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To: nathanbedford

I agree that a Grand Jury would be more effective but it is also much more secretive.

Congressional hearings are much more open to the public. If they have half a brain the republicans can smoke out some low level dems that the dems are willing to sacrifice and keep this in the news through the mid terms.

President Trump probably knows he will never pin any crime on the Kenyan klown but he can control the news for a year with what is already known.
He puts Obama and congress on defense.

There are a couple of roads he can take at this point.
If congress proves as ineffective as we believe it to be he can call for a special prosecutor.
I think he is going this route to mute any criticism that he is acting like a dictator, a charge the left is already using.

What I really want to see is this causing some dems to not only admit the humanity of their godling Barack Obama but to have them urinate on his “legacy”.
Rats deserting a sinking ship and all that.


104 posted on 03/05/2017 8:34:21 AM PST by oldvirginian (President Donald J Trump, Go Big, Go Bold and Never Apologize!)
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To: oldvirginian; palmer
I just posted this observation:

I am all for pursuing this as far as it will go and that is why I call for a grand jury instead of, or perhaps in parallel with, a congressional investigation.

I suggested the possibility of a parallel congressional investigation because it does offer publicity value and the main idea, since Obama is out of office, is to exploit the situation for the 2018 election and that will be hard to do working on leaks from a special prosecutor rather than from the drama of televised congressional hearings.

The problem with congressional hearings as we all know is the grandstanding by Republicans who will not work as a United team resulting in fiascoes. Moreover, the Republican leadership is likely to back off from pursuing very important pieces of the puzzle claiming that they are interfering with the criminal investigation. Finally, the congressional investigation can taint the criminal investigation and the issue of whether to offer congressional immunity in exchange for testimony has to be balanced against the desire to pursue the criminal case.

All of these things are matters to be balanced and there is no clear answer, especially in advance and especially when we do not know much of the facts that are presumably in possession of Trump


110 posted on 03/05/2017 8:43:43 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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