Posted on 07/28/2017 2:05:00 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Judiciary Committee Republicans today sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein calling for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate unaddressed matters, some connected to the 2016 election and others, including many actions taken by Obama Administration officials like Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The letter follows yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee approval of H. Res. 446, as amended, to request documents pertaining to the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton.
In their letter, the Judiciary Committee members express concern that the directive given to Special Counsel Robert Mueller is narrow in scope and many concerns arising out of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath are not being investigated. The members call for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate grave concerns such as former Attorney General Lynch’s directive to former FBI Director Comey to mislead the American people on the nature of the investigation into former Secretary Clinton; the FBI and Justice Department’s investigative decisions related to the Clinton email investigation, including the immunity deals given to potential co-conspirators; selected leaks of classified information that unmasked U.S. persons incidentally collected upon by the intelligence community; and the FBI’s reliance on “Fusion GPS” in its investigation of the Trump campaign, among many others issues.
What? A second special counsel to investigate the ACTUAL crimes and ACTUAL violations of the Espionage Act committed by numerous ‘RATS?
Whoever heard of such a thing,
Why doesn’t Jeff Sessions just do his job? I am sick of them all, jerks!
...”What? A second special counsel to investigate the ACTUAL crimes and ACTUAL violations of the Espionage Act committed by numerous ‘RATS?”...
Finally, we see some Republicans willing to fight for justice for the American people.
We need to let these few we appreciate thete efforts
It’s about time! Wonder how many bodies are going to start piling up?
Is the IRS wench mentioned?
I don’t understand why the normal due process of law is not sufficient to deal with this issue. What role can a “special counsel” fill here that can’t be filled by DoJ prosecutors in the normal course of their duties?
None. These are ordinary crimes committed by people who are not in the chain of command of the investigation.
In other cases where an Administration doesn't feel the current DOJ staff is up to the task, outside people are added as a 'task force'.
The Special Counsel is currently just an internal bureaucratic rule anyway.
What's lacking is political will.
Rip Van Sessions is not going to do a damn thing.
They also need a Special Councel to investigate Mueller and Rosenstein.
But earlier this week I read a story from either the WaPo or NYT that the Republicans in the House rejected Trump’s call to investigate Hillary. This Fake News BS from those two rags is out of hand. All they want to do is cause doubt and chaos.
Clearly it’s true, some people are above the law.
LOCK THEM UP. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.
“The Law”...
The Complete Perversion of the Law
But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.
Frederic Bastiat
It'll NEVER happen.
Yeah. When they say “justice is blind,” it’s not supposed to mean they look at Democrats and never see anything wrong.
The glaring fact that Sessions hasn’t long ago called for such an investigation - and the need for the Judiciary to call for one - is testimony that he has no intentions of so doing.
It looks like the Committee has nailed the subjects/avenues that need investigation.
‘Won’t hold my breath on the announcement of such an investigation.
(In the meantime, Sessions is off to el Salvador for further ‘investigating’ the gangs he’s after. Great, as far as it goes. But on the list of things that need IMMEDIATE attention, that falls off the page.
If this coup-committee isn’t stopped, nothing else will matter. Smacks to me of a reverse dereliction of duty and ‘misdirection.” . Get so busy putting out brush fires that his total lack of taking care of the Forest fire isn’t seen through the smoke.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/07/27/latest-sessions-el-salvador-trip-focuses-on-ms-13-gang.html
How does this work? Do we now have to have a vote, or can the AG just go ahead and appoint a SC? In fact, why not?
The SC is a bureaucratic procedure with DOJ’s self-imposed regs. The AG or Acting AG can appoint a SC if there is “a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances” or if “it would be in the public interest”. There is no current law mandating the appointment of a special counsel for any reason.
All lawyers with expertise in politically-related crimes are naturally close to the political world, so the idea of an ‘unbiased’ SC is nonsense.
Criminal matters at a high level should get aggressive prosecution by the normal DOJ processes. The people will judge at the ballot box, Special Counsel or not.
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