That is also a good point. I was hoping Trey Gowdy would take it on, but he declined the FBI and the Justice appointments.

Indeed, seems to be the exact truth, with a few more issues as trimmings for the dinner....

I posted another thread with a summary of how all this fits together, and all the pieces seem to indicate he is a Clintonista who was there to protect Hillary beast.

You can drain it, but look what happened with comey. He testifies in front of a willing congressional committee and tries to sink trump

So, given Mueller's buddiship with Comey, will he recuse himself?

Given that it was the FBI director (Comey) being questioned and that - according to Comey's own testimony - Trump had received at least three confirmations from Comey that Trump personally was not being investigated for wrongdoing, I'm not going to get hung up on the semantics. This isn't Bill Clinton we're talking about here.

Several related notes:
- Loretta Lynch wanted to reclassify FBI actions from being "investigations" to "inquiries" with regards to Hillary Clinton.
- Both Holder and Lynch refused to recuse themselves when there were very obvious conflicts: Holder with "Fast and Furious" and Lynch with Clinton. Sessions at least did the honorable thing and recused himself when he really didn't need to.
- The Justice Department under Obama became the most politicized it has ever been, refusing to prosecute the Black Panthers for voter intimidation and for spuriously prosecuting several States for Voter ID rules.

I think you're saying it's not technically an "investigation" if it's done by the Justice Department rather than the FBI. I may be confused on that point. I invite you to send me a PM where I can write about our interest in this case.

I disagree. It is simple to drain the swamp, The existing laws in the District and the Constitution provide many opportunities to charge those who believe they are above the law with almost anything from drunk in public to felony destruction and dissemination of government records (Hillary). As soon as the first charges were read and booking procedures followed, you would see a tidal wave of change. What is harder than anyone realized, is finding a person with the authority and WILLINGNESS to do it.

"Comey and Mueller are honorable people"
Honorable people???? Ha-HA-HA-HA-HA! ROTFLMAO!
I never knew you had such a sense of humor!
Oops, you were serious...
Hopefully their corruption will become clear and time will tell just how deluded and brainwashed you are CG, but I doubt you will ever be willing to acknowledge your long running, ongoing errors in judgement regarding liberal traitors acting for the Democrats and against the interests of individual liberty and free markets.

"On the contrary, the Justice Dept is investigating ties between President Trump and the Russian gov't."

Not according to Comey's testimony earlier this week. When specifically asked, he denied that President Trump himself was being investigated or at all under scrutiny. The investigations were whether any of Trump's transition team had improper dealings. So far nothing has been found. Even Michael Flynn's dealings were not about improper contacts, but that he had contacts he didn't disclose to Mike Pence. He was fired, but it was a pretty minor offense - nowhere even close to anything like Loretta Lynch's improper meeting with Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner having secure emails on his laptop, or a host of other Obama-era scandals.

"If who is guilty?"
I meant if President Trump is guilty of making a deal with the Russian gov't to influence the presidential election. I am saying my gut feeling is he is not guilty of that.

"Neither Comey nor Trump are under investigation."
On the contrary, the Justice Dept is investigating ties between President Trump and the Russian gov't. I do not suspect (just my guess) Trump is guilty of any illegal dealings with Russia.

They may be a "bunch of losers" but then, so are we. I feel like just saying "I'm to old for this shit" and just staying in my comfy office and catch up on my book reading. But, I do have so much fun in the Gulch and poking libs on FB that I guess I'll stay out in the world a little longer.

If who is guilty? Neither Comey nor Trump are under investigation. (Although Comey could be for leaking the memos...)

"I believe Comey and Mueller are honorable people, not playing politics."

I wish I could believe that, but the fact is that no one rises to those heights in government in this era without political ties. I wish that everyone in the FBI was non-partisan and objective (blind justice), but Comey shot all semblance of that with his Hillary non-indictment.

"As for whether President Trump is handling it right"

I agree that he is handling it horribly. The thing that is a joke is that there is no scandal in the first place and even Democrats have admitted this.

"made a huge mistake "
It depends on if he's guilty. We don't know if he is. My wild-guess gut feeling is he is not guilty.

I believe Comey and Mueller are honorable people, not playing politics. If these guesses of mine are right, Mueller will find no convincing evidence of collusion.

As for whether President Trump is handling it right, if he's trying to avoid scandal I think he's handling it horribly. If my guesses are right and he's not guilty and his goal is attention, he's handling it perfectly. He has people talking about him. When they dig in, they won't find enough evidence to prove anything, and people will still be focused on it.

Maybe he can pull off the magician trick of getting attention on one thing while doing something else. Maybe he can get re-elected with it. I don't think he's doing it for strategic regions. I think he's a natural-born marketing and buzz-generating genius, and that's permeates everything he does.

the qualification of the special counsel is that he will somehow, somewhere, find dirt on Trump

I think that Donald Trump made a huge mistake when he failed to fire Comey on day one. A prosecutor who reads into an indictment a clause of intent where no such exists in the statute is not fit to serve. Period. Remember, Comey declined even to bring the charges to a Grand Jury (which is a pre-trial to see if enough evidence exists to warrant the real trial) despite the fact that he spent 15 minutes immediately prior to that laying out a pretty compelling case against Hillary.

Mueller's buddy-buddy relationship with Comey AND the fact that his team are all paid Democrats with an axe to grind should disqualify that entire team. Sessions (after testifying yesterday) should just rescind his recusal and take charge of the investigation and repeat what everyone has been saying for six months: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION. Evidence of Russian attempts to tamper with the election? Yes. But no collusion - at least from the Trump campaign. There were certainly inappropriate contacts with Russia on the Clinton side, yet I don't see any mention of it by the left-wing press.

Comey looked like a lizard crawling out of the tar pits.

Next one.. Mueller, no accident that 3 of his gang of 5 gave the max to the DNC and Hillary. Out of 350 million people, and way too many lawyers, they couldn't find 5 that hadn't ever given a political contribution to anyone?

All of the Obama appointees should be fired, period, before they can do more damage.

yes.

Drain the swamp is harder than anyone realized. They are entrenched and hard to get rid of. Comey was a particularly self serving and protective swamp creature. Good riddance.

Comey was a disloyal self serving bureaucrat who needed to be fired a LONG time ago. He was out just for himself and his power, and really was disloyal to our current President as well as to Hildebeast.

All the Obama appointees should be fired as fast as humanly possible before they do more damage.

Kamala Harris looked like she fell off her broom on the way to work, then treated a cabinet executive as a hostile witness in one of her "trials". Allowing the President to decide if a personal conversation was private has always been a courtesy... she didn't mention her hero AG Holter doing far worse or Loretta Lynch really being the start of the whole shit-show... nor disclose that her sister was a Hildebeast campaign advisor and was going to be working in the White House...

Next up, the Mueler fiasco where 3 of the 5 panelists gave max to the DNC and Hillary last summer.

I'm not a Trump fan either, but draining the swamp had my vote. These people are terrified of having to figure a new way to make a living.

I strongly favor that convention and have already signed a petition.
We've been watching a Monty Python show with an American accent.

I like those metaphors, Nick...

Well, one at least, bet there are dozens or hundreds more. The hatred of Trump by the Empire runs deep in the Dark Side....