Posted on 01/22/2018 10:09:53 AM PST by Red Badger
What are the legal terms at play here? Spoliation and fruit of the poisoned tree?
Seems like Manafort and Flynn won the anti-Mueller lottery.
I don't think so. It really depends on the rules of evidence in the Federal courts, doesn't it?
Like withholding evidence? Yeah, I'd think that would qualify.
Judge: Okay, FBI, which would you like to accede to: incompetence or willful misconduct?
FBI: Uh....
Judge: Case dismissed.
Didn’t IG Horowitz say this weekend that he has the memos as they were delivered to his office last Aug. Am I missing something?
Like a laser beam, focus in to determine WHO ORDERED THE CESSATION OF RETENTION of these text messages! The system didnt suddenly do it on its own accord.
I do not understand the legal posturing stipulated by this article. One does not “file for a dismissal” of a special counsel investigation. It is, by its very nature, a witch hunt. It wouldn’t be a court which would dismiss the special counsel.
Hopefully, the publication of the 4 page FISA memo from congress should provide enough cover that the DOJ can call a halt to the special counsel and disband the nonsense.
It's about missing text messages, not missing memos, isn't it?
Criminals often find themselves in this kind of quick sand. Either destroy the evidence and have to deal with the incriminating nature of having destroyed evidence in the future. Or don’t destroy the evidence and deal with the incriminating nature of the evidence itself right away.
In this case, the criminals at the FBI decided they had to destroy the evidence. Thus we can safely conclude that the emails they destroyed were absolutely devastating to Obama’s corrupt administration and the Mueller shell game.
The biggest question now is whether or not we have sufficient jail capacity in this country to house all the Obama people who need to be incarcerated.
“Didnt IG Horowitz say this weekend that he has the memos as they were delivered to his office last Aug. Am I missing something?”
The question is did he get “all” the memos?
Of course manafort can use this. I’m sure he will. Trump has no charges against him. Why would he file Motions if there is no case pending? Doesn’t make any sense. It would be better if trump just shut down the Probe. I think a release of the FISA Memo would be a good and quick start.
I believe all this came about when they wanted the text messages between those two related to the clinton e-mail stuff
and that’s when they found the “insurance policy” type texts
now that have asked for all comms between the two
Yep...If any of the charges against Manafort are based on the timeline when the messages have gone missing, a partial judge could throw out the charges, AFAIK!
Have we not learned anything in the last 9 years?
E-mails just don’t ‘disappear’ into the ether.
They can be gotten, if you know where to look.
The NSA, National Archives, other places within the FBI IT infrastructure, back-ups of back-ups, etc.
The idea that they are ‘gone’ is ludicrous on its face. Heck, even Wikileaks may have copies and most certainly our enemies................
OK I figured out MY error. The term is Texts — not as I stated “memos”.
Rush just confirmed that the IG Horowitz says he received the texts last August.
Try telling that to the FBI when they're investigating YOU.
The dismissal motions would come from anyone who is prosecuted by the Mueller team.
It’s full of Obamabots................
Or it might have been that the IG is the one who noticed the missing texts during his investigation, which prompted the FBI to say they have been lost.
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