When Attorney General Merrick Garland made the appointment [2-pg pdf] of Special Counsel Robert Hur (a deep swamp defender), CTH outlined the reasoning: “Essentially it looks like AG Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel, because (a) he has to deflect political criticism given the issues and the growing scale; and (b) because a special counsel appointment will now throw the bag of “a current investigation” over any efforts from the Republican House of Representatives to investigate the office of the presidency.”
Today, in a responsive letter to inquiry from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, exactly as anticipated, the DOJ triggered the latter justification as a reason not to comply with legislative oversight.
WASHINGTON DC – […] Carlos Felipe Uriarte, the assistant attorney general for DOJ’s office of legislative affairs, sent a Monday letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), pointing to Garland’s Jan. 12 selection of special counsel Robert Hur to investigate Biden’s apparent mishandling of classified information as the key reason why the DOJ was limiting its sharing of information on the Biden saga.
[…] “Your letter … requests non-public information that is central to the ongoing Special Counsel investigation,” the assistant attorney general told Jordan on Monday. “The Department’s longstanding policy is to maintain the confidentiality of such information regarding open matters. This policy protects the American people’s interest in the evenhanded, dispassionate, and effective administration of justice. Disclosing non-public information about ongoing investigations could violate statutory requirements or court orders, reveal road maps of our investigations, and interfere with the Department’s ability to gather facts, interview witnesses, and bring criminal prosecutions where warranted.” (more)
Mr Hur served as U.S. Attorney from 2018 to 2021 as the chief federal law enforcement officer in Maryland. Before serving as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Hur served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 2017 to 2018. Hur is a deep swamp protector.
It’s all a farce, a dual system of justice right in front of everyone who is paying attention.
The appointment order is two-page pdf, which is essentially the initiating scope of authorization for the special counsel to follow. [Link to pdf]
The Robert Hur appointment order is interestingly worded to encompass the origination of the John Lausch “initial investigation”, we have not seen any documents associated with that initial appointment on November 14, 2022.
Additionally, the appointment order seems to limit the investigation to only records discovered in two locations, “the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and the Wilmington, Delaware, private residence of President Joseph R Biden, Jr.” The next part “any matters that arose from the initial investigation,” again puts the emphasis on the John Laush original investigative authority as given by AG Merrick Garland.
Hur was appointed to throw a bag over the issue and stop a GOP congress from gaining access to the documents.
Jordan’s office quickly responded today.
“Our Members are rightly concerned about the Justice Department’s double standard here. After all, some of the Biden documents were found at a think tank that has received funds from communist China,” Jordan spokesman Russell Dye told the Washington Examiner. “It’s concerning, to say the least, that the Department is more interested in playing politics than cooperating.”
Well ya, they can’t allow any oversight while they are right smack in the middle of conducting a thorough and lengthy investigation of themselves.
Mr. Jordan simply needs to task the federal Marshal service with SEIZING the documents. PERIOD.
Let us stop effing around and get to it already…
IT TRULY IS NATIONAL SECURITY!
Pffff
marshal service is doj
According to Mark Levin, Jordan goes to their implied contempt power. It’s been used before.
There you have it.
No more bullshit
We’ve all seen their playbook. They have very few plays, and they run them over and over again.
It reminds me of the 90s Dallas Cowboys teams. They’ll keep running the same half dozen plays until someone stops them.
OK so what is their next step. I totally agree with you but what is the remedy?
They can issue a subpoena and when the DOJ refuses to obey, go to federal court and get an order to comply with the subpoena. If DOJ still refuses, they can be held in contempt of court. That is the only possible route to enforcement. The only problem is getting a non-Democrat judge in the D.C. District.
They still won’t do what is said. They own the rest of us, don’t ya know?
Place a “fence” around Merrick Garland’s office budget. Cut off the money. When he can’t turn on his lights he will think again.
The Heroic 20 who forced McCarthy to play ball with MAGA secured that right in the deal for Speaker.
Time to drop the hammer.
The legacy media is the enemy of our nation…
They been running these same scams since the 80 S&L crisis and stolen funds was being connected back to them.
“Due to “Ongoing
Special Counsel InvestigationDOJ Coverup“The only reason to appoint a special counsel is to cover up the misdeeds of our traitorous government…
Yep. That’s been true at least since Ken Starr. And believe me, EVERY Republican in Congress or The Oval Office knew it. Every Single One.
They don’t have to ‘share’ their secrets. Even if you could make them go to court. The law says you don’t have to incriminate yourself, it works the same for the ‘big fishes’.
As many of you know, he who hires the consultant ( in this case, special council or special prosecutor) gets the results they paid for.
What a joke for our
republic.
Our Republic died on November 3, 2020.
The authoritarian aftermath was very predictable.
No, died in 1963, we are still trying to clean up the remains.
At some point, the voluntarily seriously compromised Judiciary is going to have to look in the mirror and ask itself WHY so many government officials and employees are willing to take the risk of defying the Law.
Somewhere, on the inside of our Institutions writ large, there remains at least a handful of individuals who cherish the U.S. Constitution and the Rights that document conveys to each one of us. Did I mention it remains our Birthright?
Maybe one or more of them reads the thought provoking deliberations found here day after day.
Waiting……..
As long as they are leftist they are protected…
Yuri Bezmenov spoke The Truth…
Leftists lie…
Maybe they know who killed JFK.
We just aren’t crooked enough…
Such a kind and polite response from the DOJ.
Fresh out of the Obama playbook, they will produce nothing and everyone will except that.
Cut any/all DOJ funding until they come into compliance.
RIGHT ON ! And keep on using that “lever” in every COMMITY.
That’s EXACTLY what Kash Patel suggested during an interview on X-22!
they wont have their funding cut until we the people stop paying taxes
Our DOJ and our Attorney General in my opinion I just criminal fraudsters trying to keep the truth from the public
Protection racket for the Uniparty.
These criminals have completely turned upside down what should be the purpose of the special counsel to get to the truth of things, whereas they appointed special counsel for the purpose of covering things up from the general public. They all belong in jail for treason.
As Forrest Gump says “ they need to be taught how to dangle”
Long history of cover ups.
More 3-card monty by the uniparty. J.J. and his committee minions will follow the lead of the Gowdy fiasco. No one will be convicted.
I am not convinced of that. The Freedom caucus has been pretty active and outspoken. They forced McCarthy to make compromises, they just may be able to make this stick. If they are being backed up by the banksters and Powell, who want Biden gone, they may actually accomplish something meaningful.
Investigate the DOJ, review all pending cases, impeach Garland.
That won’t happen while jo potato head is around.
Did we think anything else would happen. garland is biden’s “wingman”. It’s no wonder why trust in these “institutions” is declining.
It’s incredible to me that anyone in Congress accepts this obvious obstruction of oversight.
Use the power of the purse.
Most of them are compromised and don’t want bad things to happen to themselves and their families. That’s WHY they are in congress, because they can be controlled.
Lawfare has got to go…
Andrew Weissman and his contemporaries….can’t recall their names but it’s
The two smerkers on the elevator…
They need to be removed from influence….they are damaging our republic…the destruction is nearly complete….
Eugene McCarthy was right….the Bolsheviks should be hunted down and eliminated from influence….
Yuri Bezmenov spoke the truth…
Washington D.C. is corrupted and beyond redemption….people like Ryan, Boehner, turtle head…they must go….
Put Trump back into the Presidency….
Make America Great Again…
More than just those two.
Lisa Monaco got her start at DOJ working with Weissman on the Enron case.
They would do well to remember what happened to their class during Mao’s revolution. Xi will likely be much worse.
Any chance we can change
Dept. of Justice (DOJ) to
Dept. of Pugnacity (DOP)?
DOP fits job description so much better.
Put line over the “O” for hard sound, as in DOPE.
Make the DOJ funding an issue on raising the debt ceiling. Play hardball and let this organized crime syndicate be defunded. There is no USA with a corrupt legal system. Who cares if such a country defaults on debt? It is a worthless country if completely corrupt.
Same story with PDJT
Now take 2.
These people MUST be removed and punished.
Enough of these machinations. We know the refrain and we’re tired of it.
Did you hear Mitch McConnell’s outrage on this stonewalling?
How about DeSantis, did you hear his outrage?
Neither did I.
PS: I know, its early. But I can wait.
Excellent points.
Did you hear Donald Trump called him a globalist?
This has been planned all along.
TURLEY:
Forget classified docs, show us the real haul of Biden’s records in Delaware
The University of Delaware has been used for years to shield potentially embarrassing documents from public review for the Biden family, including allegations that the president engaged in SEXUAL HARRASSMENT OR ASSAULT as a member of the Senate. The university effectively agreed to serve as a type of lockbox for the Bidens to prevent a review of his senatorial records as he ran for higher office.
At great public cost, the university has fought efforts by the media and the public to allow access to the documents. It is a troubling position for any institution of higher education to fight access to historical materials … for years.
Now, however, there is growing concern that the files may not only include incriminating information on past SEXUAL ASSAULT allegations but actual classified information. There is already confirmation that Biden removed classified information from the Senate more than 14 years ago. It now appears he also may have transferred classified information from briefings and documents to his notebooks. That raises the question of whether such information is contained in the notebooks and papers housed at the university.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/29/forget-classified-docs-show-us-the-real-haul-of-bidens-records-in-delaware/
Subpoena.
Similar coverup cooperation by Obama’s alma mater’s; he had his academic records sealed permanently. No one does that. No one excludes the people who financed them or loaned to them, or elected them, subsidized them. They break the arm of the law then beat us mercilessly with both halves of the arm.
Couldn’t reach the bar lazy dope blow’n failure -students, living under camouflage. We loan the money to the universities to invest; we give the government money to secure our needs and defense. They squander it.
When do We the People cease allowing them ‘their way’, demand accountability, integrity, open books, and consequences to officials who do not do what they’re told?
When we establish new governance. That is still a long way off.
They don’t care what we demand. They laugh at our demands. We long ago passed that tipping point. However, God said “Be aware, your sins will find you out”. I believe He has already begun to judge our nation. If enough people will repent and turn to Him we just might see mercy and healing for our nation. If not, I hate to think what will happen to us.
Correct. This system was in place and operating for many years before anybody even had a clue of its existence. Had Donald Trump not come along, we still would be completely in the dark.
The powers that operate this nefarious system have even carved out for themselves a SECRET COURT through which to run their operations — the FISA courts.
Prompted memories of Ted Kennedy’s “trial” in the death of Mary Jo Kopeknie. (sp)
The trial was held in secret. Can still see the picture of Ted leaving “courthouse.”
Money can’t buy happiness…
Perhaps…
But it can buy coverups that make the wealthy & powerful feel happy!
We are not going to get the anal sphincter removed for debauchery. We should be able to get him removed for treason. But, then, we get Kamala. Is she an improvement? Perhaps, I do not recall her view on war. Her view on the border is cloudy.
The response was NOT responsive.
The cover-up of the Biden Crime Family operations is in full swing. The DOJ is a completely corrupt FARCE and should be defunded and disbanded. We need a POTUS who will start up another law enforcement agency staffed with ethical professionals who will enforce Constitutional law. Then take away the DOJ’s budget for offices and everything it takes to run them. Don’t even give them enough money to pay their cell phone bills. No cars, no gas. No computers, IT support, or internet service. Then start cutting all their support staff. Turn the heat off, then the electricity. Soon they won’t have time or a space for all their criminal activities.
They run drugs, guns and human smuggling, running them out of money could take some time./s
It’s more accurate than you realize. The biggest and most corrupt agencies have almost become self funding.
Maybe it’s time for armed crowds of conservatives protesting outside DOJ building across the country? All at once.
They’ll just turn it into Jan 6 part deux. As Sundance preaches, sand in the machine is the best approach at this stage I feel. Not that dragging the fuqers out by their hair and hanging them after a speedy trial, and a proper tar and feathering wouldn’t warm the heart.
“They’ll just turn it into Jan 6 part deux.”
Not if they are armed and the numbers are in the tens of thousands at each building. If we don’t use the 2nd Amendment AS IT WAS INTENDED soon, there isn’t going to be a 2nd Amendment. And then what? What we’re doing now is going NOWHERE because I see no sign that we will win this in the courts, in the media, in the DOJ, in Congress, or in the election booth. And to be perfectly honest, I see very little sand doing anything. If we started cutting off liberals in liberal cities from food, water, electricity, sanitation … then it might make a difference, but all I see is TALK TALK TALK and lots of hopium. Our Founders would have been out there on the street.
Are you FBI buddy?
Why is it that anytime anyone around here suggests we use the 2nd Amendment as it was intended, someone accuses that person of working for the FBI? Well go ahead, search my posts and point out anything that suggests I work for the government or promote the UNIPARTY’s cause. You can search posts on FreeRepublic and several other forums … I went by BeAChooser on them too. Go ahead … offer some evidence that I’m an FBI employee or a government employee of any type. Because if you can’t prove that, then I’d suggest it’s far more likely that you are FBI than I am. After all, the last thing in the world the FBI wants is for Americans to use our 2nd Amendment RIGHT as the Founders intended.
Just because I haven’t already taken the knee and don’t believe that hopium is going to save us from the mess we’re in, doesn’t mean I’m FBI. Just because some of us are suggesting the Founders put the 2nd Amendment into the Constitution for a purpose doesn’t automatically make us FBI. The truth is your unfounded argument is no different than calling Thomas Paine a plant of the British Crown. Perhaps some did that back then as a means of deflecting attention from the real plants too?
I’ve indicated repeatedly exactly why none of the suggestions being made will make any difference … an uncomfortable truth. I’ve offered to debate any of you about it. Not one person has accepted that offer or when I respond, they run. For example, I’ve noted that we LOST the last election using the current approach and that there’s no authority that will help us correct that injustice or prevent cheating in the next election. ALL the authorities have been corrupted … the DOJ, FBI, the local police, courts, Congress, military, media, even the GOP elites. So at this point we might as well be shouting in the wind. The only people left to fix this are We The People.
But maybe the fire that our Founders had is gone. Maybe you Chip are the wave of the future.
There is a time to fight and a time to throw sand. Wisdom is knowing the difference. The time to fight is coming soon enough.
Well by all means, tell me when the time is right to fight? Where’s the line in that sand? Look around you? I see nothing that says the sand is doing a damn bit of good. All it’s doing is buying time … FOR THE BAD GUYS.
We know everything we need to know right now. So again, tell me your criteria for calling for mass protests to bring this to a head? When they indict Trump on a bogus crime to keep him from running. When China sees Biden as week enough to invade Taiwan?
When the next batch of classified documents is found in Joe’s or Hunter’s home? When the economy tanks into a full on depression? When the US military is fully woke? When the UNIPARTY switches out Biden for someone who on the surface looks a lot more reasonable (call that the Great Reboot).
When the next person we thought was a Trump supporter is revealed to be UNIPARTY? When DeSantis is ahead in the polls? When the FBI and DOJ start rounding up people like me just for suggesting the 2nd Amendment has a purpose?
Just when are we going to put a stop to what’s going on?
Come on man !
The b@st@rds should all be shot at sunrise. After a fair trial, of course.
Jordan knew this was coming. He will start to interview whistleblowers, probably in secret, and someone will start to leak some details.
Hopium. How many times have we heard that the last … what … 2 decades?
That would be obstruction of justice and would get him arrested.
Why is it that Merrick always has the look on his face like Big Mike just told him “don’t worry, it’s only gay if you’re on top”?
To me he just looks constipated.
That “investigation” should have begun in November
when the first batch of Biden’s stolen documents were (ahem) found
in the closet
In the penn Biden room
in the university
-where China donated millions
Jordan needs to respond with, there will be no money allocated to DOJ for any SC. Cut all funding, subpoena Garland and have him placed under House arrest. Make him finish his term as AG in the House jail.
The House can’t do that thanks to RINOs already voting funding to 2024. And who do you think is going to arrest Garland … a dozen guys working for the House … many of whom were involved in the January 6th travesty? Don’t any of you get it? Our government is completely broken and our side is the one now engaged in a great pretending … that this can fixed without armed citizens getting involved.
Timing is often the difference between victory and defeat.
feel free to fire the first shot then….
Actually, my hope is that not one shot will be needed if we act now as opposed to when the UNIPARTY has become even stronger. As I’ve said over and over, millions of conservative protestors coming out at once NOW might be enough to change the course of this. To make the supporters of the other side wake up. To make those who would have to defend a corrupt regime wake up. But for that to work, we’ve got to make sure the armed agents of the UNIPARTY don’t do another J6 on these protestors … and the only way to ensure that is make sure that a fair percentage of them are armed and ready to resist during the protests.
Now what would such protests acccomplish? First, they put the UNIPARTY on notice that we aren’t going to just stand by and let them turn the country into their little fiefdom. We talk about that here on CTH, but this would prove it. It would warn them that they are close to the trip wire. One need only read the story of what happened just before the War Of Independence to understand how easily what I’m describing could get out of hand and devolve into a full scale insurrection … a war against tyrants.
Second, the message the protestors would carry is that WE control the source of all the essentials AND luxuries the elites (and armed supporters) behind this coup enjoy and that if push comes to shove their access to those things will be cut off. How long can they last without food, electricity, water, sanitation, etc? How do we do that? Signs and interviews with the media to get the message are a good idea … but they might just be ignored by those who matter. So shut down the economy on the days of the protests. Totally. Maybe even cut off or limit power or water to liberal cities during that time. Block transportation systems. Close the schools. Do it for a week so they viscerally understand the stakes here.
Third, such protests would make it clear, even to average democRAT voter, that we outnumber the armed authorities. And out gun them too … once they realize that all the tanks and aircraft and nuclear bombs that Biden has boasted about in the past to keep us citizens in line would be next to useless should shots be fired. That’s because those weapons would destroy the very thing the elites and average democRAT depend on for their comfortable lives. It’s needs to be made clear to them that we understand why the Founders added the 2nd Amendment. And that right now we have far more guns and armed people than they do. So ….
Fourth, the protests would make clear that we can gather masses of armed citizens everywhere that elites, their lackeys and ordinary democRATS/UNIPARTY supporters work, shop, play and live … and there would be no way for the UNIPARTY’s armed lackeys to protect all those places and people. It doesn’t take massive communications to threaten such things. Indeed, even small groups can create havoc as history has shown many, many times. Take the Swamp Fox during the American Revolution as a case in point.
Finally, this action would also make it clear that not just the elites would be targeted should push come to shove. If rank and file democRATS and UNIPARTY republicans stand by as their *leaders* and the lackeys go after us (like they did the J6 protestors) for merely demanding elections we can trust and equal treatment under the law, then they become fair game. Realizing that might be enough for them to wake up and understand what they risk by continuing to look away from the corruption of the UNIPARTY and what it’s now done to the government our Founders created. Maybe that would be enough for them to be convinced to pay attention and THINK for once, rather than just blindly accept what the equally corrupt mainstream media has told them.
That whole ongoing investgation is a policy and no a law.
The only weapon congress has is the one it refuses to use. Cut the flow of cash. Pull the purse strings tight. No cash even for electricity. Better yet, just terminate the department altogether. It is too rotten to save.
Start impeachment process now on Garland for obstruction of justice.
Complete Waste Of Time. Assuming you could even get a House majority, given all the RINOs in it, it would take a 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove Garland. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. So it’s just a Waste Of Time … or worse.
The process is the punishment. Drag his sorry a$$ into the trial and bloody him up as much as possible. Dont need a conviction from the Senate, just destroy him. Time to take Lawfare to the traitors and make them pay for their actions.
Garbage. They don’t see that as punishment. They see that as opportunity. You think the impeachment of Billl Clinton punished him? His wife soon became a Senator and almost became President. He wasn’t destroyed. He was celebrated by the other side. You’re wasting your time.
Treason and bribery are still highest of crimes noted in the Constitution. Are there incareration cells at the bottom levels of the Capital building?
It’s been a while since noncompliate and illegitimate government officials have been held to task. Setting precident? Well it’s about time…
I think I remember reading once where there was a jail down there; that is, if nutty Nan hasn’t made it into a wine cellar.
Maybe there are jail cells in all those ‘satellite Capitol Police’ stations in different states that Nancy started?!
Or, do what Kash Patel suggested, cut their $$$, TOTALLY!!!
So predictable.
SO CORRUPT.
Congress needs to use its jail cells for obstructive contempt by govt officials to cover up their serious crimes, sedition and treasons. Especially when the crimes are ongoing.
A lot of the congress people on our side who would support such a move in theory, are actually TARGETS of one of the special counsels — the one investigation Trump and J6 “sedition”.
Thus they cannot make the moves you suggest.
The other side literally thought of everything.
there was this special group. they were ahead of their time.
“we steal secrets”
its the only way to be be sure
God Bless America
cut off half their funding.
Let me guess. There won’t be any leaks to the media out of the Special Counsel’s office regarding the investigation of Joe Biden’s actually corrupt trafficking of classified documents as there were fake leaks to the media from the Mueller team when they were targeting (er, investigating) Trump in the Russia collusion narrative.
Just a wild hunch.
Or, is that “leaks to the fake media”?
In these times you don’t have to research history to see how fascism works, just follow the news.
Enough of these BS games. When are we gonna go full on Ceausescu on these demons?
Impose a “fence” around Merrick Garland’s office budget. Cut off the money. When he can’t turn on his lights he will think again.
CLEARLY congressional investigations having a Special Counsel need an enforcement capability.
I had not considered that the Marshal Service was under the DOJ.
These people are FILTH that constructed this scheme of things.
Our systems of Constitutional mitigation of wrongdoings within out Federal government are thwarted.
If we do not get a handle on this immediately we are effed and the game is over.
Why should the DOJ be able to send storm troopers in anywhere it wants any time it wants, with little or no justification, yet Congress while doing an investigation INTO the DOJ, CANNOT?
UN-EFFING-ACCEPTABLE
I’M PISSED
I WANT RETRIBUTION AND DEATH FOR ALL THESE M-EFFERS AND ALL THE SHINANIGANS AS OF LATE DAMNIT.
I WANT IT YESTERDAY
I’M PISSED
GAH FILTH !&(@^#%$@(^*%!@(!#$!&(#%$&!@$*(!&#~$(!&*#
GAH
grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Perhaps Jordan should ask us for help. Perhaps we could be the enforcement capability he lacks?
Fool or Judas!
Provide blanket immunity to anyone providing vigilante justice….that should do the trick.
Musk would be doing a considerable service if some verbiage was put out there so that this becomes more widely known.
They are overstepping.
The most important revelation occasioned by this DOJ development is the confirmation of an unsettled question we’ve long been waiting for. Was Joe Biden really set up by Deep State, or did the latter in fact rescue Joe Biden.
Now we have the definitive response: the Fourth Branch, standing at a location millions of miles away from ever wanting to harm Joe Biden (Duh!) set the requisite investigatory predicate for the crucial special prosecutor appointment, thus providing the required shield from the House investigation.
Therefore, look forward only to a lengthy investigation that will end as a simple misunderstanding involving innocuous, overclassified documents which IC will gladly concur carried little national security import. CASE CLOSED!
They run investigations, as needed, so as to ensure that they are ALWAYS in charge, no matter what.
Our constitutional system is totally rigged at all steps in their favor.
Maybe the FILTHY Senate Select Commitee on Intelligence could help us. DEFUND the FILTHY Bastards
Time to defund the Deep state
DOJ long standing policy is not grounded in the Constitution OR law,
Be interesting how Jim plays this since the last decade shows us DOJ investiigatons as well as Speclal counsels are meant to obstruct Conresslonal overslght, perlod
prexactly.
which is why congress, the house specifically, needs to establish a INDEPENDENT COUNSEL.
this bypasses the DOJ entirely…put the investigative AND prosecutorial POWER back to a true independent objective body.
now having said that ..the last time this was established it went south really quick.
I will remind that when ken starr was established as SPECIAL COUNSEL, was NOT TO investigate and to prosecute Bill Clinton for staining dresses (hi monica).
so there is some history and the problems that are associated with congressional (read: political), investigations and prosecutions.
this by the way lead to the establishment of INDEPENDENT Counsels directed by empowerd by and controlled by DOJ..The idea was to remedy what was clearly a political witch hunt to find a crime, any crime, with which to impeach a president. It was by any standard a reasonable change in how congress and doj would work to resolve allegations of criminal violations.
but here we are, with the very same (magnified by powers of galactic proportions) a DOJ that has exceeded any level of mischief compared to the petty Ken Starr and the “independent” counsel.
I speak to this because it is important to recognize that IF congress (the house), DOES go with a special counsel, which I do support given the DOJ weaponization and CRIMINALITY IT HOLDS RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMITTING ITSELF, there needs to be a way to proceed to a special counsel without repeating the sordid history of ken starr.
to be clear, I do believe that ken starr had the power and the authority to go after bill clinton…but it is also important to realize the REASONS for the special counsel were not to prove he was a sexual person…lying about a consensual matter really is NOT a crime in my book. It was sensational..and it became polticalized….any crime, in search of any crime will always succeed in finding one. And thus we ended up with a semi conviction (half way impeachment) of a president and meanwhile his real crimes were never investigated and prosecuted. (hello kosovo/herzgova).
jmho
God Bless America
But we KNEW this was going to happen. The question is, does our prowess for sussing the outcome ever alter one single outcome? If not, it’s a masochistic form of infotainment.
Because what happens is the REAL scoreboard. All the rest is ‘judicious study’ and blogger pedestrianism.
‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re a [Deep State] now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’. –Karl Rove (reputedly)
The right-wing Commentariat, even the better ones, are trapped in how the world ‘used to work’.
The more cynical (perhaps the smarter) ones don’t even rank as Commentarians. For those, the term Griftocract is more apt.
But I don’t blame them. Like the poor, the podium-jockeys and carnival barkers will always be with us.
It’s the Citizenry who’ve devolved into endless Spectatorship. What’ll it take to shake the popcorn bags from their hands? I note they haven’t blown up Orville Redenbacher’s factory yet. That’ll be last.