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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 11:41 AM Apr 2018

House GOPers Call On Sessions To Prosecute Clinton, DOJ Officials

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Tierney Sneed | April 18, 2018 11:29 am

Eleven House Republicans sent a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him to prosecute Hillary Clinton and more than a half-dozen current or former Justice Department officials, including former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

The letter complains that the investigations into Clinton and President Trump’s campaign have been marked by “dissimilar degrees of zealousness.”

“Because we believe that those in positions of high authority should be treated the same as every other American, we want to be sure that the potential violations of law outlined below are vetted appropriately,” the House Republicans said.

The letter — which also went to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney John Huber, whom Sessions named to oversee the investigation into GOP-fueled anti-DOJ allegations — comes after the FBI raided Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, last week.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-gopers-call-on-sessions-to-prosecute-clinton-doj-officials

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House GOPers Call On Sessions To Prosecute Clinton, DOJ Officials (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
"House GOP'ers Call On Sessions To Prosecute Clinton, DOJ Officials." LenaBaby61 Apr 2018 #1
prosecuted for what? Being named Hillary? beachbum bob Apr 2018 #2
Opposing Spanky? greatauntoftriplets Apr 2018 #3
Meaning: "My god, Jeff!! We need a distraction or we're ALL going down!!" Wwcd Apr 2018 #6
It is amazing that we have normalized members of congress, or even the president, calling for StevieM Apr 2018 #4
very third-worldish to prosecute political opponents rurallib Apr 2018 #11
Hey, let's waste some more money trashing Hillary vlyons Apr 2018 #5
I wake up in the morning hating trump. Dont know if I can take the trashing he is doing notdarkyet Apr 2018 #9
Hatred is poison vlyons Apr 2018 #14
LMAO - they could only get 11 leftynyc Apr 2018 #7
Wasn't HRC..... Toorich Apr 2018 #8
Benghazi, yes, emails no ... apparently nobody noticed she didn't have a .gov mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #16
Is it possible these folks cannot identify a single legislative accomplishment and therefore return Raven123 Apr 2018 #10
I wonder if the GOP members could be countersued for wrongful prosecution. ffr Apr 2018 #12
oh boy, they're out for blood aren't they, and to distract the public from the DOTUS' legal troubles onetexan Apr 2018 #13
Next year they'll spend $1.7 trillion Turbineguy Apr 2018 #15
Bookmarked so I have their names close by. sinkingfeeling Apr 2018 #17
Doing their best to create a distraction The Blue Flower Apr 2018 #18
That ship is heading right for an iceberg called November pecosbob Apr 2018 #19
This comes off as so childish LiberalLovinLug Apr 2018 #20
Idiots. Sugar Smack Apr 2018 #21
 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
6. Meaning: "My god, Jeff!! We need a distraction or we're ALL going down!!"
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 11:52 AM
Apr 2018

When in a panic they always turn to Hillary to ease their angst. Its like cryin 'mommeeee'!!

Wadda bunch of chumps

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
4. It is amazing that we have normalized members of congress, or even the president, calling for
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 11:49 AM
Apr 2018

American citizens to be investigated and prosecuted.

rurallib

(62,415 posts)
11. very third-worldish to prosecute political opponents
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:25 PM
Apr 2018

and much of the press just reports the news blip

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
5. Hey, let's waste some more money trashing Hillary
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 11:50 AM
Apr 2018

This is just pure stupidity and hatefulness. Those people are obsessed with hatred. They wake up in the morning and immediately think "I hate ______________." Then they spend the rest of the day nurturing their hatred and projecting it onto others. Hatred for Hillary. Hatred for Obama. Hatred for liberals. Hatred for Muslems. For Blacks. For Hispanics. For the poor. For uppity women. On and on and on and on. When they aren't nurturing hatred, they fantasize vengeful punishments.

And that DUers, is how Facsists operate. They are not happy people.

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
9. I wake up in the morning hating trump. Dont know if I can take the trashing he is doing
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:10 PM
Apr 2018

To our country much longer.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
14. Hatred is poison
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:41 PM
Apr 2018

I know how very difficult it is to not project hatred back at people, who are motivated by hatred themselves. But when we hate, we join their team. As a Buddhist, I endeavor to feel compassion for all sentient beings. Yes even the hateful Trumps of this world. Compassion does not mean giving a free pass to degenerate people like Trump. I assure you that they are not happy people. I see them as people trapped in suffering of their own making by all their negative emotions of hatred, greed, envy, anger, false pride, and blatant stupidity. And they create so much suffering for others. Completely wasted lives, c hasing after money, power, and fame.

But we are better people than that. We can choose to generate feelings of generosity and kindness. If you can't see you way to generate compassion right now, you can at least hold the aspiration to generate compassion at a future time. Anger and hatred are poison and make people to be stupid.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
7. LMAO - they could only get 11
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 11:54 AM
Apr 2018

imbeciles to sign onto this crap? 11 out of 237? That's laughably embarrassing.

Toorich

(391 posts)
8. Wasn't HRC.....
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 11:56 AM
Apr 2018

investigated by multiple agencies and committees the entire time she was Sec. of State?
Seems to me Gowdy and the boys screamed BENGAZI for the last 4 years and EMAILS over and over.
Didn't they spend millions in the effort and came up empty handed.
Damn, I am getting tired of their toro ballistics.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
16. Benghazi, yes, emails no ... apparently nobody noticed she didn't have a .gov
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:48 PM
Apr 2018

Email address the whole time she was Sec State (actually it wasn't weird because SO MANY in government did, and still do, not ... including many, many pubs, including GWB) until it was time to officially archive her email records at the end of her tenure and archivists asked for them. They told her she didn't need to include 'personal' ones so those are the dastardly 'missing' 33K (which from my understanding have actually been recovered at this point) that her IT folks innocently removed from the server before presumably ghosting the server box and forwarding to the archivists.

THAT's when the GOP, after all that time (no DOUBT many many of them sent emails to her non-.gov email over those 4 years), decided to persecute her and accuse her of having confidential info on a private server that was presumably more hackable than a .gov, and saying she purposefully hid those from the archivists to not get in trouble, categorizing them as 'personal'.

So the 'investigation' didn't start I don't think until she was already totally done or at least after she announced retirement.

Raven123

(4,842 posts)
10. Is it possible these folks cannot identify a single legislative accomplishment and therefore return
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:17 PM
Apr 2018

To the one issue from which they derive their reason for living - attacking The Clintons. Just stunning and sad that our tax dollars pay their salaries.

ffr

(22,670 posts)
12. I wonder if the GOP members could be countersued for wrongful prosecution.
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:34 PM
Apr 2018

That would be awesome if they went to jail for that.

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
13. oh boy, they're out for blood aren't they, and to distract the public from the DOTUS' legal troubles
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:37 PM
Apr 2018

Turbineguy

(37,331 posts)
15. Next year they'll spend $1.7 trillion
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 12:47 PM
Apr 2018

running the government, when it could simply be shut down and all that money spent so much wiser on investigating the Clintons.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
20. This comes off as so childish
Wed Apr 18, 2018, 04:03 PM
Apr 2018

Like a young republican kid gets caught red handed stealing cookies and screams and whines that his sibling should get the same punishment because believe him, he knows, that his brother or sister has been stealing cookies too!

I don't see how a majority of Republican voters can stomach the immaturity, the childishness of the new Republican party, from Trump on down. "I know you are but what am I?" That is what is really unsettling. That they live in a world of the schoolyard, where they follow the biggest bully around and laugh when he makes fun of other weaker classmates. And help bully any classmate that speaks up against him. And then laughs at the poor butterfly libtard that can't take a 'joke'.

Its this infantalization of America that is particularly nauseous.

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