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Mueller investigation being ‘unfairly undermined,’ says American Bar Association chief [barf]
Washington Times ^ | 2/1/18 | Alex Swoyer

Posted on 02/01/2018 3:36:35 PM PST by markomalley

The American Bar Association’s top officer has warned the Trump administration and Congress to stay out of the way of the independent counsel’s probe of the Trump campaign, saying people are trying to use “intimidation tactics” to derail the investigation.

ABA President Hilarie Bass said the nature of American democracy depends on Mr. Mueller being able to get to the bottom of what happened surrounding the 2016 election.

“The United States has a history of using independent investigations to protect the nation against abuses of power. For such investigations to work, they must be allowed to go forward unfettered by threats, intimidation tactics and interference by other branches of government,” Ms. Bass said, as the ABA held its 2018 midyear meeting.

She said the questions Mr. Mueller is asking are of “critical significance,” and said “democracy itself” depends on allowing him to work independently.

The statement comes as the White House is planning to release a controversial memo drafted by Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House intelligence committee.

The memo reportedly details surveillance abuses by the FBI.

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


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To: markomalley

Hilarie, rope, tree - some assembly requried...


21 posted on 02/01/2018 3:54:40 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: twoputt

“...Hey Hilarie, shouldn’t you be chasing an ambulance...or something?...”

It’s a hearse. She’s chasing a hearse. She’s dead and doesn’t even realize it...LOL


22 posted on 02/01/2018 3:54:52 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: realcleanguy

“So, it’s all about the money”

Doesn’t surprise me at all. No wonder he’s dragging his feet on it. He’s got NOTHING, but he will keep prodding endlessly.


23 posted on 02/01/2018 3:57:23 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: markomalley

They didn’t show much concern when Democrat Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer proudly proclaimed at their meeting that the Democrats had cheated for them in Montana so that Democrat Jon Tester could be a US Senator.

Yep. It was recorded.


24 posted on 02/01/2018 3:58:19 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: markomalley

Translation: Trump is not George W. Bush who would lay down & allow himself to be impeached !


25 posted on 02/01/2018 3:58:28 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: markomalley

No doubt a Democrat supporter through & through.


26 posted on 02/01/2018 4:00:34 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: markomalley
I'm surprised her investigation into the "gender problem" in the US Legal Profession could be put on hold even for the brief amount of time it took for her to consider and comment on this topic.
27 posted on 02/01/2018 4:01:57 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: goldstategop
Never mind there is no proof of Russian meddling/collusion much less than an underlying real crime.

In a year Mueller hasn’t found any and there’s nothing to investigate.

And the indictments he did get had nothing to do with Russia.


Can anyone summarize the ACTUAL offenses that it is clamed the Ruskis did to help get Trump elected?

Lots of blabber but have any actual (or imaginary) deeds been claimed?

IIRC some hacking of state data bases was traced back to a DC govt. agency.

28 posted on 02/01/2018 4:02:28 PM PST by az_gila
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To: markomalley

As I see it, its totally the opposite. Nunes is taking on a huge amount of flak. And it makes me think that the furry means that its all true and all as bad as we think. If it weren’t they would fight it on face value.

But I am interested in the IRS, Benghazi cover up, and the general weaponizing of the government against conservatives. Which means, against the American political system. While I fault Obama, I think it started with George Bush when he let the CIA go into America. And let the FBI become a spying organization as well as a crime fighting organization.


29 posted on 02/01/2018 4:03:48 PM PST by poinq
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To: markomalley

Is this the same organization that has for years allowed corrupt lawyers to run amuck. Like all these top officials in the FBI.

Virtually everything has been infiltrated. The swamp is massive.


30 posted on 02/01/2018 4:04:46 PM PST by Revel
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To: markomalley

A bunch of liberal drunkard cokeheads are upset.

Waaaaa

Butthurt Hillary voters who already voiced their disagreement over his judicial picks.


31 posted on 02/01/2018 4:05:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: markomalley

Democracy does not use a secret police force to cover for one corrupt candidate and setup the opposition with planted media smears, fabricated evidence, and a cabal of fifth colimnists.


32 posted on 02/01/2018 4:06:57 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: Revel

The FBI in Boston knew that 4 people who were framed for murder in the 1960s by local police were innocent & they let them rot in prison for close to 40 years. They had the info.....and sat on it.


33 posted on 02/01/2018 4:08:32 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: goldstategop

Lets not forget that Muller is running an investigation base on Evidence he knows is tainted. Muller swiped all the Trump transition Emails Illegally without a warrant, and without even notifying the president. Muller is implicated in many previous High crimes.

Where is the American Bar Association in all of that? Crooked as can be.


34 posted on 02/01/2018 4:09:03 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel

God bless TRUMP.
Drain the swamp!!!!!!!!


35 posted on 02/01/2018 4:09:42 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: LongWayHome

Those FBI pieces of *hit in the Boston Field office should rot in hell for letting innocent men rot in prison for decades and decades.

Disband the “American” gestapo.


36 posted on 02/01/2018 4:18:21 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hilarie Ass should complain about Hitlery Rotten Criminal and the attempts of her and her cohorts to steal the election.

Illegal aliens voting, multiple voting, rigged voting machines from a British Soros-owned company, etc.


37 posted on 02/01/2018 4:21:06 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

The Boston FBI office was corrupt from top to bottom....the management & most of the field offices were dirty. This incident is not even related to the whole Whitey Bulger cluster-you-know-what.


38 posted on 02/01/2018 4:23:01 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: markomalley

The only way the memo affects Mueller is if it shows the whole Trump/Russia thing was a ruse.

The Democrats are in full panic mode so I suspect the memo will raise questions about Trump/Russia.

I also think the memo will point to Obama and his administration’s attempt to create the Russia ruse.


39 posted on 02/01/2018 4:54:42 PM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: Brilliant

Just a few of the many entries:

BASS, HILARIE
MIAMI, FL
33131 Greenberg Traurig Llp/Attorney $2,500 05/26/2016 P HILLARY FOR AMERICA - Democrat

BASS, HILARIE
COCONUT GROVE, FL
33133 Greenberg Traurig/Attorney $1,000 10/11/2012 G OBAMA VICTORY FUND 2012 - Democrat

Bass, Hilarie
COCONUT GROVE, FL
33133 Greenberg Traurig/Attorney $1,300 05/31/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Bass, Hilarie
COCONUT GROVE, FL
33133 Greenberg Traurig/Attorney $500 01/15/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Bass, Hilarie
MIAMI, FL
33156 Greenberg Laurig/Attorney $500 09/30/2007 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat


40 posted on 02/01/2018 4:56:37 PM PST by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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