The fate of American justice lies with William Barr
By Mike Young
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The sheer audacity of McCabe to openly allege that there was a 25th Amendment coup d’état under consideration by unelected government bureaucrats should be a wake-up call to all citizens. Outside of the obvious treachery and desire to sell books, it indicates that McCabe does not believe he will be held accountable for his actions. He’s violating the “deny, deny, deny” tenet of the Left. He must envision himself being carried off the field by an army of useful idiots.
The successful 2-year hijacking of the DOJ by Obama holdovers might be one of the most remarkable stories in our political history. Is it a sign of things to come? We’ve been witnessing a proactive deterrent against any public official who dares to defy the swamp machine and their lefty lap-dogs in the mainstream media. We should not simply fear that dirty individuals are poised to get away with high crimes, we should fear that the DOJ has been permanently corrupted by this precedent. Must we be resigned to accept a two-tier justice system: one for the ruling class left, and one for the rest of us plebes? It also raises the question: will this happen to the next Republican president? What steps are needed to ensure that it won’t?
The newly sworn-in Attorney General, William Barr, is out there right now contemplating the level of response required to move forward. Is he inclined to do the bare minimum to sweep this whole thing under the rug, or is he the man of integrity we’ve heard many proclaim him to be? The level of impact of his future actions cannot be understated.
If the complete politicization of the DOJ and FBI is allowed to go unpunished, it will not only happen again by the next Democrat president, we may never see another Republican president. Who, in his right mind, would sign up to have his life destroyed or the lives of all of his associates destroyed? The precedent could not be clearer: Only Democrats and those aligned with the DC establishment get a pass.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/17/autopsy-of-a-dead-coup/
Autopsy of a Dead Coup
By Victor Davis Hanson
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The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.
So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president.
Preparing the Battlefield
No palace coup can take place without the perception of popular anger at a president.
The deep state is by nature cowardly. It does not move unless it feels it can disguise its subterranean efforts or that, if revealed, those efforts will be seen as popular and necessary—as expressed in tell-all book titles such as fired FBI Directors James Comey’s Higher Loyalty or in disgraced Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s psychodramatic The Threat.
In candidate and President Trump’s case that prepping of the battlefield translated into a coordinated effort among the media, political progressives and celebrities to so demonize Trump that his imminent removal likely would appear a relief to the people. Anything was justified that led to that end.
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Weaponizing the Deep State
During the 2016 election, the Obama Department of Justice warped the Clinton email scandal investigation, from Bill Clinton’s secret meeting on an airport tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, to unethical immunity given to the unveracious Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to James Comey’s convoluted predetermined treatment of “likely winner” Clinton, and to DOJ’s Bruce Ohr’s flagrant conflict of interests in relation to Fusion GPS.
About a dozen FBI and DOJ grandees have now resigned, retired, been fired, or reassigned for unethical and likely illegal behavior—and yet have not faced criminal indictments. The reputation of the FBI as venerable agency is all but wrecked. Its administrators variously have libeled the Trump voters, expressed hatred for Trump, talked of “insurance policies” in ending the Trump candidacy, and inserted informants into the Trump campaign.
The former Obama directors of the CIA and National Intelligence, with security clearances intact, hit the television airways as paid “consultants” and almost daily accused the sitting president of Russian collusion and treason—without cross-examination or notice that both previously had lied under oath to Congress (and did so without subsequent legal exposure), and both were likely knee-deep in the dissemination of the Steele dossier among Obama administration officials.
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The Mueller Investigation
The Crown Jewel in the coup was the appointment of special counsel Robert Muller to discover supposed 2016 Trump-Russian election collusion. Never has any special investigation been so ill-starred from its conception.
Mueller’s appointment was a result of his own friend James Comey’s bitter stunt of releasing secret, confidential and even classified memos of presidential conversations. Acting DOJ Attorney Rod Rosenstein appointed a former colleague Mueller—although as a veteran himself of the Clinton email scandal investigations and the FISA fraudulent writ requests, Rosenstein was far more conflicted than was the recused Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Mueller then packed his investigative team with lots of Clinton donors and partisans, some of whom had legally represented Clinton subordinates and even the Clinton Foundation or voiced support for anti-Trump movements.
Mueller himself and Andrew Weissmann have had a long record of investigatory and prosecutorial overreach that had on occasion resulted in government liability and court mandated federal restitution. In such polarized times, neither should have involved in such an investigation. Two subordinate FBI investigators were caught earlier on conducting an affair over their FBI-issued cell phones, and during the election cycle they slurred the object of their subsequent investigation, ridiculed Trump voters, and bragged that Trump would never be elected. Mueller later staggered, and then hid for weeks the reasons for, their respective firings.
The team soon discovered there was no Trump-Russian 2016 election collusion—and yet went ahead to leverage Trump campaign subordinates on process crimes in hopes of finding some culpability in Trump’s past 50-year business, legal, and tax records.
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