- Grassley champions the Constitution and the people’s right to know
Daniel John Sobieski writing at American Thinker;
Why is Jeff Sessions hiding the Uranium One informant?
Maybe this is the answer to the questions in my previous post (and they are not encouraging). This is serious stuff!!!
Excerpts:
Perhaps as startling as the revelation that the FBI was investigating the Hillary Clinton/Russia/Uranium One collusion and that key figures like Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe knew about it and said nothing, is the refusal by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to remove the non-disclosure agreement gag order on the FBI informant who arguably could put Bill and Hillary Clinton and a few others in federal prison. . . .
It was said the Jeff Sessions recused himself from all things Russian because of election campaign conflicts but is it really because he thought it would insulate him from having to divulge what he knew about Uranium One and the people who at the very least knew about the deal, some who approved the deal, including past and present members of the FBI, the DOJ, and Special Counsel Robert Miller’s team? Is Jeff Sessions part of the Uranium One cover-up? If not, then he needs to explain why he is thus far refusing Sen. Chuck Grassley’s request to lift the gag order imposed by the Obama administration as part of the Uranium One cover-up:
“The Executive Branch does not have the authority to use non-disclosure agreements to avoid Congressional scrutiny,” Grassley wrote. “If the FBI is allowed to contract itself out of Congressional oversight, it would seriously undermine our Constitutional system of checks and balances. The Justice Department needs to work with the Committee to ensure that witnesses are free to speak without fear, intimidation or retaliation from law enforcement.”
Read the entire article for more insight. DLH
Additional thoughts:
Chuck Grassley has some forgivable “cronyisms” of sorts, revolving around what he sees as protecting farmers. As important as they are to home-state economy, it is understandable. Such bias and protectionism are obvious and he makes no attempt to cover anything up. More importantly, more endearingly, however, Grassley champions the Constitution and the people’s right to know.
I believe DLH would agree at least in part that a possible explanation of the gamesmanship being played by the entrenched state is not just to maintain power and control, but to blunt any prospects that they might go to jail. Trump is seen as someone “undependable”, indeed capable of making an example of them or eliciting revenge. They are definitely intent on maintaining their sinecures. Trump is a wild card and wild cards are not part of their game.
Accordingly they are trying desperately to establish that “everyone does it” (profiting from connections to Russia) and to thus avoid being isolated and significantly punished. Mueller is more than a consigliere to the dons (not of Trump’s given name) he is one of them. R Mall
