apparently it's the new 4am talking point
QAnon: When reality is just too much
"Reality is for people who can't handle drugs," according to an old hippie slogan from the '60s. Today I would update that line to say that reality is for people who can't handle conspiracy theories.
https://www.latimes.com/sns-201808031742–tms–cpagectnxv-a20180805-20180805-story.html
Horowitz + Huber = D5
PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES
Bob Goodlatte column: Current Judiciary investigation isn't about politics
By Bob Goodlatte Aug 2, 2018
In October 2017, the House Judiciary and Oversight committees launched an investigation into decisions made and not made by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Our investigation is not about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or President Donald Trump. It is about how investigations of U.S. citizens are to be conducted with impartiality and without regard to political affiliation in order to protect Americans’ civil liberties.
As part of our investigation, we have aggressively used tools at our disposal, including the issuance of a subpoena, to get access to critical documents needed for our investigation. Some have wanted to go further and have called for the impeachment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. While obtaining the cooperation of the Justice Department and the FBI for document production and witness testimony has been frustrating, impeachment of Rosenstein is not the appropriate course of action and would do nothing to help speed up the production of documents.
Our investigation must continue and we must have access to critical documents pertaining to the Justice Department and FBI’s handing of both the probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server to send and receive classified information, and its investigation of unverified claims of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia to interfere in the election. We are deeply concerned about political bias exhibited by top officials at our nation’s premier law enforcement agencies and how it led to these investigations being handled differently.
For instance, the Justice Department and FBI did not treat Clinton like any other criminal suspect and deviated from standard investigative procedures. Throughout the course of the investigation, former FBI Director James Comey decided which DOJ procedures to follow and which not to follow, and he assumed the roles of investigator, prosecutor, and exonerator.
The FBI allowed two Clinton employees who were witnesses to sit in on her interview. Before key witnesses were even interviewed, including Clinton herself, Director Comey drafted an exoneration memo. Comey and his team changed the term used to describe Clinton’s use of a private email server to send classified information from the standard that created culpability, “gross negligence,” to a made-up standard without any legal effect: “extreme carelessness.” This change ensured Clinton’s conduct did not violate the law, permitting Comey to manufacture a decision to not recommend charges, despite a legal standard of gross negligence.
Moreover, the FBI intentionally obscured the fact that President Obama had communicated with Clinton’s private email address by editing Comey’s final press statement, replacing “the president” with “senior government official.” These are just a few examples of the FBI’s investigative irregularities in the Clinton investigation.
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https://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/bob-goodlatte-column-current-judiciary-investigation-isn-t-about-politics/article_3b7a987a-0320-515f-8a4d-867ff6c81795.html