Michael Mukasey: “It’s time to end it.”
Yes, but we also need to properly investigate what happened with the Obama administration, and see that justice is done. Though perhaps Horowitz’s report will have the whole story.
[Update a few minutes later]
(Democrat pollster for Bill Clinton during his impeachment) Mark Penn agrees. He’s been on Fox News saying this for a while.
[Update late morning]
The hunter becomes the hunted:
The current conflict in Washington, though dismaying, is at least much more comforting than the condition where everyone sings each other’s praises. The whole purpose of oversight, checks, and balances is to avoid the formation of an absorbing Markov transition — a kind of political Hotel California — which you can enter but never leave.
Avoiding a crisis depends on not crossing certain lines and concealing that fact if it has occurred. That has now gone by the board. When a system is undeniably confronted with deceitful lawlessness it is like finding the dealer was cheating at cards. Trump, by officially demanding an answer into whether the previous administration engaged in political spying, is effectively accusing them of cheating at cards. As everybody knows, once you ask this question at a table, the surface game stops and a deeper game begins. Suddenly the little cardboard rectangles don’t matter anymore.
Stay tuned.
[Afternoon update]
I suppose I shouldn’t be, but I’m kind of gobsmacked at the number of people on Twitter, many of whom purport to be journalists, claiming that the Justice Department is “independent of the executive branch.”
The Democrats just want to end it before there’s an investigation which proves how crooked it was.
the Justice Department is “independent of the executive branch.”
You call it piss, they call it rain.
My response is to invoke the name, “Robert F. Kennedy”.
Yea and Kennedy took heat at the time for naming Robert F Kennedy part of it being nepotism charges.
Kennedy took heat
Nonsense, Robert was confirmed by the Senate 97-0.
Nonsense yourself, where you get the 97 vote since it was a voice vote. Thanks to Johnsons machinations and senate being a more old boys club than it is now and Johnson and Kennedy both being former senators.
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/836424-baker-text.html#document/p203
page 204 “Had it be a roll call vote, …. He would have been lucky to get 40 votes”
Oh i found a Kennedy confirmed 97-0, his first name was Anthony and he supreme court justice…
Yes my search to validate what you wrote was flawed. You are right that it was a voice vote. You don’t have to count votes with the Judiciary Committee unanimously approves the appointment. They did that despite noting in committee that the younger Kennedy hadn’t tried a case before either a judge or jury, selected a jury, written a brief, or negotiated a settlement.
So back to my original point, Robert F. Kennedy was still confirmed by the Senate and was officially JFK’s AG and brother. Tell me again, Democrats, that the Justice Department is independent of the Executive Branch/White House/President? I retain the charge; nonsense.
Question is Rand how do you propose to end it?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mueller-investigation-arguments-for-ending-probe/
Sounds like defunding the investigation would work. If Congress doesn’t want to go along with that, then reassign everyone from the investigation to more useful work. As to the concern about leaks? Leak away, if there really is something there.
If at this point, Mueller proves to be an obstruction, then fire him.
I don’t see a practical point to the investigation as of present. He hasn’t actually convicted anyone who wouldn’t have been convicted anyway – I gather most of the investigations were ongoing and his office just took them over. And the novel thing of indicting in absentia a bunch of Russians and Russian corporations on nebulous accusations of election manipulation looks like it’ll blow up in his face.
Having said that, it’s a relatively minor waste of resources as far as such things go. And who knows, maybe a few years from now, Mueller will dig up something that would justify the whole thing. Just don’t expect it to happen.
Open a criminal investigation into the acts Mueller did while doing Obama’s bidding. It is beyond ridiculous that the people Obama ordered to carry out abuses of power are now in charge of investigating Russian collusion.
When members of Mueller’s staff start going to jail; the investigation will stop.
When members of Mueller’s staff are dragged into court for their crimes, expect the democrat-media complex to scream OBSTRUCTION! at the top of their lungs.
I’m sure. Because you can’t be defined as insane unless you keep doing what you’ve been doing and expecting a different result.
In a normal investigation, it’s a matter of “a crime was committed, so we must investigate to determine who did it.” In a special prosecutor effort – especially against a Republican – it’s a return to Beria’s “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” There is a civil rights lawyer who published a book titled “Three Felonies a Day”. If the author is right, if any prosecutor with essentially unlimited resources decides to investigate anyone, he will eventually come up with a crime that person committed.
’m kind of gobsmacked at the number of people on Twitter, many of whom purport to be journalists, claiming that the Justice Department is “independent of the executive branch.”
Well, it has to be independent to shield Obama from being held accountable for ordering the DOJ to do the things they did while he was President. Obama was a renowned micromanager but the defense for each of his scandals started with rogue employees and agencies acting independently.
The ultimate defense will be that Obama had every right to order the DOJ who to prosecute and who not to.
The King doesn’t have to order crimes against his enemies. It is sufficient that he put people loyal to him in the right offices, identify his enemies, and let it be known that lawlessness in support of his crown will not be prosecuted. At least that’s the way a competent corrupt King would operate.