26 Jan 2018 9:33 am
Oh, then the FBI and Justice Dept are stonewalling because there's no wrongdoing.Misty » 25 Jan 2018 2:13 pm » wrote: Maybe because it isn't a massive scandal.
Except that you've accused Trump of crimes on exactly that logic.
If you didn't have double standards, you'd have no standards at all.
From the ultra-cautious Andrew McCarthy, former prosecutor:
In my slightly less cautious opinion, the FBI and Justice Dept., two of the most important and powerful agencies in the country, are obstructing justice.
If that's not obstruction of justice, nothing is.The Justice Department and the FBI are reportedly angry that, after they complied with the Intelligence Committee’s demand that they make classified and investigative materials available for inspection, Nunes will not permit the FBI to inspect his memo summarizing that information before moving to disclose it. The irony here is rich.
These executive-branch agencies did not cooperatively comply with congressional investigators; they stonewalled for five months. To this day they are stonewalling: Just this weekend, they belatedly fessed up that the FBI had failed to preserve five months’ worth of text messages — something they had to have known for months. An American who impeded a federal investigation the way federal investigators are impeding congressional investigations would swiftly find himself in legal jeopardy.
Moreover, it is not like the Justice Department and FBI did Nunes a favor and are thus in a position to impose conditions; Congress is entitled to the information it has sought in its oversight capacity.....
On the record thus far, the committee has every reason to believe that submitting the Nunes memo for review by the Justice Department and FBI will result in more delay and foot-dragging. Clearly, there is a strategy to slow-walk compliance in hopes that events — such as, say, a midterm-election victory that returns the House to Democratic control — will abort congressional investigations of the investigators.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... -see-in-it