The Witch Hunt Revealed

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(a) A Special Counsel shall comply with the rules, regulations, procedures, practices and policies of the Department of Justice. He or she shall consult with appropriate offices within the Department for guidance with respect to established practices, policies and procedures of the Department, including ethics and security regulations and procedures. Should the Special Counsel conclude that the extraordinary circumstances of any particular decision would render compliance with required review and approval procedures by the designated Departmental component inappropriate, he or she may consult directly with the Attorney General.

And this means that he has to conduct his investigation according to ethical norms established by the DoJ. IOW, he must have probable cause to conduct an investigation of any crime which any subject might be suspected of. And he must be held accountable for that.

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Now you just have to prove there was no probable cause ... for an investigation that has already resulted in numerous indictments and several guilty pleas/convictions.

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Now you just have to prove there was no probable cause ... for an investigation that has already resulted in numerous indictments and several guilty pleas/convictions.

Strawman. 1) Mueller can be fired for not being assigned to investigate a specific crime, which is unethical and against DoJ guidelines. 2) It only has to be revealed that Mueller investigated anyone without probable cause (for example Papadopoulos).

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You haven’t proven either. Your hero Trump is the one who would fire Rosenstein and replace with someone who would stop Mueller... but he hasn’t. Trump is either too scared to do what you say is the right thing ... or he knows it’s wrong and he won’t get away with it. Either way Trump is a coward.

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You haven’t proven either. Your hero Trump is the one who would fire Rosenstein and replace with someone who would stop Mueller... but he hasn’t. Trump is either too scared to do what you say is the right thing ... or he knows it’s wrong and he won’t get away with it. Either way Trump is a coward.

Mueller's investigation is ending after the midterms. It's a liability for the Left. Rosenstein will likely be fired after the midterms. No proof is needed to fire him. It's the President's decision. We will see what happens with his testimony before Congress though.

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So you’re saying Trump is having his DOJ perform an unjust investigation simply to hurt his opposition in the elections?

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So you’re saying Trump is having his DOJ perform an unjust investigation simply to hurt his opposition in the elections?

Are you claiming that he assigned Mueller?

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Are you claiming that he assigned Mueller?

He assigned Rosenstein

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He assigned Rosenstein

And? Remember, Comey said that he triggered the appointment by leaking.

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Trump can fire Rosenstein at any time and replace him. Thus we have to accept that Trump is complicit in any wrongdoing by Rosenstein (at least as long as Kid has been aware of it) as Trump is enabling Rosenstein to continue.

[Kidlicious]

By John Solomon

Opinion Contributor

Just weeks after the FBI opened a dramatic counterintelligence probe into President Trump and Russia, one of his presidential campaign advisers emphatically told an undercover bureau source there was no election collusion occurring because such activity would be treasonous.

George Papadopoulos says his spontaneous admission to London-based professor Stefan Halper occurred in mid-September 2016 - well before FBI agents and the Obama Justice Department sought a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to collect Trump campaign communicationsin the final days before the election.

"He was there to probe me on the behest of somebody else," Papadopoulos told me in an interview this week, recalling the Halper meeting. "He said something along the lines of, 'Oh, it's great that Russia is helping you and your campaign, right George?' "

Papadopoulos said Halper also suggested the Trump campaign was involved in the hacking and release of Hillary Clinton's emails that summer. "I think I told him something along the lines of, 'I have no idea what the hell you are talking about. What you are talking about is treason. And I have nothing to do with that, so stop bothering me about it,' " Papadopoulos recalled.

The former campaign aide is set to testify behind closed doors Thursday before two House panels.

Sources who saw the FISA warrant and its three renewals tell me there is no mention of Papadopoulos's denial, an omission of exculpatory evidence that GOP critics in Congress are likely to cite as having misled the court.

A source directly familiar with the Russia probe declined to discuss specifics of the Papadopoulos-Halper conversations but acknowledged the FBI possessed one or more transcripts that called into question the Trump campaign's - and specifically Papadopoulos's - alleged complicity with Russia.

The FBI officially opened the Trump-Russia case on July 31, 2016, based on suspicions that Papadopoulos had prior knowledge that Russia hacked Clinton's emails, but it quickly pivoted by early fall 2016 to evidence such as the Democratic-funded dossier produced by Christopher Steele, and Trump campaign adviser Carter Page's trips to Moscow. The FISA warrant was drafted to target surveillance at Page but also cited Papadopoulos in a section that suggested Russia was coordinating election collusion through Page and "perhaps other individuals associated" with Trump's campaign.

"The truth is, the Papadopoulos predicate went into reversal, but rather than shut down the probe at that point, the bureau turned to other leads like Steele and Page without giving the court a full picture," one source said.

Some in Congress are bracing for the possibility that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein might argue in his interview with lawmakers that the FBI did not have an obligation to disclose all exculpatory evidence to the FISA judges. Such an argument is contrary to how the court works, according to officials who prepare FISA warrants. The FBI is required to submit only verified information and to alert the court to any omissions of material fact that cast doubt on the supporting evidence, including any denials, these officials told me.

Papadopoulos said his discussions with Halper - identified this year by The Washington Post as an FBI informant in the Russia case - were among more than a half-dozen contacts that U.S. and Western intelligence figures initiated with Papadopoulos during the campaign.

Other contacts were initiated by Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials, an Australian intelligence agent, an Australian diplomat, an Israeli diplomat and British diplomats, Papadopoulos told me. At least one contact sought to offer him sex in return for information, he alleged.

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Trump can fire Rosenstein at any time and replace him. Thus we have to accept that Trump is complicit in any wrongdoing by Rosenstein (at least as long as Kid has been aware of it) as Trump is enabling Rosenstein to continue.

No. Democrats like Schiff and Feinstein are complicit, so are the enemies of the people for covering for them.

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No. Democrats like Schiff and Feinstein are complicit, so are the enemies of the people for covering for them.

They didn't appoint Rosenstein who, btw., is a republican

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They didn't appoint Rosenstein who, btw., is a republican

They don't take long walks in the moonlight either. They are complicit though, in the biggest political scandal in history.

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Yes, Trump going down will top Nixon. We can hope.