Posted on 06/15/2017 9:55:47 AM PDT by blam
With the ‘Russian collusion’ case against the Trump administration all but dead, the mainstream media has shifted their full attention to now building an obstruction of justice case against the White House. As such, CNN hosted Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel appointed in the 90’s to look into various Clinton scandals, including the Vince Foster death and Monica Lewinsky episode, this morning to get his thoughts on the topic.
CNN: “Do you think there is a case there?”
Starr: “It’s too soon to tell. From what I’ve seen — and of course we don’t know a whole lot — the answer is no. But it is going to be investigated and so we will soon know.”
“Obstruction of justice is really a very hard crime to make out. It’s not just you want the investigation to go away, you suggest that the investigation goes away. You’ve got to take really affirmative action and Director Comey said in his testimony that even though the expression was hope, he took it as a directive.”
“But what we know is, he didn’t do anything about it, right? That is that he did not dismiss the investigation or curtail the investigation. There’s an expression of hope, so it becomes an interpretation.”
Of course, the incredulous CNN anchor was simply unwilling to accept that Trump may be innocent of high crimes and pressed further by asking whether Comey would have had to ‘obey’ Trump’s suggestion to drop the Flynn investigation in order to be guilty of obstruction.
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The President RUNS the FBI. He is constitutionally allowed to tell them what to investigate and what to drop...Period.
The remedy to a corrupt president is through Congress and impeachment.
Not that we actually follow the Constitution anymore.
“Ken Starr is a worthless POS.”
And a whore, same as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.
Good point.
They’re both soiled beyond redeeming.
I was thinking thoughts similar to yours when I thought of how Starr’s pass on the Foster issue, exposed this nation to so much criminal conduct.
The same can be said about Comey. And frankly, if our side doesn’t go after Comey, the Clintons, and their swamp dweller crew, we’re simply enabling crimes at the highest level of our nation’s government.
Sessions has to take action at some point. If not, I will have been completely wrong about the guy.
“... a lie is just as good as the truth.”
And there it is.
Actually, lies are more readily believed than truth.
Global Warming, Islam, Russia...the lies are everywhere, truth is in deep hiding.
It wasn’t Ken Starr who saved Clinton’s sorry butt, it was the Democrats in Congress.
Such matters take months or even years of patient evidence gathering in order to have a successful prosecution. Such things are lawyers’ dreams.
I hadn’t realized Sully made that statement.
Good grief!
Just goes to reveal once again that some folks can be multifaceted in the extreme. They may be brilliant one moment, but the next they may seem to be a complete fool.
“Didn’t Trump pardon Flynn?”
Flynn hasn’t been charged or convicted of anything. As far as we know he is innocent.
The whole case against him is based on anonymous sources leaking to the Washington Post that Flynn omitted some information from his security clearance forms.
Only a deranged libtard thinks Trump might get impeached by his own party over this. CNN probably knows better but they are all about ratings.
Looks like the fibbies are nothing but a crowd of corrupt muscle for the Swamp.
Democrats are overplaying their hand ...
Democrats think the country reflects the feelings of the DC Bubble. They are wrong. If democrats push for impeachment they’ll suffer massive blowback and we’ll elect another thousand Republicans.
The democrat party is black women, white elites and varius members of the black and brown underclass. The few middle class whites left will leave over impeachment...
More here:
Senate Intel panel won’t investigate Trump obstruction question
The reasons he gave for "no obstruction" were different from Dershowitz.
Dersh says that even if the facts amount to obstruction, closing an investigation is a presidential power, and no indictment could be brought. The SC could report that a reasonable prosecutor COULD indict, and leave the rest to Congress.
Starr says the facts don't add up to obstruction. In so many words, he also opined that Comey was wrong to interpret Trump's words as an order.
[Trump's] saying, "Golly, I sure wish this would go away. It's in the way of my agenda. I need to run the country and this is a terrible distraction. I hope you can see your way clear." That, to me, just the language, is far removed from a directive.
Starr did a good job of defending Sessions on the "stonewalling" accusation made by some in the Senate and by the press, when Sessions would not answer about conversations he had directly with President Trump.
of course this is the same guy who didn’t have a problem with his employees covering up numerous sexual assaults at Baylor.
It’s also worth noting that even in an outlandish scenario where the Democrats win every one of the 33 Senate seats that are being contested in 2018, they will only end up with 56 seats in the Senate (if you count the two “independents” as Democrats).
The Washington Post just made up the Obstruction bull just to get the baseball shooting off the news
CNN worked their butts off to try to get their Messiah Hillary Clinton elected..they colluded with her campaign..gave questions to her campaign in advance..kissed her butt at every turn..and they just can’t stand the fact that all of that effort FAILED..they were SO close to getting the Communist Utopia they dreamed of and they failed and they just can’t stand it
IIRC, the only thing running against Flynn was the Logan Act. Once that more or less vanished, Comey started looking at process crimes, false testimony essentially. You may be right that his “false testimony” relates to routine disclosure for security purposes, but my guess is there is no case there. Not no omissions, just any omissions can reasonably be explained.
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