{"id":33469,"date":"2018-05-21T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33469"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:39:33","slug":"the-dangers-of-the-mueller-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33469","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Of The Mueller Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Mark Penn posted an article at The Hill<\/a> stating that it is time to end Robert Mueller’s investigation.<\/p>\n

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

At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> \u201cmatter,\u201d but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a yearlong investigation of this won\u2019t come down hard on former FBI Director James Comey<\/a><\/span> and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn\u2019t playing mahjong in a secret \u201cno aides allowed\u201d meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With this report on the way and congressional investigators beginning to zero in on the lack of hard, verified evidence for starting the Trump probe, current and former intelligence and Justice Department officials are dumping everything they can think of to save their reputations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

This process must now be stopped, preferably long before a vote in the Senate. Rather than a fair, limited and impartial investigation, the Mueller investigation became a partisan, open-ended inquisition that, by its precedent, is a threat to all those who ever want to participate in a national campaign or an administration again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tactics in this investigation are designed to make people think twice before they participate in a Republican campaign. Michael Flynn and Michael Caputo have both been essentially bankrupted because of their connection with the Trump administration\u00a0and the Trump campaign. (articles here<\/a> and here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s lawyers need to extend their new aggressiveness from words to action, filing complaints with the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility on the failure of Mueller and Rosenstein to recuse themselves and going into court to question the tactics of the special counsel, from selective prosecutions on unrelated matters, illegally seizing Government Services Administration emails, covering up the phone texts of FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and operating without a scope approved by the attorney general. (The regulations call for the attorney general to recuse himself from the investigation but appear to still leave him responsible for the scope.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final stopper may be the president himself, offering two hours of testimony, perhaps even televised live from the White House. The last time America became obsessed with Russian influence in America was the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s. Those ended only when Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) attacked an associate of the U.S. Army counsel, Joseph Welch, and Welch famously responded: \u201cSir, have you no decency?\u201d In this case, virtually every associate and family member of the president has been subject to smears conveniently leaked to the press.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stopping Mueller isn\u2019t about one president or one party. It\u2019s about all presidents and all parties. It\u2019s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It\u2019s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It\u2019s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2016 (and beyond) the leadership of the FBI and Department of Justice were much more of a danger to our Republic than the Russians were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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