Is the DOJ the US Department of Injustice?
It is ironic that just as the Democrats are losing their cookies (for the umpteenth time in the past few weeks) over a Trump tweet regarding the absurd sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, the DOJ says it is dropping charges against Andrew McCabe, the proven liar, leaker, and hoax conspirator who was part of the coup cabal at the FBI along with Comey, Strzok, Page, et al. It seems also that Lt. Col. Vindman will not be investigated by the military.
There is one form of justice for Democrats — no charges ever — and a harsh form for any Republican. Roger Stone is mostly a figure of fun, a wannabe player who exaggerated his proximity to actual players. He is guilty of virtually nothing that warrants nine years in prison, but because the prosecutors, all attached to the Mueller team, had to have something to show for the $32M spent on their Russia hoax, they want him sent away to die in jail.
Is letting McCabe off the hook for lying and leaking a ploy? Are there more serious charges coming? He sure doesn't think so. He's so self-absorbed that he is complaining about what his family has been through for two years! His family! He and his cohorts have ruined numerous lives with their baseless witch hunts; the families of all of them have endured far more hardship than the weasel McCabe. Some have lost everything. It is doubtful that McCabe and his team of traitors have ever given a thought to what they have put the president and his family through except perhaps with glee. This bunch that tried to take down a candidate, then a president they decided should not hold that office are arrogant beyond belief; they're smug, elitist white-collar criminals all, and it's beginning to seem as if they are all going to get away with their treasonous crimes.
We are told that A.G. Barr and John Durham are getting to the bottom of this grand scheme. We've just learned that Barr has assigned a special investigator to revisit the Michal Flynn case, the other beleaguered man the FBI and the Mueller team set out to destroy. Barr, on his own, without any interference from the president, decided to look into the ridiculous sentence recommendation for Stone. The prosecutors apparently lied to the DOJ, told them one thing and the judge another. As Monica Showalter wrote here, quoting Brian Cates, about what happened in November:
1) Trump suddenly nominates US Attorney Jessie Liu to a top Treasury Dept. job, she accepts; Trump nominates Timothy O'Shea to replace her. She is the one who has been guiding the Stone case.
2) all 4 prosecutors suddenly agree amongst themselves they will brief the DOJ one sentencing recommendation, but then actually file a far more lengthy recommendation with the court.
With me so far?
There is only one reason these prosecutors would do this.
They expected to get COVER from both the US ATTORNEY overseeing the case and from THE JUDGE presiding over the case in court.
Despite DOJ complaints about the tactic, Liu & Judge Jackson have their backs.
We also just learned that the judge in Stone's case, Amy Berman Jackson, allowed a viciously partisan woman onto the jury who became the forewoman. Jackson refused Stone's lawyers' bid to exempt several jurors who never should have been seated. Activist or incompetent? (Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.) It is more likely that she is an anti-Trump activist and not an impartial jurist.
Either way, something is very, very wrong at the DOJ. Jeff Lord sums up the corruption that enveloped the Stone trial. The truth however rarely, if ever, matters to the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC. As with moths to a flame, Trump's tweet was instantly the next reason to impeach the President...again. Like a Greek chorus, every anchor and every leftist guest was "outraged" at Trump's interference with the Stone trial even though they all surely knew he did no such thing. They continue to believe that the American people are easily misled and will swallow their lies and propaganda, but most Americans no longer pay any attention to CNN or MSNBC. The impeachment crowd have learned nothing from their impeachment fiasco, not one thing. They are the Wile E. Coyote, and Trump is the Roadrunner.
It is by now undeniable that it was the Obama administration that weaponized the FBI, CIA, and DOJ. Barr is tasked with cleaning up the mess Obama left behind, to rid the DOJ of all the human IEDs among the personnel, people like Vindman, Yates, McCabe, and the rest of our self-appointed betters. Barr and Durham cannot let McCabe skate and, at the same time, send Stone and Flynn to prison. That would be an enormous miscarriage of justice and would forever render those agencies untrustworthy and so untrusted, only to be feared. The nation cannot survive the institutionalization of two-tiered law enforcement, one that is soft on real criminals, as NYC, S.F., and L.A. certainly are; soft on political schemers like Hillary Clinton and her phalanx of opposition researchers; and lethal for those deemed problematic or inconvenient for those with power. "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice" (Montesquieu).
It is way past time for the good guys to take over. Let us hope Barr and Durham will clean the Augean stables and that these tainted law enforcement institutions can be rehabilitated. For that to happen, the thugs who orchestrated this despicable coup must suffer the consequences of their illegal acts. The most serious political scandal in American history cannot go unpunished.