Posted on 11/14/2017 10:58:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Jeff Sessions is a man in search of a banana peel. When he can’t find one to step on, he supplies his own.
Sessions is not a bad man, but he is a bad attorney general, as he demonstrated again Tuesday.
By writing to Republicans in Congress just hours before he was scheduled to testify that he was open to appointing a special prosecutor to examine former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail case and the notorious Uranium One deal, Sessions primed the pump for a really big show.
Democrats arrived furious and Republicans gleefully expected an ah-ha moment. Both came away unsatisfied and unhappy.
Unfortunately for Sessions, the old conceit in journalism — that if both sides are angry at your story, you’ve done something right — doesn’t apply to being attorney general. When nobody’s happy, including your boss, you’re failing.
While Democrats and Republicans are angry at Sessions for different reasons, there’s no rule saying both can’t be right.
The litany of things he couldn’t remember or couldn’t discuss seemed calculated to frustrate rather than enlighten. The fact that he thought non-answers to big questions would be good enough reflects how poorly he fits his job.
His faulty judgment has become a calling card, which is why I’ve argued that appointing Sessions was Trump’s biggest personnel mistake; yesterday’s performance did nothing to change my view.
There’s also a new bonus reason: had Sessions stayed as a senator from Alabama, Roy Moore’s dirty history would have remained a secret instead of a national scandal that could help flip Senate control.
Sessions’ decision to recuse himself, then tell Trump, from anything related to the 2016 campaign led to the enormous cloud over the White House that has distorted the first year of the new presidency.
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And this, my Fellow Freepers, is a perfect example of Battered Wives Syndrome.
"Maybe this time he means it. Maybe he loves me and will stop hitting me."
What people don’t realize is that Sessions is playing 10d chess and will very soon bring down the deep state . . . wait, what? LOL. Sessions will be gone soon. There is a cancer on the presidency
Our hapless AG Sessions can’t commit to anything if there is “not enough evidence” unless, of course, if it’s unsubstantiated accusations against a conservative Senate candidate.
Maybe Sessions is being coy because he’s sitting on a mountain of deep-state investigations. I admit that is possible.
But if not, then he is potentially the worst AG this country has ever had. This is the time to drain the swamp, and he’s looking for plugs.
“We may soon learn he has been misjudged and owe him a big apology.”
Why is Sessions so careful to hide any investigation he might be doing? I suppose he wants to claim that publicizing the fact of an investigation would damage or hinder the fact gathering.
On the other hand, Mueller is leading an investigation that is touted to the universe. How is that not contradictory?
The level of corruption & treachery is breathtaking. Every last one of these aholes protecting the swamp are unindicted co-conspirators to treason & countless other high crimes.
Too bad there’s no one to bring them to justice.
Great big picture analysis, one of the best I've seen in so few words...
After watching his testimony very carefully, the impression I got was that he has a horrible memory, and isn’t even personally involved in anything that’s going on now.
Most every other answer was either I don’t recall, or you’d have to ask someone else that’s actually working on it.
Sessions role seems to be purely limited to being the PR flaky for a failing organization.
You must also believe that the Browns are just holding back and will make a late run to clinch the division and end up in the Super Bowl.
In spite of the facts before them, some people will believe anything. Sessions has been woefully inept at defending his president, or doing his job in a way that seeks justice while advancing a conservative agenda. He is far too busy fighting Fentanyl to do anything that might be misconstrued as playing offense. He's just another spineless Republican.
That is a perfect analogy. At some point you can no longer wait due to the damage being caused, in this case the growing loss of faith in Trump by his own base. Which is my theory on why the whole "Mueller is actually working for Trump" theory was born by some nevertrumpers or liberals somewhere.
“...Sessions, behind closed doors, is putting together a real plan to nail the deep state...”
I am clinging to this hope and I am not an eternal optimist type. Ethical lawyers with an honor code background DO NOT talk about open cases. Period. (caps just for emphasis - not directed at poster)
Because that is the professional, ethical and most effective way to run an investigation.
After 8 years of Obama we are so used to secrecy and obstruction of justice on Obama Administration misconduct and use of the justice system to destroy political opponents and whistle blowers with kangaroo court prosecutions and leaks targeted to destroy defendants and intimidate witnesses that we can't seem to remember how it needs to be done
In Sessions Congressional testimony Trey Gowdy did not ask Sessions a single question. Instead he used his time for a monologue that ran over time. There was a reason for that and Gowdy's words are worth a bit of reflection and careful pondering
The corruption we face is runs deep and it is entrenched and international in nature. Rooting it out requires a plan and there are hints of very serious and well thought out plan unfolding
-> there are hints of very serious and well thought out plan unfolding .
Such as? Because all I saw yesterday was someone with poor memory, and apparently uninvolved personally in any of the current goings on, making endless excuses for the one- sided investigations and indictments coming out of his department. Trump’s own recent quote to the media pool just last week was “Lots of people are disappointed in the Justice department, including me.”
“Because that is the professional, ethical and most effective way to run an investigation.”
You left out my main point. Mueller’s investigation is not under wraps as far a being made known. Only where he is going is hidden from sight.
And Sessions supports Mueller’s investigation.
Sessions has nothing to do with the Mueller witch hunt
Special Prosecutors are independent, unaccountable, uncontrollable and usually end up highly partisan, abusive, power mad and corrupt
Mueller is, perhaps, a case in point . We shall see.
Appointing a special prosecutor is like pulling the pin on a hand grenade and throwing it off the top of a tall building . You have no control of where it hits and and who is in the blast radius when it explodes
I think Sessions was making that point in a round about way.
It’s a hard read trying to figure out what is going on these days give the extreme weirdness but Sessions may end up shocking some of his critics
Sessions has nothing to do with the Mueller witch hunt
Special Prosecutors are independent, unaccountable, uncontrollable and usually end up highly partisan, abusive, power mad and corrupt
Mueller is, perhaps, a case in point . We shall see.
Appointing a special prosecutor is like pulling the pin on a hand grenade and throwing it off the top of a tall building . You have no control of where it hits and and who is in the blast radius when it explodes
I think Sessions was making that point in a round about way.
It’s a hard read trying to figure out what is going on these days give the extreme weirdness but Sessions may end up shocking some of his critics
->Sessions may end up shocking
He’s already shocked us all right. By allowing the request for a Special Counsel into Trump from a few ragtag Democrats to go through, but refusing to appoint one into Democratic dirty deals despite getting a recommendation for it from his entire oversight committee several months ago. That may be ethical according to you, but it looks like unequal justice to me, if not outright partisanship against his own party.
With Mueller one of two things is going to happen
On one hand he may be working honorably and generally in the interests of justice and in alignment with Trump and Sessions although this is looking like a real long shot
If he is not proceeding as above, he will soon be forced to withdraw for ethics concerns and may even be facing investigation and eventual indictment
“Sessions has nothing to do with the Mueller witch hunt”
He is solely responsible for Mueller when he cowardly recused himself and turned that aspect of the DOJ back over to Obama’s people.
I can’t understand you. My POINT is that on one hand Sessions claims that he can not divulge or acknowledge an ongoing investigation and on the other proclaims his support for Mueller’s investigation which is known to the world. That is my point.
And the only people who support the Mueller special counsel investigation are the political enemies of Trump. It is entirely a creation of the political enemies of Trump, who were turned loose in the DOJ by Sessions.
The freak claims he doesn’t even see the need to investigate all involved in the dossier hoax. The Intelligence Community’s handling of that is something straight out of Soviet Russia. “I can’t say,” he testified, “if the dossier was used for a FISA warrant.”
Why not? He will not, because he knows it would be a bombshell bigger than Watergate.
->If he is not proceeding as above, he will soon be forced to withdraw for ethics concerns and may even be facing investigation and eventual indictment
I don’t see that happening without a second special counsel being appointed, and neither does the House Judicial Committee else they wouldn’t have asked for it.
“And this, my Fellow Freepers, is a perfect example of Battered Wives Syndrome.”
Well, why the Hell not, we already have the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome I’ve ever seen...
That’s funny. I love how everyone is an expert. I’m a lawyer and a CPA. I used to do forensic fraud investigations. Sessions has zero obligation to announce what he is working on or how he’s going about it. Also, he has been in office 9-10 months. I have spent more time investigating relatively minor white collar fraud. He’s dealing with powerful and dangerous people. He has one shot. He needs to take his time and do it right. If he doesn’t ever investigate or prosecute I’ll agree with you but for now it’s far too early to condemn the man. My suspicion is there is a massive investigation going on and has been for months.
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