"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." Julius Caesar
June 21, 2017
By: Linda Case Gibbons
The best way to get things done your way is to stack the deck.
Stick a couple of aces up your sleeve. Boycott anyone who has a different opinion from yours.
When you aren't good enough to win on the strength of your ideas, mob rule is the best way.
Bully, smash and burn.
It's not everyone's cup of tea, but James Comey and Bill Clinton like it.
What could be better than having a "friend" in your pocket when the chips are down? And when it comes to getting what you want, just call in your markers.
Bill Clinton pushed Loretta Lynch to look the other way in her role as attorney general just by stepping on a plane in Arizona.
He reminded her that he was the guy who appointed her as U.S. attorney, and that she'd keep her job, in Hillary's administration.
Comey took care of the rest, and Hillary's email problem magically went away.
Now James Comey is trying to make Donald Trump magically go away.
Leaking and lying, Comey has to get himself off the hook. What better way to do that than to stack the deck?
Now some say Special Counsel Robert Mueller was "appointed," but we all know who did the appointing. Inappropriately and illegally leaking confidential FBI information to The New York Times, Comey contrived to get a friend appointed Special Counsel, one who would lend a helping hand, big league.
And Robert Mueller was that guy.
"Bob Mueller and Jim Comey are the best of friends and have been for over two decades," James Kallstrom, former head of the Bureau's New York office said. "How do you appoint a special counsel who is a longtime friend? It's a massive conflict of interest."
How indeed.
Mueller was praised to the skies, from Democrats, of course, but even from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He appointed him.
When asked, Rosenstein told Congress, "Don't worry, be happy." He was happy and didn't "see any problems with political donations made from members of Mueller's legal team." Even though Mueller appointed lawyers who have been belly to belly with Democrats during their legal careers.
With 1,315,561 licensed lawyers in the United States, what are the chances Mueller would deliberately choose any lawyers who worked directly with, or donated to, Democrats?
You'd say, "Slim to none," but you'd be wrong.
Attorney Jeannie Rhee represented the Clinton Foundation in a racketeering lawsuit brought by a conservative advocacy group, and Hillary Clinton in a lawsuit seeking access to her private e-mails. She also donated $16,000 to Democrats and Hillary, since 2008.
Andrew Weissman donated a total of $4,300 to Obama and the DNC. James Quarles forked over nearly $33,000 to Democrats, Dukakis, Kerry, Gore, Obama, Hillary and Schumer.
Why is there a Special Counsel anyway? Even liberal Democrat lawyer Alan Dershowitz felt obligated to say he thought the Special Counsel is the wrong choice, "except to investigate leaks."
"A president cannot be charged with a crime for properly exercising his constitutional authority," Dershowitz explained. "For the same reason, President Trump cannot be charged with obstruction for firing Comey, which he had the constitutional authority to do."
Appearing on FOX's Tucker Carlson, the Harvard Law School professor emeritus said he doesn't see a crime that necessitated the appointment of a Special Counsel, and that it would not be criminal, even if the Trump campaign did collaborate with the Russians to get their candidate elected.
"That's political wrongdoing, but it's just not a crime. Nobody can point me to a statute that would be violated. And a prosecutor is only allowed to look for evidence of a federal crime."
And, oh yes, there federal crimes aplenty which could be prosecuted. The Obama administration unmasking and leaking the information, then hiding the records in the Obama Library Archives. And Hillary and Co. and James Comey leaking confidential government information all over the place.
But these are not being investigated and probably won't be. Not when you have a Justice Department where 97 percent of political donations went to Hillary last year, and a Special Counsel whose best friend is his star witness.
Hold the line, America.