“I do think the attorney general has gone rogue,” Ms. Pelosi said on CNN. “He has for a long time now. And since he was mentioned in all of this, it’s curious that he would be making decisions about how the complaint would be handled.”One thing that we've seen a lot of is this move to force recusal by the Attorney General, who is a political appointee. Jeff Sessions recused during the whole RussiaRussiaRussia thing because he was 'named,' so that the matter ended up being handled by lesser officials (especially Deputy AG Rosenstein). Barr is refusing to play that game. His name came up because it ought to come up, and it ought to come up because he's the appropriate and lawful official to have handled a joint investigation with Ukraine under treaty law.
In a way this represents a weakening of norms, because the best case is one in which no one would serve as a judge in his own case. Recusals like Session's, where he was plainly in the clear but nevertheless was mentioned, represent a kind of extravagant adherence to this best case. To do that, of course, one has to trust that one's case will be handled fairly -- as the example of Mike Flynn suggests you no longer can do.
We are in a destabilizing political situation, in which constitutional officers are no longer even trying to prop up the legitimacy of inferior officers. I wonder if this can remain rhetorical, or if we aren't watching the beginning of a collapse.
By the way, I can't help but notice that this Ukraine thing is following a familiar script in other ways, too -- today we got the 'X number of former officials say this is awful' news story, which has become a standard feature of left-leaning attacks on Republican officials. It makes me wonder if this isn't going to turn out to be a Fusion GPS production, exactly like RussiaRussiaRussia only faster because they don't have a lot of time now.
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In a way it's good news; if the whole thing is a confection (and it's looking that way), and they've used their same playbook, then people will find it easier to recognize & accept it as an organized effort, same as the last one.
Some American politician said he was working with Fusion centers to get a good solid gun control stuff out and fixed... I am like... you got conned, Mr Congress Puppet.
The whole "Fusion" prefix is a kind of Deep State front op.
Remember, 2.7 or was it 2.1 trillion that DOD can't account for on September 10th, 2001. That's a lot of money to fund somebody's black budget war or coup de tat.
I wonder if this can remain rhetorical, or if we aren't watching the beginning of a collapse.
Not even I have been told when the collapse, if any, will occur. I doubt the cannonfodder DC knows any more.
The story so far seems to be the Alliance (which backs Trum) fighting the Cabal (which backs pedo ring Demoncrats). Except the thing is... both can be defined as the Deep State. Cause both are clandestine organizations and hierarchies.
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