MineralMan Mar 2017 OP

But if there were NO connection cilla4progress Mar 2017 #1

RIGHT !!! What says more is what they can NOT say right now uponit7771 Mar 2017 #2

Sort of. Although the same answers could mean MineralMan Mar 2017 #7

Right. Patience. And read the analyses. :) Hortensis Mar 2017 #9

Not always. The fact of a specific investigation MineralMan Mar 2017 #3

But, so what about Clapper cilla4progress Mar 2017 #5

You could logically assume that, yes. MineralMan Mar 2017 #10

They admit Obama didn't wiretap trump but cannot say anything whenever trump people are mentioned. NightWatcher Mar 2017 #4

to me it seems to signal ongoing investigations as much as classification. . . n/t annabanana Mar 2017 #6

That there are specific ongoing investigations is classfied, MineralMan Mar 2017 #12

A lot of this is to get their 'no comments' on the Congressional record, though. randome Mar 2017 #8

We'll all take whatever we take from those "no comment" statements. MineralMan Mar 2017 #11