Dershowitz isn’t letting up on his criticism of the special counsel approach
I happen to agree with Dershowitz on this:
“I think the investigation should end and I think the Congress should appoint a special non-partisan commission,” said Dershowitz. He said he thinks a Congressional committee would be too partisan.
“That’s the way it’s done in other western democracies,” he continued. “They don’t appoint a special counsel and tell them to ”˜Get that guy”¦’ that’s what they did in the Soviet Union. Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB said to Stalin, ”˜Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime!’” That’s what special counsel does.”
Dershowitz was quick to point out that he was not making a direct correlation between the United States and the former Soviet Union. “I’m not comparing obviously the Soviet Union and the United States. We have structural protections in our Bill Of Rights but it’s going down the wrong direction.”
“The issue of criminalization [of political differences] has not been subject to rational discourse,” said Dershowitz. “Democrats hate when they politicize and criminalize political differences against Democrats”¦ when they did it with Bill Clinton. Republicans hate when they do it against their people”¦ President Trump. But each one supports it when they’re against their enemies and partisanship prevails over principle. It’s very hard to have a reasonable discussion.”
It’s indeed hard to have a reasonable discussion, and that’s true even when people are trying to do so. Dershowitz is still trying. But he’s in the minority in that respect.
Which means that even a “non-partisan commission” would almost certainly be partisan. Or, if not partisan—if it were very equally balanced—it would probably be stalemated and unable to accomplish anything.
Disagree. Step on the Dems’ throats. Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Stzok et alia all need to go to jail.
Former Creighton basketball coach Dana Altman tells his players to “step on their throats.” And, of course, Loyola Chicago’s head coach in Creighton alum Porter Moser.
Ha! I made a mistake. Comey claims to be an independent. McCabe might be too but his wife got six figure money from the Dems in her run for the state senate.
They are all members of the Deep State.
Brennan is a vicious player. And he went to Fordham! A Jesuit school just like Loyola of Chicago. Brennan is no Porter Moser!
I’m less optimistic about the effectiveness of a non-partisan committee than is Dershowitz.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002 was never accepted as non-partisan. Instead it was bipartisan and its conclusions were attacked from both sides of the aisle, in the predictable ways, and its recommendations were pretty much ignored.
Mueller’s task and objective is to keep all this Russia and Trump-is-a-Criminal stuff in the news until the mid-terms. Once the Democrats have taken back one or both houses of Congress the inquiry will complete.
“…a special non-partisan commission…”
Republicans: Democrats:
Collins ME Schumer NY
McCain AZ Markey MA
Paul KY Sanders VT
Portman OH Wyden OR
Murkowski AK Feinstein CA
Couldn’t be more bi-partisan.
That’s what they did in France too. This is not new.
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” Cardinal Richelieu
Ordinarily I would support the principled approach favored by Dershowitz and neo, but this looks like war.
I see no good faith to the Mueller investigation largely engineered by the same people who protected Hillary for crimes close to treason and who are now launched on a fishing expedition to get Trump on the flimsiest evidence.
Trump shouldn’t sit around waiting to be indicted like the proverbial ham sandwich.
The best shot I can see to a livable ending is for an SP to start tearing into the DOJ, the FBI, the Obama admin, Hillary and the Clinton Foundation until Democrats and the Deep Staters back off.
Pardon everyone and move on. It’s not justice but it’s better than we’re getting.
“Democrats hate when they politicize and criminalize political differences against Democrats… when they did it with Bill Clinton. Republicans hate when they do it against their people… President Trump.” Alan Dershowitz
Dershowitz is comparing apples with oranges.
In his cover-up, Clinton unarguably committed perjury and the nature of his lies had the intent to obstruct justice. In Clinton’s trial in the Senate, not even one democrat Senator had the integrity to admit the truth and vote accordingly.
Nixon, guilty of the very same misdemeanor and high crime was convinced that the Republican Senators would vote to convict.
Trump has yet to commit any “misdemeanors and high crimes”. Is there any doubt that, if tomorrow impeachment went to trial in the Senate… that every democrat Senator would vote to convict? And, that some RINOs would as well?
“Dershowitz said he has taken a lot of heat from friends because some of his positions appear to “help” President Trump. “I didn’t vote for President Trump, I voted for Hillary Clinton. But I’m going to be honest about the law, whoever is the President.”..”
Cue our favorite “Man for All Seasons” quote.
I’m torn between loving Dersh’s principles, and wondering how he could vote for Hillary, even if he didn’t want to vote for Trump.
That doesn’t signal honesty about the law in my book.
But, that’s what some Republicans said when faced with Trump as their nominee.
Talk about being between Scylla and Charybdis.
Something has to be done. We need someone truly independent, which rules out Mueller, as a former head of the FBI, and also Rosenstein, who signed off on the FISA warrants. So if Trump wanted to do something Trumpian, he could fire them both, and then ask Congress to come up with a replacement!
It is essential to identify the problem, and in this matter it is that the Obama administration abused its power and spied on the Trump campaign. Unfortunately, about half the country believes that Trump has to be guilty of something, and deserves to be guilty, even if they can’t explain why.
We simply cannot have a healthy democracy when one side refuses to accept the results of the election, and resorts to corrupt and illegal means to sabotage its political opponents. The only thing to do is to force it all out into the open, and find out just what was done by the Obama administration, and the Clinton campaign, and why.
I don’t tell people to step on a target’s throat to terminate them, and people think I’m extreme…
that every democrat Senator would vote to convict? And, that some RINOs would as well?
Every Demoncrat Senator has been run through a child pedo sting ring and they have blackmail on them, even if it isn’t kiddie porn.
Republicans, half of them, have their own leverage which Dem whips use.
huxley Says:
March 30th, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Ordinarily I would support the principled approach favored by Dershowitz and neo, but this looks like war.
Sounds crazy circa 2007.