Friday, March 29, 2019

Prosecute the Perps

Writing for RealClearPolitics, Jenny Martin argues for a special prosecutor to bring to justice the members of the Obama administration who perpetrated the anti-Trump witch-hunt just ended. See who she would have investigated for indictment.
The current and former government officials – holders of a public trust – who deliberately abused that trust to lead their fellow citizens on what they knew from the beginning was a wild goose chase. They knew it was a wild goose chase because they were the ones who created it in the first place.

I’m talking specifically about former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, among others.
COTTonLINE endorses this view, and this list. I'd also like to know more about what Obama himself knew and when he knew it.

Plus, Martin makes a key point in about the harm done to our national interests.
For more than two years now – in fact, for the entire duration of his presidency – President Trump has been handicapped in his conduct of foreign policy by the inevitable doubts among foreign leaders who couldn’t help but wonder about the value (and duration) of a deal struck with Trump, or a threat made by Trump.

That handicapping of our president doesn’t just hurt him, it hurts our entire nation.