Comments on: Andrew C. McCarthy isn’t in favor of appointing a new special counsel https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:41:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ymar Sakar https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2376045 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:41:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2376045 Red vs Blue. It keeps the masses distracted until they are Harvested.

]]> By: blert https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375859 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 03:57:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375859 But the information WAS false.

And so absurd on its face that a two-year old could figure that much out.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375720 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:44:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375720 Lorenz.
Or Ted Stevens. Or Steven Hatfill. The feebs in Atlanta tried to frame Richard Jewell for the bombing but Bubba Rent-a-Cop outsmarted them. It was a good try and might have saved them getting all sweaty looking for the real perp. Can’t win them all.

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375719 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:40:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375719

but I have found him to be consistently logical and fair–to both sides.

Are there really “both sides?”

]]> By: Lorenz Gude https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375701 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 14:10:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375701 Great discussion. I think a key point is that I have a hard time believing that Sessions is a nincompoop. I don’t know how much a president can collude with his AG to pull the wool over the eyes of an opposition that is prepared to believe anything except that they lost the election but I felt when he called Sessions up to the podium on election night that a special relationship existed between the two. Sessions was a very early Trump supporter, and I don’t believe any well established senator backs a disruptive outsider unless he believes some serious disrupting is called for. Rubio and Cruz are perfectly acceptable choices for any merely conservative senator to back. I also notice that Trump bad mouths both Sessions and Tillerson, and even some of his generals on occasion. Because presidents just don’t do that it is the perfect chum to distract the chumps. Finally while I share the reservations expressed above with McCarthy’s piece, I remember my disgust with both Fitzgerald’s and Ken Starr’s excesses. But where I really disagree with McCarthy is that I don’t believe that prosecutorial misconduct is nearly as rare as he says. This conversation between Conrad Black and Mark Steyn implies it is endemic. Think also Martha Stewart or Ruby Ridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuzjvwVqOU&t=65s

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375684 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 11:00:51 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375684 He keeps talking about good faith….

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375644 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 04:13:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375644 J. E. Dyer was pondering the question of cahoots earlier this year (first bolded section is from January).

https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/03/09/cryptic-jeff-sessions-ive-appointed-person-outside-washington-investigate-fisa-abuses/

“I wrote at the time about Sessions’ probable thinking:

[I]f investigators are looking into the use of funds by the Clinton Foundation, they may find other prosecutable irregularities from more recent years. ….

And if they are looking into it all via district staffs, as in Arkansas, and not as an “HQ special” — with top officials seeking ways to suppress indictable information rather than deal with it — the outcome may be a different one from what James Comey and Loretta Lynch came up with in 2016.

…
The main things Sessions needs for an effective investigation of any of these very hot potatoes are a quiet, unobstructed atmosphere for the probe, and top-cover from Trump.

Twitter is one of Trump’s chief methods of providing such cover. It’s a world-class distractor, reliably resetting the news cycle and rocking the media on their heels. Trump’s flaming tweet from 28 February, followed by Sessions’ statement that he has already appointed an investigator for FISA abuses, makes me wonder if an announcement of something substantial is being prepared – or if, simply, Sessions needs a running start on something the mainstream media, or other actors inside Washington, will want to sabotage. As with so many things in this strange time, we’ll have to wait and see.”

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375638 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 03:26:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375638 huxley: Lifezette gave a fair summary; I like the details in Treehouse — they tread older ground each time around, but it keeps thing straight in my mind.

The question I’m most interested in is how much in cahoots Trump and Sessions are, if at all.
I don’t buy into the idea that the very astute and principled Senator instantly became a helpless ethically-challenged buffoon as AG, but I don’t know if the two of them are working together, or if Sessions is deliberately keeping Trump out of the loop.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375600 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:46:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375600 AesopFan: I looked at the Treehouse article too but having a lot more detail wasn’t helping.

I linked Lifezette because it got to the point quicker and stronger, and I hope correctly.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/03/10/andrew-c-mccarthy-isnt-in-favor-of-appointing-a-new-special-counsel/#comment-2375597 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:26:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=76270#comment-2375597 huxley Says:
March 10th, 2018 at 4:39 pm
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Lifezette is quoting from a much more complete article at Conservative Treehouse.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/08/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-confirms-prior-appointment-of-doj-prosecutor-to-parallel-ig-horowitz-not-a-special-counsel/

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