Charles Pierce nails it, Again: "These clowns tried to turn the FBI into the Plumbers"

[kpete]

Reince Priebus Needs to Leave Trump's White House. Today.
He made the FBI mess even messier, and he can't clean it up.

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First of all, Priebus has to go. Today. Even if there's nothing illegal in what happened—and even, as seems completely implausible, the request was made out of simple anger at inaccurate reporting instead of abject terror that accurate reporting was getting too close to where the borscht got made last year—Priebus is revealed as a guy who should not be allowed to spread butter with anything sharper than his thumb, let alone run the staff of any White House, including Camp Runamuck. This is, or ought to be, a career-ender.

THIS IS, OR OUGHT TO BE, A CAREER-ENDER.

Second, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III shouldn't be allowed within an area code of any investigation of the contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. (I suspect there might be several of these.) He's hopelessly compromised.

Third, come on, man. You don't go this far out on a limb because you're pissed about fake stories. Not even this White House is that stupid. You take this kind of long chance because you believe that there's something out there that's worse than being found to be using the FBI to ratfck the New York Times. That's why old RN said this to Harry Robbins Haldeman on June 23, 1972:

"That the way to handle this now is for us to have (CIA director] Walters call (FBI director] Pat Gray and just say, "Stay the hell out of this…this is ah, business here we don't want you to go any further on it." That's not an unusual development…"

In our current parallel situation, the FBI is the CIA and the New York Times is the FBI, and that's the only thing that may keep this from being an actual obstruction of justice. But, as I said, that's a very limited way to measure the magnitude of this story. This is plainly a White House that has no compunction about asking the federal law enforcement apparatus to run its errands, and to operate as barroom bouncers on call whenever the jefe feels inconvenienced. At least Nixon hired his own investigators when he got pissed at newspaper leaks. These clowns tried to turn the FBI into the Plumbers. It's going to get really crowded in DC parking garages pretty soon.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53406/reince-priebus-fbi/

[yallerdawg]

1. Ready for more astonishing hypocrisy!

If a casual visit by Bill Clinton with AG Loretta Lynch can destroy all DOJ credibility - which released Comey on us (supposedly) - why is AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions 'above suspicion' regarding investigating "the man" he supported and now serves?

[Blue_Roses]

2. No doubt

"It's going to get really crowded in DC parking garages pretty soon."

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Career ender? LOL

This piece of shit is still making money off the American people.




And this asshole



is still in a position of influence

All criminals. Rightwingers dont use ethics and truth and justice as guidelines, none of that matters to them, not ever.

[mcar]

4. He is correct, as usual