- We suspect the culture at the top of the FBI has not fallen too far from the tree: consider the culture at the top under J. Edgar Hoover
- ByronYork’s assertions cannot be credibly refuted,
“…the FBI’s message was: We know about you and those hookers in Moscow.”
Another incisive story from Byron York (Washington Examiner);
Ordinary Americans should see this as a challenge to PBS and the Democrat Party to show that any part of this is inaccurate or false.
Failing to do so, as they certainly would, all Americans should demand that the Mueller farce should be immediately halted!
And Mr. Mueller should be publicly discredited for the partisan hack he is.
“But he’s a “Republican” is not a defense of his leftist partisanship…Bill Kristol is a “Republican” (or at least used to claim he was).
On the Trump-Russia investigation and the rule of law (excerpt)
This week I took part in a debate on the question “Does the Russia investigation endanger the rule of law?” I said yes, and here is why:
First, a caveat: If “endanger the rule of law” means “destroys our legal order and threatens our democracy,” then no, I don’t think the Trump-Russia investigation does that. But if it means “involves our nation’s most powerful law enforcement and intelligence agencies in reckless political conduct that undermines our system of elections and the orderly transfer of power,” then yes, the Trump-Russia investigation does, in fact, endanger the rule of law.
Two incidents from 2016 and early 2017 point to the danger posed by overzealous Trump-Russia investigators.
The first is that the Justice Department used the Logan Act, which bars private Americans from conducting foreign policy, as a pretense to pursue an investigation against the Trump team.
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In their new book Russian Roulette, authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn report Trump thought the FBI was blackmailing him:
“Trump had seen this sort of thing before,” they write. “Certainly, his old mentor Roy Cohn — the notorious fixer for mobsters and crooked pols — knew how this worked. So too did Comey’s famous predecessor J. Edgar Hoover, who had quietly let it be known to politicians and celebrities that he possessed information that could destroy their careers in a New York minute.”
The intel chiefs’ briefing of Trump soon leaked to the media. And the fact that top officials had seen fit to tell the incoming president about the dossier made it a legitimate news story. Within hours, BuzzFeed published the entire dossier on the Internet.
As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said as all this was happening: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.”
With the Logan Act, Obama holdovers used a dead law as a pretense to push the Trump investigation. With the dossier, they used unverified opposition research not only to investigate the Trump campaign but to execute a clever maneuver to make the dirt public.
And this was all done by the nation’s top law enforcement and intelligence officials, targeting a new president. So yes, it is reasonable to say the Trump-Russia investigation endangers the rule of law.
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DLH
