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originally posted by: 200Plus
a reply to: Sillyolme
Derp Derp ... crystal ball. Cute.
Comey " She's guilty but we are not recommending prosecution".
Lynch "I, as the head of the Department, did want my subordinates told me to do".
Hillary "Did I wipe my server? You mean with a rag?".
Obama "Not a smidgen of corruption".
Now it's "think like us or face punishment". Your team sucks. If I cared about you at all, I would feel sorry for you.
originally posted by: 200Plus
a reply to: Gryphon66
Show a Republican administration doing what this administration has done.
Deflection is your forte.
So, show me.
originally posted by: 200Plus
a reply to: Gryphon66
No, I don't need such a tall order fulfilled.
Let's keep it super simple.
How about ... four department heads destroying evidence of crimes and either failing to testify, pleading the fifth, citing executive privilege (about something the President denies knowledge of) or being found to have violated law, with all four not facing any charges whatsoever.
That's a fairly easy task I would assume. Seeing as "Republicans do it too".
What department heads under those Presidents plead the fifth after destroying government property and/or evidence and were not charged with any crime?
What department heads were found by an FBI investigation to have violated federal law, but were not charged?
Just saying Republicans do it too isn't proof. It's partisan rhetoric. It's weak. It's deflection. It's typical.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: 200Plus
How about Bush and Cheney would only testify off the record and behind closed doors?
That is interesting isn't it. I hadn't thought of that and I must thank you. A sitting President and a sitting Vice President, questioned behind closed doors and off the record. Matters of national security I have no doubt is the reasons given for such blatant disregard for procedure. Democrats and republicans were and still are up in arms about it. I can tell you remember it and it still upsets you (to be PC).
Fast forward to two weeks ago. An ex-Secretary of State was also questioned behind closed doors and off the record. National security has never been mentioned (except to say it was never compromised), so why the need for utter secrecy. Are you as upset about the circumstances surrounding Clinton's questioning as you are about Bush's. Will you be using it in arguments online 5 years from now? Or is it all water under the bridge because she has that magical (D) next to her name?edit on 13-7-2016 by 200Plus because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: BlueAjah
originally posted by: xuenchen
We now know the definition of a renegade administration.
Just like the IRS.
Obama controls the IRS too and was/is using them to punish those who were enemies of the administration.
Lynch controlled that mess too:
Jordan blasts attorney general on IRS investigation
The way that the Democrats protect Clinton and Lynch in these hearings show that they all have something to gain from a Clinton presidency.
The Clintons are smart. They have managed to get such a stronghold on all levels of government that its terrifying.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: 200Plus
Cop out? LOL.
You asked a ridiculously broad and loaded question that got a better answer than it deserved. And my god, you have zero sense of your own ironic actions do you? You're whining about partisan rhetoric? LOL.
First of all, you haven't proven that even one of those allegations has anything to do with the Obama administration.
Second, I'm not going to help you derail the thread any further. If you'd like to start a thread on your imagined Obama corruption, I'll be glad to respond there.
This is about Lynch, climate change and Congressional overreach. Got any questions about that I can help with?
originally posted by: Gryphon66
So, you discovered "political misuse of government power" during a blatant political misuse of government power?
Isn't that ironic.
A few things, actually, the Department of Justice is part of the Executive Branch ... and therefore, I know this is surprising, the Attorney General does actually answer to the President of the United States. Indeed, the AG and every other member of the Cabinet actually DOES serve at the pleasure of the President.
So your shock that Lynch "answers" to Obama and follows his agenda is ... a bit ... naive.
Secondly, climate change is not in question. The science is not in question. So, if our Department of Justice goes after companies that are breaking Federal law or regulations ... that's their job.
Because the Administration is not dancing to the Republican political agenda doesn't mean it's "gone rogue."
In fact, quite the opposite.
But green leaders maintain that even if some warming is consistent with millennial cycles, something is triggering the current change. According to the nonprofit Environmental Defense, some possible (natural) explanations include increased output from the sun, increased absorption of the sun’s heat due to a change in the Earth’s reflectivity, or a change in the internal climate system that transfers heat to the atmosphere. But scientists have not been able to validate any such reasons for the current warming trend, despite exhaustive efforts. And a raft of recent peer reviewed studies—many which take advantage of new satellite data—back up the claim that it is emissions from tailpipes, smokestacks (and now factory farmed food animals, which release methane) that are causing potentially irreparable damage to the environment.