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Rosenstein: Most Dangerous Snake in the Pit
I’m sure Andrew McCarthy is as much a favorite of many of us as he is of mine, especially considering his vast experience as a Federal Prosecutor in one of the major terrorist cases of our time, the successful prosecution of “the Blind Sheikh” in the first World Trade Center bombing. Another reason he is a favorite of mine is his very cautious approach to so many of these stories, which are addressed with maniacal hyperbole and hysteria by so many reporters. He is the last one to ever say anything overtly critical of many of these major players in the current dramas, and I always admire him for this caution as I can always rest assured that he is not offering anything that he is not satisfied is solid and should be reported and documented with solid supporting evidence.
It is for this reason that I cannot recommend too strongly his recent column, “Rod Rosenstein is Shirking his Duty to Supervise Robert Mueller,” in which he sets forth the dangers posed by an uncontrolled special prosecutor such as Mueller, dangers which I have heard of from those who have been the subject of the exact kind of out-of-control prosecution as that being conducted by the person Rosenstein is statutorily charged with supervising. As the column notes, in a statement which is very rare for Mr. McCarthy’s style of reporting,
Back in May, besieged by Democrats feigning outrage over FBI director James Comey’s firing — the same Democrats who wanted Comey’s scalp for purportedly costing Hillary Clinton the election — Rosenstein preemptively surrendered. In appointing Mueller, he flouted regulations requiring that he specify the crimes that supposedly necessitated the appointment of a special counsel. He promised Democrats that Mueller would have carte blanche — no limits and no supervision from his nominal supervisor, Rosenstein. And now, with Mueller poised to pressure the president to submit to interrogation — despite the absence of a crime, despite the absence of any suggestion that Trump has essential information that Mueller is otherwise unable to acquire — Rosenstein is nowhere to be found, at least when he’s not impeding congressional committees from conducting oversight of the Justice Department’s actions in the Clinton emails and Russia investigations. Without Justice Department supervision, Mueller answers only to his own whim. Well, what if all prosecutors did that? (Emphasis mine)
I cannot urge too strongly that you read this entire piece of very fine reporting of Andrew McCarthy — it is chilling, frightening, perhaps gravely prescient as to what a monstrosity has been loosed upon the American Republic by these denizens of the Deep State (yes, unlike some of our more, shall we say, sanguine observers on this site, I really do believe it exists. Don’t believe it? Just look at Rosenstein’s eyes.) who have abandoned all thought of the good of our Beloved Country in the pursuit of their nemesis, read: anyone who opposes their overturning of the election in which we elected our choice to be President of the United States.
Published in General
Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton during the investigation. FBI Director Comey outlined all the things Clinton did wrong but then invented for her ,but for no other defended charged with the same crime, a standard of intent to make a criminal charge. A Federal Judge in the Cliven Bundy case stated that the DOJ and FBI engaged unethical behavior, cover ups and lying. These are all objective facts with no spin or innuendo.
Questioning the integrity of the DOJ and FBI, and whether it is possible any of the behaved poorly, in the face of these facts is not crazy or apologist stuff. Other wrong doings are not proof that there are problems with McCabe, Rosentein or Muller but it would not seem wrong to question their actions.
The end of the poem is then they came for me. But you see they won’t be coming for me, nor 99% of the citizens in this country. I am not a Federal Agent who could influence any investigation.
When did we on the Right decide that Government Employees can do no wrong and should never be questioned?
Whenever you hear people on both sides of the aisle agreeing on something, you should smell a rat.
While this is a smidge tangential, I note the following from USA Today by the FBI about the Nunes memo:
“WASHINGTON —The FBI expressed ‘grave concerns’ Wednesday about the expected release of a classified memo from the House Intelligence Committee that alleges the Justice Department and FBI abused their surveillance authority.
“‘The FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,’ the bureau said in a statement as the White House considered releasing the document. ‘As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.'”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/31/fbi-grave-concerns-expected-release-nunes-memo/1083218001/
Since my fellow Ricochetti sometimes take umbrage as citations to the NYT and WaPo, here also is cite to the Washington Examiner.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-says-it-has-grave-concerns-about-accuracy-of-nunes-memo/article/2647690
I’m sure it really does have “grave concerns,” as it should. But the FBI also said a big chunk of text messages were irretrievable, and then when Sessions put on the pressure, found out they could be retrieved, after all. I’m not sure if anyone has gotten to the bottom of that story yet.
If the FBI is concerned about important information being left out of the memo, that information can be added. We had to deal with incomplete text messages for a while, too, so there is nothing new about that.
Were you expecting the FBI to say, yeah we are really bad at this job and this report is totally accurate. The denial of the FBI that the FBI misbehaved, needs to be taken for what it is worth. It is not nothing, but it is not proof in and of itself that the the Nunes memo is wrong.
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