I remember when Comey called an impromptu presser and said that "no reasonable prosecutor" would charge her while at the same time airing all of her dirty laundry about how she grossly mishandled classified information on her home-brew server.
Democrats excoriated Comey for publicly shaming her, the theory being that if the FBI wasn't going to recommend charges, it should STFU. Basically, Comey treated Hillary differently than everyone else, which is undoubtedly true.
Now we have the Mueller report laying out obstruction without recommending any charges, and we have the impromptu Mueller presser where he tried to cajole Congress to take up impeachment.
Why are Dems on this board are cheering him on? If he couldn't recommend charges, why isn't he going away?
Prosecutors should stay in their lane. Charge a defendant or Just. Shut. Up. Already.
He had ONE job. Refer charges, or not. Since he found nothing to merit charges, he instead provides his opinion of innocence, without taking questions. Stand up guy.
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The strained attempts to gerrymander a set of generalizations about two situations for the purposes of attempting to establish hypocrisy grows wearisome. This is a perfect example, the Comey announcement that Hillary was under investigation has almost nothing in common with Mueller's press conference. Reacting to the two situations differently is natural, regardless of political stripe.
He excoriated her and then reopened the server issue right before the election.
You deep state coupsters are morons.
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Mueller could have charged and let the AG determine what to do. It would be clear that he had evidence had he done so, and he would have fulfilled his duty had he possessed evidence to do so.
Mueller also could have simply sat on the case until Trump was out of office. You yourself said that these things can take many years to complete. So what was the hurry if he had evidence?
It is not his job to exonerate or convict.
I was right all along. Mueller was a partisan looking for a way to hurt Trump, and despite 40 million dollars and 2 1/2 years, he found nothing. Everything you see in the Mueller Report is a one sided prosecutors argument without the defense’s responses, and even then, there is nothing.
Mueller had been spurned by Trump for the job of FBI Director just before being named to go,after Trump. He was good friends - both personally and professionally for decades with Comey who was fired by Trump and who wants Trump taken down. An actual “professional” would have declined the appointment for conflict of interest reasons. But instead, Mueller assembled a one sided team..........and he still found nothing to charge.
Mueller also lied to Barr about the OLC not having an impact on his findings.
Mueller “put his thumb and then his whole elbow on the scale of justice yesterday” and in so doing confirmed his bias as an investigator from the beginning (credit Alan Dershowitz for that quote).
was to advise the Attorney General if Trump committed any crimes. He, of course, did not find that Trump committed any crimes. At that point, he should have shut up, but he pulled a Comey and called a presser, which is now ok with you because you don't have any standards other than Orange Man Bad.
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Life is now an Escher drawing with the Dems screaming "impeachment" and the Republicans yelling back "spying."
Link: https://www.mcescher.com/gallery/switzerland-belgium/sky-and-water-i/
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This is an effort to distract from the forthcoming declassification, OiG report, and charges stemming from the spying that Obama did.
Regardless, Mueller pulling a Comey and sliming an uncharged American should be criticized. The fact that it's wrong is stated in the DOJ's own manual for AUSAs:
“As a series of cases makes clear, there is ordinarily ‘no legitimate governmental interest served’ by the government’s public allegation of wrongdoing by an uncharged party, and this is true ‘regardless of what criminal charges may . . . b[e] contemplated by the Assistant United States Attorney against the [third-party] for the future.’”
– From the Department of Justice’s policy manual on the duties of federal prosecutors and principles of federal prosecutions. It’s unclear whether Robert Mueller has ever read that manual.