Peter Strzok is everything, as it turns out. Strzok looks like the man at the center of what can best be described as the complete collapse of the FBI and Justice Department’s trustworthiness and credibility, a collapse which is triggering a crisis in the public confidence in the federal government as an institution we consent to have power over us.
To summarize, the Mueller probe is rotten to the core. It’s been nearly a full year in existence and is no closer to finding evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians than he was when he started, and to date all he’s managed is a pair of guilty pleas based purely out of conduct during the investigation, with Flynn’s the most significant.
This isn’t a banana republic, at least not yet. But it’ll become one on Trump’s watch if the president doesn’t act to put a stop to the runaway corruption in the Justice Department.
Here’s how to do that. First, Trump should pardon Flynn for the lie he admitted to the FBI, immediately. Only that, though — Flynn shouldn’t get a free pass for other things he’s done, like for example his Turkish escapades which might well bear further investigation.
Next, Trump should see to it that Strzok and Weissmann, and a number of others on Mueller’s team who are clearly compromised — they’d be disqualified as jurors on any case involving the president as having conflicts, much less as investigators — are fired. Not tomorrow. Today. This minute.
And Trump should tell Mueller he has until Christmas to bring an indictment against someone for collusion with the Russians, or else he’s fired and his probe gets disbanded. This investigation can’t be open-ended, and it also can’t be allowed to be a perpetual motion impeachment machine — not because it’s bad for Trump, but because it is poisonous to American democracy that this witch hunt might go on while the same people involved in it were actively at work exonerating Clinton.
Trump should also fire assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and assistant FBI director Andrew McCabe, both of whom are hopelessly compromised as well, and conduct a top-down review of FBI and DOJ personnel to rid those agencies of the partisan political corruption that clearly pervades them.
There can now be no mistake about the legitimacy of the Deep State coup against Trump his supporters have claimed. It’s real. The question now is what the president is going to do about it. The Democrats will use the 2018 midterm elections as a public referendum on whether they’re to be given the political power to impeach the president, and Mueller’s probe is nothing more than an effort to legitimize that naked grasp at the brass ring. Trump may have been practicing a bit of a rope-a-dope to smoke out just how empty this “collusion” narrative has been, but we’re past that now. Now it’s time to end the circus and turn out the clowns.
You’re right that impeachment is pure politics and has nothing to do with evidence or crimes or any of that bullshit. That’s why I think Trump may be better off just mocking Mueller as having no dick.
Maybe Trump really is playing 3D chess. He’s giving them a looong leash to hang themselves with. Once the time is right and all of America can truly see the corruption, he will make is move.
Iska, pretty damn funny. Bill Murray is a classic. Some truly great movies were made with this man in them.
TJF
December 7, 2017 10:06 am
I imagine now that the world can see that the FBI is very rotten at the top and nothing more than a group of powerful people with guns that serves the political will of TPTB that the morale of the actual agents stationed around in various field offices is a bit low. There has to be folks working there that were convinced they were there to fight the good fight, catch criminals and stand for the rule of law even if that came with some personal danger to themselves. Now they find out they work for partisan political hacks who ignore the rule of law because they deem themselves and their cause to be above it.
I wonder how long until some agents come out with details of their leadership’s crimes and associated cover ups. They cannot all be crooked.
From Scott McKay
Peter Strzok is everything, as it turns out. Strzok looks like the man at the center of what can best be described as the complete collapse of the FBI and Justice Department’s trustworthiness and credibility, a collapse which is triggering a crisis in the public confidence in the federal government as an institution we consent to have power over us.
To summarize, the Mueller probe is rotten to the core. It’s been nearly a full year in existence and is no closer to finding evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians than he was when he started, and to date all he’s managed is a pair of guilty pleas based purely out of conduct during the investigation, with Flynn’s the most significant.
This isn’t a banana republic, at least not yet. But it’ll become one on Trump’s watch if the president doesn’t act to put a stop to the runaway corruption in the Justice Department.
Here’s how to do that. First, Trump should pardon Flynn for the lie he admitted to the FBI, immediately. Only that, though — Flynn shouldn’t get a free pass for other things he’s done, like for example his Turkish escapades which might well bear further investigation.
Next, Trump should see to it that Strzok and Weissmann, and a number of others on Mueller’s team who are clearly compromised — they’d be disqualified as jurors on any case involving the president as having conflicts, much less as investigators — are fired. Not tomorrow. Today. This minute.
And Trump should tell Mueller he has until Christmas to bring an indictment against someone for collusion with the Russians, or else he’s fired and his probe gets disbanded. This investigation can’t be open-ended, and it also can’t be allowed to be a perpetual motion impeachment machine — not because it’s bad for Trump, but because it is poisonous to American democracy that this witch hunt might go on while the same people involved in it were actively at work exonerating Clinton.
Trump should also fire assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and assistant FBI director Andrew McCabe, both of whom are hopelessly compromised as well, and conduct a top-down review of FBI and DOJ personnel to rid those agencies of the partisan political corruption that clearly pervades them.
There can now be no mistake about the legitimacy of the Deep State coup against Trump his supporters have claimed. It’s real. The question now is what the president is going to do about it. The Democrats will use the 2018 midterm elections as a public referendum on whether they’re to be given the political power to impeach the president, and Mueller’s probe is nothing more than an effort to legitimize that naked grasp at the brass ring. Trump may have been practicing a bit of a rope-a-dope to smoke out just how empty this “collusion” narrative has been, but we’re past that now. Now it’s time to end the circus and turn out the clowns.
Enough already. Get rid of these people.
You’re right that impeachment is pure politics and has nothing to do with evidence or crimes or any of that bullshit. That’s why I think Trump may be better off just mocking Mueller as having no dick.
Maybe Trump really is playing 3D chess. He’s giving them a looong leash to hang themselves with. Once the time is right and all of America can truly see the corruption, he will make is move.
Iska, pretty damn funny. Bill Murray is a classic. Some truly great movies were made with this man in them.
I imagine now that the world can see that the FBI is very rotten at the top and nothing more than a group of powerful people with guns that serves the political will of TPTB that the morale of the actual agents stationed around in various field offices is a bit low. There has to be folks working there that were convinced they were there to fight the good fight, catch criminals and stand for the rule of law even if that came with some personal danger to themselves. Now they find out they work for partisan political hacks who ignore the rule of law because they deem themselves and their cause to be above it.
I wonder how long until some agents come out with details of their leadership’s crimes and associated cover ups. They cannot all be crooked.