Posted on 05/23/2017 10:47:05 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Robert Mueller is tasked with finding a crime that does not exist in the law. It is a legal impossibility.
As special counsel, Mueller can engage in all manner of spectacular jurisprudential gymnastics. However, it will not change the fact that colluding with Russia is not, under America’s criminal codes, a crime. It’s just not there.
Maybe it should be. Perhaps someday Congress will pass a law criminalizing such conduct in political campaigns. But for now, there is not a single statute outlawing collaboration with a foreign government in a U.S. presidential election. Or any election, for that matter.
Why, then, are so many people who are following the Trump-Russia saga under the mistaken impression that collusion is a crime? Principally, because it is a loaded word with an historic criminal connotation.
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I mean, I feel kind of sorry for Donald Trump. He’s gone into a hurricane with a parasol. He wanted the USA to unite, not for one wing to do its best to strangle the other into silence.
But this is a God sized job, not even a Trump sized one.
I've been here at FR long enough to see MoveOn.org screeching about President Trump's purported "obstruction of justice" - after wanting to "censure and move on" from Clinton's ACTUAL obstruction of justice.
And to see Dick "Less" Durbin accuse President Trump of "obstruction of justice" - after he voted "not guilty" when confronted with Clinton's ACTUAL obstruction of justice.
These people are hijackers, terrorists and seditionists.
Oh, Donald has plenty of enemies on both sides of the aisle.
If we have to evoke the image of an airplane, it is as though each wing took it as a mortal mission to nullify the other.
Todd Beamer and the rest of them probably solicited God’s help - but then they did what they had to do. :)
If the Swamp removes President Trump, are you going to show up at the next election?
And if so, why?
Let me put it to you bluntly.
If God has His way, are you going to mope in His face?
And if so, why?
What they had to according to what bible?
See if you can square your plan of action with that, first.
Me, I was busy fighting the real war on Twitter.
BTW, 97er Deb sends her regards: "p*ss off"
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Like Nixon..obstruction of justice.
Thats why you see stories about dan coats..who was a mistake...and mike rogers
So is it a crime to unmask American citizens? To surveil them without warrant? To influence an investigation by meeting the boss on a tarmac?
Maybe Mueller (is that how his name is spelled?) can investigate these actions.
So, a good starting point might be common street crime in one of DC's better neighborhoods at ten after four in the morning, to wit, two shots in the back, resulting in death in a DC hospital at 0557.
No discernible motive: the vic's wallet and phone were still on him, as well as a necklace valued at $2k.
Murder I, especially for hire, rises to the level of a criminal offense.
Watch your back, Greg Jarrett. Looks like the wives of the Murdock boys are out to get rid of anyone looking at situations which might be bad for the extreme left in the DNC. In the bigger picture, it looks as though these families who are much richer than anyone who has ever lived are out to set up a global dictatorship which will enslave the rest of humanity and technology has made that possible. Make no mistake, if that is afoot, violence and death is a danger for anyone who opposes. Sean Hannity is the latest victim of the Murdock’s. What a shame. We need courageous men and women who will stand as long as possible because this is not going to end the way the left plans.
...”It were treason if the USA was engaged in a war against each other or at least direct hostilities. Otherwise it is not even treason. Colluding with the Russians/USSRians to influence American elections is and has long been SOP for Democrats.”...
Exactly right. Life as anyone knows it cannot go on under a burden of lies and propaganda and the Constitutional crisis we are coming under because of that situation in our government and media is very serious. The enemies of the US are within and I believe those enemies are afraid of Trump, not because they think he is “unfit” to be President, but, because (my opinion) of things he knows about which they have been covering up from the American people for far longer than we can imagine. When he began to use the “swamp” as a description of Washington D.C., he knew exactly what he was talking about and they are petrified of what he might know about how they have used their offices to dupe America which explains much of their behavior in their constant attempts to transfer their sins to Donald Trump.
I smell an Article 134, UCMJ rat. The “crime” will be a casual comment turned into a lie and the Rats have another Scooter Libby.
muuuuuuuuuler should be investigating the clintons and the clinton foundation, ever notice that the rats can get an investigation going right quick but the republicans talk and talk but nothing happeneds, fast and furious, benghazi, IRS, clinton e mails, russian uranium hillary deal, why? I still refuse to donate to the RNC they are feckless despicable humans
Like Nixon..obstruction of justice.
The problem with these special counsels is that they always want to get a scalp, and they never stop until they do. Ken Starr was appointed to investigate the Clintons’ shady dealings with Whitewate, and yet Starr got Clinton on a process charge for lying about a completely unrelated event, having sex with an intern, that was far outside his original mandate.
Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to find the leaker of Valerie Plame’s CIA employment. It turned out to be Richard Armitage, a Democrat. So instead he got Libby Scooter, a Republican, on a process charge for misremembering certain dates during a routine FBI interview - an interview that was not recorded, had no contemporaneous notes taken, and where the FBI agent when cross examined and was revealed to be just as confused as Libby was. And yet a DC jury convicted him anyway in what many legal experts thought was a travesty of justice.
It has never been shown that Nixon knew about the Watergate break-in in advance. (Historians agree he didn’t.) So Leon Jaworski got Nixon on a process charge for trying to protect Gordon Liddy.
Every single time these special counsels are unleashed they run amuck until they can tag someone with something. It us always a ‘gotcha’ related to the investigation itself, and never the actual original act that got them appointed in the first place.
And whatever charge Mueller can get will go before a DC jury where 91% of the citizens voted for Hillary and only 4% voted for Trump.
Stalin: “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime!”
Yes, open-air ballet in the Spring with FREE attendance to all.....
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