Posted on 11/10/2018 6:43:59 AM PST by lyby
Sessions set four goals for his tenure: to reduce the rates of murder, violent crime generally, opioid prescription fraud and drug overdose deaths. He achieved all four... just as impressive has been the refocusing of the department’s efforts under Sessions’s leadership to protect the liberties of Americans.
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Most people assume that the allegations against her are a bunch of political BS because there have been no charges filed. It would demonstrate the veracity of the claims that she behaved in a criminal manner.
Convicting and punishing criminals is a good thing in and of itself, but I'm not sure why exactly you would discount the deterrence factor. If swamp creatures start going to jail for criminal behavior, other swamp creatures would get the hint.
“The rule of law requires investigations, evidence, indictments and trials. I would love to see her indicted today, but that would not be the rule of law.”
There’s word an indictment is pending on the Clinton Foundation. If that is true, then the credit will have to go to former AG Jeff Sessions who quietly went ahead and put the case together, then passed it off as he departed.
People here have been unglued for a while. Patience is required but not much more as President Trump dropped a big hint on the WH lawn about not forgiving the head of the conspiracy against the Constitution: Obama.
Palmer, they have the classified eMails.
Ignorance is no defense.
She acted outside the law. It’s simply a fact.
Every criminal will come up with hair-brained excuses. They are still indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced.
Tell me what the penalty would be for any underling that did what she did. She’s the Secretary of State. If she isn’t held accountable, there goes the opportunity to charge any single employee working in the State Department.
“Hey, she wasn’t prosecuted!” End of any accountability for anything other than a case of pay for play. Everyone claims ignorance and does as they please.
If Sessions worked for anyone other than Donald Trump, he’d be remembered as one of the best AGs of the last 30 years. His problem was that he was a decent, conventional man working in an environment where that’s exactly what was NOT needed.
Trust me, I have a lot of patience.
God bless you. If anyone has any doubt, do you see a shred of confidence missing in President Trump? Not an iota, he’s in charge and calling the plays.
He’s about to unleash a bomb on the jammed at the line Rat secondary.
Can’t wait. Christmas comes early this year FRiends.
1) I believe he recused himself after the confirmation, not before. President Trump would have pulled his nomination if he had known that Sessions intended to recuse himself.
2) Prosecution of Hillary was impossible for a a recused Sessions since it would have touched on the election. There is criminal law which she and her associates could legitimately be charged with in regard to the handling of the private e-mail issue but Sessions wouldn't/couldn't act on it. Very obvious crimes by important politicians should be prosecuted, not just for the sake of making an example of her.
3)Sessions would not have to fire Mueller....because the Mueller circus would never have happened without the recusal. RosenWeasel never would have appointed his buddy and all the DemonRat attorneys if a competent AG would have examined the Russian Connection (which never existed; the DOJ/FBI knew it before President Trump was sworn into office). The investigation of "Did the Russians interfere materially in our election?" would have been answered within weeks or a few months because the FBI had most of the ground work done already. "There is no there, there."
4)The biggest failing of Jeff Sessions recusal is that the American people would already know how the corrupt Obongo administration had used government to attempt to damage and prevent President Trump from being elected. The FISA reports would already be published along with a mountain of telling information and communications. Jeff Session's recusal allowed RosenWeasel and Chris Wray to delay, delay, delay on document production and redaction. And at this point with the DemonRats in control of the House we may never see it. THAT is a terrible disservice to the American citizenry and it lies directly on Jeff Sessions doorstep.
Sessions lost the House by not releasing FISA prior to the midterm elections and not publicly indicting some of the high profile Democrats and corrupt former DOH employees prior to the election e.g. Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, John Brennan, James Clapoer, Andrew Mc Cabe, and James Comey,
In defense of those who are posting the usual deranged anti-Sessions rants here on FR, I’ll point out that it’s easy to be mistaken about a lot of things related to his recusal because the official reason given for his recusal was NOT the real reason for it.
Tell me what the penalty would be for any underling that did what she did.
Loss of clearance, firing, possible jail time depending on the severity of what they did. The FBI could probably make some good cases there, for example showing that a classified email on a classified system with a certain date, had the exact same wording as an email that they sent to Hillary with a later date. That would mean they illegally sent classified on an unsecure system.
Yes, she is accountable for their actions. But it starts with those actions by those underlings which they may have blanket immunity from prosecution (I don't know what kind of immunity deals they got). That horse is out of the barn.
Rosenstein wasn’t even confirmed until almost two months after Sessions’ refusal.
The dim witted Trump-hating suburban women ("Whole Foods" voters) were going to change their votes to R because of a McCabe indictment? Sure.
Sessions was questioned about a potential recusal during his confirmation hearing. If anyone was paying attention to this instead of watching a bunch of useless @ssholes on Fox News or MSNBC, they would have known this. Trump could have withdrawn his nomination immediately.
win some lose some..
Jeff should have stayed in the Senate.
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Feb. 9, 2017: Sessions is sworn in as attorney general.
March 1, 2017: News breaks that Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice in 2016, which appears to contradict his statement during his confirmation hearing. Democrats call for Sessions to resign. Among them is House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who said that that Sessions "lied under oath."
March 2, 2017: Sessions speaks briefly to NBC and makes quick remarks about the ongoing situation. ......In a statement released March 2, Sessions said he had met with "relevant senior career department officials" in the previous several weeks to discuss whether he should recuse himself and, "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."
None of what you mentioned addressed what I wrote abour in post #56. That should have been his biggest priority bar none. What did he do regarding it? Nothing.
I don't bother watching television in case you are calling me the @sshole.
See my post above: sworn in nearly a month before his actual recusal. Just because something is discussed doesn't mean it will happen and as our President has said repeatedly he never thought Jeff Sessions would recuse himself. If he had known he would have chosen another AG. If Jeff Sessions had been completely truthful in the confirmation hearings and/or with our President a whole lot of things could have gone forward that did not.
I believe that the recusal was a set up from the beginning.
Sessions was primarily loyal to the Senate and to the protection thereof.
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