Posted on 02/26/2017 2:32:42 PM PST by Hojczyk
Maher undoubtedly wants Team Trump, and indeed President Trump, to be prosecuted. But on what basis? What crime are Trump’s people thought to have committed? What is the basis for believing they committed it?
Maher didn’t say. Neither did Issa. Until there is good reason to believe that someone working on Trump’s behalf committed a crime, there is no reason to call for a special prosecutor.
Moreover, Maher got his facts just about completely wrong when he tried to invoke as precedent the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Loretta Lynch did not recuse herself from the decision whether to prosecute Clinton; she deferred to James Comey, but retained the right to overrule him. And no special prosecutor was ever used. It was Comey’s show.
Yet, instead of correcting Maher, Issa backed his conclusion (from false premises) that “you’re going to need to use” a special prosecutor. (I’m not sure what Issa meant by “special prosecutor’s statute and office;” the so-called Independent Counsel statute expired years ago.)
Here’s how I think this should work. The appropriate committee[s] in Congress should investigate. The FBI can investigate if it sees fit, and apparently it is investigating.
If, based on the result of investigations, a target emerges whose identity is such that Attorney General Sessions’ might be conflicted, he should recuse himself. The appointment of a special prosecutor probably should be a last resort, used only if a potential conflict extends down the line at the Justice Department.
We’re very far from any such scenario. I don’t think the Senate Intelligence Committee has even started investigating yet.
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To think I worried about this sh## a few weeks ago.
Nobody’s kicking Trump out of power.
He will destroy them first.
And there are no ground.
THEY HATE that he apologizes to NO ONE an takes no prisoners.
Hey Trump, kill em all and let God sort em out.
Issa is a weakling. He falters & trembles when he should be strong.
It means he's either not the brilliant and dogged example of Truth, Justice and the American Way he was peddled as (with dismal results every time), or there are plans afoot to revive the statute.
Or both.
Mr. niteowl77
That will do it for Issa’s political career. He only won by 1200 votes this time, and Trump will remember this.
Maher promotes sex with little boys. Why is Issa on his show?
I think the Trump administration should have the same number of “special prosecutors” that the 0bama administration had...
Maybe Issa likes pizza?
[Why is Issa on his show?]
There’s a television camera there.
He is for sure not conservative user friendly, and looks like never has been, all a front.
I just heard pelosi on a fox news break on AM radio that over 100 republicans in congress are asking for an independent investigator to investigate Trump’s financial and business ties to Russia? And says that Sessions must recuse himself from the investigation.
Issa, a guy with an criminal record who made his money from a shady car alarm business and bought his way into Congress.
This supreme phoney-baloney who has NO pelotas HAS GOT TO BE PRIMARIED !
His district is in the commie state of California, he barely won last time...and he's scared to death...he's got to get the Espanol vote, so he'll be trashing Trump any chance he gets.
He's a chispa ( Hispanic slang for a "shifty street-wise swindler").
Any freeper here from his district?
Leni
Maybe he can become a staffer for McCain after 2018
Maybe he can become a staffer for McCain after 2018
Maybe he can become a staffer for McCain after 2018
That will do it for Issa’s political career. He only won by 1200 votes this time, and Trump will remember this.
He was one of the last politicians from California anyway. That state is dead for Republicans. He probably would have lost in 2018 so no big deal.
I’ve put Issa in the Souter category; a great disappointment.
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