Here We Go Again: GOPers Demand Independent Counsel For Clinton Emails

[MohRokTah]

Here We Go Again: GOPers Demand Independent Counsel For Clinton Emails

Some Republican lawmakers are now calling for an independent counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton's use of private email server while secretary of state following a public recommendation Tuesday from the FBI director that Clinton not be charged criminally, according to The Washington Post.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said the FBI was "steeped in political bias" and brought up a new favorite conservative talking point: the tarmac meeting In Phoenix last week between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, according to the Post.

"The role of the independent counsel is to keep investigations honest and prosecutorial decisions independent of the political, personal and financial conflicts of interest that undermine accountability in government," Turner told WaPo. "It is time for Secretary Clinton to be held accountable for her extremely careless actions.”

FBI Director James Comey is a registered Republican who donated to John McCain and Mitt Romney's campaigns, according to voting records.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-investigation-clinton-fbi?utm_content=buffer60111&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[jimw81]

1. cant it was dissolved in 2009

[hollysmom]

2. and you are surprised - you don't think that with her election it will not be a constant

search for crimes? This wasa given unless the dems come back in control.

[JoePhilly]

3. The GOP gave up all pretense of governance when Bill was President.

They have decided the government only exists to enrich them as individuals, and to be used to attack their enemies.

[MoonRiver]

6. And that would be no matter who our nominee was.

We simply MUST take back the Senate, or this government will cease to function in any meaningful manner!

[hollysmom]

10. true-ish

I think it will always be more with the Clintons just because they have so much practice on them and the years of attacks have set the public mind to accept it. I know dems who think it is acceptable, Yes, I Look at the attacks on Obama, but not so much the investigations. I think the attacks on Obama were more vicious and racist, but not as many committee investigations.

[MoonRiver]

23. They indirectly attacked him during the Benghazi investigation.

It was two for one.

[pnwmom]

13. With any Dems' election it will be a constant search for crimes. n/t

[Hekate]

14. Anyone with a D after their name is a target.

[CincyDem]

4. Yeah - because that Ken Starr thing worked out so well for them.

[stopbush]

5. What? No call for a SP for Benghazi while they're at it?

Two HUGE losses within a wekk for the RWNM and the VRWC. The butthurt must be catastrophic.

[SummerSnow]

7. ha ha....

[The Second Stone]

8. Here's what I think Obama should say to them

[SaschaHM]

9. If you have to continously create scandals and surpress the vote to win elections with BS laws,

maybe you should spend that time and money on making your party electable.

[Hekate]

11. Anything to avoid doing an honest day's work, right? If we can't clean out the Congress this year...

...the next 4 years are going to be nothing but ugly.

[geek tragedy]

12. assholes nt

[jalan48]

15. This is what the American people have to look forward to for the next 4/8 years.

The important issues facing our country will be pushed aside by hearings, investigations and impeachment attempts. Sad.

[MohRokTah]

19. Sounds like the past 8 years.

Reminiscent of the 8 years prior to Bush the Dumber, too.

In fact, this is SOP for ANY Democratic presidency from the GOPers.

[geek tragedy]

21. that's how it will be as long as Republicans control Congress.

they've done it to Obama, they'd do it to Sanders or any other Democrat

[Bill USA]

16. Why is there never a Black Hole around when one needs one?

[NCTraveler]

17. Why do they do this to themselves?

This would be even more pathetic than their first round of Going Gowdy.

[longship]

18. Of course they do! What else would one expect of them?

[NastyRiffraff]

20. And then there's this:

Last edited Tue Jul 5, 2016, 07:45 PM - Edit history (2)

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS VOTE TO ABOLISH F.B.I.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a stunning rebuke to one of the nation’s oldest and most established law-enforcement agencies, House Republicans voted unanimously on Tuesday to abolish the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Unlike most House measures, which come up for a vote only after months or even years of sluggish effort, the bill to eliminate the F.B.I. was drafted in a matter of minutes on Tuesday morning, Republican staffers confirmed.

House Speaker Paul Ryan offered no specific reason for the Republicans’ sudden frenzy of activity to abolish the F.B.I., but said that the Bureau represented “big government at its worst.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/congressional-republicans-vote-to-abolish-f-b-i

On edit: Andy Borowitz is satire, but it seemed fitting here.

[caquillo]

24. I think that's satire

[NastyRiffraff]

26. It is.

It's Andy Borowitz. Sorry, I should have made that clear. Corrected on edit.

[caquillo]

27. Okay

I've just seen Borowitz columns being passed around on FB and elsewhere as fact.

[Jitter65]

22. Because that worked so well for them before. nt

[VOX]

25. The RE noise machine never shuts off...

It just keeps pounding away. This is how the GoPEE operates now: obstruction, voter suppression, complicit media. Over and over. And always placing blame and derision in an extremely partisan manner. They couldn't care less about any greater good.

[BlueCaliDem]

31. Banana-Republican Party. That's what they've become.

[BlueMTexpat]

28. It's like Groundhog Day

with these yahoos!

[Else You Are Mad]

29. Expect this for the next 8 years.

The GOP will be calling for an independent counsel to investigate every parking ticket, unpaid late fees from blockbuster and the library, every time Hillary told Chelsea that Santa was real, ad nauseum.

[CanonRay]

30. I hear Ken Starr is looking for a new gig.

[muntrv]

32. Political bias? Like Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia went duck hunting

Prior to Cheney's trial before the Supreme Court?

[MFM008]

33. We need to wipe them out

In November. Make them the Whig party.