Random Politics & Religion #24

He fired people who aren't doing their job.

Preet Bharara

I think there is enough suspicion to warrant an investigation with special prosecutor (which I believe is happening). When the investigation ends, then people will have to accept the result but it will be much harder to accept the result if the president keeps trying to impede the investigation.

Mr. Bharara, 48, speaking to reporters after the meeting, said Mr. Trump had asked to see him to discuss “whether or not I’d be prepared to stay on as the United States attorney to do the work as we have done it, independently, without fear or favor for the last seven years.”

“We had a good meeting,” Mr. Bharara continued. “I said I would absolutely consider staying on. I agreed to stay on.”

Mr. Bharara said that he had already talked to Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, who is Mr. Trump’s choice for attorney general. “He also asked that I stay on, and so I expect that I will be continuing,” Mr. Bharara said.

Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York who established a reputation for prosecuting white collar crime and political corruption, was fired Saturday, he announced on Twitter, after refusing to comply with a request from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he tender his resignation.

Marc Kasowitz, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.


Kasowitz told Trump, “This guy is going to get you,” according to a person familiar with Kasowitz’s account.

Shame that that person can't refute the source, as it's one of it's favorites.

In that case.

Even his lawyer says dumb ***that implicates obstruction.

Comey was fired because, as evidenced by his own testimony, he was a very ineffective director and pretty much singlehandedly smeared the FBI's image in the mud. Along with his obvious partisanship and lack of ethical behavior, as we are finding out more and more daily.

Fired FBI Director James Comey has emerged as the main figure in what some Democrats believe will be an obstruction of justice case against President Trump in the Trump-Russia matter. Comey's stories of conversations with the president, plus the fact that he was fired, ostensibly as a result of the Russia probe, make him potentially the star witness in the case.

Which brings up an intriguing legal question. Comey is a good friend of special counsel Robert Mueller — such a good friend, for about 15 years now, that the two men have been described as "brothers in arms." Their work together during the controversies over Bush-era terrorist surveillance has been characterized as "deepening a friendship forged in the crucible of the highest levels of the national security apparatus after the 9/11 attacks," after which the men became "close partners and close allies throughout the years ahead."

Now Mueller is investigating the Trump-Russia affair, in which, if the increasing buzz in the case is correct, allegations of obstruction against the president will be central. And central to those allegations — the key witness — will be the prosecutor's good friend, the now-aggrieved former FBI director.

Is that a conflict? Should a prosecutor pursue a case in which the star witness is a close friend? And when the friend is not only a witness but also arguably a victim — of firing — by the target of the investigation? And when the prosecutor might also be called on to investigate some of his friend's actions? The case would be difficult enough even without the complicating friendship.

This is by no means a definitive answer, but I put that question to five Washington lawyers Sunday — lawyers in private practice, on Capitol Hill, in think tanks, some of them veterans of the Justice Department. The verdict came back mixed. But the answers made clear this is a question that will have to be answered in the course of the Mueller investigation.

"This is very odd," said one big-firm lawyer and Justice Department veteran Sunday:


On the other hand, from another big-firm lawyer and Justice Department veteran:


From a Capitol Hill veteran now in private practice:


From another Justice Department veteran:


And finally, from another Hill lawyer:

I only trust sources line up with my agenda

Oh yeah another thing. Didn't Trump say he fired him over the russian investigation to some extent? Even Comey testified that lol. Also I'm sure they fired him for things that came up during his hearing after he was fired. Logic.

Remember when you said you didn't care I remember !

Translated :

At least you admit it.

Oh this is entertainment. I thought this was serious business. I mean I really thought we had a breakthrough. You should be part of the Senate investigation team. Why put your powers to use on FFXIAH !

Yeah, was such a burden but I did it. Translating what you said was so hard on me.

If only it had a brain~

Oh, I never denied it.

But thanks for inputting your argument though.

There's a logical fallacy in there somewhere. If only it had a brain~