Posted on 04/19/2018 1:07:42 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Well, now we know why Andrew McCabe needed that half million dollar legal defense fund. The fired ex-Deputy Director of the FBI is really on a roll when it comes to having criminal referrals filed against him: Yesterday, he gets one from 11 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and today he gets one lobbed out in his direction by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Bang! Boom! Pow! Its like hes playing a bad guy in an episode of the 1960s TV version of Batman.
The IGs referral is of course a follow-up to the release of his report last Friday which summarized the findings from his investigation into McCabes conduct, which showed that the deep state FBI guy had a serial lack of candor, i.e., hes an habitual liar.
In truth, as I detailed in this mornings Campaign Update, the referral from 11 Republican congresspersons carries little weight, and really covers ground Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already claimed to be covering. But the referral from the IG is more crucial here, because it now leaves Sessions completely exposed, lacking any further excuse for delaying moving forward with prosecuting the guy who was one of the ring leaders of the anti-Trump deep state cabal that operated within the FBI and DOJ throughout 2016 and well into 2017.
Sessions has said all along that he has just been awaiting the IGs report before determining whether prosecutions of anyone are really warranted in these matters. Now, the IG has not just issued a report specific to one of the bad actors, he has quickly followed up with a criminal referral. While that referral is directed to the U.S. Attorney who oversees the Washington, D.C. office for DOJ, that U.S. Attorney works for Jeff Sessions, and his actions are Sessions responsibility.
A referral from the IG does not necessarily mean that charges will be brought in the case that decision falls to the DOJ and a grand jury. But the IG has already presented an airtight case in a very public way, so if Sessions and his U.S. attorney fail to bring charges, theyll need a very strong explanation why General Mike Flynn, a legitimate American hero who has spent his entire adult life defending this country, gets perp walked and indicted in a massive rush to judgment, but a deep state skunk like McCabe gets a walk after a painstaking investigation that dragged on for many months.
The other thing the IGs action today accomplishes is to give us a preview of what to expect in May, when he will issue his findings from his more comprehensive, 15-month investigation into the massive wrongdoings by a variety of FBI and DOJ officials, as well as Hillary Clinton. It should be fairly safe to assume the general process will be the same first, the report, then a series of criminal referrals to DOJ.
And then the buck stops again right smack in the middle of Jeff Sessions desk. Personally, I think thats exactly where Sessions wants it. But if Im wrong in the assumption of Sessions good faith, hes about to run out of anywhere else to pass that buck.
That is all.
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Domino number one...................
Is Sessions still on the payroll?
Rip Van Sessions needs to wake up first.
Sessions will appoint a Blue Ribbon Panel to give a recommendation
on the possibility of maybe at some time in the future, prosecute McCabe
if the stars are all aligned and Sessions does not have a bad case of
heartburn.
Plus the jury pool in DC is probably 90% Rat. 10% Republican.
Good luck with a conviction in DC.
There is no reason to suspect that AG Sessions has ever needed any “cover”. What he has needed is evidence, and the IG’s report will provide that, in spades. The next step will be indictment.
So far he hasn't recused himself from cashing the checks. Just doing any work for them.
Sure. If you ignore Sessions' recusal under oath, at his confirmation hearing, on all things connected to Clinton and the campaign.
Trump put huge pressure on McCabe April 6th
Deripaska, Rusal sanctions bullish for US ali
Apr 06, 2018 | 03:17 PM |
LONDON The United States has sanctioned and frozen the assets of Oleg Deripaska and UC Rusalthat are subject to US jurisdiction, prompting bullish sentiment and expectations of tightness in the US aluminium market, industry participants told Metal Bulletin.
“All assets subject to US jurisdiction of the designated individuals and entities, and of any other entities blocked by operation of law as a result of their ownership by a sanctioned party, are frozen, and US persons are generally prohibited from dealings with them. Additionally, non-US persons could face sanctions for knowingly facilitating significant transactions for or on behalf of the individuals or entities blocked today,” the US Department of the Treasury said on Friday April 6.
Rusal, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, responsible for 7% of global aluminium production, was designated an oligarch-owned company by the Treasury Department on Friday. The Treasury designated Rusal stakeholder Viktor Vekselberg as an oligarch as well.
Next step will be the Grand Jury. THEN the indictment.
This is all playing out real well entirely according to law...unlike the accused (and the entirety of both Obama completely lawless administrations). This whole tedious process re-establishes the rule of law and makes it very hard for Dems to cry “foul” (but you know they will anyway). The painstakingly gathered evidence in the first IG report together with the Grand Jury returning themi dictmemt is the cornerstone of this prosecution. I just pray that an honest GJ is empaneled.
A more fitting title title for this back-handed Sessions hit peice:
“Sessions Finally May Have To Stop Beating His Wife”
The first deep state domino to fall, hopefully not the last.
I am not from Alabama, but as I look over his entire career, I see a shrewd conservative and process-oriented legislator that plays the long-game better than anyone. There is nothing in his history that says otherwise. Did he all of a sudden change?
Up till now, he has played it perfectly, knowing that if everything wasn't above board in what will be a historical politically-charged prosecution, he needed to be above the fray and work on his timeline. Even with the angst of POTUS.
He knew he needed to get everyone in the kill zone.
I would not be surprised if he has several state AGs with standing, ready to file charges so that a future presidential pardon would be out of play.
Sessions does not want to go after former officials. He is worried he will set a precedent and when the next democrat president has control, that AG will go after (Sessions) for his “lie” to the Senate in his confirmation hearing.
Had you actually read the piece, you would know I’m very much pro-Sessions.
Sessions had plenty of evidence on Clapper. Clapper was considerate enough to commit wholesale perjury on camera. Sessions let the statute of limitations run out anyway. Clapper—unlike Flynn and the others—isn’t a Trump supporter, so he skates.
Many people view life as a pop machine.
They want to punch a button and get their soda.
“Next step will be the Grand Jury. THEN the indictment.”
There may be a fly in the ointment.
The final step will be trial before a Washington, DC jury. McCabe will be found “not guilty.”
Sessions has been a bad actor in matters associated with this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3648836/posts
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