Posted on 04/15/2019 8:03:22 AM PDT by blam
President Trump on Monday said it was time to “investigate the investigators,” doubling down on Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings in the Russia investigation.
“Mueller, and the A.G. based on Mueller findings (and great intelligence), have already ruled No Collusion, No Obstruction. These were crimes committed by Crooked Hillary, the DNC, Dirty Cops and others! INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!” Trump tweeted early Monday.
The president’s tweet comes following a week of mounting scrutiny on the attorney general for his testimony that “spying did occur” on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
Democrats blasted Barr, and accused him of “peddling conspiracy theories.”
But despite the backlash from Democrats over his use of the term, Barr's testimony appeared to refer to intelligence collection that already has been widely reported and confirmed.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page are currently the subject of a Justice Department inspector general investigation looking at potential misconduct in the issuance of those warrants. That review also reportedly is scrutinizing the role of an FBI informant who had contacts with Trump advisers in the early stages of the Russia investigation.
A person familiar with Barr’s thinking denied that the attorney general was trying to fuel conspiracy theories or play to the conservative base.
“When he used the word spying, he means intelligence collection,” the source told Fox News last week, also noting Barr’s history as a CIA analyst in the 1970s. “He wasn’t using it in the pejorative sense, he was using it in the classic sense.”
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CORRECT.
Yours, TMN78247
Conspiracy to overthrow the government. And with foreign powers involved (Brennan and British Intelligence) there might be Treason, too.
From Wikipedia, no right wing source, a definition of Treason: "...In law, treason is criminal disloyalty to the state. It is a crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign. This usually includes things such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state..."
Sedition is also possible in that there were people calling for the overthrow of the government while knowing full well the premise for doing so was a hoax...and there are many who will fit that crime if it is prosecuted.
I agree with many that we will see neither Treason nor Sedition prosecuted (even though I think they could be) but I do believe we will see a host of other felonies come out of this.
Heck, if they couldn't prosecute Jane Fonda for treason, nobody can be prosecuted for it.
Timing is everything. Trump is playing chess, while others are playing checkers. Be patient.
You are correct. Patience. Jump the gun and lose the race.
Trump can’t just snap his fingers and make it happen. It must be done properly and that’s what’s happening.
Trump hasn’t taken 24/7 abuse and worked his heart out for America to let this go away. He’s going to go about it in the right way.
I pray that you are right.
And that I live to hear a judge intone to Felonia von Pantsuit, “On the charge of murder in the first degree, the jury finds you guilty.”
Yes!
I bet that investigation has been going for a while.
Mueller report due to be released this Thurs.
“When he used the word spying, he means intelligence collection,”
Intelligence collection done via illegal means as part of a conspiracy to remove the current President of the United States because he wants the Leadership of this Nation to follow the actual LAWS.
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