Posted on 06/23/2018 8:41:02 AM PDT by yoe
The president runs the executive branch, after all.
I confess to being more weary than dizzy from the Dr. Gowdy–and–Mr. Trey routine. Just three weeks ago, Representative Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, ( assured us) that everything was peachy with the FBI — no way, no how did the bureau “spy” on the Trump campaign when it deployed an “informant” to pry information from Trump-campaign officials. As (Mollie Hemingway) pointed out at the time, Gowdy had not seen relevant documents the FBI and Justice Department have been withholding from Congress — in fact, his spokeswoman said he did not even know what documents and records have been subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee (on which Gowdy also sits).
This week, Gowdy did a 180: back on the warpath, slamming the politically biased Feebs over (“prejudging”) the outcomes of the Clinton-emails and Trump-Russia investigations and delivering a chest-beating vow that the House would (“use its full arsenal of constitutional weapons to get compliance”) with its subpoenas — a threat that includes holding recalcitrant FBI and DOJ officials in contempt.
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“a threat that includes holding recalcitrant FBI and DOJ officials in contempt.”
A phony “referral” to the DOJ will then be made where it will land on the desk of one Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, there to gather dust for all eternity.
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Gowdy, Issa, Grassley, all of them.........
HUFF PUFF CRY CAVE...
He runs it right, but he can’t fire anyone or give them any instructions without getting impeached.
Trey Gowdy is not a real man. He is a sellout and a soy boy phoney.
All he seems to care about is having new style of hair every day!
McCarthy can be really good..... and sometimes he can be really bad. This one is bad.
It is CRYSTAL clear that if Trump were to fire Rosenstein or Sessions that the Democrats would engage in a MAMMOTH media blitz to impeach Trump. And they would likely get support from some of the Trump hating GOP.
Until a “for cause” document is produced, or Mueller closes his investigation, Sessions and Rosenstein are not going anywhere. They know that and that is why they won’t release the documents.
McCarthy misses the boat on this one.
That kind of sounds right, but the Republicans have an IG Report that can also be used to shake things up. But I don’t think they want the docs just yet... it’s going to be a slow drip, drip, drip until the fall when the unmentionable is discovered and used to clinch the election.
gloves come off when mueller is out of the picture
The LEFT has a wolf by the ears
I disagree. Trump’s opponents would be hard pressed to make a credible case for impeachment should he choose to, as the head of the Executive Branch, direct subordinates to comply with subpoenas from the Legislative Branch. Yes, the left would make a lot of noise but then they oppose every move Trump makes and have as much credibility as the boy who cried “wolf”. But for subordinates to openly defy both Congress and their superior executive would not stand up to scrutiny IMHO. DOJ/FBI can plead “ongoing investigation/national security” all they want but Trump has the power to declassify any and all documents should he choose to do so and recent history has shown that given reasons for withholding information really didn’t turn out to be real reasons.
The IG still has more investigations to complete. This has to play out.
The media will carry the left’s water for them. If they take the house, they WILL impeach him. The Senate won’t remove him, but for the GOPe, they will get what they want. A totally damaged Trump that they can make vulnerable in the primaries.
Mac is right - but it took him way too long to get there.
Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox but Richardson resigned. Nixon ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox. Ruckelshaus resigned. Nixon ordered Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. Bork considered resigning, but did as Nixon asked. Then they appointed a new SC in 11 days. Nixon resigned in the following year.
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