Posted on 03/09/2017 9:59:02 PM PST by TBP
After some intial discussion about marijuana legalization, Hewitt tosses this in from what seems, at least to me, left field:
HEWITT: Now let me switch to the Department itself, Mr. Attorney General. It had a bad eight years. I’m a proud veteran of the Department of Justice, as you are. But the IRS case, the Fast and Furious case, Secretary Clinton’s server, the Department of Justice came under great criticism. How about an outside counsel, not connected to politics, to review the DOJ’s actions in those matters with authority to bring charges if underlying crimes are uncovered in the course of the investigation, and just generally to look at how the Department of Justice operated in the highly-politicized Holder-Lynch years?
SESSIONS: Well, I’m going to do everything I possibly can to restore the independence and professionalism of the Department of Justice. So we would have to consider whether or not some outside special counsel is needed. Generally, a good review of that internally is the first step before any such decision is made.
HEWITT:Will you be looking at the IRS investigation specifically, because that left many of us thinking that the Department of Justice had laid down for a terrible abuse of political power?
SESSIONS: It does. That circumstance raised a lot of questions in my mind, and when I was in the Senate. So it is a matter of real concern to me. Sessions is obviously taking some heat for this:
While Sessions expressed an openness to an outside investigation into the Department of Justice, he and other officials from the administration of President Donald Trump have been resistant to calls for an outside investigation into ties between the Russian government and individuals close to the president.
Amid revelations that he met twice with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during last year’s presidential campaign and did not disclose those meetings during his Senate confirmation hearing, Sessions announced last week that he would recuse himself from all Justice Department investigations related to the 2016 election. There is fertile ground for investigation within Sessions’s construct of an abuse of power. Under Eric Holder the Department of Justice acted as an enforcer for the Obama administration’s agenda. Someone needs to ask why the DOJ refused to investigate the New Black Panther Party for intimidating voters. Okay, that was a rhetorical device, we know WHY the DOJ refused to investigate but someone needs to be held to professional and legal account. Holder was up to his threaded eyebrows is Fast & Furious which resulted in hundreds of deaths. Holder was actually voted in contempt of Congress — twice — over his testimony to Congress over that incident. A good first step would be to bring appropriate civil and criminal charges against him and pursue professional sanctions. Someone needs to find out why Gibson Guitars, whose owner was a donor to GOP candidates, was harassed by federal agents over their use of rare wood in some guitars while their competitor, C. F. Martin, used the same wood and escaped federal attention because its owner was a Democrat. We still don’t know what DOJ discovered about the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Why did DOJ do nothing when the New Black Panther Party offered a $10,000, dead or alive, reward for George Zimmerman? Why did DOJ carry out a legal jihad against members of the press who happened to publish leaks damaging to the administration? (There is actually a book on the subject.)
Loretta Lynch wasn’t around long but she needs to be asked, under oath, what she discussed with Bill Clinton during their “accidental” meeting at a Phoenix airport.
Sessions is right. Under Holder the DOJ, always the most overtly political of the cabinet departments, became a virtual Storm Trooper organization that refused to enforce laws Obama didn’t like and which ruthlessly punished his enemies. If nothing else an internal investigation could serve to purge the hard core Democrat activists that have burrowed into DOJ and allowed Holder’s abuses to take place.
Cue theme music from Flash Gordon movie...
Yes! That’s what I’m talkin about!
To see those two Obots frog marched (or even just badly humiliated in public and exposed as terror supporters) would be a dream come true.
Thank you Jeff Sessions!~
Ain’t nuthin’ till it’s done.
I would let Joe Arpaio unleash his forces.
True Justice.
Don’t forget Lois Lerner.
What forces does former sheriff Joe have?
I don’t know exactly but he did have a task force to challenge that crap Obunga presented.
There’s a whole lotta swamp that needs drainin’ in DC. Everyone knows Holder and Lynch were dirty. It would restore a lot of faith to our judicial system to see those two brought up on serious charges that would pretty much end them politically and much more. Then follow the trails wherever they lead to those within the government who were/are complicit and up the ladder to any who can be held responsible.
One person who is rotten to her core as most folks know is ValJar but since she was always just an appointee advisor; she likely can’t be prosecuted even if the criminal ideas came from her. All the cabinet members and internal staff who helped knowing it was criminal can though.
Obviously Lerner and the guy who took her place need to be held accountable as well as anyone else who was complicit in stopping right wing groups from getting their lawful tax exempt status. Send a serious message to anyone else in the fed gov who thinks about making their job political and illegally helps one party or the other by making sure long and serious prison sentences are handed down and cutting their pensions down to what someone who is on Social Security alone might get. Let them try getting by on that when they get out of jail. Of course suspend all payments while they are in prison.
Sadly, I believe he got voted out in November, and replaced with a “sanctuary sheriff”.
He got voted out but that does not stop Trump from hiring that team.
The title of this thread put a big smile on my face, nice after a pretty lousy day :)
I want to work on that team. I once worked on an organized crime task force whose findings/indictments were quashed by Clinton’s AG Janet Reno. Too much Mob money they didn’t want known by the public.
Justice Denied back then. Let’ have “JUSTICE DELIVERED” this time.
Whole bucket load of a folks from the obamma administration deserve execution, including obamma.
That’s great...but Sessions you need to go after the heads of the snake.
My priority list is as follows:
1) The IT guy that set up Hillary’s server. He was called to testify to Congress, but since it was controlled by Republicans, and Lynch had his back, he simply ‘blew it off’. His co-conspirators at least showed up and took the 5th, but this guy wouldn’t even do that. I believe that Sessions is reviewing his behavior.
2) Eric Holder - for being Janet Reno’s right-hand man with her horrible corruption, and then doing the same for Obama.
3) Loretta Lynch - same thing, looking at her job as nothing more than using the 70,000 people at the Justice Department to protect the corrupt people on her side and to destroy the innocent people that she perceives as enemies.
As to Hillary and Obama, I really don’t care...it is the ENABLERS that need to do some HARD TIME. We need to get back to the place where Hillary says to some IT nerd: “I need you to set up an illegal server in my bathroom so that I can use my Secretary of State job to get rich and run for president”. And the IT guy responds: “I’m not going to jail for 20 years, find someone else” (and then perhaps lets the FBI know).
In one fell swoop, he could put the Dems on defense for a very, very long time.
My thoughts exactly, Holder perjured himself by lying to congress under oath and getting caught twice , and the same Dems whining about Sessions NOW thought it was great then.
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