Posted on 11/10/2018 6:43:59 AM PST by lyby
Indeed he did. The day will come when most FReepers should feel very ashamed for the way they have abused him.
You forgot his fifth, and most important goal, to allow the left to attack the President with no restrictions. He very successfully achieved that goal, to his shame.
As AG, Sessions had four goals:
1) find something that was happening regardless, and take credit.
3-4) repeat.
William P. Barr, Barr served as Attorney General from 1991 to 1993 during the administration of President George H. W. Bush.
Never complained publicly about ANYTHING Obama, Reno, Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder or John Brennan ever criminalized.
Edwin Meese III, “Insufficient evidence to indict. The words are not an endorsement. Yet Edwin Meese III waved them like a badge of honor Tuesday as he announced his long overdue resignation as U.S. attorney general. “ (Orlando Sentinel article on his resignation.) (Resigned just before H.W. Bush ran for office.)
Never complained publicly about ANYTHING Obama, Reno, Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder or John Brennan ever criminalized.
Michael B. Mukasey, appointed as Attorney General by President George W. Bush.
Claims he was wrong saying Hillary’s email scandal disqualifies her for President. Never complained publicly about ANYTHING Obama, Reno, Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder or John Brennan ever criminalized.
Do you sense a pattern here?
No need for the BEWARE OF THE DOG sign as Sessions KNEW of the corruption and stated that he would not prosecute or even investigate Clinton and her crimes as well as Obama. So basically he just buried his head in the sand and went back to sleep.
I sense Swamp Critters.
Politicians “saluting” other politicians for sitting on their asses and doing NOTHING! I love this country!
The AG is to enforce the law, not mirror and implement the President's opinions on personnel or on those actions based on the AG’s best interpretation of the law e.g. his duty of recusal.
Love Trump, but Sessions was good for the whole country and requesting his resignation was a mistake. Sessions will be hard to replace.
I beg to differ. I’m still waiting for apologies from the Freepers that kept saying “wait and see, Sessions is working on 10,000+ indictments and will be doing this behind the scenes. Keep waiting and he will drop the hammer and bring charges.” Well how long were you willing to wait 2024? You know about a thing called statute of limitations, don’t you?
I wholeheartedly agree. Sessions prosecuted some of the worst elements of American society, did not get involved in name calling or scapegoating, just followed through quietly and honorably.
He will be missed.
The 433D chess crowd is mostly posting in the Q threads, so you might have to wait. I thought Sessions did a fine job during these past 2 years - can you imagine HOW MUCH WORSE the optics and subsequent lawsuits would have been had he been involved in any way with the Russia thing?
Trump is usually the smartest person in the room but not about Sessions. He never had the temperment. Trump needed a pit bull. Most important you do not take a sitting senator when you have a razor thin majority in the Senate. Jones a Democrat got Sessions seat.
Well, despite the widespread hatred of Sessions on FR, I defend the guy.
The biggest criticism seems to be the inaction on stopping Mueller and bringing Clinton/Obama and company to justice.
But I’ll remind you that Trump is setting the pace, and I suspect Trump wanted the Mueller investigation to play out to prove that the Russian collusion was a sham.
If Sessions wasn’t doing his job, he would have been fired long ago. As it turns out, Sessions’ righthand man is now the acting AG.
I agree with you, lyby. Your former US Senator did serve our country well during his tenure as AG.
Apparently the attempt to shut down opinion in opposition to their own is in full force here, too. I can only shake my head and remember fondly the in-depth discussions that took place in an earlier version of FR.
Would that you could refute an arguement instead of insult your way out.
Name one thing he did to drain the swamp or bring charges to the people that we know of? Comey... Lois Lerner... Brennan... Clapper.... Hillary.... Obama... Anyone???
We needed a cop in the AG office, not an elder statesman. He was out of his league, nothing more. Senators go along to get along, like everyone else in DC.
Whitaker had no previous connection to Sessions. Whitaker was likely chosen or imposed on Sessions only a year ago, precisely because of Whitaker’s blowing the whistle on political corruption as director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT).
Those four goals seem mighty close to things that should be handled at the state level...
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Yep. Trifling deviations from his job. A potemkin AG.
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