but McCabe was simply "LESS THAN CANDID" so no harm no foul
Posted on 04/14/2018 1:49:43 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Is President Trump telegraphing any messages to special counsel Robert Mueller in his pardon Friday of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney?
In 2003, none other than James Comey appointed a special counsel, Chicago prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, to investigate allegations that the identity of a covert CIA agent was leaked to the media for political purposes.
Libby – ultimately Cheney, as Fitzgerald later made clear – was a target even though it later was discovered that the name of the agent, Valerie Plame, was leaked by State Department official Richard Armitage, which Fitzgerald knew early in the probe. Libby eventually was charged not with leaking, but with lying to the FBI.
NBC News veteran reporter Andrew Mitchell asked in a tweet Friday if the Libby pardon was “a prelude to pardons for the Mueller probe targets,” advising, “Buckle your seat belts.”
But did Trump have an even more nuanced message in mind, the spotlighting of a an aggressive special counsel who failed to find any violation of the crime he was commissioned to investigate and apparently resorted to a questionable process- crime charge to justify his effort?
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Hopefully Trump will start playing Battleship with Mueller.
I think if you wanted to demoralize the entire staff of Mueller, after they’d gone and spent hundreds upon hundreds of man-hours....putting in sixty-hour weeks...to get a case to a semi-winnable stage, then suggesting that you’d pardon any guy convicted would upset your work-ethic a great deal. Why bother putting in sixty-hour weeks when you will be defeated in the end?
Because you wish to harass POTUS DJT and provide fuel for an impeachment. Remember the Left cares about exercising power and control over us not about being right or proper. They won’t care and may even like the idea of pardons.
This just shows that Trump is a brilliant strategic chess player that is thinking several moves ahead of his attacker.
I’m surprised that the facts about Woods, the judge hanging Cohen are not in the press.
Woods officiated at Sorros wedding.”
Was Bill Clinton’s failed AG nominee.
Worth repeating:
This just shows that Trump is a brilliant strategic chess player that is thinking several moves ahead of his attacker.
I’m surprised that the facts about Woods, the judge hanging Cohen are not in the press.
Woods officiated at Sorros wedding.”
Was Bill Clinton’s failed AG nominee.
Why bother putting in sixty-hour weeks when you will be defeated in the end?
Because you can clock massive overtime pay?
>>But did Trump have an even more nuanced message in mind, the spotlighting of a an aggressive special counsel who failed to find any violation of the crime he was commissioned to investigate and apparently resorted to a questionable process- crime charge to justify his effort?
Sure. Same with the pardon of the man who was punished more harshly than Sec. of Hate Hitlery Rotten Clinton for taking a selfie on a sub.
Why bother putting in sixty-hour weeks when you will be defeated in the end?
Because you need the overtime pay?
but McCabe was simply "LESS THAN CANDID" so no harm no foul
By the time Cheyney became a target, and Libby was questioned, Fitzgerald already knew it was Armitage.
BTW -
My understanding of the “Scooter’ Libby case is the original charge was Libby outed a covert CIA agent thus endangering her life. As the case unfolded it was clearly documented that Valery Flame worked at CIA Headquarters, was never a covert field agent, and had openly bragged about working for the CIA at numerous cocktail parties inside the DC Beltway.
When the very serious charge was proven to be laughably false the special prosecutor when shopping for another charge of much less importance. Hence the technical crime of lying to the FBI.
From something endangered a person’s life to a minor variation of remembrance of a conversation weeks apart.
WAY TO GO MR. SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.
Yes, there was a conviction; but, in doing so Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald forever ruined the Special Prosecutor statue and process. Who was the bigger loser?
A final thought, both then and now the real target of the special prosecutor was/is the sitting President who the political establishment unilaterally decided had no right to be our President regardless of the recent presidential election. So much for “Of the People, For the People, and By the People.”
Can you say banana republic coup>
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