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babylonsister

(171,065 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:33 PM Jun 2017

Is Our Attorney General a Crook?

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/6/8/151420/3306


Is Our Attorney General a Crook?

by BooMan
Thu Jun 8th, 2017 at 03:14:20 PM EST

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What’s curious is another thing that Comey said in his testimony:


“We were convinced, and in fact I think we already heard that the career people were recommending {Sessions} recuse himself, that he wasn’t going to be in contact with Russia-related matters much longer,” he continued. “And that turned out to be the case.”


I’m not sure who the “career people” would be in this instance and I think it’s kind of important to know the answer to that question. Were these people at the Department of Justice or in the FBI? Were they seriously having that conversation in mid-February? And based on what set of facts?

Meetings with Kislyak, even if we’re talking about several of them, wouldn’t amount to “a variety of reasons.”

It clearly looks like the FBI thought of Sessions as a suspect which would explain why they’d want to sideline him to protect the investigation. It obviously explains why they didn’t want to keep him in the loop about the presidents’ efforts to obstruct the Flynn investigation. And it also explains why Comey, after he was fired, leaked news of his memos on his conversations with Trump for the freely admitted reason that he wanted to force the appointment of a Special Counsel.

President Nixon once said that the people have the right to know if their president is a crook. He was right about that. But I think the people also have the right to know if their Attorney General is a crook.
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Is Our Attorney General a Crook? (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2017 OP
Is the pope Catholic? volstork Jun 2017 #1
Witting or unwitting? kentuck Jun 2017 #2
Very 'witting' imo. nt babylonsister Jun 2017 #3
Yes mcar Jun 2017 #4
He's from Alabama. He's a politician. He's a Repuke. Of course he's a crook. Glorfindel Jun 2017 #5
Add this to his list of Wellstone ruled Jun 2017 #6
Just the fact he was a Trump campaign ringleader should have caused recusal wishstar Jun 2017 #7

Glorfindel

(9,729 posts)
5. He's from Alabama. He's a politician. He's a Repuke. Of course he's a crook.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:47 PM
Jun 2017

I'm not picking on Alabama, either. The same is true of Repuke politicians from Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Georgia. Maybe especially Georgia, considering that the repulsive monster Z*** Miller is from here.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Add this to his list of
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:58 PM
Jun 2017

crud. Understand he as a State Official loved to bury his Opponents so deep in Prison that the Sun will never find them.

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
7. Just the fact he was a Trump campaign ringleader should have caused recusal
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 05:02 PM
Jun 2017

from the investigation that was looking into collusion and contacts between Trump Campaign/Russia, even before the Sessions/Kislyak meetings were known

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