Posted on 05/12/2019 9:10:44 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that the Robert Mueller's Russia probe is an example of why the U.S. should not have special prosecutors and pointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) as "truly unconstitutional and the root of the problem we should be addressing."
"I think since the very beginning this has been politically motivated and now both sides are doing it," he told George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week." "It goes back to the Clintons."
Paul said that because the Mueller report found no evidence of an underlying crime, the "best thing we can do at this point is say 'let's get on with the country's business.'"
While a debate has raged over the past week over whether the impasse between two branches of government constitutes a constitutional crisis, Paul said the underlying constitutional issue is whether the FISA court "which is supposed to spy on foreigners, which has a lower constitutional standard, can you use the FISA court to spy on a presidential campaign?"
"That, truly, is a travesty and truly is unconstitutional and is the root of the problem we should be addressing," he added.
Eight House conservatives in a letter to President Trump in March argued that the declassification of some documents related to the Mueller investigation was necessary to find out “how Congress, the courts, and the American people were misled by Department of Justice leadership into a two-year investigation that failed to discover any evidence of Russian collusion.”
The lawmakers said they wanted the Trump administration to declassify the FISA applications for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and other key documents related to the Steele dossier, including information on the Justice Department official’s contact with Christopher Steele, who authored the controversial dossier.
The lawmakers cited the Mueller investigation closing with no additional indictments as further reason to release the documents.
“Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that the Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is an example of why the U.S. should not have special prosecutors and pointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) as “truly unconstitutional and the root of the problem we should be addressing.””
Senator Paul is spot on! I keep wondering, with all of the crimes perpetrated against President Trump centered on the FISA Court, why these worthless a$$holes in black robes are not leading the charge to find out how they were “mislead!? My guess is that they are complicit in the illegal acts against the President. Furthermore, the FISA Court should be disbanded! We are at our peril to allow a secret court to exist in any form for any reason.
“and now both sides are doing it ... best thing we can do at this point is say ‘let’s get on with the country’s business.’”
That sounds like letting them get away with an attempted coup.
Absolutely
Well, all of the FISA Court Judges are “Roberts” Judges.
What do we expect?
There is no constitutional support for special prosecutors - they are the invention of the D.C. Swamp and the tyrannical Left.
If Paul believes this was a political set-up (by the Clintons or others) he should be demanding an investigation not giving conspirators a pass.
No thanks.
According to Joe DiGenova, the FISA Judges are working with DOJ.
He says the FISA Judges know who has lied to them and provided the Info to the IG Horowitz.
handed Trump the biggest negotiation chip in the history of the country. What will they have to give him to make him leave these stones where they are?
Me, I would have already released them. Probably Trump is smarter than me.
“According to Joe DiGenova, the FISA Judges are working with DOJ.”
I sure hope that that ends up being the case. Still, I think the whole idea of “secret courts” needs a lot of rethinking. Yeah, you can keep stuff from your enemies, but at what risk to our nation’s freedoms?
methinks Rand is 100 percent correct about the fisa court...
it is patently unconstitutional from its inception...
a secret court in America!?
even the British wound down most of their secret courts by the time of the American revolution, realizing their inherent dangers to everybody’s liberties
courts which function in public are dangerous enough!
(too dangerous, need pruning, paring back.. as the administration is now proposing a little teeny bit.. but not nearly enough yet)
That sounds like letting them get away with an attempted coup.
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It’s bipartisan, don’t you know......
Just like the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
With apologies to Sir Arthur Conon Doyle—the real question here concerns the “DOG THAT DID NOT BARK”. i.e. the court that is maintaining ABSOLUTE SILENCE concerning those who ‘misled’ them.
Can it be they don’t care?
Are they working on their golf game, instead?
Or....................
Maybe they were IN ON THE WHOLE THING FROM THE BEGINNING?
They KNEW the dossier was FALSE.
They did NOT CARE.
They reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeallly wanted to ‘get’ Trump ANY WAY THEY COULD, JUSTICE BE DAMNED.
I VOTE row E.
Or....................
Maybe they were IN ON THE WHOLE THING FROM THE BEGINNING?
They KNEW the dossier was FALSE.
They did NOT CARE.
They reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeallly wanted to ‘get’ Trump ANY WAY THEY COULD, JUSTICE BE DAMNED.
All of the above. We should impeach John Roberts, remove each and every FISA “judge”, and shut down the FISA Court. No truly free country should ever have a “secret court” of any kind!
The plotters had to protect themselves from any investigations back into the criminal conspiracies of the Clinton’s ties to Uranium 1 and their Foundation scam which the Saint Mueller and Pope Comey whitewashed and/or ended.
>>We are at our peril to allow a secret court to exist in any form for any reason.<<
Well said...agree 110%
You took him out of context...he was talking about the rabid dems continuing the baseless witch hunt.
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