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Steyn belabors the point but says much the same. He is right that it is the responsibility of AG Jeff Sessions and by extension President Trump to rein in the unlawful behavior of federal investigators, prosecutors, and judges.
Fire Mueller. For this jack-booted thuggery alone.
And let’s not forget the Ted Stevens prosecution by Justice (what’s in a name?), which ruined an innocent man’s life.
Wouldn’t it be up to the Republican-led Congress to take action with regard to the judges?
Good luck with getting that gang of campaign-promisers/non-performing wimps to do anything which requires taking a public (gasp! eek!) stand on anything!
Welcome to America. Where have you guys been?
How can you live in this country and not understand that what Mueller is doing is just standard operating procedure for how the law works? All that rhetoric about protecting people’s “rights” is just an illusion sold to the masses for their own contentment. If the law wants you they will get you, guilt has very little to do with it, justice even less. The only thing that can help you in this country is money and power. Trump has a target on his back. The law is going to drag him down or as many of his people as they can get. The only question is does Trump have enough money and power to stop it.
Yes, tyranny is the order of the day in this, the land of the free.
I say this is why Trump needs to act on this. Most of the time this type of action is not done so much in the clear.
You mean this in the sense of lawyers and policemen not statutes, right?
Yes, impeachment is the process of removing judges. It is rarely employed. The President’s role in that regard is to promote truly lawful judges when openings are available and to employ the bully pulpit to force the hands of Congress.
But mostly, Trump needs to clean house at the DoJ, FBI, etc. It will then be up to Congress and journalists to ensure the people Trump chooses as replacements merit the positions.
Checks and balances, what a concept!
It’s the sense of how the lawyers and cops construe those statutes.
Holding a gun on a criminal target’s wife is about as far as you can get from the FBI’s “Immunity for everyone!” standard during the Hillary investigation.
You know the best way to solve this? Don’t fund them. They cannot operate without money. But in the end, nothing will change so I will just keep stockpiling for when the day of revolution comes.
You mean trending toward Gestapo construction?
Unfortunately, people don’t get promotions for not making cases. Once the low hanging fruit is behind bars, it’s time to look “elsewhere.”
One needs to remember that such groups as Mussolini’s black-shirts and the Nazi brown-shirts were inspired by an American group during Wilson’s administration. You think this is new to America? Look up the American Protective League and also check out the Palmer Raids.
History is no excuse, and I am certainly not excusing it. Just pointing out that we have always had to be on guard for these sorts of over-reach.
Well when you make everything potentially illegal, then it’s hard not to make a case for illegal acts.
Edit: I just saw the typo.
Do you mean ‘not hard’?
One could go back to the Alien and Sedition Acts too, but then we had people willing to advocate state nullification.
That act crossed my mind as I was writing the comment.
People in authority over step their bounds all the time and everywhere. It is the nature of the beast. School teachers, DMV clerks, TSA agents, IRS agents, police, to name a few can sometimes push their weight around. I have personally been attempted to be intimidated by two different federal agencies. Fortunately I kept a pitt bull lawyer on retainer.
All true, but as a lawyer who spent most of his adult life in various Courtrooms and, from time to time, served as a client’s pit bull (alas, never on retainer, as I was on the plaintiff side of the Scales of Justice!), but all of the classes of people/Government/etc. rarely ever act so openly in total disregard of all norms of prosecutorial conduct, most of which, in this case to be sure, were totally unnecessary– for instance, holding a gun on Mrs. Manafort while she was in her nightclothes? Seriously? I refuse to accept the idea that this is all “in the ordinary course of business” as it is most assuredly not in any way, shape or form anything but the kind of conduct one sees in a Police State. However, I must also add that I appreciated your comment and hope the conversation continues. I also hope many constituents will inform their “representatives”, which I must, out of a sense of accuracy, put in quotation marks, of this incident and demand that steps be taken to fire Mueller and everyone of his 17 goons. Thanks again, Jim
Not only did a federal judge have to approve the search warrant, but also had to specifically approve the “no knock” provision. If it is a drug smuggling case, that is to prevent evidence from being flushed down the toilet; but in a financial fraud case, it could be to prevent the suspect to erase their computer memory with a push of a button.
Has Paul Manafort been identified as a criminal suspect in a financial fraud case? And if he has, are these kinds of investigations secret even when a Special Counsel has been appointed to investigate?
Except computer memory can’t be erased with a push of a button, or wiped like with a cloth.
Jim, I am thinking of events like Ruby Ridge, Waco, and dozens of other like events a lot less publicized. I am not by any stretch condoning these. I also think but for the second amendment they would be much more frequent. Manafort could have easily been injured by some trigger happy cowboy agent. As is said power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is where Mueller now thinks he is. Time will tell.
In Waco, the ATF could have arrested Koresh when he was out jogging or visiting the town. But they had a scandal (sex?) in 1992 and were trying to justify their existence.
Richard, was the sex scandal involving Chelsea Clinton”s mother ( according to John McCain’s joke) Janet Reno ?
ATF deserves zero respect. They plant evidence.
Our intelligence services have become political and lost their way.
But mainly done so these guys can get their rocks off intimidating people, scaring them to make a mistake that can be used against them. There point of these types of things is to scare the family, maybe break it so they can get a little bit of something to spin into a case. Put the pressure on or maybe just for bumps and giggles to show the perp and the world how small they are and the awesome force that is being wielded against them.