Very interesting piece, EOT. (Also, good writing.)
It’d be an understatement to say that I’ve been very disappointed in Sessions. But perhaps he has a pleasant surprise coming for us. I hope so.
How is an outside investigator empowered to seat a grand jury? Are they federally deputized with that authority?
I was happy to hear it. I don’t usually watch that host in that time slot, but I wanted to hear what Sessions had to say.
I still feel he needs to be replaced, not because he is bad in any way, but because his recusal has hamstrung him to the Administration’s biggest need. Basically Rosenstein is the defacto AG. That doesn’t work. The President needs an AG with full and complete authority to exercise his complete job description.
No, I don’t want an AG who is a puppet of the President. He should be an independent enforcer. But what we have is a good man who is MIA 50% of the time due to his recusal. That is killing Trump. Sessions needs to resign and move to another Cabinet position and Trump needs a new AG with FULL power and authority to do his job.
Sessions is a good guy, just hamstrung by his decision to recuse himself. We can’t have Rosenstein running Justice.
Indictments, perp walks and criminal prosecutions is what I want!!
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There was another report about this about a week of two ago.
With 500 employees, it takes the IG this long?
Reinforces my instinct, that government is extremely bloated, inefficient, impossibly slow.
But does the person appointed have prosecutorial power? From what I’m hearing, it sounds as if Sessions is doing a rope-a-dope to placate the Gowdy-Goodlatte push for a second SC. I think this appointee outside Washington D.C. is just investigating whether Sessions should consider Iif an investigation should he ... investigated
Hope I am wrong, but Mr. Recusal thus far has afforded me little reason for confidence
A lot of people said this was all a sleight of hand.
Anyone with a brain can see that Trump needs sleights of hand in order to do anything. Too bad for Alec Baldwin: the stupider he paints the president, the more room Trump has to get real things accomplished.
bttt, thanks a lot
When Sessions was growing up in Alabama, the Democratic Party ran the State, and had corrupted the Government office holders to serve the interests of the Party. The KKK served as the feared terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. They were viewed as beyond the law, because corrupt local law enforcement, judges and politicians within the Democratic Party would (an did) cover up for them.
When Sessions became a prosecutor in Alabama, he continued to pursue a murder investigation into the second in command of the Alabama Klan (Henry Hays), after the FBI gave up on their investigation. His low-profile but relentless pursuit, and his innovative approach produced a conviction - and the death penalty. This trial was the basis used in civil proceedings to bankrupt the Alabama Klan.
When Sessions was later elected as State Attorney General, he followed up on the case, and saw to it that the sentence was carried out - execution in the electric chair on June 6, 1997. It was the only execution of a KKK member during the 20th century for the murder of an African-American.
Sessions was famously low profile during the investigation, which led to the nickname he earned - the Silent Executioner.
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Need to know basis. You don't need to know.
Lot of us “Sessions apologists” have been hoping this is how he has been doing business - he makes it really hard to keep giving him the benefit of the doubt but I have been prepared to let him ride until the end of this year to see if he produces.
I hope to heck this is right.