{"id":31026,"date":"2017-06-15T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T00:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31026"},"modified":"2017-06-15T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T00:10:11","slug":"anonymous-sources-and-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31026","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Sources And Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

To anyone watching what is going on in Washington, it is becoming very obvious that The Washington Post<\/a> has become an arm of the Democratic Party’s<\/a> political campaigns<\/a>. The current campaign is aimed at removing President Trump from office. Those leaking information to The Washington Post need to be reminded that what they<\/em> are doing is a criminal act. I would suggest that if the Democrats plan impeachment hearings, they might want to look at the impact the impeachment of President Clinton<\/a> had on the Republican Party<\/a>–it cost them dearly. If the Democrats were to impeach<\/a> President Trump, they would have the media on their side, but I seriously doubt the voters of America would be impressed.<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy posted an article at National Review<\/a> today that asks the question, “Can You Obstruct a Fraud?” In the case of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, that is a valid question.<\/p>\n

The article reminds us:<\/p>\n

On March 20, over a month after the Flynn conversation, Comey gave his stunning congressional testimony, pronouncing publicly that the FBI was conducting a counterintelligence probe of Russia\u2019s interference in the 2016 election, and that the probe included scrutinizing both the ties of Trump associates to the Putin regime and \u201cany coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian efforts.\u201d The FBI, he darkly added, would make \u201can assessment of whether any crimes were committed.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Clearly, this led the media and much of the country to assume the FBI director had confirmed that the president was a suspect in what appeared to be a criminal investigation. It similarly alarmed lawmakers. Comey thus privately assured members of Congress that the president was not a suspect in any FBI investigation. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But he would not correct the misimpression being formed by the public, relying on his testimony.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that James Comey would not correct the misimpression he created is telling. A more principled man would not have let that false impression stand.<\/p>\n

The article then reminds us of the purpose of all this:<\/p>\n

What the president appears to have objected to, and to have sought help refuting, was what he saw as the fraudulent claim \u2014 subtly advanced by Comey and perhaps others in the intelligence community \u2014 that he personally had colluded with Russia in connection with the election, and that he was a criminal suspect.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

That is not obstruction of an investigation. It is objection to a narrative \u2014 a narrative that the intelligence agencies knew was false yet refused to correct, no matter how much it was, and is, damaging Trump\u2019s capacity to govern.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to remember that the success of President Trump’s policies is a serious threat to those entrenched in the federal government. President Trump’s goal of deregulation is a threat to those who want to maintain their power and want to maintain big government. It is becoming very obvious that they are getting desperate.<\/p>\n

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