The problem lies with Sessions and the GOP Senate RINOs. If Trump fired Sessions or Rosenstein, those RINOs have already indicated they would not vote for a replacement and see that as obstruction. This will have to be ground out in the courts, and we've already seen a couple of honest judges make mincemeat of Mueller's team.
If Trump doesn’t pardon General Flynn then I hope he petitions for the courts to overturn the conviction.
Nothing should ever be redacted OR classified except for the actual names of secret agents and the precise specs of current military gear.
Yet again, it has been shown that Rosenstein lies about the reason why he redacts.
One of many positive results of Trump being elected:
We now know that our government cannot be trusted. Many had suspected this — especially after the IRS targeting scandal — but they have now confirmed.
The IRS cannot be trusted
The FBI cannot be trusted
The DOJ cannot be trusted
The CIA cannot be trusted
The NSA cannot be trusted
The list is long .........
Great article.
If you liked today’s Wall Street’s Journal’s “The Mystery of Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea,” you’ll love this one. It goes into more detail.
McCarthy knows they will get Trump ifhe does anything. McCarthy is part of the problem, even if he sometimes sees the problemswith the Russia madness.
And in yet another Watergate-esque turn, "it's the secrecy" is once again the theme, only this time it isn't pointed at the President. It's the price they pay for basing legal cases on illicit military-level surveillance.
What we have here is a self-appointed cadre of Special People With Special Clearances running a Star Chamber - secret warrants, secret spying, secret testimony, secret leaks to the media, secret agreements, secret documentation, with oversight only allowed from other Special People. And this, to hear the media on the topic, is "the rule of law".
Other than in the minds of political junkies, there is no reason for this to play out in a more aggressive way. DOJ is never going to release information that is vital to ongoing investigations and that includes congressional oversight. A case where in retrospect Congress will end up agreeing it was handled correctly, albeit with the usual grandstanding.
All Congress can do is hold hearings and huff and puff. The DOJ has the power to charge people with crimes.
“The buck stops with the president.”
Not really, when the GOP House and Senate leadership are threatening him with impeachment if he dares hold anyone at Justice accountable.
Except that the problem is that Jeff Sessions has turned over the Justice Department to Rosenstein, Mueller and Comey.
Because the Special Counsel supported by the DOJ has boxed in the president, this triumvirate is in effective control.
Trump has been told that anything that Mueller can portray as Trump becoming involved in the Russia/Trump, obstruction, Manafort/Ukraine, etc matters will be taken by Mueller as grist for further investigation of Trump.
So if Trump personally gets involved in directing that something on these topics must be unredacted and made public, Mueller will say that investigations must be secret to be effective and Trump is trying to obstruct him.
The scope of Sessions' recusal is breathtaking. As I understand it, he has recused himself from anything to do with Russia, anything to do with the Trump campaign or anyone connected to it, anything to with Hillary's campaign or anyone connected to it.
I heard him tell Maria Bartiromo not long ago that he is recused from a number of the leak investigations, presumably because the underlying leak may somehow touch on one of these topics.
He appears to be recused from supervising the redaction process, again presumably because the material redacted may somehow touch on one of these topics.
But he recused himself far too prematurely, before there was a specific, real, legitimately-predicated criminal investigation to evaluate for a conflict of interest with him.
This has allowed the Triumvirate to commence meritless investigations for political purposes clear of any resistance from Sessions.
Re: “The buck stops with the president.”
I’ve been saying this for more than a year at Free Republic.
Trump is the Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Branch of government.
He has the Constitutional authority to declassify and publicly release any document in the possession of the Executive branch.
Instead, Trump has done nothing serious to defend himself or his Administration from false charges.
In addition, Trump has done nothing serious to expose the political corruption at the Department of Justice, at the FBI, and at the Intelligence Agencies.