Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 11:37:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:28:00 PM (view original):
Again FU Jeff. Just FU and your liberal biased views.

But could he legally squash the investigation if he wanted to?

Because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation, the decision to appoint a special counsel fell to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. In his order making the appointment, Rosenstein cited federal regulations issued by the attorney general in 1999, 28 C.F.R. § 600.4-600.10. The rules were drafted in the wake of the Kenneth Starr investigation of President Bill Clinton.

According to those regulations, a special counsel “may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General” (or in this case, the acting attorney general). And Rosenstein can’t just do it on a whim, either. According to the regulation, special counsel can only be removed “for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.”

In a Senate hearing on June 13, Rosenstein said he alone exercises firing authority, and that he had not seen any evidence of good cause for firing Mueller.

“It’s certainly theoretically possible that the attorney general could fire him, but that’s the only person who has authority to fire him,” Rosenstein said. “And in fact, the chain of command for the special counsel is only directly to the attorney general, in this case the acting attorney general.”

If he wanted to, wrote Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and co-founder of Lawfare, Trump could then fire Rosenstein. In that case, the authority over Mueller would fall to the associate attorney general. In theory — and ignoring the political consequences of doing so — Trump could keep firing people until he got someone to follow through on an order to fire Mueller.

“That means it could go down the line until an assistant attorney general did not resign and instead carried out the President’s order,” Goldsmith wrote.

There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”

Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.

“The rules provide only so much protection: Congress, Trump and the Justice Department still have the power to stymie (or even terminate) Mueller’s inquiry,” Katyal wrote.


Again, FU Jeff. HRC was dirty.

what does HRC have to do with this?

That's 15 yards for flagrant whataboutism.

HRC was guilty as hell but the Left didn’t care. The Left is full of hypocrites. That’s what this has to do with. FBI has lost a lot of credibility. My kids actually do see these posts and they think you have liberal blinders on. Their words. Not mine.

If she's guilty as hell, throw her in prison. That a Republican party that holds all the cards in today's politics hasn't been able to, has me rather skeptical. If her foundation was crooked, throw her in jail, I don't give two *****.

According to the tin-foil on the right, she lacks stamina and the skills to hold any office but she's the worlds greatest serial killer and thief. You think both sides aren't hypocrites? LOL. Do you see me defending Franken or Weinstein? I think Harry Reid was the worse thing to ever happen to the Senate...next to McConnell I should say. Pelosi can suck a dick. I think Bernie is a loon. I've voted Republican for president one less time than I've voted Democrat. Would have been swapped if Kasich had won the nomination. He was the only sane candidate on either side.

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:51:00 PM (view original):
If you don’t think the FBI looks bad here then so be it. The server issue with HRC looks bad. The FISA court issue looks bad. Peter Strozk issue looks bad. 500 missing text messages looks bad.

Your friends must share your blinders. I am Not saying anyone is guilty or not guilty but it looks bad.

Do you know something about the FISA issue that we don't? All I hear is a bunch of bullshit coming out of Devin Nunes's mouth. Hahaha, the Strozk thing is a freaking edited talking point. Just like the Fusion testimony was until it was released in it's entirety. If there's something there, then toss him in jail also. Mueller got rid of him as he should have.

Tell us about the "Secret Society". LOL

Of course both sides are hypocrites!!!! LOL

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 11:53:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 11:37:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:28:00 PM (view original):
Again FU Jeff. Just FU and your liberal biased views.

But could he legally squash the investigation if he wanted to?

Because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation, the decision to appoint a special counsel fell to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. In his order making the appointment, Rosenstein cited federal regulations issued by the attorney general in 1999, 28 C.F.R. § 600.4-600.10. The rules were drafted in the wake of the Kenneth Starr investigation of President Bill Clinton.

According to those regulations, a special counsel “may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General” (or in this case, the acting attorney general). And Rosenstein can’t just do it on a whim, either. According to the regulation, special counsel can only be removed “for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.”

In a Senate hearing on June 13, Rosenstein said he alone exercises firing authority, and that he had not seen any evidence of good cause for firing Mueller.

“It’s certainly theoretically possible that the attorney general could fire him, but that’s the only person who has authority to fire him,” Rosenstein said. “And in fact, the chain of command for the special counsel is only directly to the attorney general, in this case the acting attorney general.”

If he wanted to, wrote Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and co-founder of Lawfare, Trump could then fire Rosenstein. In that case, the authority over Mueller would fall to the associate attorney general. In theory — and ignoring the political consequences of doing so — Trump could keep firing people until he got someone to follow through on an order to fire Mueller.

“That means it could go down the line until an assistant attorney general did not resign and instead carried out the President’s order,” Goldsmith wrote.

There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”

Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.

“The rules provide only so much protection: Congress, Trump and the Justice Department still have the power to stymie (or even terminate) Mueller’s inquiry,” Katyal wrote.


Again, FU Jeff. HRC was dirty.

what does HRC have to do with this?

That's 15 yards for flagrant whataboutism.

HRC was guilty as hell but the Left didn’t care. The Left is full of hypocrites. That’s what this has to do with. FBI has lost a lot of credibility. My kids actually do see these posts and they think you have liberal blinders on. Their words. Not mine.

If she's guilty as hell, throw her in prison. That a Republican party that holds all the cards in today's politics hasn't been able to, has me rather skeptical. If her foundation was crooked, throw her in jail, I don't give two *****.

According to the tin-foil on the right, she lacks stamina and the skills to hold any office but she's the worlds greatest serial killer and thief. You think both sides aren't hypocrites? LOL. Do you see me defending Franken or Weinstein? I think Harry Reid was the worse thing to ever happen to the Senate...next to McConnell I should say. Pelosi can suck a dick. I think Bernie is a loon. I've voted Republican for president one less time than I've voted Democrat. Would have been swapped if Kasich had won the nomination. He was the only sane candidate on either side.

How was Rubio not sane?

and by the way, all the text messages have been recovered.

Marco "Which way does the wind blow?" Rubio?


His debates were terrible. Everything seemed scripted and fake. Never been a fan.

Yes he is not charismatic nor qualified IMO but he was sane.

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 11:59:00 PM (view original):
and by the way, all the text messages have been recovered.

Yeah but they were lost initially. This whole thing looks bad is all I am saying. On both sides. Politicians for the most part are terrible.

I'll give you he was sane. At least he didn't accuse Ted Cruz's dad of being the Zodiac Killer. LOL

Haha, I'd forgotten about that one.

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/28/2018 12:05:00 AM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 11:59:00 PM (view original):
and by the way, all the text messages have been recovered.

Yeah but they were lost initially. This whole thing looks bad is all I am saying. On both sides. Politicians for the most part are terrible.

There were texts missing from about 5,000 issued phones at the time. Anyone who works in IT will tell you that **** happens in the IT world constantly. When I was coding for a video game company, we were always having to recover ****, especially when you don't really understand that it's going to be important at a time in the future. One dumb keystroke in error can lead to a **** ton of unintended consequences.


If that looks bad, how bad does it look that 13 members of Trumps advisory, transition, and national security teams forgot about meeting with Russians in testimony before congress or special counsel?

If little Marco had a backbone he would have won. He lost my respect when he allowed Christy to bully him during the debate

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:40:00 PM (view original):

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 11:37:00 PM (view original):

Posted by cccp1014 on 1/27/2018 11:28:00 PM (view original):
Again FU Jeff. Just FU and your liberal biased views.

But could he legally squash the investigation if he wanted to?

Because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation, the decision to appoint a special counsel fell to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. In his order making the appointment, Rosenstein cited federal regulations issued by the attorney general in 1999, 28 C.F.R. § 600.4-600.10. The rules were drafted in the wake of the Kenneth Starr investigation of President Bill Clinton.

According to those regulations, a special counsel “may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General” (or in this case, the acting attorney general). And Rosenstein can’t just do it on a whim, either. According to the regulation, special counsel can only be removed “for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.”

In a Senate hearing on June 13, Rosenstein said he alone exercises firing authority, and that he had not seen any evidence of good cause for firing Mueller.

“It’s certainly theoretically possible that the attorney general could fire him, but that’s the only person who has authority to fire him,” Rosenstein said. “And in fact, the chain of command for the special counsel is only directly to the attorney general, in this case the acting attorney general.”

If he wanted to, wrote Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and co-founder of Lawfare, Trump could then fire Rosenstein. In that case, the authority over Mueller would fall to the associate attorney general. In theory — and ignoring the political consequences of doing so — Trump could keep firing people until he got someone to follow through on an order to fire Mueller.

“That means it could go down the line until an assistant attorney general did not resign and instead carried out the President’s order,” Goldsmith wrote.

There’s yet another route the president could take, Neal Katyal, a professor of national security law at Georgetown University, wrote in a piece for the Washington Post on May 19: “Trump could order the special-counsel regulations repealed and then fire Mueller himself.”

Katyal said he would know, because back in 1999, he was tapped by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to head an internal working group on the issue of special counsel — and he helped write the regulations now being cited by Rosenstein.

“The rules provide only so much protection: Congress, Trump and the Justice Department still have the power to stymie (or even terminate) Mueller’s inquiry,” Katyal wrote.


Again, FU Jeff. HRC was dirty.

what does HRC have to do with this?

That's 15 yards for flagrant whataboutism.

HRC was guilty as hell but the Left didn’t care. The Left is full of hypocrites. That’s what this has to do with. FBI has lost a lot of credibility. My kids actually do see these posts and they think you have liberal blinders on. Their words. Not mine.

cccp, POLITICS is full of hypocrites...the world is full of hypocrites.

THINGS TRUMP THOUGHT ABOUT DOING BUT DIDN'T

* fire Mueller
* spray paint the White House "luxurious" gold
* throw wadded up paper at Schumer then point at Ryan
* annex Canada
* just kidding, nuke Canada because boredom
* make rapper ad dishing out $1000 bills
* waterboard Wolff

Posted by The Taint on 1/27/2018 10:24:00 PM (view original):
Besides the fact he's said a ton of times that he's never given it a thought, not much. Everyone is numb to his lies now.

Yet you, and people like you, don't seem numb to them at all. You seem to relish looking for them, and trying to twist every single word out of his mouth (or fingers) into some kind of National Emergency, no matter how true it is or isn't.