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Conservatives fume after Sessions declines to appoint new special counsel
The Hill ^ | 3/30/2018 | jonathan eisley

Posted on 03/30/2018 9:15:45 PM PDT by bitt

Conservative are boiling with anger at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for declining to appoint a second special counsel to investigate alleged abuses at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ).

In a Thursday letter to senior GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate, Sessions explained that he had appointed John Huber, a U.S. attorney from Utah who was first appointed by former President Obama, to work with DOJ’s inspector general to determine whether a second special counsel is necessary.

While Sessions says he will accept Huber’s recommendation on whether to appoint a second special counsel, the attorney general set a high bar for an independent investigation, saying it would require “extraordinary circumstances.”

Conservatives are apoplectic, believing there is more than enough evidence of wrongdoing at the FBI and widespread conflicts of interest within the DOJ to justify an outside prosecutor.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huber; jeffsessions; johnhuber; sessions; specialcounsel
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1 posted on 03/30/2018 9:15:45 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/30/2018 9:16:20 PM PDT by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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Let’s wait and see what shakes out. I don’t actually trust special councils


4 posted on 03/30/2018 9:19:26 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: max americana
BWAHAHAHAHA! The Keebler Elf! I am just dying at the Sessions jokes and pics here!

Try keeping up Skippy. Sessions already appointed an outside prosecutor way back in November. There's no need for a special counsel, who would literally take months to start from scratch while the Swamp gets entrenched deeper.

5 posted on 03/30/2018 9:20:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: bitt
We don't need a new special counsel right now; what we need is to limit the investigations:

1. To allegations of a specific crime.
2. To limit the investigation to that specific crime
3. To impose a time limit on the investigation.
6 posted on 03/30/2018 9:22:01 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
There's no need for a special counsel, who would literally take months to start from scratch while the Swamp gets entrenched deeper.

The swamp remains entrenched at DOJ as long as Rod Rosenstein is DAG.

7 posted on 03/30/2018 9:22:33 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: bitt

I continue to be amazed at how Sessions/Rosenschmeckel & Company have boxed in the President. He is captive to his own employees. I sure hope he has a plan to extricate himself in the not too distant future. They all smile at him like they are collectively saying F*ck You, We Gotcha!


8 posted on 03/30/2018 9:23:39 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: FreeReign
Rosenstein is a white hat. Watch and learn. The truth is coming out in April.

Now, go post a photoshop of Sessions as Granny from Beverly Hillbillies for my amusement.

9 posted on 03/30/2018 9:23:45 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: bitt

Lincoln said that George McClellan had “the slows.” He of course never met Jeff Sessions.


10 posted on 03/30/2018 9:24:19 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Fai Mao
Let’s wait and see what shakes out. I don’t actually trust special councils

How long you figure? Another year, two, three? This has been going on almost two years. sessions is just buying time until mueller finds something....anything.
11 posted on 03/30/2018 9:26:19 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Sessions already appointed an outside prosecutor way back in November.

Ya, an obumber flunky that reports to rosenberg.
12 posted on 03/30/2018 9:27:42 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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So you rather want a grand jury in D.C.? The very swamp against Obama people?

So you rather have massive leaks (both sides in D.C. can’t keep their mouth shut) that basically tip off potential witnesses and created narratives on what to say?

(Notice that Huber has been working for many months somewhere and not one leak about it came out)

I doubt Mueller even knew about Huber being the one tasked with this which is a good thing


13 posted on 03/30/2018 9:28:04 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Rosenstein is a white hat. Watch and learn. The truth is coming out in April. Now, go post a photoshop of Sessions as Granny from Beverly Hillbillies for my amusement.

You keep waiting for the "truth" to come out in December, January, March, "April" or "May".

The truth came out in January, and Rod Rosenstein is not "white hat". He signed off on a bogus application.

14 posted on 03/30/2018 9:28:35 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: vette6387

The corrupt state had a lot of time to prepare contingency plans in case Trump won. With Sessions as their step n fetch-it leprechaun, they found the pot of gold.


15 posted on 03/30/2018 9:29:46 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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Greg Jarrett and Tom Fitton were discussing this on Lou Dobbs tonight. Jarrett wondered how sessions being a senator, ever heard of Huber. The upshot is that rosenslime recommended him and the dummass sessions just went along.

So it looks like rosenslime once again gets to manage the situation while his puppet sessions bends over.


16 posted on 03/30/2018 9:30:04 PM PDT by Ceebass (RIP MAGA June 16 2015 - March 23 2018)
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To: Ceebass

How many dumbass things does Sessions get to do before it’s deemed what it is—enemy action


17 posted on 03/30/2018 9:32:52 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: FreeReign

Patience! All will soon be revealed! (Soon is a relative term.)


18 posted on 03/30/2018 9:33:47 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: JoSixChip
Ya, an obumber flunky

Who was re-appointed by Trump.

that reports to rosenberg.

Rosenstein is a white hat.

19 posted on 03/30/2018 9:36:21 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: FreeReign

Trust me on this. All you Sessions bashers are going to eat BBQ crow topped with coleslaw. They don’t call Sessions “The Executioner” for nothing.


20 posted on 03/30/2018 9:37:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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