re: #20 lawhawk

So many of these guys claim to be lawyers. Gowdy was supposedly a prosecutor. It’s clear that none of them have a clue how this works, or what to ask.

As a prosecutor, you’re supposed to know what the answers are going to be before you ask the question - everyone knows what the testimony is likely to be (so no surprises, etc.).

Instead, they didn’t realize that Strzok knows the law and policy better than all these guys? They didn’t think that Strzok would cite chapter and verse on not commenting on active investigations because it might affect the outcome?

Strzok refused to do the very thing that helped get us into this mess in the first place: he refused to comment on ongoing investigations (Comey should have followed this same guideline, but instead he indicated activity on Clinton emails - causing media meltdown in weeks before the election and helped throw things to Trump).

GOP wanted to treat the adherence to the rules as a bad thing. They wanted to slap him with contempt? That shows how badly the GOP wants to get rid of the rule of law and protect their own. They don’t care about the law, rules, or even that Trump is a Putin puppet.

They’ve got their own power to protect, and they know that the wheels of justice are grinding ever so slowly towards every last one of these fuckers in the admin (and some outside the admin too).

All the efforts to deflect and project criminality on to Clinton are just that - projection.

It’s past time people realize that the GOP has no interest except their own enrichment and fleecing of America and destroying its values, even to the point of selling out American foreign policy to Russia.

The problem here is that, as the last couple of decades have continued to prove, projection works. It works excessively well. It’s helped create an impenetrably conservative-friendly media environment that people have been convinced is ‘liberal biased’, it’s created the ever-present assumption that Dems are evil, dirty, criminal sneaks who must be doing something wrong at all times, when Republicans are openly grifting and flouting all norms, and that Dems are the ones who need all the outside help to upend our precious electoral process while they’ve sold their souls to a foreign adversary to do just that.

It works, it works almost every fucking time, because people are more willing to listen to the shittiest of Republicans than the most honorable and effective of Democrats.