These days people don’t have principles, they just pretend they do. They want the power and are falling into the megalomaniac greed. These people are going to destroy each other, they will not be saved.

Shouldn’t it be AG Sessions bringing charges against Kerry under the Logan Act?
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I’m assuming you have noticed the Democrat party line in the Media: what Kerry is doing is, you know, different from what the nasty Republicans did.

I guess it’s not treason-treason.

An alliance has real power. And that power rests in pooling the members of the alliance into an undefeatable power bloc. It’s not about winning elections. It’s not about some ideological crusade.

This is pure pragmatic power balance. When the goal is to annihilate or enslave your enemies, pragmatic power is needed, not ideological clap trap.

The DOJ’s excuse?

“Disclosure of responsive information to such requests can risk severe consequences, including potential loss of human lives, damage to relationships with valued international partners, compromise of ongoing criminal investigations, and interference with intelligence activities.”

Well, this response might have flown, might have been taken at face value and believed a few years ago.

But, now?

Given what we’ve seen and discovered over the last few years, can anything coming out of the DOJ’s highest levels really be believed?

Can we just assume that all involved are honest, and performing their jobs to the best of their abilities, for the good of the U.S., and in accordance with the Constitution and the law? Duty, Honor, Country and all that?

Can we just assume that they wouldn’t wrap themselves in the flag, wouldn’t shade the truth, wouldn’t try to make us hesitate to press for information with a barrage of phony excuses, wouldn’t flat out lie to us, if they thought it was in their best institutional and ideological interests to do so?

I’m pretty sure that the answer, today, is NO, and that our default position must be that we’re dealing with a pack of lying, snarling hyenas, all too eager to cover for each other, to mislead us, to stonewall us, and to point us in exactly the wrong direction, if doing that has any chance of harming Trump and/or of keeping them out of the slammer.

Then, of course, even if Sessions is held in Contempt of Congress, the question then becomes, what the hell good is a citation for Contempt of Congress today?

Former AG Holder was cited for Contempt. Do you see any effect on him?

Has Holder been hauled into court, tried, slapped with an enormous financial penalty? Is Holder in jail? Is Holder hiding in a corner somewhere, curled up in a ball, crying his eyes out in shame?

NO, he’s still very much out and about, active and working behind the scenes to hamper and destroy Trump and his Administration.

Contempt of Congress may have worked in “olden days,” in a far different society and moral climate, when one’s “reputation” was perhaps all you really had, was a precious thing, to be guarded and protected at all times.

Now, in our degenerate age of low life reality shows and celebrity porn stars, who really gives a crap?

They are better ones than the list attributed to Mueller.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/03/manafort-lawyers-claim-leaky-mueller-probe-has-provided-no-evidence-of-contacts-with-russian-officials/

“In a new filing demanding a full hearing on what Paul Manafort’s lawyers say is a series of illegal governmental leaks about his case, his legal team also reveals the government has provided no evidence of any contact between Manafort and Russian officials.

The special counsel’s office says it has no evidence in its possession responsive to Manafort’s request for transcripts, notes, or tapes of any and all conversation or contacts between Russian intelligence or government officials and Manafort, according to the filing.

This revelation, and the series of potentially false and illegal leaks from myriad government officials claiming they had such evidence, call into question the legal basis of Mueller’s probe of Manafort, which was ostensibly launched to ferret out illegal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and foreign officials, Manafort’s attorneys say.”

Hard to escape the conclusion that they were lying then or are lying now, because both claims can’t be true.

Also from PLB/Mueller part 2, a bit of good news.

David Hall
For those who are curious, Michael Caputo’s legal fund has topped $265K

We seem to be voting with our pocketbooks in terms of which team gets supported: Trump’s surrogates or the Deep State’s (eg, McCabe).
Caputo is the guy who had to sell his house to pay legal fees, and he isn’t even part of the alleged Russian collusion branch of the Witch Hunt — we can call it now, can’t we?

If you haven’t read it yet, here is his cri de coeur, and a bit of background on the collusion among the investigators.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/caputos-complaint.php

More here on Caputo’s charges in his speech, but not much on his background as a campaign aide who formerly lived in Russia.
One can see that he is a person the investigators want to interview, but he hasn’t been charged with anything, and with the FBI under Comey/Mueller on the loose, I certainly don’t blame him for lawyering up just for a witness appearance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5682739/God-damn-hell-Former-Trump-campaign-aide-explodes-Senate-aides.html

“Caputo lived in Russia for two decades but says he has no knowledge of any connections or contacts between the Trump campaign and agents of Moscow. He has launched a legal defense fund, collecting more than $10,000 from the public so far.
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In a report published Friday, the House Intelligence Committee quietly revealed

The Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, to compile the dossier. But its eventual dissemination to reporters and the FBI failed to derail Trump’s White House aspirations.

Now another Washington firm, the Penn Quarter Group, has collected $50 million from a handful of funders to keep the ball rolling.

It has hired Steele and Fusion GPS to take part, and promises to share its findings with the FBI and the media.

The Penn Quarter Group’s founding principal, Daniel Jones, is a former senior staffer to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and worked for her on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Jones’s $50 million effort is operating under the name ‘Democracy Integrity Project.’ He incorporated it in late January 2017, just 11 days after Trump took office.

Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson refused to answer a Senate hearing question last year about whether he was still being paid for work related to the Steele dossier.

Steele’s links to Jones were outed in February with the leak of a series of text messages between Jones and Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.

In the March 2017 texts, Jones suggested that he was the point of contact for Steele.”

Since the Democrats are pushing this investigation to take down a political rival, should the DIP (don’t you love the loonies who never check their acronymns?) be treated as an electioneering PAC subject to FEC rules?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-hands-small-defeat-to-mueller-team-in-russian-troll-farm-case

“Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team was handed a defeat Saturday when a judge rejected their request to postpone the first court hearing regarding charges against several Russian companies and Russian citizens that they charge with attempting to use social media to meddle in the 2016 election.

An arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three Russian companies Mueller accused of contributing to a Russian troll farm operation to spread discord online during the presidential contest.

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Mueller’s prosecutors on Friday revealed that two of Concord’s attorneys made multiple discovery requests seeking nonpublic details related to the Russia investigation, an effort which had been included in the request to put the arraignment on hold.”

As a PLB commenter opined, spooks don’t like to give out their sources to their victims, especially foreign ones; they’ll drop a case before revealing their evidence.

Bill Shipley (in the thread at muellers-got-a-secret-2):
“They are going to have to dismiss that case. No way they can provide the discovery behind that indictment to the defense, and watch it head off to Russia. …
And when that case is dismissed, Trump will have all the justification he needs to fire Rosenstein for incompetence. Rosenstein approved that indictment, and apparently did not think through the possibilities of what might happen if one of the Russian defendants actually appeared in court to contest the charges.
Well, that’s about to happen. Russia will pour millions into the defense of that case just to fook with the press and the SC.”

Which is the main reason corruption of judges and prosecutors needs to be rooted out and punished severely.
Unfortunately, the people one needs to do that task are …judges and prosecutors.

The government has unlimited resources, while citizens, even well to do citizens, can very easily be bankrupted by the legal fees they have to pay to hire a lawyer, appear to be interrogated in Washington, and to defend themselves–see Gen. Flynn.

Trump can pay those hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in legal bills, almost nobody else can.

Thus, you don’t even have to establish that someone actually did anything illegal.

Just accuse them, and let the workings of the legal system bankrupt and crush them.

Moreover, from what I’ve heard commentators say, a citizen who is unjustly accused and maliciously prosecuted has no way to use the courts to recoup the money he has spent, much less regain his reputation, and whatever position he might have had.

It’s an easy way to punish you enemies.

I suspect the percentage of blacks who self-label as “African-American” closely matches the percentage who vote democrat. Psychologically, it’s highly revealing… they place racial identity before all else and in doing so reveal their racism. The irony is literally biblical.

Kanye West recently placed his finger firmly upon the point: it is their mental chains that enslave them.