The media hasn’t been reporting much on the initial release from Horowitz, but it looks like some potential bombshells in here for the Democrats.
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More from Andy McCarthy.
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And it wasn’t Comey’s decision to exonerate Hillary; it was Obama’s:
Bottom line: In April, President Obama and his Justice Department adopted a Hillary Clinton defense strategy of concocting a crime no one was claiming Clinton had committed: to wit, transmitting classified information with an intent to harm the United States. With media-Democrat complex help, they peddled the narrative that she could not be convicted absent this “malicious intent,” in a desperate effort to make the publicly known evidence seem weak. Meanwhile, they quietly hamstrung FBI case investigators in order to frustrate the evidence-gathering process. When damning proof nevertheless mounted, the Obama administration dismissed the whole debacle by rewriting the statute (to impose an imaginary intent standard) and by offering absurd rationalizations for not applying the statute as written.
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More thoughts from (still Democrat, as far as I know) Jonathan Turley.
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Jack Goldsmith on the Deep State. It also seems relevant to this post.
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Is Comey lying about his memos?
Probably.
In the future, I’m going to take encomia and praise of the “integrity” and probity of these Beltway denizens from other Beltway denizens with a truckload of salt.
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Donald Trump and the star chamber of horrors:
As the past year-plus of Robert Mueller’s tedious investigation has proven, there is no very great crime behind Trump’s very great fortune of having been elected the 45th president of the United States. The entire notion of Russian “collusion” (not in itself actionable in the first place) was cooked up in the witches’ cauldron that was Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The resulting brew was liberally dispensed to the cadres of media operatives pretending to be dispassionate reporters in order to assuage the failed candidate’s rage over losing what she thought—what she was assured by her friends at the CIA and the FBI—was a fixed fight.
And so the Big Lie—that Trump had collaborated with Vladimir Putin to change the course of an American election—was born.
There was and is nothing to it, of course. But that hasn’t stopped the Democrats, whose sterling moral history of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition has prepared them for just this moment.
Don’t hold back, Michael, tell them what you really think.
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Comey makes surprising new claims in a disastrous Fox News interview.
FBI agents investigating the Clinton Foundation “were given a much starker instruction on the case: ‘Stand down,’” according to the Journal report.
There wasn’t a single investigation into Hillary’s scandals or anything else that happened during the Obama administration where raids were conducted, evidence seized, or charges brought to either flip a witness or to punish a criminal. Instead evidence was destroyed with the help of Obama’s DoJ and other departments, there was never any effort to collect evidence but there was efforts to prevent the collection, and immunity was handed out to everyone involved.
All of which happened top down from the leadership at the White House and various government agencies. There was no “independence doctrine” and claims of obstruction from the DNC media.
With media-Democrat complex help, they peddled the narrative that she could not be convicted absent this “malicious intent,”
It was a carefully crafted deceit that could only work with a complicit media. They created a great show where Comey would run an investigation and he would make the decision but Lynch never recused herself and even if she did, Comey still wouldn’t make the call. The decision not to do anything about Hillary came straight from the President through his loyal department head. The media was more than happy to put everything on Comey but in reality, he wasn’t the one who made the decisions. He was just the one who rang the rigged investigation.
charges brought to either flip a witness
Nah brah; witnesses were given immunity like candy, with the exception of Cheryl Mills, who Hillary was able to claim was her lawyer, despite Mills previously being a State Department employee under Hillary Clinton and perhaps equally involved in the related crimes in regards to sensitive data.
Come to think of it, prosecutorial discretion does not count in terms of double jeopardy, and I don’t think there is a statute of limitations for mishandling classified data; and now we know it is perfectly fine to violate lawyer/client confidentiality if the lawyer may be a party to the crime…
“In the future, I’m going to take encomia and praise of the “integrity” and probity of these Beltway denizens from other Beltway denizens with a truckload of salt.”
I never gave Comey much thought until I saw him lionized on 60 Minutes as an honest straight shooter.
From that moment on I knew he was a resistance tool.