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2019-03-27 Home Front: Culture Wars
Andrew McCarthy: On the Issue of Obstruction - Mueller Abdicates
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Posted by Bobby 2019-03-27 04:02|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 ...Pardon me, but if no crime was committed (i.e.; collusion) what the hell could he have obstructed?

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-03-27 04:38||   2019-03-27 04:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Agreed Mike. No law exists that gags the President while giving others license to lie. He fights back, using their own tools, and the pathetic snowflakes can’t handle the blowback.
Posted by Ptah 2019-03-27 04:59||   2019-03-27 04:59|| Front Page Top

#3 So, "go easy on Flynn," was a problem of the gravest sort, but the recent circus in Chicago is business as usual. Alllllriiiight. Got it!
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-27 07:04||   2019-03-27 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Then again we all knew Mueller was going to lay a huge libel landmine.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-03-27 08:28||   2019-03-27 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Hussein can still be impeached and should be.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-27 08:53||   2019-03-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 ..technically, impeachment removes the protection of office. Obean is no longer in office and no longer enjoys legal protection. What protects him is the old 'tradition' of not prosecuting former executives as Rome showed that it tended to cause leaders resisting becoming former (Caesar, Rubicon, and all that).
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-27 09:25||   2019-03-27 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 If Mueller had the evidence he should have prosecuted. Otherwise, he should STFU...er, admit that he couldn't find anything. But I suppose after two years and $35 million he felt the need to say something, however petty and ridiculous it might be.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-27 11:03||   2019-03-27 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll always wonder though, how many politicians could undergo such scrutiny and come away from it unscathed?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-27 11:12||   2019-03-27 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Scrutiny 3 times: House, Senate, and Special Counsel.

THREE Times. I'd like to see Clinton Foundation and the Obama Justice Dept and DCI offices subjected to that same treatment. Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Lynch, Lerner, and maybe even Clinton and Obama, in irons.
Posted by Vespasian Unairt7733 2019-03-27 12:36||   2019-03-27 12:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Obean is no longer in office and no longer enjoys legal protection. What protects him is the old 'tradition' of not prosecuting former executives as Rome showed that it tended to cause leaders resisting becoming former (Caesar, Rubicon, and all that).

But if it was Obama who crossed the Rubicon, refused to step down peacefully and graciously, attempted to rig an election and when that failed attempted to undermine his successor's administration, he has waived his claim to the traditional protection.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-27 13:41||   2019-03-27 13:41|| Front Page Top

#11 ...If the water drowns him then he is innocent?
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
There is no way that anyone could prove that they had never been guilty of a "hypothetical crime". Mueller himself could not "absolutely prove" that he had never, as an example, been a sexual predator "...at some undisclosed time and in some undisclosed manner".

Mueller should be disbarred for a basic failure to understand the concept of "Presumption of Innocence" in legal matters.
Posted by magpie 2019-03-27 14:43||   2019-03-27 14:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Hitler finds out the Mueller Investigation is Over
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-27 15:41||   2019-03-27 15:41|| Front Page Top

#13 There is really no historic precedent to draw upon for what happened in the Obean administration. It would seem like treason is a matter to be considered. We have impeached presidents but never convicted them. This is new ground being plowed. Lindsey Graham is saying this should handled by a special counsel. I guess it is a question of optics. It should be a matter of justice. As Trump said, this should never happen again. Agreed there. Justice should be done.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-27 16:53||   2019-03-27 16:53|| Front Page Top

#14 I saw the CNN headline on a public tube this afternoon - "Mystery - Why Did Mueller Punt?"
[snicker] 'Cuz he didn't make a first down!
Posted by Bobby 2019-03-27 17:55||   2019-03-27 17:55|| Front Page Top

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