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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Tue May 9, 2017, 08:24 PM May 2017

Charles P. Pierce: The Great American Ass-Covering

The Great American Ass-Covering
With James Comey's firing, the entire Justice Department is now hopelessly compromised.


By Charles P. Pierce
May 9, 2017


Holy hell, what a blunder.

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But the longer bill of particulars lodged against Comey by the current leadership of the Department of Justice (Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, head overseer) is where the true hilarity lies. From The New York Times:

Memos released by the White House show that Rod J. Rosenstein, the newly sworn-in deputy attorney general, recommended that Mr. Comey be fired over how he disclosed the investigation into Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Comey broke with longstanding tradition and policies by discussing the case and chastising the Democratic presidential nominee's "careless" handling of classified information. Then, in the campaign's final days, Mr. Comey announced that the F.B.I. was reopening the case, a move that earned him widespread criticism.


So we are to believe, especially if we are all morons, that Comey was fired because of the administration's dissatisfaction with the activities that, more than anything else, helped make the administration possible. And I am the Tsar of all the Russias.

Can't anybody play this game? I will take any bet in any amount that we will have a special prosecutor looking into the Russia business by midsummer at the latest. Otherwise, I don't know who will take the job. The entire DOJ—including the FBI—is now hopelessly compromised. And yes, I dread the very thought of who these clowns might appoint—Rudy Giuliani? Chris Christie? Sheriff Clarke? Bo Dietl?—but that seems a secondary concern right now. At present, we're governed by people in a frenzy to cover their own asses. Nobody's hands are on the wheel.
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Charles P. Pierce: The Great American Ass-Covering (Original Post) babylonsister May 2017 OP
Need Independent Counsel / Special Prosecutor / Independent Prosecutor / Special Counsel. NOW. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #1
Won't be Ghouliani. Rumor has it that he was shopping his story for plea deals before this firing.nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #2
I read 'Bo Dietl' and about threw up. Yet babylonsister May 2017 #3
Ain't gonna happen Wednesdays May 2017 #4

Wednesdays

(17,248 posts)
4. Ain't gonna happen
Tue May 9, 2017, 08:54 PM
May 2017

The Special Prosecutor would have to be appointed by the very people who need investigating. Either that will never happen, or they'll simply install another puppet.

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