House Intel Committee: ‘No Evidence of Collusion’

[Cow Poke]

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That was FAST! You were waiting for that.

[Zymologist]

That was FAST! You were waiting for that.

That's one image that I think will persist forever.

[Mountain Man]

I saw a billboard in Indiana with a picture of four flag-draped coffins. Underneath was the caption "This is what difference it makes!"

[Mountain Man]

Unfortunately Mueller's investigation was not given any restrictions or boundaries so in effect he can do as he pleases.

I came across this comment on another website, and I very much agree with it:

"My opinion about special counsels is the concept should be abandoned. Use government attorneys to prosecute criminal activity. If no evidence, don’t prosecute. Don’t unleash a mongrel to just go bite anybody he can find. That’s pure politics."

[JimL]

I came across this comment on another website, and I very much agree with it:

"My opinion about special counsels is the concept should be abandoned. Use government attorneys to prosecute criminal activity. If no evidence, don’t prosecute. Don’t unleash a mongrel to just go bite anybody he can find. That’s pure politics."

Sure MM, you agree with that sentiment now that the criminal activity alleged of is accusatory of the criminal con man that you helped to put into office. I'll bet you were saying the same thing when Ken Starr was hired by republicans to investigate the Whitewater sham during the Clinton Administration, right?

[Cow Poke]

Sure MM, you agree with that sentiment now that the criminal activity alleged of is accusatory of the criminal con man that you helped to put into office. I'll bet you were saying the same thing when Ken Starr was hired by republicans to investigate the Whitewater sham during the Clinton Administration, right?

Well, Whitewater was, indeed, a sham, so I'll give you that!

[Mountain Man]

Sure MM, you agree with that sentiment now that the criminal activity alleged of is accusatory of the criminal con man that you helped to put into office. I'll bet you were saying the same thing when Ken Starr was hired by republicans to investigate the Whitewater sham during the Clinton Administration, right?

I wouldn't exactly describe the Starr investigation as a model of how special prosecutions should be handled. He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Mueller has been, but there were several notable deficiencies in that investigation. The Scooter Libby scandal was another black-eye for the concept of special prosecutors. This whole idea that we can legally unleash someone who has a virtually unrestricted ability to go after anybody they want for anything they want without evidence that a crime was committed, or even without a crime being specified(!), flies in the face of the concept of justice and due process.

[JimL]

I wouldn't exactly describe the Starr investigation as a model of how special prosecutions should be handled.

Oh, and here I thought you were just saying that special prosecutors shouldn't exist at all.

He wasn't anywhere near as bad as Mueller has been,

Well of course.

The Scooter Libby scandal was another black-eye for the concept of special prosecutors.

Well of course, like i said, special investigators are horrible, when the investigated is a republican.

This whole idea that we can legally unleash someone who has a virtually unrestricted ability to go after anybody they want for anything they want without evidence that a crime was committed, or even without a crime being specified(!), flies in the face of the concept of justice and due process.

Ah, in this case there is evidence, which is why Trump was forced to let General Flynn go, and why Trump fired Comey for not letting the Flynn matter go. Of course the evidence has been mounting ever since and as Rep. Trey Gowdy said to Trumps lawyer, "if your client is innocent, then act like it." In other words Trump is acting like he is guilty, and there's only one reason that someone acts like they are guilty.

[Cow Poke]

...and why Trump fired Comey for not letting the Flynn matter go...

I'm gonna bet that history will show that Comey needed firing.

[Mountain Man]

Oh, and here I thought you were just saying that special prosecutors shouldn't exist at all.

Yes, that is what I was saying. If there is evidence that a crime was committed by someone in government then assign it to a federal prosecutor to investigate and prosecute just like you would any other crime. Special counsels are, more often than not, little more than political hitmen.

[Mountain Man]

I'm gonna bet that history will show that Comey needed firing.

There's also the fact that many high-profile Democrats were calling for his firing, right up until Trump actually fired him.

[Cow Poke]

There's also the fact that many high-profile Democrats were calling for his firing, right up until Trump actually fired him.

Yeah, the more we find out about the whole Comey thing, the worse it's looking for him.

[JimL]

Yeah, the more we find out about the whole Comey thing, the worse it's looking for him.

Well of course, and Gen Flynn was obviously being framed.

[Cow Poke]

Well of course, and Gen Flynn was obviously being framed.

Nobody ever said that. You really have a gift of the absurd.

[Sparko]

in 10 years nobody will even remember who Comey was.