Posted on 06/22/2023 4:28:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former president Barack Obama said Thursday on CNN’s “News Central” that former President Donald Trump’s indictment upheld the idea that “nobody is above the law.”
Amanpour said, “The spectacle of a former president being federally indicted. How is the rest of the world, the democratic world, maybe even the non-democratic world meant to interpret that indictment and indeed the fact that a federal indictee is running, is able to run for the highest office in the land, maybe even the world?”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“Time after time in the Clinton years, then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was reluctant to approve military strikes against Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda, according to the 9/11 commission report.”
“That revelation comes as Berger faces the ‘Socks-Docs’ criminal investigation into whether he illegally snuck top-secret documents out of the National Archives in his socks while vetting material for the 9/11 Commission.”
https://nypost.com/2004/07/24/sandy-burglar-vetoed-attacks-on-bin-laden/
“CNN
Friday, April 1, 2005
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Federal prosecutors will recommend that former national security adviser Sandy Berger be fined $10,000 and lose his security clearance for three years, but receive no jail time, sources said
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When Archives officials contacted him after they realized documents were missing, he told them about the two copies he had and returned them, along with the handwritten notes he had taken, they said. He did not say anything about the three copies he had destroyed.”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea/
Hey barrack, try the other shoe, if it fits maybe there IS justice in this country.
Hunter probably got more ‘punishment’ from a ‘mistress’.
A slap on the wrist for you and 12 years for thou.
Article II, Section II provides that: “The President...may require the opinion, in writing,of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices”
Why Presidents might need to retain documents of every type (quote):
“The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly
“he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.”
William Barr, Trump’s former Attorney General
“I have been in those rooms with him when he met with those leaders, I believe they think he’s a laughing fool”
John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/16/donald-trump-fool-world-leaders-00097103
“An earlier draft of his Farewell Address showed how wounded the President [George Washington] was by the attacks on his integrity and motivations: ‘As this Address, Fellow citizens will be the last I shall ever make you, and as some of the Gazettes of the United States have teemed with all the Invective that disappointment, ignorance of facts, and malicious falsehoods could invent, to misrepresent my politics and affections; to wound my reputation and feelings; and to weaken, if not entirely destroy the confidence you had been pleased to repose in me; it might be expected at the parting scene of my public life that I should take some notice of such virulent abuse. But, as heretofore, I shall pass them over in utter silence...’”
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/press-attacks/
Says the criminal who knew about Hillary’s plan to collude with the Russians to smear Donald Trump
Special Counsels are not authorized to prosecute national security cases.
“Special Counsel...the full power and independent authority”
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-VI/part-600
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“The enforcement of all criminal laws affecting, involving or relating to the national security, and the responsibility for prosecuting criminal offenses, such as conspiracy, perjury and false statements, arising out of offenses related to national security, is assigned to the Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of the National Security Division. Where a matter affects the national security, regardless of the specific statute(s) implicated, prosecutions shall be instituted and conducted under the supervision of the Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, or higher authority. 28 C.F.R. § 0.72.”
https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-90000-national-security
Except you and your cronies.
“nobody is above the law.”**
** Unless your a democrat
“So ... When does Barry get prosecuted for the dodgy goings-on in Benghazi?”
Or Fast and Furious?
B.S.
Blah blah blah … “I’ve got a pen and a phone” …blah blah blah
Except “the One”...
I believe we will get around to dealing with this smirking poseur before it is all over.
Obama won’t talk about the Biden’s and the MSM won’t even ash him about them.
All sewer pipes lead to one spot
One word...
Hillary"
Really? Your fondness for Cankles easily demonstrated by your posting history:
"Sorry, very sorry to say, Hillary will nuke Mister Inarticulate (trump) both in the debates and the general."
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