Here’s your obstruction of justice

Posted 5, 2018 by Jay Baker

One need not look very far to find obstruction of justice in the Robert Mueller investigation and the Department of Justice’s handling of the ongoing investigation into the Donald Trump-Russia “collusion” narrative. It’s right in front of us.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel to investigate the collusion based on nothing more than opposition research created by a shady firm working for never-Trump Republicans first, then the Democrat National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, is front and center.

Rosenstein had to know when he appointed Mueller that the FISA Court warrant that opened up the Donald Trump campaign to wiretapping was based on the phony dossier – a dossier that former FBI Director James Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee was “salacious and unverified.” He had to know that FBI investigators lied to the court to obtain the warrant.

He also had to know that the wife of Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr worked for Fusion GPS doing research on Trump for the Clinton campaign, and that Ohr had met with dossier author Christopher Steele.

Rosenstein didn’t want information coming out that the FBI had misled the FISA Court. He protested – loudly — when House Permanent Select Committee Chairman Devin Nunes moved to release the memo detailing the FBI’s abuse of the FISA Court system. He claimed that the memo would reveal top secrets, sources and intelligence-gathering methods. It did not.

But he did more than just complain through back channels and media statements. He threatened lawmakers.

According to media reports, Rosenstein threatened to subpoena phone records belonging to members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) if they continued to investigate abuses of government surveillance programs. The threats extended to Nunes, the committee chairman.

According to People’s Pundit Daily:

Multiple sources confirmed to People’s Pundit Daily (PPD) that Mr. Rosenstein expressed his frustration with the committee’s oversight investigation during a meeting that took place on January 10. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, Chairman Nunes and several others were present at the meeting.

Mr. Rosenstein said he was done “dealing with the intelligence committee” investigation and threatened to subpoena call and text message records belonging to Chairman Nunes and other HPSCI members.

The meeting in question took place before the highly-anticipated release of a memo prepared by Chairman Nunes and Republicans on the intelligence committee, which details FISA abuses by Mr. Rosenstein, former FBI director James Comey, the just ousted FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and other former Obama Administration officials.

According to PPD:

Under Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242, it’s a crime for law enforcement officials acting under “color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

That includes threatening a lawmaker or lawmakers.

In this case, multiple sources allege that Mr. Rosenstein was specifically attempting to obstruct or end the HPSCI probe into wrongdoings at the FBI and DOJ.

For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, “but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties.”

Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller against DOJ policy and the laws governing special counsels.

Section II(c) of the DOJ Government Ethics Outline demands, “No DOJ employee may participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he has a personal or political relationship with any person or organization substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution, or who would be directly affected by the outcome.”

28 USC Section 528 requires “the disqualification of any officer or employee of the Department of Justice, including a United States attorney or a member of such attorney’s staff, from participation in a particular investigation or prosecution if such participation may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interest, or the appearance thereof.”

“Such rules and regulations may provide that a willful violation of any provision thereof shall result in removal from office.”

And if there’s any doubt that the Deep State apparatus is out to take Trump down, former FBI apparatchik now CNN talking whacko Philip Mudd promised on CNN that the FBI was “going to win” the feud with Trump.

“The FBI people are ticked,” Mudd bellowed on CNN. “If you think you can push us off this because you can intimidate the director, you’d better think again! You’ve been around for 13 months. We’ve been around since 1908. I know how this game is going to be played! We’re going to win.”

For the record, Mudd has also predicted on CNN that “the government is going to kill this guy (Trump).”

And now we learn that the FBI is investigating another bit of oppo research from a Clinton hack named Cody Shearer, who passed it along to Steele who passed it to the FBI in October 2016; and that the FBI may have violated strict procedures that forbid it from presenting even a single unverified fact to the special court, let alone a lengthy dossier full of them.

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