PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on March 18, 2018, 07:26:10 PM
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Excellent article.
Again proves just what a farce the Mueller Investigation actually is.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards/
Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable.
These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. To trigger the appointment of a special counsel, federal regulations require the Justice Department to identify the crimes that warrant investigation and prosecution — crimes that the Justice Department is too conflicted to investigate in the normal course; crimes that become the parameters of the special counsel’s jurisdiction.
Rosenstein, instead, put the cart before the horse: Mueller was invited to conduct a fishing expedition, a boundless quest to hunt for undiscovered crimes, rather than an investigation and prosecution of known crimes.
That deviation, it turns out, is not the half of it. With Rosenstein’s passive approval, Mueller is shredding Justice Department charging policy by alleging earth-shattering crimes, then cutting a sweetheart deal that shields the defendant from liability for those crimes and from the penalties prescribed by Congress. The special counsel, moreover, has become a legislature unto himself, promulgating the new, grandiose crime of “conspiracy against the United States” by distorting the concept of “fraud.”
Why does the special counsel need to invent an offense to get a guilty plea? Why doesn’t he demand a plea to one of the several truly egregious statutory crimes he claims have been committed?
Good questions.
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For this you can thank Archibald Cox. He had to be dragged, kicking and screaming into the job of Watergate spec prosecutor. He demanded almost unlimited scope to examine not just the break in, but the cover-up, the conspiracy, and anything remotely related to wrong-doing, or illicit actions by a govt official. Once he had his mandate, he started digging and no one could stop him. Once the White House recordings were discovered, and he was fired - that formed the mens rea(knowledge of the crime, not the actual crime) basis for the SP to go right into the White House and subpoena everything.
Mueller is just following well trod ground here. His findings so far are limited to a couple of minor bit players, who got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, feasting on the cookies. Bad enough, but nothing like what has been alleged in the media.
Unlike Watergate, where the conspiracy went all the way to the top, I think there were bad actors, and some people who simply acted foolishly in an attempt to do oppo research with great gusto, but there's no indication so far that it goes into the inner circle of Trump's campaign, and no where near Trump at all.
Which is why Trump is unlikely to fire Mueller, as it would be walking into the similar pit of despair that Nixon walked when he fired Cox.
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The article actually discusses the different ways Mueller is circumventing the DOJ policies manual and getting creative with the laws and procedures. He actually doesn't have unlimited authority, he just has a DOJ Assistant Attorney General who looks the other way.
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Drudge has a poll that shows 75% of Americans want Mueller fired.
That's 75%, not 45%.
Think about it.
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Meh, give him some more rope. Frankly, if he's finding wrongdoing by the swamp, I'd like to know. I have no problem with uncovering bad actors within the govt. I'm all for it. However, I certainly wish it were bipartisan.
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Drudge has a poll that shows 75% of Americans want Mueller fired.
That's 75%, not 45%.
Think about it.
Very true.
The only ones that want this investigation to continue are the swamp dwellers and the alt left progressive radicals.
And the real underlying purpose of this investigation is 2020 "opposition research" disquieted as an investigation, much like the phony FISA warrant in order to surveil the Trump Campaign.