Is this a #metoo kind of thing?
Am thinking it is wonderful that the hitlery crowd was not installed. The cattle cars would have been packed every day on their way to the re-education camps with many willfully take The Ride. Those of US unwilling to take The Ride would have been subjected to other torments imho.
I have long believed that the Obama Administration routinely used surveillance, spying and other measures on anyone who stood in their way and weaponized their spying when it became serious...
We know that Obama himself knew everything what about they did to General Flynn, there is no reason to believe General Flynn was the only time this happened.
The spying tools of the FBI, NSA and CIA are so vast and comprehensive the temptation to use them for political purposes is to great for anyone to really ignore.
We also know that Admiral Mike Rodgers notified Trump that Obama was spying on him, but we also learned that contractors hired by the FBI were routinely using the NSA database to gather information on American Citizens, we also know that mass unmasking of Americans was going on..
The question is who were they spying on and what was the reason...
Think back from when Obama was elected and all the bizarre things that happened.
John Roberts switched his vote on Obama Care at the last minute and confounded people like Scalia...
James Rosen of Fox News was one journalist who had his emails and phone calls tapped.
Maxine Waters blurted out that Obama was building a database that would ensure Democrat power for years.
Go even further back to when Obama was elected to the Senate, his opponent Jack Ryan had been thru a nasty divorce and the records were supposedly sealed, somehow they got release to the public causing Ryan to drop out of the race and Alan Keyes ran against him at the last minute with no chance of winning....
Obama has for a long time been running a criminal network to advance his agenda and when he was elected POTUS, the ability to gather dirt on his opponents was unlimited.
I thought Stockman’s only crime was to try to primary John Cornyn.
They also maliciously prosecuted Tom DeLay, and have malicioulsy prosecuted Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, and former Governor Perry.
We have to move away from the absolute immunity granted to prosecutors by the Supreme Court in 1983.
I think it is a certainty that candidate Jeb Bush was also subject to the same sort of surveillance as candidate Donald Trump. Infact, they all were
Jeb was the front runner
I read the article. I also did some research on the crimes for which he was indicted and convicted. He set up a charity “Life Without Limits”. He had multiple bank accounts under the name “Stephen E Stockman dba Life Without Limits.” No appreciable disbursements were made for the charitable purposes. The funds were used for personal expenses and redirected to his campaign fund through third parties. He also filed federal tax returns which did not report the fund used for personal expenses. He and a campaign worker and a staffer were convicted on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. The prosecution presented over 140,000 documents as evidence. He was convicted of 23 of the 24 counts against him.
Stockman was apparently low on funds at the time of his trial so he used a court appointed attorney. Likely that did not serve him well in such a complex case.
I did not read the entire court proceedings but the behavior (fake charity, moving money through multiple bank accounts, failing to report income) isn’t typical of someone who isn’t trying to disguise activity.
My perception is Stockman was an outspoken conservative who lived a lifestyle beyond his means and yielded to temptation to use a fake charity to funnel funds to support his lifestyle. He also used the charity to allow business cronies to make large tax deductible contributions of funds which were later funneled to his campaign. Campaign contributions are not tax deductible.
Obama administration officials were likely scrutinizing the records of prominent Republicans and looking for evidence to prosecute them. It also isn’t hard to believe some Republican and some Democrat Congressmen are breaking the law every day. Regardless of the motivations of the prosecutors, if Stockman was breaking the law he deserved to be prosecuted, and if convicted sent to jail. So do the other dirty members of Congress.
It is a threat to good governance when DOJ is directing most of its efforts against politicians of the opposition party and when politicians of the party in power are automatically given a pass on illicit activity. The only recourse the citizens have for highly partisan and politicized prosecutors is the ballot box.
The best defense for GOP politicians against politicized Democrat prosecutors is to behave ethically and comply with the law. If the idea comes to you that you can set up a fake charity and funnel contributions to your campaign and personal expenses through it, if you are a moral and ethical person your 6th sense will be activated and you will immediately know it isn’t a proper thing to do.
This stuff doesn’t only happen in Russia and other Communist countries. Every oligarchy is susceptible.
Today in WA, Gov. Inslee is using emergency powers primarily to reward friends and punish foes, according to people who have been in the meetings.
We felt the wrath of Obama’s DHS for two years after we called in a conservative US Representative to help us obtain approval for a patent sale that was being deliberately held up because we were on the wrong side of the political blanket. It was scary, creepy and unrelenting.
Was Obama an equal opportunity scum?
He owed his rise in Illinois politics to the Cecil Partee/Stroger/Beavers organization. When Sandi Jackson of the rival JJ Jackson/Operation Push organization challenged and beat the Beavers daughter for Chicago Alderperson, Obama sicked the DOJ on the Jacksons.
Yes the Jacksons were a little dirty. But they were no more dirty than half the Illinois delegation. There are Republican Illinois congress critters far more dirty than the Jacksons. But Obama did not target them. He targetted the family that dis-respected him and his friends.
“the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice (DOJ)”
LOL. DOJ. Integrity.