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In Defense of Jeff Sessions
February 12, 2018 | Behind the Blue Wall

Posted on 02/12/2018 8:36:19 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall

Like I assume many of you, I've spend much of the past year boiling with anger towards Jeff Sessions. He first got caught like a deer in the headlights with respect to the biggest issue facing the Trump Presidency, somehow not managing to remember critical events. Then he recuses himself from the Russia investigation, leaving Trump to the wolves, i.e. Obama Deep State holdovers infesting the Department of Justice, intent on destroying his Presidency. As a literal soft coup attempt against a sitting President seems to be progressing in plain view underneath his command, he seems completely asleep at the wheel. And to top it all off, the one topic that has seemed to wake Sessions from his stupor, cracking down on legal marijuana, seems politically suicidal and anti-liberty, not to mention a complete waste of time and money.

But . . . I've come to rethink my view. Starting from the bottom, OK, I disagree on marijuana, but allowing states to defy federal law on marijuana undercuts the case to crack down on them defying federal law on immigration, which to me is a far more important issue. Yes, Sessions seems quiet in terms of cracking down on the Obama loyalists at the DOJ, but then, this is not something that can be done in a way that seems in the least way political. We don't need a grandstanding press whore like James Comey, we need someone to quietly take action and build the case. With the string of departures at DOJ/FBI, I'm starting to have faith that behind the scenes he is doing this. Recusing himself then, seems like less of a profile in cowardice and more of a shrewd move to place himself and his actions above reproach, even as he goes about pursuing his prey. If all of the above is true, the failure to remember critical events just becomes a pretext to get himself out of the spotlight on the issue.

I don't know for sure whether the reality is the former or the latter, or something in between, but as time passes, I'm becoming more and more convinced it's the latter.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: agsessions; doj; jeffsessions; russia; sessions; trump; trumpdoj
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Jeff Sessions was a spectacularly poor choice for AG. A mistake Trump needs to correct.


61 posted on 02/13/2018 8:39:37 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Who would you like to see as a replacement for Sessions? All of the names I’ve seen suggested around here (Giuliani, Christie) would be far worse.


62 posted on 02/13/2018 8:44:11 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

I agree. My first choice is Larry Klayman.


63 posted on 02/13/2018 8:46:00 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

64 posted on 02/13/2018 9:01:15 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
Rather than re-post, I offer my (considerably more positive) analysis re Trump & Sessions that I posted HERE...

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Note the operative two words: "You're FIRED!"...

65 posted on 02/13/2018 9:10:08 AM PST by TXnMA (MSM? No, thanks -- I prefer my news from the other end of the horse...)
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To: JPJones
"Not this shiite again."

Not this ignorant, defeatist Schiff again!!

For your enlightenment, I refer you to the link in my #65...

66 posted on 02/13/2018 9:16:26 AM PST by TXnMA (MSM? No, thanks -- I prefer my news from the other end of the horse...)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
If Sessions were, in reality, working behind the scenes, he would have already been exposed as doing so by the plethora of Obama administration holdovers still employed by the DOJ that would've leaked that info by now.

In simple terms: His cover would have surely been blown long before today.

Sessions is simply inept and "in over his head."

67 posted on 02/13/2018 10:21:55 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

your actually baseless speculation is wrong


68 posted on 02/13/2018 10:23:12 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert
your actually baseless speculation is wrong

Keep hoping for the best.. but prepare yourself for the worst.

Sessions is INEFFECTIVE and nothing will change that.

69 posted on 02/13/2018 12:45:33 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

11 months ago trump/sessions could have used comedy’s report and finding that hillary was “excessively carless” with classifeid information. Being excessively careless is not mitigation for what she did. That alone should have indicted her. They could have sought prison time and counted investigation uranium, foundation, malfeasance (mis managing 6 billion at state) , and play for pay.

If there is an investigation of these things then amazingly nothing has leaked or been in the media, a first in DC. That’s why we can be assured Sessions has done nothing and Trump condones it.

Two weeks ago it was announced some IG investigations, so we will see how that turns out, but sessions has turned the DOJ from a criminal political shill to a sleeping bear.


70 posted on 02/13/2018 12:52:21 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian
Indictments do not equate convictions... You really think anyone could find a judge and/or jury in WDC that would convict Hillry Jezebel Clinton. HELLO!!! I do not want this wicked witch just indicted if there will be no conviction... What do you think a ‘NOT GUILTY’ verdict would accomplish?

You Sessions basher are clueless as to the width and depth of corruption in all parts of government... Legislative (Debbie's Paki spies and their ‘blackberries’) Judicial branch and their anti-Constitutional judgments, all across this land, and every agency in the Executive Branch.

Haste makes waste...

71 posted on 02/13/2018 12:58:36 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

that was the next step. Take your meds, we’re on the same team.


72 posted on 02/13/2018 12:59:51 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: heights

Thanks


73 posted on 02/13/2018 1:02:38 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: morphing libertarian
Take your own meds.. I responded to your post ... I have had my fill of the spoiled brats who ignore reality, bashing Sessions day and night and night and day. The lunatic libtards spied on Trump and by extension Sessions... This is not W Bush seeking revenge on the snake Saddam ... who crossed his daddy. Sessions cannot by law, lead this investigation because he would then be accused of a cover up by the lunatic libtards and those unholy ‘nevertrumpers’.

Instead what we have are hot house lilies throwing a fit because no indictments have been made public.

74 posted on 02/13/2018 1:17:48 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: lowbuck
Again, there are wheels inside of wheels in motion. I have to believe that President Trump and his advisors are miles ahead of the Washington political establishment.
President T was way ahead of them before he was elected.

In fact, his body of knowledge of the vast amount of skulduggery going on, both domestic and foreign, was why he knew he must become president in the first place.

75 posted on 02/13/2018 1:27:54 PM PST by citizen (President Trump: HeÂ’s combined The Art of the Deal with AlinskyÂ’s Rules For Radicals. Game over.)
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To: Just mythoughts

go back to your own nightmare. I’ll wake you when sessions comes out of his coma.


76 posted on 02/13/2018 1:28:21 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian

I may just take the time to remind you of your huffing and puffing... someday.


77 posted on 02/13/2018 1:32:56 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: arthurus

Can’t make my mind up on Rod R. As in whether he’s genuinely trying to save his own skin or if he’s playing his assigned role well.


78 posted on 02/13/2018 1:35:14 PM PST by citizen (President Trump: HeÂ’s combined The Art of the Deal with AlinskyÂ’s Rules For Radicals. Game over.)
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To: arthurus
Wow. EXCELLENT post, goodman.

You get it. Yet the anti Sessions rabble will still howl.

79 posted on 02/13/2018 1:51:54 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: arthurus

“You are going to remember being pretty silly.”

I hope so.

But if neither Hillary, Lois, Loretta, Comey or any of the FBI DOJ hacks are indicted, I’m going to look pretty smart.

And then what will YOU say?


80 posted on 02/13/2018 1:56:21 PM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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