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I disagree on Pencil Neck. He was up to his jughandle ears in the FISA/Dossier mess, and he's the one who refuses to un-redact the marching orders he gave the Mule.
And, now, the judge has caught Mueller replacing the Title 3 warrant he should have gotten on Manafort -- with RR's last fraudulent Title 1 FISA warrant. (Mueller's proven as dirty as McCabe/Strozk.)
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IMO, "in control" includes giving the DS actors (Rosenstein, Mueller, et al) sufficient rope to hang themselves on this treasonous coup failure.
Also IMO, Avoiding the least taint of the coup attempt was good and prudent reason for Sessions to recuse (detach) himself from any association with or responsibility for it.
Now that Mueller is demonstrably part of the coup -- and the judge is laying out the evidence thereof -- it is time to roll up the SC arm of the coup, and put the nooses around PencilNeck and the rest of the DOJ/FBI cabal....
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Smooth moves: let them run (hands-off by Sessions/Trump) until the Reagan judge nails them for treason. Checkmate!
I'd call that "Under Control". What did I miss?
FRegards,
TXnMA
RR perpetually remains a wild card IMO ... and your things above leave me again pondering. The DS possibilities are endless but the tying of the stuff to the intelligence FISA 1 vs. 3 could equally well be RR as a WH set things up and gave them the rope to hang themselves ... and possibility same still extends to the Mule, too - RR gave him the rope to hand to Weissman et. al. to let them hang themselves ala honeypot theories ... In any event, there are at least two reasonable judges hearing these matters TBD ;)
When you say “Pencil neck,” I’m thinking Schiff.
Did you happen to know Rosenstein is a lifelong Republican, and has given over $30K to Republican campaigns?
Good analysis.