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kpete's JournalJeff Sessions's Grave Conflict of Interest - by Murray Waas
Last year, in March 2018, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions enlisted his subordinates to lie on his behalf that he did not know he was under federal investigation when he fired then Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe—an investigation initiated by McCabe and overseen by him until it was taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
By doing so, Sessions and his allies succeeded in shutting down a major controversy. If it had been made public that the attorney general had knowingly fired the deputy FBI director (and later, acting director) who’d opened and supervised that criminal investigation, the resulting scandal would have engulfed Sessions and would likely have even more seriously threatened his already tumultuous tenure as attorney general. Besides the scrutiny of the media and Congress, Sessions might have faced an inquiry by one of the Justice Department’s internal watchdog agencies, the Department’s Inspector General or Office of Professional Responsibility, as well as incurring the wrath of an already embittered president.
A government official with first-hand knowledge of the matter told me that the attorney general therefore instructed aides to make false statements in briefings to the press. The official’s account of what was at stake for Sessions is corroborated in part by a mass of evidence in the Mueller Report detailing the special counsel’s investigation of the former attorney general.
In addition to firing McCabe, Sessions, while under investigation, played a leading role in more broadly carrying out President Trump’s relentless campaign to undermine and discredit the FBI. Several leading experts on legal ethics have told me that Sessions’s simultaneous and dual roles almost certainly violated the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct and federal government conflict of interest regulations. That demonstrates both the utility of Sessions’ misstatements, and the gravity of the situation he faced.
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much, much, much more:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/05/15/jeff-sessionss-grave-conflict-of-interest/
Amen
https://twitter.com/WarriorZoltar/status/1127253298698784768
https://twitter.com/djlavoie/status/1128489028448399360
Alabama lawmaker demolishes GOP colleagues for draconian abortion law: 'We raped women last night'
“I think that we raped women last night,” Singleton said. “We made the women of Alabama the model of the new Roe-versus-Wade. I think this is a horrible bill. Hopefully, if it gets to that level to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court will not select this as a test case.”
Singleton then tore into Republican lawmakers who had signaled that they would support granting exceptions to the abortion ban for rape or incest — only to back down when the time came to vote.
“Before I left last Thursday, there were at least twelve Republicans who had mentioned that their wives or their sisters or their daughters had said to them… don’t go down there and vote for that bill,” he said. “Something went wrong over the weekend that members got lobbied or whatever happened and only four of those Republicans stood with us.”
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/alabama-lawmaker-demolishes-gop-colleagues-for-draconian-abortion-law-we-raped-women-last-night/
Ukraine Prosecutor Made Up Biden Claim to curry favor with Trump & Giuliani
Ukraine Prosecutor Made Up Biden Claim, Kiev Lawmaker Says
By Daryna Krasnolutska and Stephanie Baker
May 13, 2019, 12:45 PM PDT Updated on May 13, 2019, 3:25 PM PDT
Alleged bid to curry favor with Trump and Giuliani draws ire
Prosecutor’s spokeswoman denies the letter came from him
A Ukrainian lawmaker accused his country’s top prosecutor of manufacturing a “conspiracy” about U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, adding to a political intrigue playing out from Kiev to Washington.
The lawmaker, Serhiy Leshchenko, said he had been given parts of a letter written by the prosecutor with the intent of currying favor with the Trump administration. The letter was sent by the prosecutor through unofficial channels to President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the lawmaker told journalists on Monday in Kiev as he distributed copies of two pages.
The letter, purportedly written by Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, said that Biden, while U.S. vice president, personally received income from a Ukrainian natural gas company in exchange for “lobbying activities and political support.”
The lawmaker said those allegations were false.
MORE:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/ukraine-prosecutor-made-up-biden-allegation-kiev-lawmaker-says
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Here's proof Rod Rosenstein is spinning. He knows his memo was just an excuse
Here's proof Rod Rosenstein is spinning. He knows his memo was just an excuse. He knows the firing was bc of the Russian investigation. Once you know that, it *doesn't matter* how the firing was handled. it was illegitimate.
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1128093496215265281
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/rosenstein-comey-baltimore-speech/index.html
Jonathan Capeheart to Ivanka Trump:
@CapehartJ
It's also a day to think about all those mothers who've been separated from their children at the border and may never see them again -- by order of your father.
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While every day for you should be Mother’s Day, it’s great to have a day for us to slow down, reflect and express to you how much we appreciate you and all that you do for our family.
Thank you mom! xx ❤️
https://twitter.com/CapehartJ/status/1127559227223040000
Arise, then, women of this day!
Read along.
Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have breasts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
-- Julia Ward Howe, 1870
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/12/1857034/-Arise-then-women-of-this-day
OUCH-Pete Buttigieg response to Donald Trump's slam that he is Alfred E Neuman
Ouch! Mayor
@Pete
Buttigieg responds to
@realDonaldTrump
slam that he is “Alfred E Neuman” —“I had to Google that..I guess it’s a generational thing.”
https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1127029998928326656
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