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Feinstein Tells Sessions It ‘Not His Job’ to Prosecute Hillary Because Trump Wants Him To
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/01/10/feinstein-tells-sessions-it-not-his-job-to-prosecute-hillary-because-trump-wants-him-to-n2269477 ^ | 1/10/17 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 01/10/2017 11:34:21 AM PST by ColdOne

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) had many “anxieties” and “fears” about Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination to attorney general, she said in her opening statement during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Can he effectively “dispatch himself from President-elect Donald Trump and his record,” she wondered. In particular, Feinstein insisted that Sessions’ job does not include the prosecution of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who we all know abused her email use and put national security at risk. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump suggested that he was going to hire a special prosecutor to “look into her situation.”

“An attorney general does not prosecute at direction of the president,” Feinstein said. Nor, she said, does he or she wear two hats – one as the president’s lawyer and one as the people’s lawyer.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: feinstein; hillary; sessions; trump
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To: ColdOne

Wow...they know she’s guilty as sin.


21 posted on 01/10/2017 11:48:45 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Williams

-— Go figure-—

Figuring not required.

Both Obama AG’s were black

Obama et al were (are) racist



22 posted on 01/10/2017 11:49:23 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: ColdOne

Been listening whil;e I was on my Exercycle - Cruz was super. I got a kick out of the Dim who was trying to get him to pre-recuse himself from some possible upcoming cases - Sessions refused to bite and said he would have to have specific facts to determine whether there was a conflict of interest and would not do what the guy was trying to get him to do.


23 posted on 01/10/2017 11:49:37 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ColdOne

How about because nobody is above the law and “intent” doesn’t factor into it? How about because there is overwhelming evidence to support an indictment? How about because she put “the people” at extreme national risk (a lot of which we probably still don’t know), and because it IS his job to represent us as our lawyer? How about because a LARGE majority of the country would like to see her prosecuted?


24 posted on 01/10/2017 11:49:44 AM PST by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Oh yes... she who is ranking member of the Senate Intel committee (of which mcCswine is a member and Richard Burr is chairman)— so is “privy” to the current bilge pushed to them by clapper et al and the obamaumao “meme” it’s the russians. Since it was the russians and commies the democrats have always enabled— and they stand a good chance of being put in the federal pen— for espionage. This is a current moving target, pre- and post inauguration and she/they are continuing the “russian meme” trying to foist this on the people, and de-legitimize everything from trump and his ardent supporter from Alabama— Sen. Sessions. The dems are in mortal fear (including obamaumao) and it involves ISIS creation, Benghazi and the operations to run guns— which will make iran-contra look like what it was (real executive anti-communist foreign policy.. and notably anti-Iranian terrorism).


25 posted on 01/10/2017 11:49:46 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Feinstein and her husband have been ripping off the united states for years and she knows if Hillary ends up going down she will drag all of them with her.


26 posted on 01/10/2017 11:50:02 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: WildHighlander57; Hotlanta Mike

Special Prosecutor is the ‘death knell’ of justice.

I wouldn’t advise that.

Also, I would never promise to recuse myself from a case involving more corruption by one person than any other five people combined.


27 posted on 01/10/2017 11:50:04 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: V_TWIN

“Perhaps she fears the trail may lead back too close to home? : )”

Yeah, to her and her Chinese-marketing husband. They are really sweating Trump.


28 posted on 01/10/2017 11:51:10 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: ColdOne

“Nor, she said, does he or she wear two hats – one as the president’s lawyer and one as the people’s lawyer.”

Well, she’s right as to Holder and Lynch. Both wore only one hat—as the president’s lawyer. The law and the people be damned.


29 posted on 01/10/2017 11:51:12 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ColdOne

Ok.....let the Deptuy AG bring it forward.


30 posted on 01/10/2017 11:58:59 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: PCPOET7

Not to mention Nancy Goat-Hill-Pizza Pelosi.


31 posted on 01/10/2017 11:59:45 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: ColdOne

DiFi has little to fear.

PARDONMAGEDDON is just nine days away.


32 posted on 01/10/2017 12:01:59 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ColdOne
Grassley stole fineswine's thunder in the opening segment about cankles and Sessions said he would recuse himself.

Hello,special prosecutor.

33 posted on 01/10/2017 12:03:57 PM PST by SanchoP
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To: rjsimmon

AG is not elected; AG is appointed by the President so it goes that the AG is an extension of the President. The President is the chief law enforcer in the land. The AG merely assists.


34 posted on 01/10/2017 12:04:49 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: ColdOne

prosecuting HilLIARy will inevitably lead to prosecuting Feingstein, imho

(check out her finances and her hubby especially, for starters....there’s been tons of smoke around that for years and years,,,see ..how much of this is accurate? it surely needs to be investgated...imho...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/dianne-feinstein-postal-service_n_4423045.html

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/diannefeinsteininsidetraitor25apr13.shtml

http://www.capoliticalreview.com/blog/sen-diane-feinsteins-husband-wins-ca-rail-contract/

http://liberallyconservative.com/diane-feinsteins-culture-of-corruption/


35 posted on 01/10/2017 12:06:57 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: ColdOne

Sessions should have replied: “Rest assured, in regards to your fears that the Attorney Feneral not act as the attack dog or the bagman of the President, I will not act like my predecessor Eric Holder.”


36 posted on 01/10/2017 12:09:20 PM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: ModelBreaker

“The law and the people be damned.”

In addition to being the President’s lawyer, she was also lawyer to the people....who happen to be labeled a special group, religion, or be of color. Christian white anglo-saxons need not apply.


37 posted on 01/10/2017 12:10:25 PM PST by MNGal
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To: ColdOne

Feinstein better keep her big trap shut, her hands and her husbands are not very clean, either.....................


38 posted on 01/10/2017 12:11:13 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: ColdOne

Damn you Feinstein. We want the witch prosecuted and she deserves to be prosecuted. And Sessions can STILL appoint a special prosecutor and HE can prosecute the with.


39 posted on 01/10/2017 12:13:16 PM PST by ZULU (We are freedom's safest place!!!! #BOYCOTT HAMILTON!!! #BOYCOTT NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!)
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To: PCPOET7
“she knows if Hillary ends up going down she will drag all of them with her.”

Oh I look forward to that. I expect she has some “dead man” switches in place for just that purpose.

40 posted on 01/10/2017 12:15:21 PM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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