Posted on 02/16/2018 11:01:19 PM PST by lowbuck
The revelations of the Nunes Memo have shaken our confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department. A law firm working for the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign hired a company called Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate for president. Fusion GPS, then, paid a Trump-hating former British agent named Christopher Steele to produce 16 memos between June and November 2016 based on hearsay from Russian agents.
Almost everything about Trump in the memos—later called the dossier—was demonstrably false, but high ranking people in the FBI and the Justice Department, including Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and FBI Director James Comey, used the dossier to gain and renew a FISA court surveillance warrant against a US citizen named Carter Page, who was said to be a foreign policy adviser of Donald Trump.
The FISA court was set up to aid in investigating terrorists, but there is no indication Carter Page was ever suspected of being a terrorist or even of having committed any crime. Nonetheless, the FISA surveillance warrant was renewed three times, even as late as July 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which was months after the contents of the dossier were revealed to be fake.
What’s more, the FBI used Steele as a source until October 2016, when it cut ties with him because he had leaked information to Yahoo News. That did not stop Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, however, whose wife worked with Fusion GPS, from continuing to have contact with Steele.
In summary, the highest levels of the FBI and the Justice Department were working with the DNC and the Hillary campaign to dig up dirt on Trump in order to destroy his candidacy and later, his presidency.
Now, add onto this story the fact that Rosenstein called for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Trump’s alleged ties to Russia when Trump fired James Comey, and the man chosen as Special Prosecutor was Coney’s best friend, Robert Mueller. Furthermore, Mueller has hired more than a dozen leftwing lawyers to get Trump and his men on any kind of legal infraction, since there is no evidence of Trump colluding with Russia. The stench of corruption is so thick a million air fresheners could not clear the air. And there are surely more revelations to come.
How far we have fallen! Americans used to be so proud of the FBI. It was the best police agency in the world. Whereas the national police in most countries can be bought for a reasonable price, the FBI was always incorruptible, a bulwark of integrity. That’s why it’s sad to see it now, crawling in the swamp, politicized and turned into the Democratic Party’s attack crocodile.Likewise for the Justice Department, which is another swamp creature. Sure, former Attorneys General have represented the president’s party, but in the past the AG has never used the department and the legal apparatus to bring down political opponents.
That level of corruption was unknown in America before now. No wonder the public’s confidence in the honesty, fairness, and integrity of these two institutions has been obliterated. So, unless some of these corrupt individuals end up in jail or at least lose their law licenses, most Americans will never believe in the FBI or Justice Department again.
That’s where John Bolton comes in. The only way to restore the image of those two venerable institutions is to root out the corruption and make those responsible pay the price. To do that we need another special prosecutor, one tasked specifically with cleaning up the FBI and the Justice Department and bringing criminal and ethical charges against guilty parties. Ideally, the person to do that job should be an outsider, because the FBI and Justice Department are not going to investigate themselves, but it would also have to be someone who knows how Washington works.Such a person is John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN.
Although he is known as a foreign policy expert, Bolton was trained as a lawyer and currently works for a law firm. He has lots of experience in Washington. He served three Presidents—Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. However, he hasn’t held a government post since 2006, so he is now an outsider, and he does not have any special connections to Mueller or Comey.
Most important, Bolton is a straight-shooter and a no-nonsense guy. He says what he thinks in clear, unimpeachable words, and he seems to be immune to bribery, blackmail, and media attacks. The media have been attacking him for years and he usually just shrugs it off. That’s important, because the person who accepts this job will be the second-most-hated person in America after President Trump.
The problem is that Bolton is on record as being against the concept of Special Prosecutors. Also, there are some people, like Mark Levin and Alan Dershowitz, who say what is needed is a Presidential Commission rather than a Special Prosecutor.
Either way, we need a man like Bolton to do the job, because without the rule of law, America will be no different than any of dozens of third-world countries.
Someone like Joe but not with the public exposure that he has had on the issue. I can’t thank him enough. He has done a great service to the country over the past year by clearly explaining the criminal activities that happened in the BHO administration and beyond. His commentary would be used against him though that he is biased ... like the texting FBI agents...except his critics wouldn’t mention the agents.
Yes again. An honest and incorruptible man. More like he and his wife are sorely needed.
Like a horse race, everyone has a favorite. It all depends on who makes the call and the one chosen will have to be ready for a hell of a long ride. Investigation that mess will no doubt take a very long time to unravel.
Bolton’s good, but Trump doesn’t like his mustache.
YOU ON THE OTHER HAND PROOF WITH EVERY POST YOU MAKE HOW IGNORANT YOU ARE./caps>
Jeanine
Would love to see Rudy
For entertainment value, just to see heads explode: Ann Coulter.
Jeanine Pirro has a good history as a prosecutor. So does Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Seriously... NOT Dershowitz. He loves Hillary. In spite of all the crimes he absolutely knows she’s committed, he LOVES Hillary. Also there’s the fact that he’s connected to Lolita Express and Epstein. He’s been right on issues this year, but he’s almost 80 years old. I’d prefer someone who has a better track record than 1/80.
Genghis Khan, get er done....
She would have to give up her program on Fox but she has a super background as a judge and a go get 'em attitude!!!
If Mueller doesn’t have conflicts, neither does Joe.
Rudy
Tom Fitton is definitely impressive.
“the FBI was always incorruptible, a bulwark of integrity.“
Whitey Bulger.
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Add to that the fact that Dershowitz has said repeatedly that political weaponazation of the FBI and DOJ is not a crime.
Don’t get your hopes up. As long as Sessions is AG there will be no SC let alone a SP. He just insulated Rosenweasel
by putting him in charge of the Florida shootings. Now way Trump can fire him now.
I don't think it would make a heck of a lot of difference... I think the Clinton's have a blackmail file on every politician that walks, crawls or slithers across this planet...
Fitton is not a lawyer, but he does have good lawyers on his staff.
How about Mukasey Giuliani are Bolton I think any of these would be fair and do a good job. The problem is Beta Session will not appoint one because Alpha Rosentein tells him not to. Rosentein/Mueller will keep the investigation going until trump is out of office. There would be a good chance the day after Mueller closes his investigation Trump would most likley replace both Rosentein and Sessions.
Mitt Romney, maybe, he won’t be in the Senate then.
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