Posted on 05/19/2022 5:25:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Hillary Clinton’s campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann is currently on trial for lying to the FBI about his role in pushing data pertaining to alleged communications between Trump and the Russian Alfa Bank. According to Special Counsel John Durham, Sussmann lied when he brought that data to the FBI’s General Counsel James Baker as part of the Clinton campaign’s efforts to trigger an FBI investigation of her opponent, Donald Trump. Specifically, Sussmann allegedly wrote Baker a text message claiming he was not representing anyone in providing the information when, in fact, he was representing the Clinton campaign.
In a surprising move, Sussmann’s defense team last week disclosed three sets of handwritten Department of Justice (DOJ) notes of a March 6, 2017 meeting between high-ranking DOJ and FBI officials. Durham gave the notes written by DOJ officials Tashina Gauhar, Mary McCord, and Scott Schools to Sussmann’s team as part of Durham’s discovery obligations.
While the notes contain a one-line hearsay suggestion that may cast doubt on Sussmann’s earlier claim that he was not representing anyone, their broader significance lies in what they reveal about the FBI’s strategy in the months leading up to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017.
In fact, the notes are the very first documents to have been released to the public that show what the FBI was telling the DOJ about the predication and status of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation only two weeks before FBI Director James Comey’s shock announcement to the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, 2017, that the Trump campaign was being investigated by the FBI for ties to the Kremlin. It was Comey’s announcement that ultimately led to the appointment of Mueller.
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No government organization/bureaucracy should be allowed to do their own hiring.
To allow them to do is is to allow them to build their own ideologically homogeneous power base. If the hiring is diverse (meaning ideologically, educationally, experientially, and demographically - not skin color or ethnicity), it will eventually weed out the scum.
bkmk
Who, then, is to do the hiring and firing ("weed[ing] out the scum")?
If the FBI is to continue to exist, and is to be a trustworthy organization, they cannot be allowed to do any of their own hiring.If he were to see today's FIB, James Madison would amend Federalist 51's
it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others.He would definitely loathe the civil service, which is the core of the deep state.
A continuously refreshed broad spectrum panel of private citizens who have zero government connections and who serve for short periods. In EVERY instance the power of government and the power of government bureaucracies should be diminished and made subservient to the private citizenry.
The writer calls the situation “perplexing.” What does it mean that authority is “effectively” limited? By what law or which people? Or is it an unspoken rule of honor among thieves?
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