The few Classical Liberals left among Democrat voters should be not only angry but also frightened by the outcome of the Mueller investigation.
The bottom line for this investigation is that there was not one, single indictment related to the ostensible subject matter of the investigation. Most of the indictments were of Russian nationals, some of whom chose to appear in court and embarrass the living hell out of the Mueller team, merely by demanding proof.
The indictments of the Americans were for process crimes, some of them decades old, and these were unequally applied, on a political party basis.
Nevertheless, we have had over two years of "leaks" of false information from Democrats in a position to know the "leaks" were false.
We have seen a political candidate and everyone associated with him, his friends, family, staff and peripheral staff, targeted for harassing investigation, plainly for the purpose of intimidation.
The foundation of this mess is an unverified Dossier that was ginned up by one political party and used by that party for the purpose of providing an excuse to invade the privacy of thousands of US citizens. In order to obtain permission for that invasion of privacy, officials in high public office had to lie to a court about the provenance of that dossier.
The abuses of power and the abuses of process evident in this case must be curbed. These abuses strike at the heart of our representative republic.
Yes, I would conclude from this that the FBI should be disbanded; and that the DOJ should be replaced, from the top down, with people who have never served in politics or government before. The law should be changed so that one cannot be charged with 'lying to Congress' or 'lying to the FBI' without firm proof of intent to lie being demonstrated to the grand jury.
The FISA court has likewise proven insufficient to protect Americans' privacy interests; and was, in fact, used to spy on a Presidential campaign by an opposing administration.
This episode has proven that the security state is quite dangerous to American liberty. It needs to be reined in.
I'm not sure we need to replace the personnel in the DoJ. It's not certain we need a DoJ. We got along fine for nearly a hundred years without one. The only reason we have one now is the plethora of Federal laws, most of which we don't need.
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I assume the purpose was to put sand in the gears for a while. Mission accomplished.
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK"
Be interesting to see gymnasts try to adapt that to an Olympics floor routing.
Eric Hines
Ok, I'll go there.
The few Classical Liberals left among Democrat voters should be not only angry but also frightened by the outcome of the Mueller investigation.
The bottom line for this investigation is that there was not one, single indictment related to the ostensible subject matter of the investigation. Most of the indictments were of Russian nationals, some of whom chose to appear in court and embarrass the living hell out of the Mueller team, merely by demanding proof.
The indictments of the Americans were for process crimes, some of them decades old, and these were unequally applied, on a political party basis.
Nevertheless, we have had over two years of "leaks" of false information from Democrats in a position to know the "leaks" were false.
We have seen a political candidate and everyone associated with him, his friends, family, staff and peripheral staff, targeted for harassing investigation, plainly for the purpose of intimidation.
The foundation of this mess is an unverified Dossier that was ginned up by one political party and used by that party for the purpose of providing an excuse to invade the privacy of thousands of US citizens. In order to obtain permission for that invasion of privacy, officials in high public office had to lie to a court about the provenance of that dossier.
The abuses of power and the abuses of process evident in this case must be curbed. These abuses strike at the heart of our representative republic.
Valerie
Yes, I would conclude from this that the FBI should be disbanded; and that the DOJ should be replaced, from the top down, with people who have never served in politics or government before. The law should be changed so that one cannot be charged with 'lying to Congress' or 'lying to the FBI' without firm proof of intent to lie being demonstrated to the grand jury.
The FISA court has likewise proven insufficient to protect Americans' privacy interests; and was, in fact, used to spy on a Presidential campaign by an opposing administration.
This episode has proven that the security state is quite dangerous to American liberty. It needs to be reined in.
I'm not sure we need to replace the personnel in the DoJ. It's not certain we need a DoJ. We got along fine for nearly a hundred years without one. The only reason we have one now is the plethora of Federal laws, most of which we don't need.
Eric Hines
I'll buy that. No DOJ.
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