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It Is Now an Obstruction Investigation
National Review ^ | December 4, 2017 | ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

Posted on 12/04/2017 3:51:30 AM PST by saywhatagain

For all practical purposes, the collusion probe is over. While the “counterintelligence” cover will continue to be exploited so that no jurisdictional limits are placed on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this is now an obstruction investigation

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KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; impeachment; trump; trumpobstruction
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Always has been about obstruction. They (Comey, et all) knew President Trump was vulnerable to this scheme.

We all know its coming . . . only question now is . . . how will congress react?

1 posted on 12/04/2017 3:51:30 AM PST by saywhatagain
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Damn it. Swamp spends what swamp wants. Who is Donald Trump to meddle in the revenue streams and expenditures of the swampers. They really loathe his existence.

Obama and Clinton are the overlords of obstruction of justice.

2 posted on 12/04/2017 3:57:16 AM PST by blackdog
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To: saywhatagain

Obstruction.... You mean like deleting emails?


3 posted on 12/04/2017 4:02:39 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Obstruction, You mean like bribing the Attorney General?


4 posted on 12/04/2017 4:03:53 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: saywhatagain

Obstruction, You mean like murdering Seth Rich?


5 posted on 12/04/2017 4:04:36 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Obstruction, like smashing computer components to bits?


6 posted on 12/04/2017 4:07:17 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: saywhatagain

The obstruction argument is BS. Watch the Mukasey interview from yesterday.


7 posted on 12/04/2017 4:08:01 AM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: saywhatagain

National Numbnuts Trump obstructed how?


8 posted on 12/04/2017 4:10:01 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: saywhatagain
Flashback

James Comey hoped leak would lead to special counsel on Russia

7 June 2017 . . .

"Former FBI Director James Comey testified Thursday that he orchestrated the leak of accounts of conversations with President Donald Trump because he thought it might lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation.

In one of the most revealing moments of the hearing, Comey said he had asked a friend at Columbia University to leak the content of one of his memos.

He said that it dawned on him that there could be corroboration of a memo that he wrote after the President tweeted that he better hope there were no White House tapes of their conversations.

"My judgment was that I needed to get that out into the public square," he said. He added he took the step "because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel."

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It appears Comey was lying in his timing and purpose of the leaks. Does it really matter? A Special Investigator was appointed with the sole purpose to show obstruction of justice and lay the groundwork for impeachment hearing in Congress

9 posted on 12/04/2017 4:23:04 AM PST by saywhatagain
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Note that McCarthy is oscillating between legal and political arguments. According to the legal argument he writes even with the most lurid assumptions re President Trump's actions:

Even with those assumptions, there is still no obstruction case.

But then he goes on to make political arguments, and in the end impeachment is a political, not legal, action. He comes up with a case of obstruction, but note that is nothing but a subterfuge for a political action by Trump's enemies and has no legal bearing.

10 posted on 12/04/2017 4:23:10 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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Andy McCarthy is now Feinstein’s bitch.


11 posted on 12/04/2017 4:32:38 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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The scholarly left doesn’t even agree with this assessment (i.e. Alan Morton Dershowitz).


12 posted on 12/04/2017 4:35:14 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: saywhatagain

lol

the president is the head of the executive branch and literally “can’t” obstruct justice.


13 posted on 12/04/2017 4:36:28 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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The biggest flaw in McCarthy’s analysis is that all of the facts related to an “obstruction” case have been known for months. What has Mueller and his team been doing since then?


14 posted on 12/04/2017 4:37:28 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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Having failed at its original objective, the Mueller probe is now fishing for anything to justify it's continued existence.

15 posted on 12/04/2017 4:39:33 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Uhmmm OK. Now tell that to the swamp. I have been watching this movie since the Nixon era. This is a classic set-up and sadly President Trump just walked into it.

A good discussion would be . . . Did President Trump walk into this pile of manure on purpose? Maybe. . . . more power to him if he did.

16 posted on 12/04/2017 4:51:27 AM PST by saywhatagain
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To: Alberta's Child

Fishing


17 posted on 12/04/2017 4:52:20 AM PST by saywhatagain
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To: Arm_Bears; ScaniaBoy

Andy McCarthy is one of the original NeverTrumpers.

How long has he been chomping at the big to release this piece??


18 posted on 12/04/2017 4:58:20 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: tired&retired; ScottinVA

Obstruction, you mean like saying there is not a smidgen of evidence of corruption during an ongoing investigation into IRS-gate?


19 posted on 12/04/2017 5:00:30 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot (Do Leftist/Liberals Really Believe That Dissent = Highest Form of Patriotism?)
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To: saywhatagain

Obama used a phony DNC dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and transition teams by the intelligence community. The firing of Comey was not obstruction of justice and McCabe testified before Congress that the firing had no effect on the ongoing investigation.

The unmasking of Flynn was a real crime. And so was a corrupt, politicized FBI that had protected Hillary from prosecution. Comey was guilty of obstruction of justice by making a decision not to prosecute, which was not his to make. The DOJ and the AG make that decision.


20 posted on 12/04/2017 5:03:20 AM PST by kabar
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