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.
I’m hoping Trump fires Sessions and picks Mueller as AG when this is all over :)
At least we’ll get indictments lol
Oh wait. According to some freepers, sessions is doing black ops, or a smoke screen, or 3d chess, or he’s a magnificent bastard. or something :)
“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.”
I have never known that to be true.
I would question the intellect of anyone who did.
Larry Klayman.
He says he WANTS the job.
Not Bolton (CFR). Not Dershowitz (Lolita Express)
I’m pretty much of the mindset “Enough talk. Just DO it.”
The clock is ticking, and they’re burrowing deeper.
LOL!
And, oh yeah, Attorney Genital Jeff Sessions is really 007.
Could Trey Gowdy be stepping down from his House seat in order to be named as a Special Prosecutor in this case. If so, I hope he does a better job than he did with Benghazi.
lol
leave off the 7.
LMAO!
That’s great >;-D
That's precisely why the left will hate him and the right side of the swamp will fear him.
Good point. They both are great. Hope they accept.
Not necessarily defending Gowdy, but he was hamstrung by political forces in the Leadership and unable to coerce cooperation from witnesses due to congressional limitations.
That’s why it took outside entities like Judicial Watch to be the ones to expose much of what we DID learn.
Wasn’t that when JW exposed Hillary’s private server? congress didn’t expose it, IIRC
Boston seems like a nice guy. We Don’t need a nice guy.
The conspiracy and corruption is so massive that we really need military tribunals at this point in the game.
Yes we need military tribunals. The crimes, sedition and treason by at least 25 people, including Hillary and Obama, are so massive as to be perceived to be done by domestic enemies. The sedition and treason by domestic enemies, communist to the core, requires military tribunals.
My take is get all the ducks in a row, massive quiet investigations of the 25 involved, gather all the evidence and, after the midterms, start a Nuremberg Trials type of proceeding.
It will take at least a year anyway to gather all the evidence, maybe two. This cannot go unprosecuted, it just can't. It will surely reoccur if nothing is done.
Yeah...Dershowitz and that Lolita Express thing.
He would be on every talking head show back in the 90s defending the Clintons performing gymnastics that would make a four-armed chimpanzee jealous. Utterly infuriating he was.
He’s been defending Trump lately. That is good, but the cynic in me says he’s only doing so to suck up to the man that holds the keys to a jail cell.
“he’s only doing so to suck up to the man that holds the keys to a jail cell.”
Thank you; that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking, too. Suck up to Trump and maybe get a reduced sentence when the SHTF.
Rudy Giuliani.
Daily Motion never plays clear for me, it’s a jumble of images. I remember “Chicago Hope” was better than “ER.” Since I was quite ill during the later period when it ran, I missed an awful lot of shows (plus, I gave up watching med-related stuff, since it was too unpleasant for me). I didn’t see this ep or the last few seasons. That was a pretty brutal $hitcanning of his former colleagues, and the comment to Lahti’s character about licking honey off her was gold. Mandy Patinkin may be a jackass in real life, but he’s still a great actor (and singer, too).
I wouldn’t want Alan Dershowitz to represent me in traffic court. He’d take the case up to the SCOTUS, make a new precedent, but when it would be all over, I’d still have to pay the $50 fine and also his billed hours and disbursements. He doesn’t represent clients, he represents an uncontrollable urge to make law.
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