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The difference between subpoenas to Nixon, Clinton, Reagan and Trump
Worth a read in its entirety. What I quote below is the very end. The article ties in nicely with the thread on Rosy's refusal to turn over subpoened documents.

Quote:It has become ludicrous. The question of whether a prosecutor should be permitted to interview a president hinges on whether the president is a suspect. There is no public evidence that President Trump is. This raises the patent objection that he should not be asked to be interviewed under those circumstances. What we hear in response is, “How do you know he’s not a suspect?” But the reason we don’t know — other than the lack of evidence after two years — is that Mueller won’t deign to tell us, and Rosenstein won’t deign to comply, publicly, with regulations that required him to outline the basis for a criminal investigation.

That is not acceptable. In every other independent-prosecutor investigation in modern history — Watergate, Iran-Contra, Whitewater/Lewinsky — the president and the public have known exactly what was alleged. The prosecutor was able to investigate with all the secrecy the law allows, but under circumstances in which we all understood what was being investigated and why the president was suspected of wrongdoing.

After two years, we are entitled to nothing less. The president should direct Rosenstein to outline, publicly and in detail, the good-faith basis for a criminal investigation arising out of Russia’s interference in the election — if there is one. If he can’t, Mueller’s criminal investigation should be terminated; if he can, Mueller should be compelled to explain (unless Rosenstein’s disclosure makes it clear) why he needs to interview President Trump in order to complete his work.

If Rosenstein and Mueller are reluctant to do that, it can only be because they’ve decided that not only their investigation but also their desire for secrecy take precedence over every other consideration, including the president’s capacity to govern domestically and conduct foreign policy in a dangerous world. But secrecy is not the nation’s top priority. It’s long past time to lay the cards on the table.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/m...-revealed/

I believe Bueller's to the point where an interview to try to trip up the president is his last hope.
05-07-2018 05:28 PM
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RE: The difference between subpoenas to Nixon, Clinton, Reagan and Trump
They have been desperately hoping that the president will take them off the hook by doing something characteristically reckless -- such as fire both Mueller and Rosenstein, punctuated with a series of bombastic and semi-coherent 3:00 a.m. tweets. They then get to pretend that they were simply servants of the law, thwarted by a guilty president covering up his own misdeeds.

I suspect that they are shocked that this hasn't already happened. I, for one, am.

The Mueller investigation, by all appearances, is crumbling. The only thing that will save it is, to parahrase Animal House, a completely futile and stupid gesture. Unfortunately, President Trump is just the guy for the job.
05-07-2018 06:09 PM
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RE: The difference between subpoenas to Nixon, Clinton, Reagan and Trump
A template has been laid for overturning future elections, even if Trump isn't ultimately ousted.

Load the upper eschelons of the FBI, DOJ, and State Department with political purists, generate enough doubt about the legitimacy of the new president via opposition-funded research and hit pieces, appoint a special prosecutor, disrupt the new president's ability to govern and then ultimately grind him down with selective leaks to the MSM.

While I would like to believe that the right is watching and learning how it's done, unfortunately I know that's not the case because the right still clings to such silly concepts as beleiving in the constitution. And that's the right thing to do.

If Trump survives this, and still has majorities in both the house and senate, I'd like to see a push for a major restructuring of the FBI in particular, and the DOJ in general. If the current punishment for fomenting and participating in political mischief isn't enough, then up the ante significantly.

This shyte has got to stop or the country might never recover.
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