{"id":33285,"date":"2018-05-02T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33285"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:35:56","slug":"the-circus-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33285","title":{"rendered":"The Circus Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Review<\/a> posted an article today by Andrew McCarthy<\/a> on the subject of the questions Robert Mueller<\/a> would like to ask President Trump. The article is written on the assumption that the list of leaked questions is relatively accurate.<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy makes some very good points as to why the Justice Department<\/a> should block any interview of President Trump by the Special Prosecutor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy points out that there is no evidence of a crime:<\/p>\n

A president should not be subjected to prosecutorial scrutiny over poor judgment, venality, bad taste, or policy disputes. Absent concrete evidence that the president has committed a serious crime, the checks on the president should be Congress<\/a> and the ballot box \u2014 and the civil courts, to the extent that individuals are harmed by abusive executive action. Otherwise, a special-counsel investigation \u2014 especially one staffed by the president\u2019s political opponents \u2014 is apt to become a thinly veiled political scheme, enabling the losers to relitigate the election and obstruct the president from pursuing the agenda on which he ran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is what we are now witnessing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pretextual appointment of the special counsel<\/em><\/strong>
\n Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel for two reasons: (1) ostensibly to take over a counterintelligence probe; (2) in reality, as a cave-in to (mostly) Democratic caviling over Trump\u2019s firing of FBI<\/a> director James Comey<\/a> \u2014 which was lawful but incompetently executed. Democrats contended that Comey\u2019s dismissal, in conjunction with Comey\u2019s leak of Trump\u2019s alleged pressure to drop the FBI\u2019s investigation of Michael Flynn, warranted a criminal-obstruction probe. That is, the pretext of obstruction was added to \u201cRussia-gate,\u201d the already-existing pretext for carping about the purported need for a special counsel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neither of these reasons was a valid basis for a special-counsel investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy also explains that the whole premise of the investigation is flawed:<\/p>\n

As we have repeatedly noted, a counterintelligence<\/em> investigation is not a criminal<\/em> investigation. To the extent it has a \u201csubject,\u201d it is a foreign power that threatens the United States<\/a>, not an American believed to have violated the law. A counterintelligence investigation aims to gather information about America\u2019s adversaries, not build a courtroom prosecution. For these (and other reasons), such investigations are classified and the Justice Department does not assign prosecutors to them, as it does to criminal cases. Counterintelligence is not lawyer work; it is the work of trained intelligence officers and analysts. It is not enough to say that Justice Department regulations do not authorize the appointment of a special counsel for a counterintelligence probe. The point is that counterintelligence is not prosecution and is therefore not a mission for a prosecutor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is extremely informative. What we have going on right now is a very expensive attempt to prove that the 2016 election victory was stolen from Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t. Get over it. She was a very flawed candidate that somehow committed numerous crimes that the Justice Department chose to ignore. The innate sense of fairness of the American voter and the American voters’ belief in equal justice under the law probably had something to do with Hillary Clinton’s<\/a> defeat in 2016. The Special Prosecutor needs to stop spending money looking for a crime and deal with the crimes that were actually committed–mishandling of classified material, pay-for-play as illustrated by Uranium One, fixing the Democratic primary, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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