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Leslie McAdoo Gordon
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Feb 14th 2020, 58 tweets, 10 min read

Too complex to excerpt, but her legal reasoning looks sound to me.

She was also right about the bushwhacking of General Flynn in 2018, and the arguments are parallel in some ways on the technical aspects of the Fifth Amendment protections for government employees.

https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/19/the-fbi-abused-the-law-to-keep-flynn-from-using-his-right-to-remain-silent/

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/02/mccabe-walks-lori-loughlin-doesnt.html#more

Hotlanta HippieFebruary 14, 2020 at 7:25 PM
Don, as you well know, there is absolutely no chance of convicting these bozos in DC (or the surrounding counties in MD/VA for that matter). The solution lies in taking a page from your previous Senator and move the FBI HQ from DC to the WV panhandle (Martinsburg comes to mind). Then, when miscreants are identified, the jury pool will draw from the local Mountaineers and justice will be done. Imagine a jury made up of Hatfields and McCoys!

There is no freakin’ reason why the FBI HQ needs to be in DC…a small branch office in the Eisenhower Office Building is all that is needed IMHO. Move’em out tout de suite! (certainly you must have an empty trailer park out there somewhere, which is all that is needed)

And the next one was even better.

AnonymousFebruary 14, 2020 at 7:34 PM
Tom Paxton wrote the following so many years ago.

Humankind has survived some disastrous plagues
Like locusts and flash floods and flu.
There’s never a moment when we’ve been secure
From the ills that our flesh is heir to.
If it isn’t a war, it’s a gruesome disease.
If it isn’t disease then there’s war.
But there’s worse still to come
And I’m asking you please
How the world’s gonna take any more.
In 10 years, we’re gonna have one million lawyers,
One million lawyers, one million lawyers,
In 10 years, we’re gonna have one million lawyers.
How much can our poor nation stand?

Good point here:

DanFebruary 14, 2020 at 9:01 PM
Regarding Special Counsels, why don’t they have to drop the “investigation” when they know it’s bogus?
I’ve read that Mueller knew pretty soon after showing up that there was no case.
Patrick Fitzgerald knew shortly after starting that Valerie Plame was outed by Richard Armitage.
Nonetheless, Fitzgerald “investigated” and got Libby on a process crime.

Shouldn’t the Spec Counsel rules be modified so that once you know whodunit (whether or not you plan to prosecute), stop the circus.

If he doesn’t pull the trigger to demand justice in the worst scandal in our history, he will be viewed as a Quisling. And he needs to do it by summer. Before the election campaign goes into high gear after Labor Day.

An honest-to-goodness low-life.

And Elizabeth Warren—surprise!—has spiced up her absurd campaign by whining about media coverage. Yep, just the thing to appeal to the voters. (Heck if it works for that Trump character, it should surely work for me!)

It just absolutely destroys any hope that the swamp can be drained without a whole lot of current government employees being terminated (from employment…..)

And like several commentators have already mentioned, I have a hunch that Barr and Durham will nail McCabe on the rebound. No way to prove it til it happens, of course. (This means that one must remain patient. My own feeling is that B and D are lining up their ducks for the appropriate time. OTOH that’s what I would like to believe. Well, one can always hope….)

BTW, Lee Smith has some powerful stuff on his twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/leesmithdc?lang=en

For myself, I’m confused. The evidence does seem to point to Barr, like Graham, being just full of hot air as their actions seem to go in a different direction. If the Durham report is nothing, then what happens to the conservative support of Trump? Batten the hatches, trim the sails, rocky shoals ahead.