Posted on 09/19/2017 3:16:31 AM PDT by calvincaspian
All righty then. Looks like we may have a big problem. Remember in March when President Trump tweeted this shocking item? “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
And, “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!.”
Heads exploded.
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey scowled, “Donald Trump should just do the right thing and apologize to Barack Obama, there is no evidence ... it is absolutely not true.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“secret court orders”
It’s a little bit like Waco and I’ll explain:
The feds wanted to raid Waco after the civilian ATF cops got military training.
the legal problem to that goal was Posse Comitatus; with only a few narrow legal exceptions US law forbids civilian law enforcement from working with the military:
The framers wanted to avoid scenarios that wore then common in Europe or today like much of Latin America, where you have 16 year old soldiers walking around civilian road checkpoints with machine guns.
so they lied and said that the Waco Davidians were dealing drugs and robbing banks; these legal exceptions to Posse Comitatus would provide the cops legal cover for receiving that military training.
this is the same reason why The Swamp lied about “Muh Russians”:
the Trump campaign was full of Americans, of course, and you can’t use American spy gear against them for just any casual reason.
it was never really a legit suspicion it was just legal cover, just like the Waco lies.
‘Wish Trump hadn’t used “McCarthyism!”.
Yeah I have aproblem with him. He has done nothing in 8 months but declare he wants to illegally seize property from US citizens without due process.
Meanwhile Hillary, Obama and the rest of the gang are allowed to undermine our country.
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DUMB MUCH ??????????
A Quarterback who continually throws interceptions must be replaced.
Sessions had ‘HAD’ a lot of support here on FR by many longterm Freepers, but not now.
There is no overriding reason WHY Sessions needs to remain in the position. It was not made for his name. The AG position could be occupied by any one of a thousand qualified persons. Sessions is not unique to it.
Sessions, as the President remarked, should never have accepted the position knowing that he was opening a backdoor to people that would harass the President unto impeachment. Even today, Hillary Clinton is saying publicly that she will be contesting the election results once Mueller finds grounds for obstruction of justice.
And it was Sessions that opened the backdoor to all of this.
Sessions was offered the position as a reward for his support early in Donald Trump’s campaign in Mobile, Alabama when 35,000 people showed up in an open stadium in a windy storm to rally for an American they knew would stand for American principles. Donald Trump would later reflect as President that Sessions appeared at that rally on stage with him because the crowd was massive and he knew his constituents were in complete support of Donald Trump. In other words, Sessions played politics.
Sessions played politics with many foul decisions of the US Senate including his vote for the Iran Nuclear Deal which the President has rightly described as making no sense whatsoever.
Some Freepers provide useful information on occasion but such info is often inaccurate. For example, a Freeper endorsed McMaster by claiming Bannon supported bringing in McMaster. Look now today at the exchanges in the press between Bannon and McMaster. Freepers are prone to what so many others fall into which is ‘Garbage In - Garbage Out’.
Freepers provide on occasion useful info, but no Freeper garners blind faith.
Sessions is a good and faithful Christian who unfortunately appears on occasion to be dumber than a box of rocks or is seen to place his own views above the President he serves. Unless Sessions witnessed a clear infraction by the President regarding Russian collusion, there was absolutely no need for him to recuse himself, and if there was even a hint of conflict of interest, he should have informed the President that the AG position would be better served by someone else.
The President needs smart, able, high-energy, politically agile members of his Cabinet. Sessions does not cut the mustard.
The President needs an Attorney General who has no baggage, who is not politically encumbered, who will not cower to the scare tactics of established groups in Washington. Sessions has none of these qualities.
Unfortunately, should Sessions step down now, he will be replaced by Rosenstein as Acting AG. I have long pointed out that should Sessions resign, a decision that requires courage and integrity which Sessions does not naturally possess, the President would be faced with dealing with Rosenstein who has been directly criticized on several occasions by the President. Rosenstein is an offspring of the DC bureaucracy and knows well how to survive its ethos. It would not be easy to find a pretext to fire Rosenstein other than ‘for cause’. The President is not a destroyer of people. Rather, the President would be aided if it were possible to elevate Assistant AG Rachel Brand to Acting AG. Brand, a known solid conservative, would need confirmation and therein lies the rub. There are a thousand good possibilities for AG but they all require confirmation which will not happen now with high probability. And McConnell in the Senate has taken away the President’s option to make recess appointments.
I will not blame the President for the inadequacies of the Department of Justice leadership. Some say he controls it; no he does not. He has a Board of Directors of sorts in the Congress that watches his every move and has overseen the installation of a troublemaker in Mueller to find any pretext to sink the President. The known path out of this minefield is to replace known adversaries within this Board of Directors in the upcoming midterm elections. The 2018 midterms will be a referendum on the President. I think the President wins it.
I’m sorry. He recused himself and allowed Mueller to hire an army of Dem lawyers to go on a witch hunt.
Your string of question marks and lack of a proper sentence has obviously won the day in your tiny mind.
Good go champ!!!!!!!!
I hope my egregious puncuation and lack of proper English is to your liking.
This alone justifies and warrants a full investigation of Obama, Clinton, Rice, Lynch and her predecessor.........
Sessions? You there?????? WAKE UP!!!!
Sessions and the GOP are the idiots sitting on the swamp drain stopper.
It really doesn’t matter as 1 the magic negro is above the law and 2 the Republicans would rather see Hillary in office than stand up on their hind legs and act like adults.
btt
At least some time hero, some time buffoon President Truman had the courage to say, “The buck stops here”.
soebarkah as President: “Huh. I din’t do nuffin’.” Shocked at his subordinate’s conduct.
Man, I wish we could see this cretin’s Occidental College records. That would be the end of him.
Good one! Thanks.
So that means he is doing nothing when it comes to Comey, Obama, Hillary, Rice, Mueller...and on and on and on.
I'm sure he is busy with immigration, law enforcement, drugs, etc.
He will do nothing about the “deep state” corruption, too many friends on that side.
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