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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 09:14 AM Jul 2018

House Republicans cannot be allowed to obstruct justice

By Jennifer Rubin
July 29 at 12:00 PM

Former U.S. district judge John S. Martin, writing in The Post to debunk the baseless proposal by House Freedom Caucus members to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, observes:

The actions of the Freedom Caucus members are not only baseless, they are also shameful. While they call for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Rosenstein, it may be more appropriate to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate an attempt to corruptly obstruct justice by members of Congress who so obviously use their office to intimidate the deputy attorney general and to undermine the credibility of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.


As Martin points out, much of what President Trump’s House Republican allies have been doing cannot be called oversight; it is political skullduggery intended to protect the president and undermine the investigation into Russian interference with our democracy.

Their inexcusable acts include:

The caper by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in which he scurried over to the White House to review classified documents and then tried to push the fake “unmasking” scandal;

Nunes’s memo falsely stating that information about the Christopher Steele dossier’s origins was omitted from the Foreign Intelligence Security Court warrant application to conduct surveillance on suspected spy Carter Page;

The outing of a confidential intelligence source;

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/07/29/house-republicans-cannot-be-allowed-to-obstruct-justice/
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House Republicans cannot be allowed to obstruct justice (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2018 OP
Bottom line, they all must go. They've perfect the art of corruption and even treason long enough.. Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #1
The big question is, who is going to stop them? Other Republicans? Ain't happening. tonyt53 Jul 2018 #2
why we have elections beachbum bob Jul 2018 #3

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
1. Bottom line, they all must go. They've perfect the art of corruption and even treason long enough..
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 09:17 AM
Jul 2018

There has been no accountability for the treachery. At the very least, they should become unemployed. The most...indicted.

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