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Sessions needs to stop the misuse of intelligence for politics
NY Post ^ | Dec 17, 2017 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 12/17/2017 9:39:11 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

In hindsight, the most important thing said this year came on Jan. 3. Chuck Schumer, leader of Senate Democrats, warned President-elect Trump he would pay a price for disputing intelligence officials’ findings of Russian meddling.

“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer ­declared.

Schumer was right about a vendetta, but wrong about timing. It’s now clear that intelligence officials already had started “getting back” at the next commander in chief.

They started in the summer of 2016.

In early August, Mike Morell, who was acting head of the CIA ­under Barack Obama, broke with agency tradition by entering the ­political fray to endorse Hillary Clinton.

He praised her as “highly qualified” and said Trump was “not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016; 201701; clinton; fbi; hillaryclinton; jamescomey; michaelmorell; mikemorell; morell; peterstrzok; robertmueller; schumer
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To: reasonisfaith

A process crime that would have never been charged had their
not been Mulehead’s Special Council.

No Sessions recusal = no Mulehead Special Council.

What part of that do u not understand?


61 posted on 12/17/2017 11:17:00 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: reasonisfaith
What about the work Sessions is doing that you don’t know about?

What work? You cannot prove the existence of something for which there is no evidence.

62 posted on 12/17/2017 11:22:28 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

““Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer ­declared”

OK Schmuckie I’ll play... if what you say is true, then how did Obama get away with
That BS foreign policy of his? Seems to me that you are acknowledgin the existence of the Deep State.


63 posted on 12/17/2017 11:25:19 AM PST by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Windflier

Is it possible Sessions is on an hourly wage, and he simply punches in on the time clock just before speaking publically and then punches out when his comments are finished?


64 posted on 12/17/2017 11:26:01 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Congressional committees need to stop threatening to hold someone in contempt. Every person in America knows that is a meaningless action.


65 posted on 12/17/2017 11:26:03 AM PST by Baynative ( "If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.")
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To: reasonisfaith

See my posts 47 and 50.
That’s not quiet at all.


66 posted on 12/17/2017 11:28:05 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

So it isn’t.


67 posted on 12/17/2017 11:29:50 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Windflier

Tick-tock!

Set decoder rings to stune!

All will be revealed!

;^)


68 posted on 12/17/2017 11:35:18 AM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: reasonisfaith

If Sessions believes that the FBI having an “insurance policy,” against a potential Trump presidency has an “innocent explanation,” then he’s not working for us behind the scenes. That is a damning statement, and anyone who thinks it’s innocent is either senile or part of the swamp.


69 posted on 12/17/2017 11:49:11 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Mariner

“What proportion of Sessions’ work is known to the public, compared to what he does that’s unknown?”

‘You tell us.’

+1


70 posted on 12/17/2017 11:50:17 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Goodwin's article is a very good outline of how we got to where we are today. He gets the chronology of a few things out of order -- certain things happened a lot earlier than he thinks.

Goodwin also complete ignores the 4th Amendment violations that DeepState is using to put forth a criminal case.

I scanned the first dozen or so Freeper comments on this article. All of them are focused on lesser stuff and distracted from the main issue. The "lesser stuff" in any other context would be very worthy of investigation, but in this instance, the "lesser stuff" is a distraction.

71 posted on 12/17/2017 11:51:45 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: reasonisfaith
Is it possible Sessions is on an hourly wage, and he simply punches in on the time clock just before speaking publically and then punches out when his comments are finished?

Huh?

That reply is nonsensical, and far-fetched.

I'm not even sure you were trying to make a point, or whether you're just stringing bits of fantasy together to sound profound.

Bottom line - you're investing blind faith and trust in Sessions, when he's given you no reason to do so, since the day he was confirmed.

72 posted on 12/17/2017 11:53:18 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Coming up on a full year of ineffective “Sessions needs to” calls.

That a special counsel was named, that Mueller was named it, that he was able to bring in only totally partisan hacks, etc., should never have happened.


73 posted on 12/17/2017 11:55:07 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Mariner
When the government is allowed to surveil citizens, without probably cause as certified by a signed affidavit of standard and a Court order: Only a fool could believe otherwise.

This is the essential basis of the “deep state”.

We must rid ourselves of the entirety of the Patriot Act to have any chance of being rid of the deep state, and the use of the enforcement organs of government for political gain.

There is no other way.

I don't know if we need to rip out the Patriot Act in its entirety, but you have correctly identified one of the major problems ... that's more than most people.

74 posted on 12/17/2017 11:56:09 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: Windflier

Your premise that we should know about everything the attorney general does, as he’s doing it, is unsustainable.

That’s all I meant.


75 posted on 12/17/2017 12:17:36 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Fantasywriter

What you state is not true, if there’s more going on that we don’t know about.


76 posted on 12/17/2017 12:19:16 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The FBI has been refusing to release documents and stonewalling requests for documents asked for by Congressional committees re: the criminal and corrupt activity that occurred when Obama was in office. These are the very same Congressional committees that oversee the DOJ and the FBI.

AG Sessions is head of the DOJ. The Director of the FBI reports to AG Sessions.

Sessions, it would seem to me, could order the Director of the FBI to provide said documents to Congress. Apparently, he has not, to date, done so.

Why?


77 posted on 12/17/2017 12:27:44 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Oshkalaboomboom; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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78 posted on 12/17/2017 12:36:39 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: bitt

Ping for later.


79 posted on 12/17/2017 12:41:58 PM PST by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Another worthless dump-on-sessions thread. The hilarious part is reading the fantasies about how much better Giuliani would be. Uh huh. If he did that he would spend all his days in court defending his actions.

But the fact is either we have respect for the law (Sessions and Trump) or we have a banana republic. If there is someone to prosecute it should be done properly (and quietly). I would note that Hillary's underlings were all given immunity. Prosecuting her for gross negligence in handling classified would have been hard even without that.

80 posted on 12/17/2017 12:53:05 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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