Another piece of good analysis by McCarthy that illustrates how flimsy the whole house of cards is..... think about this next time you hear some leftist pundit or congress critter gleefully pointing out that this young man pled guilty (to a process crime).
Congress needs to look at making changes to 1001. The intent of 1001 was clearly to be a material omission of fact or an outright lie regarding an underlying crime. If no crime occurred and a person is questioned on the basis of a reasonable suspicion this law should not apply. I don’t want people lying to law enforcement, but what we are witnessing now (for clearly political reasons) is the accusation, followed by questioning, followed by charging for lying WITH NO UNDERLYING CRIME!
This is antithetical to justice and our constitution and it was not the intent of the statute. Meanwhile, we have the OBVIOUS violations that did involve real crimes. Clinton’s IT specialist, Clinton’s testimony and that of her aides regarding the email investigations (which even Comey admitted violated the law although “she did not have intent”), the destruction of evidence by the Clinton machine, and the list goes on and on and YET not one person was even charged with 1001-lying. The differences in how these two “investigations” have been handled could not be more stark.
Flynn did not commit a crime. The Logan Act has not been applied to incoming administrations and the transition any more than it is being non-applied to the recent actions of John Kerry now. Same story with him with a good measure of “plead to this now or we will go after your son for something else.”
This is not how our Dept of Justice is supposed to work and it speaks volumes on how partisan they became under the prior administration. It is past time for some organizations and good attorneys (like McCarthy) to jump into this with both feet and fight it tooth and nail. These cases represent an injustice for the sake of talking points by the left about how successful the SC investigation has been. It would be a joke if real people were not being crushed for partisanship and a Presidency was not being eroded for political differences.
Sessions lets the justice dept do these things.. sessions is helping them..
Between congress and sessions, they are letting this mueller fiasco continue and damage to the country.. to not care is a page from obama’s 8 years..
enough already!!!
“Congress needs to look at making changes to 1001.”
I’ve thought this for some time. At the very least with the technology we have now, the FBI should be required to record any interview to which 1001 is to apply. And there should probably be a warning-like statement read before any interview to which 1001 is to apply.
For testimony in legal proceedings we make people swear in before giving statements for which they will be subject to the penalty for perjury. Perhaps they should be sworn before these kind of FBI interviews when a similar penalty is to apply.