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The “deep state” is in a deep state of desperation. With little time left before the Justice Department inspector general’s report becomes public, and with special counsel Robert Mueller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.
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 “matter,” but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a year-long investigation of this won’t come down hard on former FBI Director James Comey and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn’t playing mahjong in a secret “no aides allowed” meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
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.
But it is backfiring. They started by telling the story of Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, as having remembered a bar conversation with George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. But how did the FBI know they should talk to him? That’s left out of their narrative. Downer’s signature appears on a $25 million contribution to the Clinton Foundation. You don’t need much imagination to figure that he was close with Clinton Foundation operatives who relayed information to the State Department, which then called the FBI to complete the loop. This wasn’t intelligence. It was likely opposition research from the start.
In no way would a fourth-hand report from a Maltese professor justify wholesale targeting of four or five members of the Trump campaign. It took Christopher Steele, with his funding concealed through false campaign filings, to be incredibly successful at creating a vast echo chamber around his unverified, fanciful dossier, bouncing it back and forth between the press and the FBI so it appeared that there were multiple sources all coming to the same conclusion.
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Perhaps the murkiest event in the timeline is Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of a special counsel after he personally recommended Comey’s firing in blistering terms. With Attorney General Jeff Sessions shoved out of the way, Rosenstein and Mueller then ignored their own conflicts and took charge anyway. Rosenstein is a fact witness, and Mueller is a friend of Comey, disqualifying them both.
Flush with 16 prosecutors, including a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation, and an undisclosed budget, the Mueller investigation has been a scorched-earth effort to investigate the entirety of the Trump campaign, Trump business dealings, the entire administration and now, if it was not Russia, maybe it’s some other country.
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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.
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Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s 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’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.
originally posted by: dawnstarhow about hillary clinton? how many investigations have there been on her over the years, how long has these investigations lasted? so where are the charges against her? and are yous still screaming for more investigations?
originally posted by: dawnstar
"after a year of investigation"....
how often has planned parenthood been investigated for "selling baby parts? how many different investigations were done in this last round and how long did those investigations last. did they find any wrong doing on the part of planned parenthood?
have yous accepted their findings yet, or are yous still screaming to defund them and for more investigations?
how about hillary clinton? how many investigations have there been on her over the years, how long has these investigations lasted? so where are the charges against her? and are yous still screaming for more investigations?
but, oh no, not trump, it needs to end now, heck it needed to end on day one!!!
and all of a sudden, the investigators are all deep state and can't be trusted.
originally posted by: dawnstar
"after a year of investigation"....
how often has planned parenthood been investigated for "selling baby parts? how many different investigations were done in this last round and how long did those investigations last. did they find any wrong doing on the part of planned parenthood?
have yous accepted their findings yet, or are yous still screaming to defund them and for more investigations?
how about hillary clinton? how many investigations have there been on her over the years, how long has these investigations lasted? so where are the charges against her? and are yous still screaming for more investigations?
but, oh no, not trump, it needs to end now, heck it needed to end on day one!!!
and all of a sudden, the investigators are all deep state and can't be trusted.
originally posted by: BestinShow
a reply to: dawnstar
It may take decades to sort this out, but history will eventually come thru with the goods - the Left fu(ked themselves.
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
not really sure why I would need to be "saved from reality" either way it goes...
it's not like I hold much hope that the great man or women in the white house is gonna do much to improve things anyways, no matter who it is.
what about you, are you gonna need to be "saved from reality" if it turns out that all those accusations against trump and gang end up being proven?
originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
nice of you to portray me as delusional...
for the record, in a way I am...
and those little voices in my head is telling me a story I really ain't hearing anywhere else as of yet.
but, you didn't answer my question... it seems that you even refused to consider the idea that it might be you that is wrong.
to be honest, I at least see a possibility that trump might be innocent..
that fact that you are so eager to paint anyone who believes differently than you in it in such a negative way kind of tells me that it might be you that will need to be saved if reality shows that the investigation found criminal activity on the part of the trump team.
me? I just want to know the end of the story... what can I say, at this point in my life, it's the end of the stories that keeps me hanging around in this world.