The Co-Dependents of the "Independent" Counsel

Steyn Online ^ | 14 Dec 2017 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Ten quick thoughts on the hideously corrupted "Russia investigation".

1) Let me start with an immigrant's observation: My sweetly naïve understanding of an "independent counsel" is that he should be "independent". For example, even in the presently desiccated condition of the Commonwealth, it's generally understood that, when you've got a problem and you want someone independent to investigate it, "independent" means outsider. Three examples off the top of my head:

~Twenty years ago, after the Good Friday Agreement, some guy was supposed to be appointed to supervise the decommissioning of weapons by paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Obviously, if he'd been some hoity-toity English civil servant, the IRA would have said nuts to that. Likewise, if he'd been some Papist republican from Derry Town Council, the UVF would have told 'em to shove it. So they appointed a Canadian general, John de Chastelain ...because he was an outsider, and thus independent of the competing interests.

[Lent]

Never should there have been this bogus independent counsel and if so every candidate should have been vetted for independence. The GOP have been the very definition of gutless and useless to let this occur... or they were complicit in this injustice and charade.

[Fungi]

Excellent summation:
10) Nobody should accord this wretched and corrupted pseudo-investigation the figleaf of respectability. Even in the federal justice system, no successful prosecution by this conflicted team would withstand appeal. As to the ostensible crime they’re investigating - “collusion” (which, in fact, is not a crime) with the Russians - so far:

a) The only people improperly colluding with foreigners are Fusion GPS, the Hillary campaign, the FBI Hillary investigation, the FBI Trump investigation and the Associate Deputy Attorney-General, all of whom are colluding with Brit spook Christopher Steele to get the goods on Trump.

b) The only person colluding with the Russians is Christopher Steele, former head of “the Russia house” at MI6.

[SERKIT]

Rosenstein, between his very distracting and seemingly derisive sniffing, stated in recent House testimony that we have a "Special Counsel" as opposed to an "Independent Counsel". The former (and I laughed out loud when he said it) means Mueller is "accountable" and "limited", whereby an "Independent Counsel" has no accountability and has unlimited scope.

So which is Mueller, really? He sure acts as an unaccountable and limitless being with a stack of blank checks to spend as much as he wants. Who holds Mueller accountable? None seems apparent!

I have the means and time to listen to much of the testimony, unfiltered by media interpretation. What I see and hear smells to high heaven. Jerry Nadler is an absolute boob!

[Reverend Wright]

Despite the huge conflicts and corruption of swamp-man Mueller and his gang, the strongest evidence of “election interference” Mueller has revealed, so far, is the “insurance policy” meeting of Strzok, Page in FBI Deputy Director McCabe’s office.

It says in the Old Testament that “the evil are trapped by their own snares”, and it is coming true in the Mueller “investigation”.

I say, trust in the Lord, and let Mueller keep going...

[ptsal]

Amen is completely tangled up

[Gay State Conservative]

Steyn nails it.This guy has talent!

[monkeyshine]

Very well done! Steyn is in top form here.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump.....