EEE and Lakeshark,
OK, I might have argued with you previously, but I am willing to trust your instincts on Sessions, with trepidation.
My worry is as follows.
During Rosenstein’s time as US Atty in Baltimore, he refused to allow investigators to go after the DC Madam, Deborah Jean Palfrey. The U.S. Postal inspector sought authority to go after Palfrey because all of her hookers were using a single post office in Baltimore to mail their payments to Palfrey, who lived in California. Rod Rosenstein turned the USPS inspectors down.
At the time, Sessions was Senator from Alabama. And at least one other southern US Senator (Vitter, R-LA) was eventually revealed as one of Palfrey’s “johns”. Before his phone number showed up in Palfrey’s black book, no one could have thought Vitter would have been involved. But men are all sinners, ourselves included, none are beyond reproach, and Palfrey’s girls were said to be the most attractive hookers operating in DC.
Palfrey’s attorney later said he believed his client’s prostitutes were used in US intelligence operations to compromise targets and gather info. This, he said, is why Palfrey was able to get away with it for so long. She had cover, and her cover may have included Rod Rosenstein.
If you’ve ever made the drive from DC to Baltimore, you have to ask this. Why would Palfrey require her girls, who operated in the Nation’s Capital, to go all the way to Baltimore in order to mail their payment? Even during non-rush hours, the drive takes an hour plus. Could it be that Palfrey knew she had cover from the US Atty (and others) in Baltimore? I think it could be.
And, if that were so, what does it say about Rosenstein? It says to me that he is deep state dirty, low down dirty. The DC madam is not the only indication I’ve seen of it.
However, I will set aside my suspicions based on the learned viewpoint of fellow FReepers, seasoned ones like yourselves. Please understand what the stakes are here.
If Sessions is compromised and Rosenstein is orchestrating all this on behalf of those such as Brennan, Comey, etc., bad things are going to happen to America. Here’s how it could unfold. During impeachment hearings of President Trump, Huber announces that he’s looked at U1, FISA, Obama spying on Trump, and there’s nothing to it at all. In fact, Huber/Rosenstein will uncover crimes by Mike Pence, who will have to resign.
Republicans, having lost control of the House, will be helpless as Nancy Pelosi steps aside briefly allowing her caucus to elect Hillary Clinton as Speaker of the House. It will be a formality, of course, as Hillary will be Speaker only briefly while the Senate concludes its conviction of Donald Trump.
Voila! President Hillary Clinton. And you two will have helped make it happen. I will never let you live that down if it or anything like that happens.
Realistically there's not likely to be much more than a slap on the wrist for the bogus warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. They will say mistakes were made (minor slap on the wrist for McCabe for giving a FISA judge bad info) and said judge might be sanctioned, mildly. People should not get their hopes up on a major prosecution.
But that doesn't justify your deep state conspiratorial fantasy. The deep state is real enough, but it's really just another form of the managerial state, albiet in law enforcement. It's certainly not going to be tackled by Sessions even without your silly Sessions-compromised fantasy. It simply exists for its own sake mainly to protect millions of do-nothing pension-sucking drones.
You don't really know who Q is, do you?