Republicans have Robert Mueller in their sites. They plan to mount the OJ Defence. Michael Harris reminds his readers how it worked:
Instead of allowing the prosecution to try their client on the evidence, Johnnie Cochran and company managed to put LAPD investigators on trial. It was the judicial world’s equivalent of a Hail Mary pass.
In the face of Cochran’s relentless attack on the police, buttressed by full courtroom theatrics, prosecutor Marsha Clark’s mountain of evidence against Simpson was obscured behind all the legal smoke.
An email from FBI investigator Peter Strzok has been uncovered which calls Donald Trump an "idiot." When it was brought to Mueller's attention, Mueller removed Strrzok from the investigation. Now the Trump propaganda machine is going after Mueller. Harris writes:
Given Strzok’s role in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, they are now demanding that the Justice Department appoint a second special counsel to investigate Mueller.
Their position is at once absurd and another example of obstruction of justice by the Republicans. For one thing, Strzok’s texts were discovered by an internal investigation conducted by the Inspector General’s Office of the DOJ. When Mueller learned of them, Strzok was removed from the investigation. Does that sound like Mueller has it in for the president? Isn’t it proof of the exact opposite — that the former FBI director wouldn’t tolerate even the appearance of bias on his team?
Secondly, if the premise of Congressional Republicans’ argument is that Strzok’s political leanings mean that he is unfit to conduct a fair investigation, then what about others who have clearly expressed their political preferences?
Robert Mueller himself is a lifelong Republican. Does that make him unfit to lead the investigation? At the time of his appointment, Senator Lindsey Graham and Republican kingpin Newt Gingrich raved about his stellar credentials. Now they say he’s “corrupt”?
Trump and the Republicans are all about distraction. They're desperate to change the channel away from the big picture -- which is getting darker:
It is all about obscuring the clearly visible mountain range of lies told by Trump and his people about their Russian connections. It’s all about the serial instances of Donald Trump trying to obstruct justice, from lying about the Russia connection to pressuring James Comey to let the case against Michael Flynn go.
A showdown is coming. And the OJ Defence is at the heart of it.
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10 comments:
IMHO OJ was guilty, but and I have this from a authorized source, the police did plant evidence and try and cook the proof.
The same for Trump and the FBI. I say again there is no proof that the Russians did anything to alter the US election. There is lots of opinion, but no proof. As people like Kim Dot Com and Snowden have pointed out, if they wanted proof the NSA has it.
Again, Steve, it's too early to reach any conclusion.
I will disagree. If there were any meat on the Russian bone we would have all feasted by now. Its been over a year and crickets are the only sound coming from the investigation. If you investigated any goverment at any level with the power of Meuler your going find crimes.
I am happy when super patriot generals have to pay the band. I am not sure I have the guy
I was thinking aboot in mind But General Secord comes to mind.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/10/us/ex-spy-chief-is-convicted-of-lying-to-congress-on-iran-contra-affair.html?pagewanted=all
There is much more to come, Steve -- much more.
What is with this guy? Does Steve have the slightest grasp of what an investigation of this magnitude entails? Obviously not. He's using what he cannot know to come to a conclusion. We expect better than that of our children in their school years.
Intelligent people recall how long it took to conclude the Watergate investigation and, in scope, that was far more narrow and central than Mueller's.
I have American relatives, Mound, who -- to this day -- believe that Nixon got the shaft. What can I say?
There are some people who believe that Watergate was a deep state op against Nixon. Did Bob Woodward not work for the CIA?
The thing about Watergate mound was their was the fact of the breakin to work with. In this case not a single fact revealed to the public.
Read Harris' article, Steve. So far, 19 face to face meetings between the Trump team and the Russians have been documented. Trump says he has had nothing to do with Russia. And there will be a lot more information to come.
Owen how many meetings did Russians have with Hillary?
That they met does not mean they talked about stealing the election. Most likely just how to best capitalize on the Trump white house.
Where do you get this stuff, Steve? It's made of the same cloth as the claim that Hillary has AIDS -- which she got from Bill because he was messing around with Magic Johnson. It's balderdash.
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