Which Do You Prefer? Criminal Referrals or Special Counsel? – IOTW Report

Which Do You Prefer? Criminal Referrals or Special Counsel?

Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are seeking different approaches to opening the drain on the swamp. Nunes is preparing criminal referrals for the Department of Justice on individuals “based on evidence and testimony.” Here 

Lindsey Graham is calling for a AG William Barr to create a special counsel to investigate “FISA abuse and the activity by former officials within the DOJ and FBI to target candidate Donald Trump.” More

 

24 Comments on Which Do You Prefer? Criminal Referrals or Special Counsel?

  1. Criminal referrals.

    Special counsels are too political and politicized.

    Much was already confirmed through Congressional hearings. Let’s save two years of grandstanding that will be killed if Dems have more gains in the House or Senate in 2020.

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  2. Criminal referrals. Any Special Counsel appointed under Trump would be about as powerful and effective as Jeff Sessions. In fact, that’s probably who they’d appoint as SC.

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  3. Personally, I like both. There is clear evidence already for criminal charges against several individuals. However, there is a great deal more that has not come to light.

    So instead of either/or, I am for both/and.

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  4. Criminal referrals will probably be cheaper for the tax payer and yield quicker results. Remembering the Bengazi hearings giving encouraging soundbites and little else.

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  5. Both. The DOJ is completely corrupt, though Barr might not be.

    We need checks and balances for the foreseeable future.

    After 8 years of obama/jarrett/fat mike, We cant afford to trust our own government. Maybe after 8 years of Trump, and locking up clinton and obama we could againm

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  6. I don’t trust Lindsey and I don’t trust the DOJ. I’m with
    @Richard P. and @Tsunami. I want all three but no firing squads. Firing squads are for military men, hanging is for treason.

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  7. If a future special counsel investigation is anything like Mueller’s, especially if the investigatory scope is kept secret, then any other parallel work would be stymied, which would be infuriating.

    Unless there were some guarantee (and I have no idea how that could possibly work) that a new SC would operate openly, then I’m strongly in favor of Nunes’s approach using criminal referrals.

    Not that criminal referrals are immune from politicization and deep state interference.

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  8. Criminal referrals. Have had enough of ‘special’ counsels. Maybe reserve special counsel for after all the criminals are in jail or shot for treason. You know, to mop up any of the swamp left over from the trials.

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  9. Criminal trials! Probably less secrecy and less potential for covert political games. I don’t think Lindsey Graham can be trusted either despite his current dance moves. See what he does after he wins his primary race next year.

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  10. Whatever it takes

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    Remember folks, the biggest rush of satisfaction Diabolical Narcissists experience is from the getting away with it. They act out publicly, egregiously, and then wallow and luxuriate in the sense of power and domination they feel when no one does a damn thing, and their victims even defend or cover for the DN’s abusive or even criminal behavior. They STUDY the hopelessness and effeminate impotence of their victims, too cowed by the DN to confront him (or her).

    Ann Barnhardt

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  11. Sorry, I have zero faith in the DOJ actually being able of doing the right thing and restoring honor to its own department. Its core staff will most likely be unable to cull its own people when administering justice. Outside political voices will be a negative influence via its connections that still exist.

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