Posted on 12/04/2017 3:51:30 AM PST by saywhatagain
For all practical purposes, the collusion probe is over. While the “counterintelligence” cover will continue to be exploited so that no jurisdictional limits are placed on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this is now an obstruction investigation
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
We all know its coming . . . only question now is . . . how will congress react?
Obama and Clinton are the overlords of obstruction of justice.
Obstruction.... You mean like deleting emails?
Obstruction, You mean like bribing the Attorney General?
Obstruction, You mean like murdering Seth Rich?
Obstruction, like smashing computer components to bits?
The obstruction argument is BS. Watch the Mukasey interview from yesterday.
National Numbnuts Trump obstructed how?
James Comey hoped leak would lead to special counsel on Russia
7 June 2017 . . .
"Former FBI Director James Comey testified Thursday that he orchestrated the leak of accounts of conversations with President Donald Trump because he thought it might lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation.
In one of the most revealing moments of the hearing, Comey said he had asked a friend at Columbia University to leak the content of one of his memos.
He said that it dawned on him that there could be corroboration of a memo that he wrote after the President tweeted that he better hope there were no White House tapes of their conversations.
"My judgment was that I needed to get that out into the public square," he said. He added he took the step "because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel."
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It appears Comey was lying in his timing and purpose of the leaks. Does it really matter? A Special Investigator was appointed with the sole purpose to show obstruction of justice and lay the groundwork for impeachment hearing in Congress
Even with those assumptions, there is still no obstruction case.
But then he goes on to make political arguments, and in the end impeachment is a political, not legal, action. He comes up with a case of obstruction, but note that is nothing but a subterfuge for a political action by Trump's enemies and has no legal bearing.
Andy McCarthy is now Feinstein’s bitch.
The scholarly left doesn’t even agree with this assessment (i.e. Alan Morton Dershowitz).
lol
the president is the head of the executive branch and literally “can’t” obstruct justice.
The biggest flaw in McCarthy’s analysis is that all of the facts related to an “obstruction” case have been known for months. What has Mueller and his team been doing since then?
A good discussion would be . . . Did President Trump walk into this pile of manure on purpose? Maybe. . . . more power to him if he did.
Fishing
Andy McCarthy is one of the original NeverTrumpers.
How long has he been chomping at the big to release this piece??
Obstruction, you mean like saying there is not a smidgen of evidence of corruption during an ongoing investigation into IRS-gate?
Obama used a phony DNC dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign and transition teams by the intelligence community. The firing of Comey was not obstruction of justice and McCabe testified before Congress that the firing had no effect on the ongoing investigation.
The unmasking of Flynn was a real crime. And so was a corrupt, politicized FBI that had protected Hillary from prosecution. Comey was guilty of obstruction of justice by making a decision not to prosecute, which was not his to make. The DOJ and the AG make that decision.
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