Check out # 14.
Thanks, Liz.
Posted on 06/10/2017 10:17:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During the endless ratings bonanza which was the Comey testimony, you may recall that the former FBI Director was asked multiple times in several variations of wording about what the President said to him about the Flynn investigation and, in a more general sense, all of the Russia questions. Was he asked to drop the investigation? No. Was he told to drop the investigation? No. Was he ordered to drop the investigation? Again and again… no. And did he, after all the inferences and “hopes” allegedly expressed by the President of the United States, actually wind up dropping the investigation? Nope.
If that was a case of obstruction of justice in the legal sense, the would-be obstructionist was really bad at their job.
But that didn’t stop Senator Dianne Feinstein (D – Calif.) from joining in with some of her fellow Democrats and calling for the investigations into possible obstruction charges anyway. Because… Trump. (The Hill)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is calling on the Judiciary Committee to investigate possible obstruction of justice in the ongoing controversy over President Trump’s firing FBI director James Comey, including subpoenaing officials to testify if they don’t cooperate.
“It is my strong recommendation that the Judiciary Committee investigate all issues that raise a question of obstruction of justice. These issues should be … subject to full committee hearings,” Feinstein wrote in a letter Friday to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee.
Feinstein, the top Democrat on the committee, added that she and Grassley agree that “termination of the FBI director and any efforts to interfere with the independence of ongoing investigations” are the jurisdiction of their committee.
It’s not as if Feinstein hasn’t been telegraphing her punches from the beginning. You may recall that the California Senator provided one of the leading highlight reel moments of the Comey testimony when she talked about what a “big strong man” Comey is, demanding to know why he didn’t step up and get in Trump’s face during their meeting. (LA Times, video follows with excerpt)
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“You’re big, you’re strong,” the veteran Democratic senator told Comey. “I know the Oval Office, and I know what happens to people when they walk in. There is a certain amount of intimidation. But why didn’t you stop and say, ‘Mr. President, this is wrong – I cannot discuss that with you’?”
“Maybe if I were stronger, I would have,” Comey replied. “I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took it in.”
We live in the era of hot takes and that doesn’t just apply to the media. Members of the Senate are in on the act too. You need to feed the base all the red meat they desire if you want to build up a head of steam heading into the midterms. Whether that means calling for televised hearings into a question which seems to have already been asked and answered or just dropping some F-bombs during public remarks, everyone wants to generate some clickbait to keep their base happy.
Kicking off these hearings in the Judiciary Committee is precisely in line with the overall DNC strategy. It keeps the focus on supposed wrongdoing by the President and bogs down any progress on getting his agenda moved forward in the legislature. And with a willing and compliant press corps, just the phrase, “Obstruction of Justice” sends a thrill down their collective legs because it allows them to keep talking about impeachment. (And they’re working on that already too.) It’s all too perfect.
So will it go forward? I don’t see how you avoid that. This plays perfectly for the Democrats because if any Republicans on the committee object they’ll immediately be labeled as “providing cover” for the President. Then, of course, it will takes weeks if not months to line up various witnesses to interrogate, giving cable news talkers endless fodder to go on and on and on about it. And if it produces absolutely nothing when all is said and done? No problem. The hearings still served their purpose in terms of the ongoing, slow motion coup. In terms of political warfare it’s fairly brilliant, really.
OMG, the stealing is absolutely incredible. Thanks for explaining this fraud, Liz.
Only by accident.
Looking at her wears me out! Just sayin’
In her 80’s and still playing kids games.....
She like Johnny McCain can’t stand not to be in spotlight...
The Republicans are itching for the media and these increasing committee investigations to bring down Trump’s favorables, enough for innuendo against Trump or suspicion alone, to justify impeachment.
PAUL RYAN has the biggest itch of all to get this ball rolling. As Speaker, he awaits to “oh, so regrettably” call for a vote of impeachment.
If Republicans were supportive of this president, none of this seditionist talk and subsequent behaviors would be allowed to stand.
Republicans are all but behind the CNN thinking and the Feinstein efforts. They just can not be CAUGHT APPEARING VOCAL.
Trump’s accusers and pursuers are meant with SILENCE from Republicans! The House Conservative Caucus is pretty darn sanguine themselves, not eager to defend Trump, even after he has reversed Obama regs and EO’s that they CLAIMED were unconstitutional. Crickets.
“It is my strong recommendation that the Judiciary Committee investigate all issues that raise a question of obstruction of justice. These issues should be … subject to full committee hearings,” Feinstein wrote in a letter Friday to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee.
My letter letter Friday to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee: “It is my strong recommendation that the Judiciary Committee investigate all issues that raise a question of whether ANY Democrat has participated in seditious activity. These issues should be … subject to full committee hearings.”
In terms of political warfare it's fairly brilliant, really.
Until the table is turned and the new tools of political warfare are used against your ox.
Congress isn't going to stop being ninnies until it collapses the country or otherwise surrenders enough of it that it becomes a "country in name only." A label attached to a certain patch of dirt in the global plantation.
“Who controls the house and Senate? Seriously?”
The Uni Party and Globalist Money
Thanks be to GOD, for Grassley! Grassley is the only one I can think of who answers the Left.
However, even Grassley seldom defends TRUMP, by name.
None of Republicans do. They defend an issue or two, but not TRUMP.
And, we’re marching against Sharia Law today. These congressional b@$+t@^d$ get our president knocked down and Sharia will be only one of many certainties, when pressure dictates that we become a part of the global Union.
TRUMP is who we should be marching for, against the Republican Gang of Eight and the Richard Burr’s, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, etc. We know who they are!
They get our President, and they'll come after all of US with the tools Zerobama used on the Tea Partiers.
So, we won't let them get our president, BAMN.
This isn’t political anymore.
They know this and we know this.
Was it Clausewitz that said war is politics by other mean?
Probably screwed that one up...
5.56mm
Feinstein has some corruption in China issues in her past. Has the statute run yet? Trump’s DOJ should be looking into all this stuff, not phony Russia hoaxes. Sessions was supposed to be the guy who would be the firewall, like Holder was for Obama’s actual crimes. Trump will get nothing done, and lose in 2020, if this crap isn’t shut down, asap.
Fabulous as always...Liz...this is what we need to get out, and if you don’t mind, could I put this on ‘twitter’ as twitter is THE social media of today...
.....pursuing pursuing democrats for perjury....
Starting with Comey. When Sen. Whutzisface from Iowa questioned Comey, he asked if Comey had ever been the leaker among all the DC leaks. Comey answered NO. Then the Senator asked if Comey had ever given information to anyone ELSE to leak. Comey answered NO. Then later on he admitted leaking his memo. Multiple perjuries!
These R traitors will be coming home in August. What are we all going to do about it? How much push back are the R’s getting? None. Nothing organized, to impact their feeding trough, is peeped out.
They need to be dogged, haunted, followed, covered at home feeding their family dog, and at all “events”.
If we actually are ON TO THEM, they need to hear us say so.
How to organize for August would be a good plan of action.
James “no intent” Comey would be a better candidate for an obstruction of justice charge than Trump.
Is she talking about Lynch?
Is she talking about Comey, Lynch, Clinton, Holder, Abedin?
Check out # 14.
Thanks, Liz.
As President, and that the FBI is part of the executive branch, I don’t believe it would have been a problem even if he had ordered Comey to drop the investigation. That said, he clearly said no such thing. These people are just wasting tax payer money on a witch hunt.
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