House Republicans want a new, sweeping probe of Clinton
Source: McClatchy
House Republicans are intensifying their effort to have the Justice Department investigate Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, as they're seeking the same sort of special counsel probe President Donald Trump's campaign is now enduring.
House Judiciary Committee Republicans detailed in a seven page letter to Justice a request for a special counsel to investigate actions taken by Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Earlier this week, committee Republicans agreed to seek documents related to Comey's investigation of Clinton's private email server while secretary of state.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article164256972.html
Be sure to take a look at BENGHAZI! People whose jobs and healthcare are at risk really care about that.
Warpy
(110,903 posts)No new material has surfaced.
Anything to screw off and do nothing while pointing fingers elsewhere, guys.
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)Warpy
(110,903 posts)Even Republicans will start to notice the stench. They're not all anosmic.
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)they totally suck at governing. Hey everyone, look at Hillary their favorite villain.
riversedge
(69,716 posts)Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)You have got to be kidding! This is is ridiculous! The repubs are reaching--AGAIN! Ugh
riversedge
(69,716 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)on these asshats assuming thats possible as this is plain and simply harassment as well as abuse of power.
haveahart
(905 posts)related to any of her government service. Like Trump is going to do for his family.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Nixon was never convicted, and Bush 1 pardoned people involved in Iran Contra. The only rule is that the president can't pardon when it comes to impeachment, and the crime has to have been commited already. It doesn't matter if anyone even knows about the crime in question. It can be general too, such as a blanket pardon for federal crimes comitted. It's something that has come up and been exercised in this manner multiple times in our history.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)Eom
tavernier
(12,322 posts)since she didn't do anything wrong other than to piss off the republicans. She wouldn't have accepted any pardons.
sdfernando
(4,896 posts)Not only that...Accepting the pardon would be tantamount to admitting guilt. She's NOT guilty in any capacity!
onetexan
(12,994 posts)this is harassment & intimidation
DK504
(3,847 posts)the Rethugs. And women? God forbid you are smarter than these piles of shit. I still don't know why they hate her SO much.
unblock
(51,974 posts)or tim robbins in "the hudsucker proxy" going back to his "i didn't expect all this hoop-la" joke.
it worked back then, but the world moves on and it's an act of desperation to escape the present by trying to relive the glory days.
ornotna
(10,763 posts)tanyev
(42,358 posts)Blake Farenthold
Louie Gohmert
Steve King
Karen Handel
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)Oh no. Jon would have been great at Judiciary.
Skid Rogue
(711 posts)what the Clintons' could have accomplished if they haven't had to put up with this constant BS for the last 30 years?
burrowowl
(17,606 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Not one damn thing will be done on 'the Hill'.
madaboutharry
(40,150 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)if Justice goes with this,all shit will break lose. This must be the GOP go to talking points for 2018. More of the Hillary is a Crook and must be hiding those Secret e-mails she stole from the State Department.
Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)for what this amounts to. The roof is caving in on those house republicans and the rain is going to come down hard.
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)ffr
(22,645 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Who would not want to see his unfinished face again, and listen to the Kermit voice twist logic to the point of it being the opposite of logic again.
I think a good Cartoon Network show would be "Trey and Louie" (Gohmert). The characters would be a riot.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)If not, then don't let the Special Council forget:
- Rose Law Firm
- Whitewater
- Monica Lewinski
- Jennifer Flowers
- Benghazi
- Huma Abedin
- Travelgate
- Filegate
- Vince Foster
- Renting the Lincoln Bedroom
- The Clinton Foundation
The Clintons have been under investigation by various hate groups (including the GOP) almost constantly for 40 years. I'm sure a good investigator could spend millions of tax-payer dollars reinvestigating all the stuff that has already been investigated numerous times with absolutely no charges being brought (except for skirting too close to the truth when being asked about his affair with Monica.) Sure, that's what we need to spend our tax dollars on, not health care, or infrastructure, or anything important like that. Let's investigate Hillary and pay no attention to that man in the big white house over there!
THE GOP IS MADE UP OF A BUNCH OF TRAITOROUS BASTARDS!!
chowder66
(9,010 posts)The prefer sticking with the path of least resistance regarding their duties. Sit around and conspire and put on a fucking clown show. Wasting taxpayers money while sucking up a paycheck paid with taxpayers money. These fuckers wouldn't know a hard days work if it bit them in the ass.
They all need to be sent packing.
stopbush
(24,376 posts)and leave behind the mountains of bullshit they have had to face in their lives.
Who needs it? They're rich, they're in their 70s, they've done none of the things they're accused of and it will never end as long as a single R is left on the planet.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)while your leader encourages police violence, the factions of the regime plot against each other for revenge and power, and the legislature looks for ways to enrich their backers but is too incompetent to get laws passed.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)yardwork
(61,415 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)what they need.
MissMillie
(38,452 posts)They really want to spend more taxpayer $$$$ on this?
I sure hope the cost for this will come out of how much they want to cut taxes for billionaires.
ck4829
(34,974 posts)All the while we will be asking about how this will make jobs and why they can't stomach one Russia investigation.
Sancho
(9,065 posts)Just create a pile of emails to and from Hillary showing tRump with underage party girls, Goudy sexing, or anything else you want, and let the investigation "find" them...
FakeNoose
(32,341 posts)Love your idea!
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)... there's really nowhere else for the GOP to go.
They elected an idiotic "pResident" who lies every time he opens his mouth, "tweets" covfefe nonsense on a regular basis, has an administration deluged with scandal after scandal, and can't even make a speech to the BSA or a police department without triggering a need to apologize by those who invited him to speak in the first place.
Their only totally hopeless hope at this point is to yell "what about THEM?"
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)It's a blatant attempt to deflect attention to their favorite target, Hillary and distract from very real and much larger issues that Republicans are deliberately ignoring or trying to harm Americans by sneaking through.
Blindingly apparent
(180 posts)To frighten or discourage potential Democratic candidates all across the board. republicans hope that people will be more reluctant to run if endless investigation is in their future.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)She needs to take them to court. See if she can prove that they are using the government to ruin her name. Clinton should become proactive and vindictive.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Yes, I too want to have a special probe for these House Republicans. It is called a broom stick up their ass.
They have no shame. Russia rigging the elections was an act of war by a hostile foreign power.
Catmusicfan
(816 posts)I hope Hillary takes a long trip out of the country because for the first time I honestly am worried.
How soon before they start investigating Obama and his birth certificate?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Either that or just become conservatives and fall in line with the idiots.
And Clinton should just confess her crimes and check into prison.
Good god, you don't crawl into a hole when you are attacked in politics, you kick them in the groin when they deserve it. Clinton needs to go after Trump, his minion Grassley, and everyone who comes at her. They need to be called out for their abuses of power, not surrendered to.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)LakeArenal
(28,720 posts)I will consider letting them start their very own witch hunt over again. In no way am I referring to Hillary Clinton as a witch.. If there is a witch in this story she is (fake) blonde and has the initial KC.
Coventina
(26,846 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)Investigate Clintons
Turn all federal programs into block grants
Blue Idaho
(4,988 posts)Time to return to those tried and true conservative values of blaming the Clinton's for all of America's problems? Classy.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)I am fucking serious, too.
There has to be a message that we will not tolerate this.
Tell me where to go, what to join, who to talk to to make this happen.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)back to the 3 or 4 only things they know how to do: try to take health care away from Americans, try to remove the protections Americans have against rapacious banks and corporations, try to deny women control over their own health, and investigate Democratic politicians for fake "crimes." I suspect there's a secret dartboard in someone's office divided equally among those 4 items for when they need to pretend to "do" something.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)"Did you say 'Investigate Russia?'" "Ha, ha, ha. Good one."
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Who has placed handcuffs on an accused?
There's two sides to every coin, right GOPPERS? If someone is arrested for criminal behavior, isn't it important to be certain that the arresting officer led a life that Jesus Christ himself would have envied?
So tired of these inane, false equivalencies that the right wing foists upon us to obfuscate their ACTUAL crimes. To them, crimes are never to be adjudicated on their own merits; there always has to be a comparison to another paradigm.
Hey, if a Democrat violates the law, I'm all for justice. I don't need to say, "but the Republicans do it too". Fine. Prove your respective cases and throw ALL criminals into the slammer.
0rganism
(23,855 posts)all that "time to move on", "don't re-open past wounds", we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards stuff? really glad the other side sees it the same way, huh? i'd be pretty sad if, after all that lofty high-road turn-the-other-cheek rhetoric regarding actual crimes of state, the GOP took power and chased after their political opponents with a bunch of made-up bullshit charges just to distract from their inability to govern. that'd be a real shame, a truly pathetic way for our nation to wind down.
Greywing
(1,124 posts)Fuck Off Republicans
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The Wizard
(12,482 posts)proving that they really are all jerkoffs.
maxrandb
(15,188 posts)don't give a rats-ass about collusion with Russia since it; "doesn't address their card-table, Chinette plated evening dinner issues".
Bet the fuckers could read you chapter and verse about all the so-called "Clinton scandals" though.
Fuck rural America and the 1,200 "cookie-cutter" hate radio stations that have poisoned their minds!