How to end our national nightmare — probe Hillary Clinton again
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Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has completed his investigation , it is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief and assume that our long national nightmare is over. Resist the temptation, the assumption is false.
We are not close to the end. Not by a long shot.
In fact, I believe the last two years, as traumatic as they were, will prove to be the easier part of the nightmare, because Mueller dealt only with whether Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with Russia to swing the election. Based on what we know so far, especially that no more indictments are coming, it appears that Mueller’s answer is no, there was no collusion or obstruction of justice.
If true, this is an enormous vindication for Trump, who insisted all along that he had done nothing wrong. Supporters were understandably in a celebratory mood, with some saying on Twitter that it felt like 2016 election night all over again.
Meanwhile, Trump’s vindication is a devastating rebuke to Democrats and their media handmaidens, all of whom insisted his guilt was guaranteed. Their legacy is that they ruined their own credibility, and their continuing efforts to destroy him by innuendo and investigation can only add to their disgrace.
For them, too, Friday night was like a repeat of Trump’s election victory.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Hillary Clinton’s house.
But even as we learn the details of what Mueller found, there remains a giant black hole about the very origins of the FBI investigation that led to his appointment in the first place.
It is astonishing, for example, that at this late date, we still do not know what evidence the disgraced James Comey and his FBI had to open the original probe in the summer of 2016, and whether there was anything other than the fatally tainted Russian dossier.
Nor do we know of any compelling reason why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein later decided a special counsel was necessary to get to the bottom of the swirling accusations of collusion that started during the campaign and mushroomed after Trump’s upset victory.
Recall that Rosenstein effectively urged Comey be fired in May of 2017, then eight days later mysteriously decided the action warranted an investigation from outside the Justice Department.
Rosenstein’s conflicts of interest are appalling and the Mueller appointment cast a cloud over the presidency and fueled conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of Trump’s election. The true impact is incalculable, but we know those claims led to the resistance movement and that Mueller was used by some Dems to justify boycotting the State of the Union speech and refusing to support any of Trump’s appointments or legislation.
The reckless talk of impeachment also surely had some negative effect on the behavior of our allies and adversaries.
Now, with Mueller finished, it is time to give equal attention to the other side of the story, of how we got here. The questions can be boiled down to two.
Was the initial decision to investigate Trump’s campaign an honest mistake by the Obama administration? Or was it an attempt to rig the election in favor of Clinton, and when that failed, overthrow a duly elected president?
Those outstanding issues are as worthy of complete answers as those that Mueller investigated. In addition to knowing whether there was an improper relationship between a candidate and a foreign power, Americans also deserve to know what was going on inside their own government and whether it was simply incompetent or thoroughly corrupt, or some combination of the two.
Put another way, what did President Obama and his administration do, and why did they do it?
The task of finding out falls to the new attorney general, William Barr . He will have his plate full in the coming days deciding how much of the Mueller report can legally be made public and explaining his decision to Congress.
I don’t underestimate the importance of the issue, but Barr must not be consumed by it. Indeed, he needs to deliver on another promise he made during his Senate confirmation hearings, where he said he was alarmed by the demonstrated bias against Trump by top FBI agents such as Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and suggested he was not satisfied the FBI and the Justice Department had been fully held accountable.
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The key sequence involved questions from the Judiciary panel’s Republican chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Graham: “Do you promise me as attorney general — if you get this job — to look and see what happened in 2016?”
“Yes, Mr. Chairman,” Barr replied.
“How do these statements sit with you?” Graham asked, referring to the Page and Strzok texts showing they hated Trump and wanted Clinton to win the election.
“I was shocked when I saw them,” Barr answered.
Graham: “Please get to the bottom of it . . . we’re relying on you to clean this place up.”
Getting to the bottom of it would mean a criminal probe of Comey and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe , along with others in the leadership ranks of the FBI. Did they, as it appears, fail to disclose to the court that Clinton’s team commissioned and paid for the Russian dossier and that its allegations were unverified when they sought approval to spy on the Trump campaign?
If the answers are yes, they may have committed felonies, as did those who authorized any misleading court applications, including Rosenstein.
A criminal probe would also mean uncovering any role played by the reprehensible John Brennan, then head of the CIA, James Clapper, head of national intelligence, and Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, in creating the FBI probe and leaking classified information.
Among the questions they need to be asked under oath is, did you have any role in spreading the Clinton-funded dossier to the media? Did you leak the names of Trump associates picked up on wiretaps?
In addition, of course, there are also fundamental doubts about the integrity of the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s handling of classified e-mails. The doubts include what role, if any, Loretta Lynch, then the attorney general, and others in the Obama administration played in the suspect exoneration of Clinton.
Because there are so many questions about the Clinton case and the origins of the Trump probe, the best and only fair solution is for Barr to appoint a new special counsel. Given the critical issues involved, even-handedness demands a prober free of conflicts with the former officials cited.
Unlike the Mueller probe, which ranged too far and took too long, this investigation should be focused on credible allegations against Clinton and top officials of the Obama administration. And it must be completed before the 2020 election so voters can know the whole story of what happened in 2016 and the early days of the Trump presidency before they vote again.
Then, and only then, can we say that our long national nightmare is over.
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“Graham: “Do you promise me as attorney general — if you get this job — to look and see what happened in 2016?”
“Yes, Mr. Chairman,” Barr replied.
“How do these statements sit with you?” Graham asked, referring to the Page and Strzok texts showing they hated Trump and wanted Clinton to win the election.
“I was shocked when I saw them,” Barr answered.
Graham: “Please get to the bottom of it . . . we’re relying on you to clean this place up.”
Getting to the bottom of it would mean a criminal probe of Comey and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe , along with others in the leadership ranks of the FBI. Did they, as it appears, fail to disclose to the court that Clinton’s team commissioned and paid for the Russian dossier and that its allegations were unverified when they sought approval to spy on the Trump campaign?
If the answers are yes, they may have committed felonies, as did those who authorized any misleading court applications, including Rosenstein.
A criminal probe would also mean uncovering any role played by the reprehensible John Brennan, then head of the CIA, James Clapper, head of national intelligence, and Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, in creating the FBI probe and leaking classified information.
Among the questions they need to be asked under oath is, did you have any role in spreading the Clinton-funded dossier to the media? Did you leak the names of Trump associates picked up on wiretaps?
In addition, of course, there are also fundamental doubts about the integrity of the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s handling of classified e-mails. The doubts include what role, if any, Loretta Lynch, then the attorney general, and others in the Obama administration played in the suspect exoneration of Clinton.
Because there are so many questions about the Clinton case and the origins of the Trump probe, the best and only fair solution is for Barr to appoint a new special counsel. Given the critical issues involved, even-handedness demands a prober free of conflicts with the former officials cited.”
Again? Good thing the Fed prints it's own money, or the Gov would have to raise taxes for the money to beat a dead horse some more.
There is much about Clinton and Obama that is yet to be investigated regarding FISA, unmasking, irs, and more leading up to the Mueller investigation and this has nothing to do with Benghazi or server and e-mail issues.
over the next 2 yrs the people will learn one simple fact.
rule 1 - never trust a democrat
the people involved from bottom to top will be going to jail just in time for 2020 elections
and I will enjoy every minute of it.
cheers
That will be good though the msm will be running interference for and shilling on behalf of them all the whole time.
and some in the media will be running from sedition charges.
there is a reason madcow was sucking snot on live TV
cheers
ya mean like about 2 yrs ago when I told you mueller had nothing on trump?
I am still batting 1000
when even one of your "sensible predictions comes true... lemme know k?
cheers
when even one of your predictions comes true? let me know
im patient like that
Mrs Clinton has not held any public office for six years and three months. She was investigated over and over by the FBI and three successive gop congresses. The Clintons have released all their taxes going back 40 years and the Clinton Foundation is probably the most thoroughly and publically audited organization in the world, ever. The Clintons are now retired. Mrs Clinton is not running. The Clintons served first Arkansas and then the US continuously for over forty years. Knock yourselves out with your fantasies of revenge. After all, nothing will ever come of it...
that was then, this is now. and, you forget john huber. ongoing...
besides the 2016 election / spygate and uranium one.
huber is speaking to clinton foundation whistleblowers as well.
you keep saying that,
and then you find out im right.
it will always be that way.
give mueller my love... LOL
and cheers to you too
that part is true enough... there will be many tears from liberals before it is truly over.
please enjoy the whack-ness... we had it custom built just for the left.
cheers
yeah... we did kind of whack the seat of power out from under the left huh?
we should feel ashamed about that, but we don't.
must have been our upbringing....
ha
Nah, the ones that are the problem aren't smart enough or self reflective enough to ever admit they're wrong. Especially the ones with a chronic case of TDS.
Look no further than NT's for proof of that.
actually, I reckon the ones who are a real problem know they are wrong and their policies are shit
destruction of our culture and way of life is their actual goal.
they call themselves anarchists by night and pretend to be patriots by day.
I just call them socialists, or traitors, depending on my mood at the time.
cheers
There is plenty to investigate regarding the dossier, her contribution to it, her contacts with the Russians, her contacts in the Obama regime regarding coordination, masking, the FISA warrants, how she and Obama might have rigged the FBI probes into her e mail scandal, etc.
Not fantasies, the crooked bitch Hillaryious Hillary got let off because they found she was to stupid to realize she was handling confidential material wrongly.
Stupidity is not a excuse. She should have been charged.
Therein lies the beauty of money, power, and influence, with a sprinkling of fear thrown in. You can get away with just about anything in this country...
You can say that again....
I'll tell you how to end our "national nightmare".....don't vote for trmp in 2020
BTW glad to see you admit we're in the midst of a nightmare
The only nightmare would be for the sniveling Anti Trumpers who have had there hopes and dreams dashed by the Mueller report they have been masturbating over for the last 2 years.
How to end our national nightmare — probe Hillary Clinton again
Enough already.
Nowhere near enough! She needs to take her go lightly and prepare fora complete rectal colonoscopy like exam of every detail of g her public life.
I have to wonder sometimes what Hillary did to generate so much seething hate from conservative Republicans. If you get rid of all the nonsense, throw out all the bogus claims of pizza parlor sex rings and fantasy assassinations of associates or Seth Rich, and you accept the many partisan republican investigations findings of no actual criminal conduct and no fault in Benghazi, all you're left with is a well known Grandma and ex-first lady and ex- US Senator, not nearly enough to summon the kind of foam at the mouth vitriol that seems to spew forth every time a conservative republican has to say her name. I never really liked her, thought she was a bit cold and had a fake smile, but on policy I didn't see anything radically different than the mainstream democrat ideology of support equality for all Americans regardless of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or lack thereof. Is that really such a horrible ideology that it generates such fierce reactions from conservatives? They seem to jump every time they are confronted by it as if they just stepped on a rattlesnake and I rather wonder why. What part of that message is so offensive to them?
She had the audacity to be an intelligent woman
It is that so called mainstream socialist democrat ideology of hers that is offensive to us capitalism defending freedom loving, individual liberty preserving conservatives.
Bahahahaha yeah so intelligent that she was found innocent of handling classified material because they figured she was to stupid to know what classified meant after a lifetime in politics.
Thanks for the laugh.
When they have nothing of substance to defend her with the sexist card is the go to.
I am a capitalism defending freedom loving, individual liberty preserving liberal. I also staunchly defend both the 1st and the 2nd amendment and am a defender of religious freedom, I just recognize that includes freedom from religion, free speech doesn't mean consequence free and that universal background checks do not violate the 2nd amendment. The straw man conservatives have created of some goose stepping Lenin socialist liberal Democrat is so ridiculous its no longer funny. Clues are not expensive, I urge every conservative who believes Democrats want to turn America into some socialist nightmare to go out and get one.
The problem with universal background checks isn't the background check itself. It's what done with it afterwards. Who decides who is denied a gun, what criteria decides gun removal, what guns are denied, can gun ownership rights be re-established if the offending items are mitigated/removed, etc, etc
Lots of questions i trust few of our politicians today to navigate fairly when it comes to Universal Background Checks.
So true and i urge every liberal who believes legal gun owners for example, aren't responsible enough to safely own this gun or that, to go out and get one ......
So you want to waste more time & money for nothing.
no need... that investigation into hillary and spygate is already underway.
unlike muellers witch hunt, the lack of leaks with an actual investigation sometimes gives people the impression nothing is going on.
So no time or money will be spent on it - is that what you are telling me? Just like the million dollar blow job. Waste & you all call yourselves conservative. These investigations go no where - never have, never will. Waste waste waste. If you want to investigate her & waste time & money you fund it.
nope... I told you it is already being spent... LOL
are the dems the only ones allowed to blow millions on investigations?
the left had its fun for 2 yrs now the right will have our fun for the next 2 yrs.
cheers
I never said that. I think they too wasted millions of dollars on a fool's errand. Nothing ever comes of these "investigations" and they waste time & money. My husband and I have had many disagreements over the Trump "investigations" because I knew it would amount to nothing & end up costing us millions. Is that how you would like your tax money spent. I would prefer a better infrastructure in this country, a better education system so if you want to waste money on useless "investigations" then YOU fund it.
Your attitude is a little dismaying to me, because instead of wanting to move forward you want to stay in the muck & mire & do tit for tat. Non productive at best - destructive at worst. But whatever floats your boat - enjoy you "investigation" that will go no where as all the others have. AND I will be here to say "I TOLD YOU SO".
ya might want to hold off on making that bet... LOL
There is no bet. I am just stating the way things go in our government when it comes to "investigating" one of their own. You don't want to see it that's on you. I am not the one wearing blinders.
it was just a figure of speech... lol
clinton was investigated by "her own" many times. but this time... not so much.
cheers
Blow job, Iran-Contra.....
But keep the blinders on that all this will be different. That somehow the wasted millions will come to something. Again - divisiveness that will not let this country move forward.
we can not move this country forward by letting those who tried to frame a president walk around free. this can not be allowed to happen again. people must be held to account and made examples of, sending a very clear and public warning to the next batch of traitors.
"the lefts resistance" going down for abuse of power, sedition, and treason will be taught in history classes for generations.
we live in interesting times... history being made.
imagine every admin trying to manufacture evidence against an incoming president.
does that sound like moving forward? it sounds like a shithole country to me.