It's Bob's big chance to pull off his biggest political hit job of his career.
Curt Weldon, Ted Stevens, Scooter Libby can tell you how it works.
The law governing the special counsel (28 CFR 600.7) specifically
prohibits Mueller from serving if he has a “conflict of interest.” Even
the appearance of a conflict is disallowed.
The same Code of Federal Regulations defines what constitutes a
conflict. That is, “a personal relationship with any person
substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the
investigation or prosecution” (28 CFR 45.2).
Comey is that person.
The law affords him no discretion because the recusal is mandatory in its language. It does not say “may” or “can” or “might”. It says the special counsel “shall” recuse himself in such instances.
What a fuckin clown circus The prosecutor is more corrupt that the guy who spent his life stealing other peoples money.
VTA. How nice to have you back trolling the ' Trump Impeachment' thread.
Nothing relevant as usual I see.
Deleting LP/PS texts has TRASHED his ‘investigation’. How can the President ‘defend’ himself after evidence has been deleted. This is BASIC law. Could be argued he has committed a crime. Now somehow these nevertrumpers will defend these actions. Kind of ironic how the DNC dickrides the prison reform then will defend these actions. Think mueller is just trying to save his ass along with any mirage of credibility. The same way they defend the murder of Mrs. Weaver at Ruby Ridge and their Princess Janet Reno at Waco
there's a bit more on those texts than presented above
which is true? normally in a trial the judge will decide the fate of the evidence
Were texts deliberately erased?
The inspector general found no evidence Strzok and Page tried to prevent the FBI from collecting their texts.
The watchdog’s findings suggest the most likely reason the texts weren’t captured had to do with technical flaws in the FBI’s data-collection process, not deliberate wrongdoing.
It concluded: "The OIG investigation determined that the FBl's collection tool was not only failing to collect any data on certain phones during particular periods of time, it also does not appear that it was collecting all text messages even when it was generally functioning to collect text messages."
FBI tech specialists cited a number of possible explanations for the text-collection breakdown, from a 2016 software bug, to misconfiguration during the phone’s setup to a range of possible hardware errors, according to the inspector general report.
The collection tool had an estimated failure rate of 20 percent when used with FBI-issued Samsung S5 mobile devices. Both Strzok and Page used the S5 model during the five-month gap, the report found.
Only later in mid-2017 were they issued S7 models "as part of a regular technical refresh and to address issues with the FBl’s text message collection tool," according to the inspector general.
An outside expert hired by the inspector general to assist with the Samsung portion of the investigation concluded "it was unlikely that Strzok and Page attempted to circumvent the FBI's text message collection capabilities," and the watchdog found no evidence they did.
The inspector general also found the "content of the text messages did not appear to be a factor" in the retention practices of Strzok and Page.
This has nothing to do with this thread. This is a personal attack and how this type of thread gets shut down. If you have some thing to refute anything VTA has said post it. This goes for anyone who is doing personal attacks.
If we want the country to be less divisive we need to start respecting both sides of the argument. The only way that will happen is if we keep personal attacks out of the conversation and use facts to back up your side.
There is a reason we have freedom of speech. With out it we end up a fascist state where good ideas are shut down and punished. This will then lead to violence by those in control and those who are not allowed to speak as well.
keep the personal attacks out of this thread please.
back to the chess game, and what a game it is
Mueller's report, when will it be finalized?
we don't know this obviously, but some implications
for one thing all the kids are now in the cross hairs
the Trump inc. CFO was given immunity, there is little doubt whose butts are on the line
but the kids don't have immunity from prosecution like dad does(if he does, much uncertainty there)
not quite under the thread's original topic, but closely enough linked so it can't be ignored
Ichabod, These threads always get shut down. In fact, if the thread is too left leaning then certain right leaning individuals will make sure they get shut down.
That's great in Mr Rogers neighborhood, but now we have MAGA kids doing heil Hitlers in class photos and taunting Native Americans paying respects to fallen veteran brothers. Our president blows the dog whistle and they respond.
Yes Ichabod this is true. We must have freedom of speech, even if they are alt right. In an ideal world, the cream rises to the top and people with good ideas are promoted. With the trump regime our nation went the other way. Lying by the president is accepted as normal. He loves the poorly educated and convinces them that stealing children at the border is ok. Taking the kids, they are too inept to keep track of what kid goes with what family. If you are really concerned about the fascist state, take a look at where the money came from to elect these people and have a look at where the two trillion dollar tax break went.
Ichabod, please, this thread began with liberals discussing wanting to impeach trump. When opposition enters that discussion with the intention of sewing discourse and derailing the conversation, that is by definition 'trolling'. Please don't direct the Rodney King "Why can't we all get along" towards me. Your original statement, my comments about VTA dropping by trolling and dropping meme bombs, have everything to do with this thread.
it has only happened once, with Ford pardoning Nixon under pressure from GOP. anyone on here think Pence would fall on his sword for Trump? until HE gets a term, maybe... i believe that Nixons pardon was the worst possible message that could possibly be sent - "do whatever, we'll cover it for you." i think he should have gone to prison, and i'm a Republican.
The phones were factory reset after Strzok was let go for having anti Trump texts. This is the type of nonsense that has left the investigation in a cloud of uncertainty as to weather it was bias or not.
I like it when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez looks into the camera.
TELL ME you haven't checked out her boobs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexandria+Ocasio-Cortez+breasts
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They call them the 1% because the other 99% are supposed to gather up a posse now and then and reset the playing field.
I think the politically correct term is lynch mob.