Posted on 04/19/2018 4:56:04 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Florida Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis, along with 10 other GOP members of the House, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, detailing formal criminal referrals against James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch and Andrew McCabe. While Sean Hannity and other conservative radio and TV talk show hosts played the letter up as if it is a momentous event, the truth is that it makes referrals that are already being acted upon by the Attorney General.
Sessions has already and repeatedly made it clear that he will act on these referrals and other potential criminal activity by former Obama officials after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz issues his final report detailing the findings from his 15 month-long investigation into potential criminal wrongdoing by deep state DOJ and FBI personnel during the 2016 election campaign. That investigation also covers the FBI/DOJ handling of its sham investigation into the Clinton email scandal, and thus impacts every one of the Obama-era officials named in the DeSantis letter.
Here are some things we already know about all of this:
- We know that the referral on McCabe is redundant at best, since it is related to the same claims of criminal wrongdoing that got McCabe fired in the first place, and the proof if which were detailed in the report issued by IG Horowitz specific to McCabe’s actions late last week.
- We know without any doubt at all that the referral against the Pantsuit Princess, that she violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose the millions of dollars her campaign spent to fund the fake Trump Dossier, is valid and ought to be prosecuted by DOJ, if there is any such thing as equal treatment under the law in this country.
- We know without any doubt at all that the referral against Comey, relating to his leaks of classified information contained in his memos to the New York Times is absolutely true, and ought to be prosecuted by DOJ.
- We know without any doubt at all that the referral against Lynch, relating to her well-document threats of reprisal against a key witness in the Uranium One case, is absolutely valid and ought to be prosecute by DOJ.
- Finally, we know that Attorney General Sessions has appointed his U.S. Attorney in Salt Lake City, John Huber, to lead DOJ’s handling of all of these cases and more, and we know that Mr. Huber has been working on this assignment since at least last October, and possibly since July of last year. We also know that he has had a grand jury convened for months now, and has been working in concert with IG Horowitz and his team of more than 700 investigators.
So what’s the point? The point is that, while the DeSantis letter amounts to a bit of political grandstanding, it is not meaningless. Every charge made in it is clearly valid, and the validity of every criminal act alleged in it is well-documented by now in the public record.
Sessions has been well aware of all of these things and much more for many months now. He claims to have had Huber leading the DOJ charge to determine who will be prosecuted and on what charges. Horowitz has informed congress that he plans to issue his final report in May, and is in fact scheduled to offer testimony related to that report before Trey Gowdy and the House Oversight Committee on May 8. That would indicate that Gowdy has information that the Horowitz report will have been issued by that time.
May 8 is about three weeks from today. Assuming all goes as scheduled, we will by that time finally have a clear answer to the question of whether Mr. Sessions is a real attorney general who is truly intent upon restoring the rule of law in this country after the previous eight years of abject corruption, or if he is just another deep state actor intent on preserving the status quo.
My bet is that we will find out that Mr. Sessions is a real attorney general, if only because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
Interestingly, when Mr. Horowitz offered testimony on unrelated matters before Gowdy’s committee on Wednesday, it was obvious that the ranking Democrat, Gerry Connelly, believes Horowitz’s report will be quite damaging to Democrats. Connelly focused his questioning in a way that tried to portray Horowitz – who was hired into his job by Barack Obama – as a Republican partisan in an effort to start laying the groundwork for what will be the obvious initial Democrat/fake news media tactic after the IG’s report comes out.
Connelly thinks Sessions is a real attorney general, too. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t feel the need to demonize Mr. Horowitz. You should expect to see negative stories about Horowitz to start popping up in the various fake news media outlets in the coming days as well, as the fake journalists ramp up their demonization campaign in earnest.
Just another day in the Horowitz Report is coming America.
That is all.
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Sessions’ inaction and hiding have already shown us who he really is.
Ironically, Sessions has missed a rare opportunity to be seen as a figure of historic political courage had he risen to the challenge and cleaned up the corruption in the DOJ and FBI.
Sessions is long overdue to come out and at least explain himself — what he’s been investigating, what we should expect, just generally, what, if anything, he’s been doing. The silence is defending.
People get caught up in words and forget to expect actions.
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Very insightful comment! That is exactly what will happen.
Sessions has been in Washington a LONG time and like all career politicans, he is a skilled deflector and spinner.
As always happens in the Swamp, there will be a big political production and a flow of meaningless words, all of it a smokescreen to hide the fact that there will be no action.
The SWAMP is the Senior Excutive Service. Trey gets a paycheck from that. Sessions is a member. Until we get rid of this it will be impossible to send these people to jail.
DAMN STRAIGHT! (I don’t know how to make my type bold)
Don’t let it bother you. Some IDIOT, somewhere, decided that “CAPS” was unethical “shouting”. I listened really hard while reading your text and heard nothing.
I did notice your being emphatic.
em·phat·ic
adjective
1.
showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
synonyms: vehement, firm, wholehearted, forceful, forcible, energetic, vigorous, direct, assertive, insistent; certain, definite, out-and-out, one hundred percent; decided, determined, categorical, unqualified, unconditional, unequivocal, unambiguous, absolute, explicit, downright, outright, clear
I didn’t hear Sarah but I would hope there would be many indictments and not just one.
One day we will catch that carrot hanging from that stick.
Vote GOP!
I’ll have to see it to believe it.
‘The inaction of DOJ on McCabe gives us a hint of
what is coming.’
Add Clapper to the list. He committed straight up perjury—on camera—and Stealth Sessions allowed the statute of limitations on it to run out.
But there are times when added emphasis is useful or even necessary.
“My bet is that we will find out that Mr. Sessions is a real attorney general, if only because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate. “
I’ll take the opposite bet. Sessions will put the letter into his trash can. He will protect the Deep State actors.
Mark Levin and Sessions have been friends for decades. I have little doubt they have each others phone number and talk to each other. For Mark to publicly say he’s setting that friendship aside is a sign Sessions is part of the swamp.
I didn’t hear Sarah but I would hope there would be many indictments and not just one.
Such a clever comeback
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Such a clever troll ...
“My bet is that we will find out that Mr. Sessions is a real attorney general, if only because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate. “
I’ll take the opposite bet. Sessions will put the letter into his trash can. He will protect the Deep State actors.
That was the other guy. I said, “I bet the author loses his bet on Sessions (if he’s back from his undisclosed tropical island paradise).”
It would be nice if Sessions would give me a reason to change my sig.
We already know that Trump won’t do anything. It has been over a year and all we have is a soap opera being played out.
We already know who Sessions is.
In before the “In Before the Sessions Bashers” Guy!
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