Posted on 08/23/2022 3:53:20 AM PDT by cotton1706
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said last week that the GOP shouldn’t blame the FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago, because they were just doing their job and carrying out “a lawful search warrant that a magistrate signed off on.”
“Well, if the GOP is going to be the party of supporting law enforcement, law enforcement includes the FBI. As a United States attorney, I work with the FBI, the DEA, the federal law enforcement agencies. Those folks on the ground do extraordinarily heroic efforts to enforce our rule of law, which is fundamental to the Republican Party and to our democracy,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“The FBI is part of that, and so, yes, we need to pull back on casting judgment on them. No doubt that they have -- higher-ups in the FBI has made mistakes. They do it. I have defended cases as well, and I have seen wrong actions, but we cannot say that, whenever they went in and did that search, that they were not doing their job as law enforcement officers,” Hutchinson said.
“If you want to hold people accountable, it is the Department of Justice. It is the attorney general, who said he supervised that. The FBI is simply carrying out their responsibilities under the law, a lawful search warrant that a magistrate signed off on, and they didn't go in there with FBI raid jackets,” the governor said.
“They tried to constrain their behavior carrying out that warrant. So, let's be -- let's support law enforcement. Let's stand with them. Whether it's the DEA, the FBI, or your local law enforcement. That's critically important that we do that, because they're simply trying to do their job and to keep anarchy away from our country,” he added.
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“because they were just doing their job”
Whenever a “Republican” uses the “just following orders” justification, I like to remind him that nobody saved their neck at Nuremberg with that defense.
OH-OH, looks like the FIB found something they can use against Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.. Maybe he wore black face, or something..
I’m in good company, too …
But He also said: “Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.” (Luke 11:46)
:-P
if “law enforcement” is unlawful, is it law enforcement?
if “law enforcement” is allowing itself to be used as a political secret police, is it really law enforcement?
“The FBI is simply carrying out their responsibilities under the law, a lawful search warrant that a magistrate signed off on”
What if those warrants aren’t lawful after all, governor. You know, like the FISA warrants of the past?
Law enforcement is an action, not an entity. I support the enforcement of the law. I do not support entities who were created to enforce the law, but instead violate it or enforce it only on certain groups. Governor is playing word games.
An old western sheriff who abused his power to hang an innocent man is not Law Enforcement. He is a criminal.
Nope, nope and more NOPE.
Even local/regional LEOS know those arrogant bassturds suck...right from the bottom to the very top.
What a disappointment.
How deeply phony this guy is!
That idiot cannot help himself.
We can have an FBI without it being a subdivision of the Democratic party.
“No doubt that they have — higher-ups in the FBI has made mistakes.”
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What B.S. from Hutchinson. A “mistake” implies something done inadvertently without intent. The actions of the FBI have been malicious, criminal and negligent.
- Framing Richard Jewell as the Atlanta Olympic bomber
- Framing Carter Page thru fabricated evidence and then lying to the FISA court
- Accepting payoffs from the mobster Whitey Burger, then providing tips to Burger so he could assassinate his rival gang members
- Knowingly framing 4 men with false evidence so they were then incarcerated for life for murders they did not commit.
- Framing Steven Hatfill for the anthrax attacks
For me, the guy who is going to pay the biggest price for this kind of nonsense is Ron DeSantis.
That’s because I have no intention of ever voting for another lawyer in any election.
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That is the most irrational statement I’ve heard today, although the day is young.
A is a lawyer. A is bad. Therefor all lawyers are bad.
WE do not support Lawless Enforcement, which is what we have at the Federal Level.
I just don’t want any more of them in public office.
Do you think anyone outside the legal profession would even consider it worthwhile to pass Federal laws that are 2,000+ page monstrosities?
There aren’t enough letters in the alphabet for hoe many lawyers are in government. They don’t usually turn out yo be trustworthy.
Asa sold out the people of Ar. a long time ago.
I never said all lawyers are bad.
I just don’t want any more of them in public office.
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Why don’t you want any more lawyers in public office? Because ipso-facto they’re lawyers and therefor “bad”? What is your logic?
Libtards are pretending LE is a monolithic block. As usual making specious claims they don’t believe themselves to advance a goal. Have seen the same argument used supporting the new 87,000 IRS agents. “What you don’t support the Blue?” Same bunch hates local police.
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