Posted on 01/01/2018 7:32:14 PM PST by Kaslin
Sunday’s New York Times featured the latest attack by reporter Nicholas Fandos on the GOP for daring to criticize special counsel Robert Mueller and his increasingly partisan-looking investigation fo Donald Trump: “Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I. Open a Rift in the Party of Law and Order.” The text box: “Worry that a drive by Trump loyalists could stain the G.O.P.”
Fandos has proven himself a frantic spinner for the Democrats and Mueller while disdaining Republicans in Congress, and again does yeoman’s work trying to position the party of the Clintons and Obama as the new “law and order” party.
A growing campaign by President Trump’s most ardent supporters to discredit the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and the law enforcement agencies assisting his investigation is opening new fissures in the Republican Party, with some lawmakers questioning the damage being done to federal law enforcement and to a political party that has long championed law and order.
A small but vocal group of conservative lawmakers, much of the conservative media and, at times, the president himself have launched a series of attacks to paint not only Mr. Mueller but institutions once considered sacrosanct to Republicans like the F.B.I. and Justice Department as dangerously biased against Mr. Trump. One of them, Representative Francis Rooney of Florida, called on Tuesday for top F.B.I. and Justice Department officials to be “purged.”
Now some Republican lawmakers are https://www.desktopnexus.com/all/freshness/4speaking out, worried that Trump loyalists, hoping for short-term gain, could wind up staining the party, dampening morale at the F.B.I. and Justice Department, and potentially recasting Democrats as the true friends of law enforcement for years to come.
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It is not uncommon for members of the president’s own party to defend their leader against investigations. When President Bill Clinton was investigated and impeached in the 1990s, Mr. Clinton’s associates and many left-leaning Democrats on Capitol Hill waged war on Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel.
But Republican moderates in both the House and Senate with little loyalty to Mr. Trump and a Republican cadre of former law enforcement officials fear that their colleagues have reacted to specific and credible concerns about the F.B.I. with indiscriminate attacks.
Fandos repeated similar language on his Twitter feed: “It is not uncommon for members of the president’s party to defend their leader from investigations. But GOP moderates and a cadre of former law enforcement fear their colleagues have reacted to specific and credible concerns w/indiscriminate attacks.
But the Times clearly doesn’t think any criticism by Republicans toward the FBI has been “specific and credible,” given the paper's history of dismissive coverage of criticism of Mueller as actively demoralizing to the poor, put-upon Federal Bureau of Investigation, the liberal paper’s new favorite domestic surveillance organization.
A photo caption on the horror story of Republicans doing the same thing the left has been doing for half a century: “Conservatives have attacked not only Robert S. Mueller III, above, but also the F.B.I. and the Justice Department....”
To some Republicans, the attacks have gone too far, and are not representative of rank-and-file Republicans in Congress.
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Other Republicans have been less sanguine when it comes to the attack on law enforcement, and Mr. Mueller in particular.
“Law enforcement”? Is the GOP going after cops or something? No, they’re making specific and credible claims against Mueller’s objectivity, while the Times and other Democratic media allies try to change the channel.
“Those are political cheap shots that sound good on Fox News but in the real world are completely unfair to a guy who has given his life to serving this country,” Representative Thomas J. Rooney, a former member of the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, said of the accusations of bias against Mr. Mueller’s team. “It’s good politically. It’s good talking points.”
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The attacks have sent chills through at least some at the F.B.I., an agency that prides itself on rigorous adherence to the law and tends to attract right-leaning career employees. Katherine W. Schweit, a former senior F.B.I. official who retired earlier this year, called the criticism “baseless” and said it put the agency’s mission at risk.
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Democrats, for their part, have tried to ratchet up their defense of Mr. Mueller and federal law enforcement -- positions typically claimed by Republicans. More than 170 House Democrats penned a letter of support last week, and on the Senate floor, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, urged his colleagues to set clear “red lines” that Mr. Trump must not cross.
Whether the role reversal could become something more permanent remains to be seen, but [Rep. Peter] King said Republicans should be concerned.
The party of Clinton, of Obama, heck, Sanders: isn’t a party of law & order: it’s a party of laws are for the little people to obey.
I don’t think it’s possible to spin that fast.
It’s a criminal enterprise...
He is full of it. The destruction of the individuals he defends is imperative and must become a national crusade until the mission is completed.
I just posted about the Clinton corruption of the FBI in another thread. The New York Times has been covering for her ass for 27 years. I just want everybody to remember travelgate. This was within the first 60 days a Bill Clinton’s time in office . This bitch got the FBI to investigate the the long-time employees of the Whitehouse travel office, in order to get them removed so her friends from Arkansas could take over the White House travel office take over and grift all the money. The FBI did what she wanted, and eventually I think one or two people were charged with embezzlement. They were later found not guilty but their lives were ruined and they had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the attorneys to defend themselves against federal charges. So yeah, she’s been using the FBI to do her her petty little dirty work for a long time. And the media has been covering for her ass ever since.
Luke: “Ben, what that place?”
Ben: “It’s Washington DC. It gives hives of scum and villainy a bad name.”
You are referring to Billy Dale, who faithfully served both Democrat and Republican presidents and who was beloved by the media for doing a great job of arranging their transportation to cover the presidents. He had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend himself against the completely false charges that Hillary had caused to be brought against him. Hillary is a vile, loathsome, evil person.
Not even science fiction tries to stretch believability that far. LOL
The typical double down Clinton/democrat ploy. The Clinton crime family strikes again!
Thank you for mentioning his name I’m sorry it slipped my memory and forgot his name. Yes she got the FBI to investigate the employees of the WH travel office because she had her surrogates make accusations against them that they were stealing to validate her reason for letting them go and getting her cronies in there from Arkansas to run the place. The FBI was pulled into it to make her claims valid and they did it for her. Some of the media may have found issue with what she did re:travelgate, but the majority of them still took up for her. Claimed that shes the smartest woman alive and have been cheerleading for her ever since. It’s not surprising the New York Times is trying to twist and turn this clearly corrupt FBI investigation with Mueller and its ties to Hillary Clinton into something nice and sweet with a bow on it. They have practice in their whitewashing her criminal/unethical behavior, they’ve been doing it for almost 30 yrs.
The law and order is for us, it’s the wild west for them.
Their base would revolt if they even tried.
Having the Democrat Party in charge of keeping “law & order” is no different than hiring Hell’s Angels to keep “law & order” at a rock concert.
I hate it when Dems talk about “the rule of law.” Same with “fiscal responsibility.
Delusions of Watergate.
I wouldn't laugh too fast or too loud. There are probably at least a dozen people in this country who will believe this. Bwaaahaaaahaaaa! All of them attending some liberal college to get a liberal arts degree to become a "professional" SJW.
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