Posted on 06/08/2017 6:30:42 AM PDT by Mechanicos
Started streaming 31 minutes ago
James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by President Trump last month, is expected to tell a Senate committee that the president asked him to back off the investigation into Mike Flynn, a source told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
The report said Comey could testify as early as next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Constitutional expert and famed Harvard law Professor, Alan Dershowitz, took on Jeffrey Toobin to discuss the ongoing Trump-Comey saga, saying in no uncertain terms that “this is not obstruction of justice.” He explains, “That is his constitutional power. He has the right to say, ‘You will not investigate Flynn.’ The best proof of that is he could have simply said to Comey, ‘Stop the investigation, I’ve just pardoned Flynn.’”
To back up his assertions, Dershowitz reminded viewers of when Bush I pardoned Casper Weinberger the night before trial. After doing so, no one cried ‘obstruction’ because it was within the rights of the President of the United States to do so. “That’s what President Bush did,” Dershowitz said, citing the case of Caspar Weinberger. “You cannot have obstruction of justice when the president exercises his constitutional authority to pardon, his constitutional authority to fire the director of the FBI, or his constitutional authority to tell the director of the FBI who to prosecute and who not to prosecute.”
Dershowitz made the point that impeachment and obstruction are two entirely different things, which reduced Jeffrey Toobin to look like an 11th grade history student learning the constitution for the first time. The President can be impeached for all manners of things, but not for firing Comey and/or asking him to stop investigating Flynn — because it is his right to do so. “You can impeach him if you don’t like what he did,” he said. “But you cannot say it’s a crime. It’s simply not a crime for the president to exercise his constitutional authority to pardon or to direct the FBI.” (snip) (Excerpt) Read more at ibankcoin.com ...
Read My Lips is what put the nail in that coffin.
“he says he doesn’t know the prez to read him well....yet just earlier he could read him well , that is why he was worried about Trump.”
An FBI director, the top cop in the world,
CLAIMS HE CAN’T ‘READ’ SOMEONE.
Agree. Rubio got to the heart of it all.
Leaks only when they are anti-Trump.
It’s a hearing about nothing, a Seinfeld episode.
“The whole point of this sham is to keep the Russia thing going on in perpetuity.”
Post of the Day!!!!!
But to the Left a Seinfeld episode/hearing is “high drama”.
Yes she has been. I am surprised. Maybe clintons/soros have nothing on her.
Yes, I concur.
Did Comey enter his written “opening statement “ into testimony? If not, then it is not considered under oath and can be filled with lies. The Clintons did this repeatedly and correctly counted on the lying MSM to back them up no matter how many times they changed their stories.
However, I know a businessman that keeps a dated Journal record of every phone conversation of significance .... It was actually subpoenaed in a case as evidence. ..and accepted as such since it was dated and consistent.....
Of course that's not a “memo” .....rather a written account.
Why does Collins sound like she’s talking to a room full of kindergarteners?
“Rubio’s doing well here.”
Agree.
Made the connection that Comey’s “good word” for McCabe could have been “read” by Trump as an “order”.
Clever and well done.
“Did Comey enter his written “opening statement “ into testimony? If not, then it is not considered under oath and can be filled with lies.”
Good point.
Or he didn’t take it as an order at the time, but is lying about it now in order to torpedo Trump.
I know....he must be going stir crazy. He is with his lawyers right now planing his statement for after this kabuki theater senate hearing.
“Feinstein has been very quiet and having nothing to do with this attempted coup”
Maybe because she is one of the Senators that DJT showed evidence to that Obama was spying on Democrats....
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!
Why would you waste the President's time with the McCain file? Why?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.