He just hasn't found the path or evidence to get where he wants to go.
Watch for him to turn the screws up as we get near the November elections.
Posted on 03/19/2018 9:27:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Richard Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable.
These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. To trigger the appointment of a special counsel, federal regulations require the Justice Department to identify the crimes that warrant investigation and prosecution — crimes that the Justice Department is too conflicted to investigate in the normal course; crimes that become the parameters of the special counsel’s jurisdiction.
Rosenstein, instead, put the cart before the horse: Mueller was invited to conduct a fishing expedition, a boundless quest to hunt for undiscovered crimes, rather than an investigation and prosecution of known crimes.
That deviation, it turns out, is not the half of it. With Rosenstein’s passive approval, Mueller is shredding Justice Department charging policy by alleging earth-shattering crimes, then cutting a sweetheart deal that shields the defendant from liability for those crimes and from the penalties prescribed by Congress. The special counsel, moreover, has become a legislature unto himself, promulgating the new, grandiose crime of “conspiracy against the United States” by distorting the concept of “fraud.”
Why does the special counsel need to invent an offense to get a guilty plea? Why doesn’t he demand a plea to one of the several truly egregious statutory crimes he claims have been committed?
Good questions.
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Doesn’t matter, Mr. McCarthy. Your GOPe pals in the Deep State are keeping Herr Mueller’s witch hunt alive. Careful or they may come after you.
Why does the special counsel need to invent an offense to get a guilty plea? …Is that not known as ex post facto when legislators do it? Looks like the special counsel is really an Inquisitor.
He’s not seeking “undiscovered” crimes.
He just makes them up.
That’s what Weissman is infamous for.
In legal terms, it’s called “strained legal theories”.
Excellent article
Has Grassley read it?
Who recommended Rosenstein as deputy?
Their deep state ass should be outed and booted.
Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Another deep state member and another one to be convicted.
McCarthy makes a good point here — Mueller is bringing these serious, $100 million + charges for headline value, only to drop them and let the defendants plea to minor charges. The charges are obviously bogus and designed simply to get headlines.
He just hasn't found the path or evidence to get where he wants to go.
Watch for him to turn the screws up as we get near the November elections.
Laurentia Beria would be so proud of Mueller.
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