Posted on 09/18/2017 7:32:11 PM PDT by Beave Meister
WASHINGTON — Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.
The moves against Mr. Manafort are just a glimpse of the aggressive tactics used by Mr. Mueller and his team of prosecutors in the four months since taking over the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia’s attempts to disrupt last year’s election, according to lawyers, witnesses and American officials who have described the approach. Dispensing with the plodding pace typical of many white-collar investigations, Mr. Mueller’s team has used what some describe as shock-and-awe tactics to intimidate witnesses and potential targets of the inquiry.
Mr. Mueller has obtained a flurry of subpoenas to compel witnesses to testify before a grand jury, lawyers and witnesses say, sometimes before his prosecutors have taken the customary first step of interviewing them. One witness was called before the grand jury less than a month after his name surfaced in news accounts. The special counsel even took the unusual step of obtaining a subpoena for one of Mr. Manafort’s former lawyers, claiming an exception to the rule that shields attorney-client discussions from scrutiny.
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“everybody should definitely acquire firearms, etc...take a class in how to use them safely and effectively for home and self defense”
Isn’t that what David Coresh did (crisply critter, former pastor of the Branch Davidians)?
Weissmann seems very corrupt.
Your final statement is even more meaningful in an eternal sense.
He took down a 20+year mob boss..which is not easy. Btw..that mob boss was the inspiration for the jr soprano storyline of pretending to be crazy in the sopranos
It seems to me that the leftists are going to back Trump into a corner where they end up assassinating him, charging him with trumped up charges, or forcing him to fight back like his life and the lives of his family are at stake.
And they are. And so is the future of this nation. And when Trump realizes this, he will be forced to take extreme measures.
He is up against a coup attempt. He is going to have to come down on it with an iron fist.
This is sedition, insurrection, and treason. The use of force is warranted already, and there does not appear to be any peaceful resolution possible.
Fire Jeff Sessions NOW!!!
PING
From Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silvergate:
At the federal prosecutor’s office in the Southern District of New York, the staff, over beer and pretzels, used to play a darkly humorous game. Junior and senior prosecutors would sit around, and someone would name a random celebrity—say, Mother Theresa or John Lennon. It would then be up to the junior prosecutors to figure out a plausible crime for which to indict him or her. The crimes were not usually rape, murder, or other crimes you’d see on Law & Order but rather the incredibly broad yet obscure crimes that populate the U.S. Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like “false statements” (a felony, up to five years), “obstructing the mails” (five years), or “false pretenses on the high seas” (also five years). The trick and the skill lay in finding the more obscure offenses that fit the character of the celebrity and carried the toughest sentences. The result, however, was inevitable: “prison time,”as one former prosecutor told me.
That was one good day, but today, he’s just another corrupt ahole working to suppress the party in opposition to his.
Corrupt.
Graham’s reaction to Trump’s criticism of Sessions was typical. The Swamp will protect Jeff.
‘You have to wonder if Trump is getting close to something explosive, because this threat from Lindsey Graham suggests the swamp rats are scared to death at the prospect of some of their key players losing their positions.
Blood is practically shooting from his eyes as he speaks to the press regarding the discourse and tweets from Trump about Sessions.’
You sure got that right.
This article describes what I would call a lawless political witchhunt.
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Fruit of a poisonous tree? A question to any lawyers on the thread: aren’t these tactics setups for throwing out cases?
How does this behavior stand up to legal rules?
I feel I’m living in the USSR in the 1950s.
I said he seems very corrupt.
If it walks like a duck, and it talks like a duck...
it is still about all anyone can do, and it is what our Founding Fathers arranged for us, hoped we would do in order to help protect the republic they created...and our liberties in same
Yes I am aware of article date. Local ABC reported indictment 30 min ago.
Blame them.
its so annoying its beyond words...why on earth would you recuse yourself over something that never happened, and that you KNOW never happened....makes me sick.
Stop with the flipping nonsense. There’s nothing to flip!
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse lays out the timeline of the collusion between FBI, Russia, and the (Obama) WH. A must read!
They are going to get him.
They will put him under such pressure and questioning he will misstate something and they will get him on a process violation. Same thing that happened to Scooter Libby.
The left repeats what has previously work for them until it gets called out and becomes ineffective.
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