Lawmakers Want James Clapper Prosecuted ...

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  1. One Mind

    One Mind Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well, that is the problem, right? The rule of law is trumped by partisanship. Both parties should place the rule of law above politics. But clearly that does not happen anymore. You lie to congress? You get prosecuted. You spy on your own oversight agency, when you are forbidden by law to run CIA operations within our borders, you get prosecuted. And if a big bank launders drug cartel money, you get prosecuted and sent to prison, just like we do when we catch a drug dealer who sold drugs to have money for the bankers to laundry.

    I got a great idea!! Lets us prosecute these big wigs, in DC, like we prosecute the poor black feller who breaks the law. Novel, huh?
     
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    The Trump Justice Department Special Prosecutor cannot allow his vital mission to be diverted.

    As Condoleeza Rice recently expressed, "nobody should try to impede" his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Lindsey Graham also confirmed, "this is the way the process works and Mr. Mueller is doing his job and it's important that he can continue to do his job."

    Unrelated matters such as accusations against Clapper have no impact on Mueller's investigation. They stand or fall on their own merits.
     
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    The GOP's furthering their partisan agenda through their temporary control of the three branches in Washington should not obscure that the duopoly kowtows to the moneyed special interests. Democrats are also complicit and the problem is systemic.
     
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    I think it's funny how all the people who were here preaching Hillary's landslide, are now all Russia Truthers trying to explain why she lost. Nobody was worried about Russians the day before the election. We were told by the Hillary landslide crowd that the election was going to be clean, pure, and we better except Hilary's landslide. Then they blame Russia for her losing but give Obama a total pass for letting it happen.

    Do you really believe Hillary would of won if Putin didn't buy a handful of Facebook ads?
     
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    We cannot surrender to Putin's established pattern of sabotaging democratic elections in the US, Germany, France, Austria, Ukraine, etc., because of petty, partisan interests.
     
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    Durrr... Ban Russians from facebook durrr...

    The FACT you believe Hillary lost because of a few facebook ads nobody saw or remembers, the day after preaching she was going to win in a landslide, is so telling. It's like you just parrot whatever the establishment propaganda is.
     
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    So should those nations in which we meddle, in their elections, kowtow us us? I doubt we only spend a couple hundred grand to affect another nation's election. How bout' you?
     
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    Your fixation on Clinton does not succeed as a diversion, and no one can determine to what extent Russia's efforts on his behalf helped Trump to get elected.

    If you need to harken back to Obama, I have no problem with Mueller's comprehensive probe looking into any failures under the previous administration to expose and confront Putin's perfidy. National security is far too important to allow partisan zealots of any ilk to frustrate the pursuit of justice.
     
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    I defer to the independence of other sovereign nations and their right to investigate and expose foreign meddling, regardless of its authorship.

    The US killing democracy in Chile and placing the degenerate right-winger Pinochet in charge should serve as a warning to every nation.
     
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    If you need to fixate on Clinton and you believe that "Hillary lost because of a few facebook ads", that is your opinion. The data that confirms that her sizable lead had rapidly shrunk to the point that she carried the popular vote by only 2.9 million and lost the electoral vote in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan by about 78,000 votes does not support your thesis. Other factors were of far more import, imho.

    To argue that a hostile foreign power can meddle on a candidate's behalf because you doubt how successful it was is odd. US security should not hinge on such partisan rationales.
     
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    So you believe of a handful of Facebook ads cost Hillary her Landslide victory? Priceless. And it's kind of hard not to go back to Clinton because she was in the election that was supposedly hacked by the Russians.
     
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    There were millions and millions of Facebook ads during the election. Finding a legitimate Russian one would be like finding a very rare penny

    Durrr... Ban Russians from facebook. Durr....
     
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    If that is what you believe, I doubt that I can convince you that it is impossible to determine the impact of Putin's meddling on Trump's behalf.

    What is essential is that the machinations of a hostile foreign power in the US democratic process must be confronted and exposed.
     
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    Are you saying that Putin is way better at American politics then Trump or Hillary. If only Hillary knew how to post Facebook ads she would have won? That would have saved her a 1.2 billion dollar campaign. Imagine the next day after losing what you are going to tell the people that gave you money. It wasn't me it was the Russians! Recounts!!

    Try this because I know you won't post it. Say out loud "I believe Hillary lost her inevitable Landslide victory because of a handful of Facebook ads nobody saw or remembered. I totally didn't see it coming and was shocked"

    That way you can hear how dumb your theory.
     
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    Not a damn thing.....but you know anything else reported on is a deflection from the 2 year investigation that has come up with no Russian collusion by the leftness.

    They're not to smart and still are unable to filter thru their grey dense matter that Russia has been meddling with US elections since the 50s.

    A reality that the leftness can't change. Its why they always ride in with the BMW about deflections. You know Bitching Moaning and Whining. Basically what Beta males always do.
     
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    This is nothing but a desire to prosecute ( or persecute) in search of a crime. Political theater at its worse.
     
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    Whether that is what you believe is irrelevant. Again, what is essential is that the machinations of a hostile foreign power in the US democratic process must be confronted and exposed.
     
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    I thought 'whataboutism' was a no no? Oh I get it only when attacking President Trump .
     
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    JONATHAN TURLEY: James Clapper’s perjury, and why DC made men don’t get charged for lying to Congress. In DC, perjury is not simply tolerated, it is rewarded. In a city of made men and women, nothing says loyalty quite as much as lying under oath.

    “The problem is not that the perjury statute is never enforced. Rather it is enforced against people without allies in government.”
     
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    This thread needs a new title: Idiots Want James Clapper Prosecuted .......
     
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    Then again, it should Read Mopes of the leftness willing to Let Clapper off the Hook, He is above the Law.
     
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    when republicans backed the patriot act and the nsa spying, everyone of you supported.

    how does it look now :)

    nothing is going to happen to clapper, but all that fbi surveillance may turn out to be sweet poetic justice :)
     

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