Posted on 04/01/2018 6:53:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Moreover, Sessions was, in fact, using Justice Department lawyers with prosecutorial power in connections with potential FISA and related abuses. Since November, John Huber, the U.S. Attorney for Utah, has been on the case. Trump apparently didn’t know this, but he should have. Sometimes it’s better to talk to the Attorney General than mindlessly to blast him on Twitter.
Huber was appointed by President Obama, but his name was submitted by Senators Hatch and Lee of Utah. Thus, his selection by Sessions seems like a shrewd move. As Obama’s nominee it will be difficult for critics plausibly to paint him as anti-Democrat. But as the favorite of Hatch and Lee, Republicans should be confident that he’s not in the Democrats’ pocket. Moreover, because Huber works out of Utah, it’s unlikely that he’s connected in any way with D.C. insiders such as James Comey and Andrew McCabe.
What about the decision to use a U.S. attorney rather than appoint a special counsel? This decision also seems sound, and not just because I don’t like special counsels. The combination of the IG and the USA should be able to accomplish as much as a special counsel would — and accomplish it faster and with less fanfare.
The absence of fanfare is an advantage because it makes it more difficult for Democrats and their media partners to push the idea that anyone is being persecuted. A Justice Department investigation headed by two Obama appointees is harder to shoot at than a special counsel. And, of course, nothing prevents Sessions from appointing a special counsel if changed circumstances militate in favor of doing so.
In sum, Sessions has handled this matter well, Trump’s foolish tweets notwithstanding.
QED
Cute....very cute.
If citizens don’t see progress, many will stay home. With a Dem Congress, all his methodical work will be for naught.
And if the citizens see a nuclear GOP Civil War on midterm eve they’ll stay home, also. POTUS is truly in a box on this one. So, he’s punting until after the midterms, IMO.
Exactly.
No problem.......we gotta plaster that all over the place.
First you say it’s nonsense that congress leaks, then you say we wouldn’t know about the FISA abuses if congress had not leaked them.
Those two propositions are mutually exclusive.
It is a fact that congress cannot be trusted with sensitive information. To share information with congress is to share it with everyone from Michael Moore to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Better find a good crow cookbook.
I suggest that President Trump has had Mueller by the short hairs since May 16, 2017. That is the day Robert Mueller visited President Trump in the Oval Office, ostensibly to interview for the FBI director job. The very next day, May 17, Mueller was appointed Special Counsel by DAG Rosenstein. The timing is most fascinating.
“Those who still are employed by the DOJ and can be bound to secrecy.”
The DOJ is a wholly owned subsidiary of the demoncrat party. Nearly a hundred percent candidate contribution to Hillary rotten Clinton. Except McCabe, has Goober Magoo fired anyone else? Cleaned house of the clinton, obama and bush holdovers who all voted for Hillary Clinton? /rhet
It is a fact that congress cannot be trusted with sensitive information. To share information with congress is to share it with everyone from Michael Moore to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Absolutely, I’ll take Devin Nunes’s judgment over Rosenstein/Sessions any day. Unlike the two stooges, Nunes has actually delivered for MAGA at great personal risk to himself.
Name one thing Rosenstein has done in support of Trump? You can’t.
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Patrick Fitzgerald
James Comey
Bob Mueller
John Huber
Same story, all sold as bastions of Integrity and paragons of ethical behavior.
If they WANTED to do something about Hillary and FISA, it would’ve been done a year ago. Sessions was dragged here, and this is his answer so he can say, it is being Investigated.
Sham Investigation.
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I suggest that President Trump has had Mueller by the short hairs since May 16, 2017.
Wishful thinking. POTUS wouldn’t be having trouble finding a lawyer if the case was going to be a walk over.
But the DOJ can investigate people within its own organization and can indict and prosecute those found to have committed crimes.
QED
It’s all down to leadership, which is what this thread is concentrating on. Half believe Sessions is a poor leader while the other half think he’s honest and will persevere.
On that, the jury is out. I stand with those who think he will accomplish much before he’s done. Maybe I’ll be wrong, but I like what he’s announced so far and I think we’ll be pleasantly surprised once the investigations wrap up and indictments start coming down.
Actually, my main concern involves the mainstream press. Will anything convince them that they’ve been backing a criminal enterprise? Or will they just remain immune to both morality and logic?
I read that Soros has now set his sights on Nunes’ re-election campaign. We need to back Nunes 10000%.
Patrick Fitzgerald
James Comey
Bob Mueller
John Huber
Same story, all sold as bastions of Integrity and paragons of ethical behavior.
Just brutal. And you are 100% correct of course.
No, he’s not 100% correct. Comey and Mueller were praised by the left for their incorruptibility. The press didn’t even know Huber existed a few days ago and we certainly haven’t heard any of the same sort of support from the press for Huber as we did for Comey and Mueller, and for good reason. Huber isn’t a corrupt weasel like those two are. He hasn’t been sold by the MSM at all.
Nunes is a hero along with a handful of others speaking out on behalf of Trump and against the corrupt state. (jordan, meadows, desantis, gaetz)
Give me Nunes as AG right now...Anyone but goober magoo.
No, he’s not 100% correct. Comey and Mueller were praised by the left for their incorruptibility.
And Trey Gowdy. On TV. Last week.
And the statute of limitations are shrewdly expiring.
Time will tell.
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