https://canadafreepress.com/article/sessions-guide-to-burying-a-federal-investigation
Sessions Guide to burying a federal investigation
By Lee Cary
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Here are the four steps to killing the investigation of the Russian Uranium One Deal, and more.
I. Appoint an investigator who’s a hold-over from the Obama administration...
II. Appoint someone far from DC: The Out-of-Sight/Out-of-Mind Factor
Since his appointment became known, reports of Huber’s progress are…non-existent. ...
III. Assign someone a wide mission, and the liberty to ignore it all...
IV. When asked about the investigation, say “No comment”
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About a month earlier, in late March 2019, a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Karl “Bush’s Brain” Rove said essentially the same thing. It was entitled: “Move On From Robert Mueller, Mr. President, Obsessing over the investigation’s origins isn’t the way to win over swing voters.”
Coincidence? Maybe. But it may represent efforts to push a GOP Establishment meme calling Republicans to forgive-and-forget. If so, the meme died quickly.
But an unanswered question lives on: How is it that Jeff Sessions assigned responsibility to a U.S. Attorney to investigate Uranium One, the Clinton Foundation, and the alleged misleading of the F.I.S.A. Court by senior F.B.I. officials, and did not want to see anything come of it?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/trump-foreign-policy-challenge-deterrence-without-war/
Trump’s High-Wire Act of Reestablishing Deterrence without War
By Victor Davis Hanson
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Again, these existential crises — Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, the Middle East — all preceded Trump. But they also all tested the Trump doctrine of restoring deterrence without engaging in costly optional wars in which in tactical victories cannot translate into definable strategic success or clear U.S. advantage in a cost-benefit analysis.
Trump’s enemies hope (translated into politicalese) that his ambitious foreign policy does not follow the success of Trump’s dynamic economy.
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Trump probably believes that if he goes full-bore abroad, true to form, a domino effect will follow, given that the U.S. gains more sway each time it faces down a miscreant. The stakes are certainly high. A big China trade deal, an agreement to denuclearize North Korea and Iran, flipping Putin to become a neutral rather than an adversary, or a Middle East halfway accord could change global realities and empower the U.S. And so the gambler Trump wagers that he can do overseas what he did at home and pull off land-breaking agreements — all at once.
Can he?
Note that Trump shattered the blue wall in part because of his sober Jacksonianism: restoring U.S. tough deterrence without inserting a large military presence in any of the hellholes that U.S. troops have been deployed to in the past 50 years, much less falling into a conventional war that America could win, but only at considerable cost. Bombing the “sh*t” out of ISIS was a successful example of a non non-intervention. Early on, the canny Trump, alone of his Republican rivals, fathomed that voters neither wanted any more Obama apologetics nor would put up with another Afghanistan, Libya, or Iraq.
Squaring that circle of toughness without risking a major war is now Trump’s political challenge, given that the shelf life of rhetorical deterrence is brief.
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