16 May 2017 10:15 am
Can anyone spell I-R-O-N-Y?Misty » 16 May 2017 7:35 am » wrote:Those are the talking points straight from FOX News.
Now hurry along and disseminate them.
You spread every blatant lie the DNC comes up with.
How's that huge Russia-Trump-collaboration-conspiracy-thing-ey coming along? Have they found a shred of evidence yet, psycho?
Heck, you can't even come up with a theoretical crime.
The Latest ‘Just Like Watergate’ Idiocy
The ‘obstruction of justice’ claim is phony.
By Andrew C. McCarthy — May 16, 2017
There is so much legal ignorance in the reporting and commentary about the “Russia investigation,” it is hard to keep up. The latest is that we need a special prosecutor because the firing of FBI director James Comey could amount to Watergate-type obstruction of justice....
As we have repeatedly pointed out, and as former director Comey stated in congressional testimony, the FBI is conducting a counterintelligence investigation. It is not a criminal investigation. The subject of the investigation is not an American (specifically, Trump) suspected of committing a crime. The subject of the investigation is Russia. The purpose of the investigation is not to develop a prosecutable offense. The purpose is to gather intelligence of the Putin regime’s actions and intentions so that our government can develop countermeasures.
Intelligence gathering is not a judicial proceeding. It is an executive-branch security function. In point of fact, there is no evidence that President Trump has impeded the Russia investigation (a point we’ll expand on momentarily). But even if the president had taken such a measure, that would not be obstruction of a judicial proceeding, or of a law-enforcement investigation aimed at bringing a court prosecution.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... ce-charged