Posted on 09/14/2019 6:26:32 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
In case you missed it, plodding, thus-far-inept DOJ IG Michael Horowitz sent a letter to congress yesterday notifying key committee chairs that he has finally, at long last, completed the initial draft if his eons-awaited report on FISA abuse. The report now goes to Attorney General William Barr and swamp rat FBI Director Christopher Wray to begin the internal review process. That process will likely consume another month or so, maybe even longer, before the public will finally, at long last, be able to see the fruits of Horowitz’s glacially-paced labors.
This, of course will set the stage for all manner of leaking and self-puffery by the subjects of the IG’s report, including John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe, to name just a few of the Usual Suspects who the public record already available clearly demonstrates defrauded the FISA court repeatedly during 2016-17.
It also sets the stage for wild anticipation and irrational optimism among Trump supporters who have been paying attention to all of this that Horowitz is somehow about to deliver the goods on all the participants in the Obama DOJ/FBI Cabal, the foundation that will result in all of them being tried for treason and shipped off to prison for the rest of their lives.
Like clockwork, former prosecutor and ex-congressman Trey Gowdy appeared on Sean Hannity’s show last night to caution everyone to cool your heels and tamp down your expectations. Below is a video clip of that appearance, with a partial transcript to follow:
Here’s a partial transcript for those of you who still like to read stuff:
Gowdy: “It’s hard to convince 12 people of anything – I used to have to do that for a living. It’s tough. You’ve gotta dot every I and cross every T.
“Candidly, it is more difficult if it is a high-profile defendant. So, if they go forward with McCabe, it’s going to be a tough trial. You don’t want the U.S. government going to trial and losing on a regular basis. They lost the Greg Craig case, and that’s not good. If you’re going to go to trial, you need to win.”
Hannity shifts the subject to the IG Report producing indictments:
Gowdy: “You have to find a criminal statute if your objective is indictment. That is why I’m very clear every time I appear on your show that we cannot live in a society where an indictment is the only thing that carries any stigma [valid point there – more on that at the bottom of this piece].
“Most of the names in this FISA abuse process have already been fired or publicly called to task. Jim Comey, twice now, the IG said ‘you did not meet our expectations. You failed to follow policy. You violated your employment agreement.’ All of that has to be significant.
“I used to try to make representations in court, and I tried real hard to be honest and fair about it. But let’s assume that I didn’t tell the court something. The remedy for me is not indictment. The remedy is I may lose my law license, I may be held in contempt.”
[Hannity interrupts, which is what he is good at, but makes a good point about the use of the unverified Dossier as the basis for the FISA warrants being a conscious fraud on the court, which it was. Repeatedly.]
Gowdy: “Well, if you were a lawyer, you’d lose your law license, and the court could hold you in contempt. You would be held in contempt of court, absolutely and you can go to jail for that. But I don’t know that lawyers who make factual misrepresentations in front of judges get indicted. You’re gonna get punished, you’re gonna be held in contempt, you may get sent to prison.
“I’m not minimizing anything they’ve done. I’m saying we’ve gotta attach the right punishment to the right offense.”
[Hannity visibly angry now: “But by signing that, they’re denying an American citizen their constitutional rights. They’re literally using that lie to spy on a presidential candidate, and then transition.”]
Gowdy: “Aha! We’ve identified a statute! Using the color of a government official – it could be a 1983 action. And that’s all I’m saying – we have gotta match up the conduct with an official code violation. What you just laid out is a 1983 violation. Now, we’re getting somewhere!” [Note: U.S. Code Sec. 1983 allows prosecutors to pursue a civil action against anyone acting “under color of law” to deprive an American citizen of their civil rights. It is not a criminal statute.]
[Hannity: “I’ll send you Greg Jarrett’s list, he’s identified a whole bunch of violations.”]
Gowdy: “Don’t sent it to me, send it to Bill Barr.”
[Hannity dissembles about not knowing Barr. Interview ends.]
So, if you’ve been reading all those Twitter-based tick-tock conspiracy mongers and and watching Hannity air the same program every night for the last 18 months, leading you to believe the IG’s report was going to lower the BOOM on all the participants in the Obama Cabal, well, sorry. Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor who never lost a case is here to tell you to dampen those expectations and go watch some football this weekend instead.
Finally, let’s review this passage of Gowdy’s comments:
“That is why I’m very clear every time I appear on your show that we cannot live in a society where an indictment is the only thing that carries any stigma [valid point there – more on that at the bottom of this piece].
“Most of the names in this FISA abuse process have already been fired or publicly called to task. Jim Comey, twice now, the IG said ‘you did not meet our expectations. You failed to follow policy. You violated your employment agreement.’ All of that has to be significant.”
Of course, Gowdy’s absolutely right there. Public stigma used to be a vital aspect of punishing bad actors like the Cabal participants whenever the government couldn’t succeed in actually prosecuting them under criminal statutes.
The problem, though, is that that stigma no longer exists for anyone who is opposed to President Donald Trump. That stigma can only exist if our society has a real, working news media establishment that is willing to lay out the truth of their acts to the public and shame them for it. Our fake new media no longer serves that function related to anyone opposed to Trump. In fact, those bad actors are not only NOT shamed by the media, many of them are handsomely rewarded by the media with big “contributor” contracts. Witness Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper as prime examples.
Peter Strzok and Comey were fired, but then were rewarded by the media with big book deals. Strzok and McCabe were both able to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from demented leftists when they set-up online funds for their legal defense. On and on the depravity on the political left and in our fake news media goes.
So, while what Gowdy says there used to be correct in a U.S. society of decades ago, it is utterly irrelevant in today’s world. Absent indictments, all of these co-conspirators will just keep laughing all the way to the bank with money largely provided them by our fake news media.
Sad, but true.
That is all.
reply to: Eventually American Patriots will “deal” with it and a lot more.
Really - I wish you were right...I would stand with you...but anyone else. We would immediately be called terrorist and be thrown in jail - over - cause 99% of everyone else - conservatives, middle class whatever will do nothing!
Nothing has been done so - nothing and that 2nd tier of justice will come down so hard and quickly our heads like a top going 1000 mph over night!!!!!!
I have no confidence that this country is not headed for the sh* hole very soon when (not if) we have a dem president and both houses of congress!!!
I have faith in God. People? Not so much...
Ahhhhh yes.....let’s disobey the IRS and withhold tax payments...THEY do it.
This means our domestic enemies will keep doubling down against Trump, his supporters and America, long after he leaves office.
I would caution you on that course of action. I read somewhere that God has to answer to the IRS too...
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will be happy to just disgrace and humiliate them? hell, no.
As if we were expecting any “boom” from the report — or any report for that matter.
“Why should we obey the law when they do not?”
They should just do away with juries if these blatant criminals don’t face real consequences. What’s the point?
I fully expect that the crooked pols we have put in office will continue to protect one another to the end.
District of corruption over rules all.
I really liked Trey Gowdy the first time I saw him. After about the third time I figured out he is basically a little yapping poodle. Yap yap yap.
All these pricks cover for each other. They live in their own world and live by their own rules.
Trump stands alone.
A captured Swamp Creature who plays to the right helping to deliver the bad news. All those fans of a certain letter of the alphabet will be disappointed, if they haven’t already transferred their hopes to Swamp Creature Barr and his hand-picked man, Durham.
PS Surely any expectations for Huber have passed by now too, haven’t they?
If abuse of the FISA courts leads to nothing, and the FBI abuse leads to nothing, then why in a free country should they be kept as institutions? The established regulatory environment is corrupt. Pull it out by the roots by dissolving them. Start over.
Durham is a cleaner. I suspect his real job is to keep the kenyan quarantined from the other “investigations”. We will know that is the case if he interviews him.
It’s a waste of time and money to go after the “protected ones”.
Many of us have been saying for some time that those at the top have great leeway in their jobs and that many things that are “wrong” are not illegal.
No need to destroy evidence and slow walk the “investigations” if that was the case. There were clearly crimes committed and violations of constitutional rights here.
But of course Donald J. Trump and his supporters are the victims. So nothing is a crime if you oppose Trump. Anything is a crime if you support him.
You might be right or you might be wrong. The thing that bothers me is that everyone is drawing conclusions before the facts come out. Sean Hannity has made a career guaranteeing that all of these perps would be convicted. I watched his show last night and Trey Gowdy tried to bring him down to earth by educating him that in a court of law, it is not what you can allege, and not even what you can prove, but what you can convince a jury of. Hannity didn’t like the answer. I have listened to him for two years about how Rachel Maddow has pushed the Russia conspiracy and how it has killed her show. Is he not in danger of the same fate? I do agree with your “two tiered justice system” comment. It has always been that way in my life time. However, there will be justice in the long run, measure for measure.
Now wait just a minute! I have every expectation in 4 to 6 weeks we will hear there will be a very large BOOM in four to six months. In fact I know I have heard all this time and again for three years. I have heard it so much it simply HAS to be true.
Bongino was the first to break, shouting at his listeners for expecting actual indictments. Tried to listen to him last night but he is just blathering about Democrats debating and selling CBD. Now comes Gowdy to tell us the same thing, expect nothing from these investigations.
The entire hullabaloo about justice is a joke.
Probably the greatest problem facing America today (and one given to us by craven, self-serving politicians and their equally craven media) is that we are such a completely divided people that we cannot even agree any longer on what constitutes a crime.
What is sedition to one side of our divided population is considered patriotic heroism to the other. And there is no place the two meet. We consider the Russia Hoax an extreme case of sedition, even calling it a coup. The other side considers that to be the heroic action of patriots attempting to save the nation from a racist overthrow by Trumpists. That side considers acts restricting open borders and mass uncontrolled immigration to be extreme anti-Americanism (“we are all immigrants”) and racist, our side considers it to the defense of the nation on behalf of its citizens.
There is no meeting point between the two roughly equal sides. There is no commonality that make us “countrymen”. When such a state of affairs occurs there is no standard of law that will apply. There will be two completely different standards based on the position of those individuals implementing the law.
Just like Lincoln, Trump is left trying to preserve a nation that is irreparably split. And eventually one side must win and one must lose. And there will be a flash point for all this that must occur at some point. I would look to the recent words of the venerable dress-wearer Robert Francis and Hooker-In-Chief Kamala if you were taking book on where exactly that flash point might be.
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