Posted on 04/03/2018 9:28:18 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Thread: Legal analysis on problems w/ Rosenstein’s purported “authorization” of #Mueller to investigate matters outside the time frame & subject matter of the 2016 campaign. Upshot: Rosenstein usurped Sessions’s power & gave secret authorization to Mueller to witch-hunt Manafort.
Problem 1: Rosenstein was “acting attorney general” only on matters Sessions had recused himself. Sessions only recused himself from DOJ investigations of 2016 campaign. Yet, Rosenstein claimed to authorize Mueller to investigate matters dating back to 2006 & ending before 2016.
Problem 2: Rosenstein’s original authorization of Mueller extended only to matters of “Russia government collusion” in 2016 campaign, not to internal Ukranian politics from 2006 & ended years before 2016 campaign. A special counsel cannot be continually used as a substitute AG.
Problem 3: Rosenstein does not have authorization over tax crimes. Only the Assistant Attorney General in charge of Tax Division can authorize indictments of tax crimes. Rosenstein could not authorize Mueller to look at tax crimes when Rosenstein himself never had that authority.
Problem 4: Rosenstein’s letter tells Mueller only to look to Rosenstein for clarification of Mueller’s authorization. Rosenstein is not the Attorney General of the United States, and could not monopolize supervision of Mueller for matters that did not relate to Sessions’ recusal.
Problem 5: #Rosenstein issuing his expanded #Mueller authorization in secret creates a secret Inquisitor, unelected & un-appointed by elected officials, with all the powers of the federal criminal law enforcement, but none of the democratic checks and balances. Unconstitutional!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/981257926475112448.html
This was to enable Mueller to turn to the left and go after the Podesta Group, of course.
Supported by the document here, based on logical inference that since Manafort has already been indicted his name does not need to be redacted, but that the names of “others” which I maintain include Podesta and others on the left who have not yet been indicted, must be.
Since the original SC authorization specifically directed Mueller to investigate certain things, it would not have been necessary for RR to write this memo to provide clarification on THOSE aspects, thus the logical conclusion is that this memo spells out OTHER areas in which the investigation is authorized.
Some people are going to look like such fools when the truth becomes know, but hell, they look like fools already.
Stonewall Sessions, the backstabbing rat bastard, can fire mueller and rosenstein, but why would he? He put them in place.
[Sessions] picked someone who grew up in the department and knows how cases are decided, and should be decided.
— Jamie Gorelick, deputy attorney general from 1994-1997
Bogus theory, what RR clarified to Mueller has nothing to do with tax crimes. or Ukrainian politics or anything your legal beagle is mambling about here.
Yes it does.
Not sure how much longer Rosenstein and Mueller can protect the criminal dynasty.
If Granny Clampett WAS the AG. . .SHE BE KICKING A**. . .Granny didn’t take no crap from nobody. . .Jed, Jethro, Mr. Drydale. . .you name it. . .backsass Granny and she’d knock you clear out to the cement pond!
They are done.
What’s that got to do with my post?
Gorelick is a leftist has-been.
Sessions received lots of affirmations on RR by DOJ Obama swamp holdovers. As a DOJ newbie on the scene, he had to shift the spotlight off of Yates, so he nodded to RR without knowing RR was part of the toxic culture.
Gorelick simply chimed in that Sessions ‘did the right thing’ which was to install their swamp player.
With zero input from Rip? Righhhht.
Sessions chose Rosenstein as his DAG and it wasn’t by chance. This whole installment of deep-state Obama stooge rat bastards at the top of the DOJ did not happen by chance. Mueller’s coup did not happen by chance. It was orchestrated from the get-go by the deep-state with the help of that compromised peckerless leprechaun, Jeff Magoo.
How long are we going to be subjected to this lawlessness or reckless politicized bullsheet ? When is president T going to terminate this farce?! If he doesn’t soon, it will terminate him ( either thru a faked up impeachment or just by turning off most of his voting base while invigorating the commie-Nazi left wingers ).
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Podesta and Dems laughing their fool heads off.
All of Hillary’s people are off-limits, and Mueller is working for his best buddy, Comey.
The stupid stealth and contradictory theories make no sense whatsoever. They have no interest in anyone with a D next to their name.
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The so called evidence to support the search warrant was based on the Steel dossier
These people are scum
The de facto AG!
Excellent point, FirstFlaBn.
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posted Feb 13, 2018 by John Manderaker in Obama Admin Scandals
WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF........the extraordinary email Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017........within minutes of President Trump's inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?
If you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?
Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier. The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:
Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This is pure boilerplate. It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)
In my opinion, the important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: "From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia."
The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.
CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.
Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything. And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal what the author was trying to conceal. I think that is the case with regard to Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.
UPDATE: Andy McCarthy agrees with my thesis, and adds much more about the time line and reasonable inferences that can be drawn about what the outgoing Obama administration concealed from President Trump and his aides.
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AFTER THE FACT Rosenstein's memo gives Mueller a more specific description of his authority:
it specifically states that Mueller has the authority to investigate Paul Manafort
“for any crimes arising out of payments he received from the Ukrainian govt before and during President Viktor Yanukovych's tenure.”
And that’s pretty much what Mueller indicted Manafort for.
<><> Even though Manafort's activities preceded, and had nothing whatsoever to do with, Trump's campaign.
<><> Rosenstein wrote the memo six days AFTER Mueller ordered the armed raid Manafort's house in the dead of night.
Session’s 100% farked up. He needs to continue investigating the conspiracy and corruption in DOJ and fbi but also needs to fire Rosenstein and shut down Mueller immediately.
Anything else is a complete failure on his part.
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