Posted on 02/18/2018 8:53:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Synopsis: After watching this interview this morning, my faith in Sessions is somewhat restored. However, there are some things that I have questions about.
Mr. Attorney General, this doesn't sound good. "Will be…." Implies the future tense. Is there no current investigation on this matter? You have to know who the perpetrators were already. Why has not the FISA court judge called them before her to explain the matter? Or has she? We, in the public, don't know. Yes, I know the FISA court is the most secret of court processes in the United States, but that was before they were caught red-handed handing out a warrant to spy on candidate Trump based on at least shady information, so now that specific incident MUST be opened to the public. This is the most serious matter in the history of American presidential elections. It cannot be covered up.
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Timid is a nice description of Mouse Man Sessions! Barney Fife had more nerve!
bttt
“Face it. The deep state owns him”
Yeah, for sure. I watched the interview and it’s obvious that Sessions is scared $h!tless about something; frozen by fear for sure. The Dems have something on him and he knows it.
By Rosenstein, who signed off on at least one of those fraudulent FISA applications. So, guess how that "investigation" turns out.
CTH has some blind spots (and trusting Sessions may be one of them), but that in no way reflects poorly on their sterling reputation as high quality independent investigators.
Oh God, another one of those, "if you don't agree with me you are a hater" crowd.
Give it a rest. Please.
You are facile. It’s not the disagreement. Look at your statement. Anyone who doesn’t agree with me doesn’t have “3 brain cells to rub together.”
“Sessions is a beady-eyed deepstate compromised rat bastard”
I think if the hater designation fits anyone it fits you. That is why I said your comment is not helpful; it’s not a point of view it’s a vilification. Basically a glove in the face to anyone with a different point of view.
This.The fly in the ointment that was to be the salve for our wounds. Man, the struggle is SO real.
A fine example of Blind Faith......
Do you always get that way when an official follows the law rather than your inclinations.
POTUS nominated Sessions who had been a member of the campaign. Sessions could not preside over an investigation into malfeasance of the campaign. When the point was brought up in the campaign hearings POTUS could have withdrawn Sessions. He didn't. The rest is a tempest in a tea pot, misdirection to allow the evidence to be gathered.
If Sessions didn't recuse he would have been attacked and sidelined and his work at DOJ would have been taken off course. It would have damaged POTUS because he would have lost momentum. Another AG would have been months getting confirmed and the delay would have allowed the deep state more time to destroy or plant evidence.
Despite POTUS saying once that if he knew Sessions would recuse he would have picked someone else(paraphrased) I think it was known and discussed and the course chosen agreed on.
My take on the recent Sessions interview was that Sessions was quietly excited about the near future. He promised that all malfeasance would be investigated and breakers of the law would be brought to account. Maria tried to pin him down and he directly said I am not going to let you or anyone else maneuver me into revealing things that would impact ongoing investigations. He made it clear that there were over 200 investigations into leaks in process.
My comment to you (Post#47) was the only post I made on this thread.
Read much?
MAYBE???? The longer this goes on, the less and less hope I have that Sessions will do ANYTHING!
My support for Sessions is waning.
Originally 100%
After recusal 50%
Diminishing by half every month that he does NOTHING!
Either this is the biggest “rope a dope” in history, or it’s time to rope THIS dope.
Your comment fit so well in the stream and was in response to my comment to #19 so the confusion is partly explained.
Oh God, another one of those, "if you don't agree with me you are a hater" crowd.
Give it a rest. Please.
It is one thing to disagree, another to attack. I do not even respond to people who dislike or doubt Sessions, they have a right to their opinion. The poster I responded to was vilifying without any reasoning both Sessions and anyone who supported him in any way.
Your characterizing my response as "if you don't agree with me you are a hater" was inaccurate, and an attempt to silence down a point of view you don't agree with.
Sessions recused himself from all matters related to the 2016 election - not just the Trump campaign.
That recusal legally restricts him to beat cop gumshoe duty.
While he's chasing pot heads and bank robbers, who's in charge of investigating the coup? Why, that would be Rosenstein, Obama's man.
If you say so. I do not think:
“Having concluded those meetings today, I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.” restricts Sessions to gumshoe duty at all.
There are plenty of other avenues such as the Clinton Foundation, the FISA investigation etc that Sessions is able to investigate. Sessions has eliminated may of the deep state operatives at DOJ, is eliminating redundancy, making big strides on Immigration Enforcement, Human Trafficking, Child Porn, Major Fraud investigations. Sessions is making DOJ a law enforcement agency again rather than a political arm.
I say he’s doing his job.
You say different, that’s fine.
His tweets aren’t hotheaded, they are very calculated.
Sundance is dreaming. Trump and Sessions are not a team, they're not collaborating on anything, and they likely rarely talk at all.
Try to understand the magnitude of Sessions'recusal. With that key move, he left the President wide open to attack by the very plotters who were already guilty of illegally spying on his campaign.
That cabal has now spent the last year doing everything they can to topple the President, and hamstring his agenda.
None of that would be possible with an active Attorney General in place, who was loyal to the President. Sessions is not active, and he is disloyal. The proof? He is still recused, and hasn't resigned.
Sessions can't work behind the scenes. His recusal forbids it. You'd think Sundance would know this.
They never heard the one about the old bull and the young bull.
You say Sessions has removed a lot of deadwood from the DOJ. Who has he fired? I’m not aware of a single person. There have been some resignations, but where is the evidence that Sessions had anything to do with prompting them?
On the contrary, the DOJ and FBI are still infested with Obama holdovers like Page, Strzok, Ohr, etc. Why hasn’t Jeff fired those people?
You erred about Sessions’ freedom to investigate the FISA court matters. Sorry, but the FISA court abuse is directly tied to the 2016 election. He can’t touch that, as long as he remains recused.
Speaking of that, why, after a solid year of the Mueller witch hunt finding zero evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Trump campaign, hasn’t Sessions rescinded his recusal and ordered Mueller to wrap up his fruitless quest?
Seriously. Answer me that.
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