The tapes meet the Steele Dossier standard and we know what that means //
Laocoon
2 hours ago
“… But we do have a solution. A special counsel. Department of Justice regulations say this about the appointment of a special counsel: …”
With all due respect sir, not only NO…but HELL NO!
I remain your #1 fan but this is crazy-talk. Special Counsels and Independent Counsels before them…with few exceptions…have proven to be complete disasters. They unilaterally expand their investigations, stretch their charter to the edge of the laugh-test envelope, inevitably abuse their powers, almost always shift their focus to finding even the most tangential wrongdoing by REPUBLICANS, and quickly begin to operate like the thoughtcrime police from 1984.
A Special Counsel on Biden will inevitably morph into an investigation of Rudy, his collusion with Russia to influence the 2020 election, and pressure the entire Trump administration brought to bear on the government of Ukraine to play ball with Trump. AGAIN. He/she will try to indict Don Jr. for obstructing their investigations of Rudy, Ivanka for having a Russian-sounding name, Jay Sekulow for opposing Trump’s impeachment, Sidney Powell for wearing white pants before Memorial Day, Kellyanne Conway for aggravated mopery, Rick Grenell for conspiracy to dawdle, and AG Barr for…whatever.
In my admittedly uninformed opinion, I think that doing another Special Counsel after 3 years of the Mueller/Weissman inquisition is pure crazy-talk. Remember…distinguished Republican former Judge Lawrence Walsh investigated Iran-Contra for 7 damned years producing nothing but 2 overturned verdicts against Republican NSC officials and an indictment of Casper Weinberger for lying to his freakin’ diary. Good Republican Patrick Fitzgerald studiously spent 4 years ignoring Republican-appointed State Department official Richard Armitage (who Fitzgerald knew about on day 1 of his “investigation”) to go after the innocent Republican Scooter Libby and convict him in a pathetic tilting-at-windmills attempt to get VP Cheney. I won’t even go into the serial horror-show that was the 3 year Mueller inquisition.
Special Counsels are an abominable extra-Constitutional perversion of justice. They have led to nothing but partisan hatred, financial ruin, broken lives, disillusion with the justice system, FBI corruption, and uncounted civil rights abuses. The worst of them are nominal Republicans who typically only consider criminal charges against Republicans. No more Special Counsels EVER…under any circumstances. Ceterum autem censeo Specialis Consiliator esse delendam!
