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2017-12-15 Home Front: Politix
What if Jeff Sessions is not asleep, but instead playing possum?
[American Thinker] Conventional wisdom is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asleep at the wheel ‐ from recusing himself unnecessarily from the Trump-Russia collusion investigation to doing nothing about the politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice. He also gave free rein to his deputy A.G., Rod Rosenstein, who is in turn allowing Special Counsel Robert Mueller unlimited time, money, and jurisdiction to investigate President Trump's entire life.

Last summer, Trump expressed disappointment in Sessions, calling him "beleaguered," wondering why Sessions wasn't looking into Hillary Clinton's emails and true election chicanery. Rudy Giuliani was floated as a possible replacement. Was Trump truly upset, or was this a calculated head fake?

In a recent blog posting, American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson, referencing Sundance from Conservative Treehouse, made the case that the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General is where the real action is taking place. Here was an explanation why Rosenstein gave evasive answers in recent congressional testimony and a suggestion that the OIG is laying out a case, slowly and methodically, with selective information release, before bringing the hammer down on the leakers and corruptocrats in the FBI and DOJ.

I want to take this a step farther, perhaps answering the question of where Jeff Sessions is and whether he is asleep, or just playing possum. Perhaps I can explain why he is acting not as a Trumpian pit bull, but instead like Mister Rogers ready for his afternoon nap.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-15 07:54|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 I'm confident that President Trump has this well in hand, early on setting the stage for an upcoming reckoning – what Sundance calls "the big ugly."

From your lips to God's ears.

Great post.
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-12-15 08:30||   2017-12-15 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 What if I was just the King of San Francisco instead of a fat, bald and toothless schlub? Jeffy is seriously compromised in my opinion.
Posted by Black Charlie Hitler7534 2017-12-15 09:24||   2017-12-15 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 A long time ago I expressed hope that Sessions was quietly going about his work and that some fine Monday morning there would be a surprise flurry of indictments.

But it's been a long time and so last Tuesday after Moore went down to defeat in Alabama I said Trump should have left him in the Senate. Coulda, shoulda, woulda. A flurry of indictments would ease that sting.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-12-15 09:38||   2017-12-15 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 He's dead Jim.
Posted by Silentbrick 2017-12-15 10:53||   2017-12-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5  IG of Justice Department Michael E. Horowitz.

Current IG is an 2012 Obama appointee and worked for Comey in the early 1990s.

Part of the Swamp or independent of the Swamp? Can he be trusted to do the right thing? Hopefully, he won't whitewash the corruption infecting DOJ and FBI at high levels. I don't know about Sessions. Maybe when he actually does something to clean up this mess, I'll feel more confident about him. As Trump said, "We have a lot of sick institutions."
Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-15 12:17||   2017-12-15 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Was Trump truly upset, or was this a calculated head fake?

I have decided to interpret any/all of Trump's apparent faux pas as calculated.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-15 12:45||   2017-12-15 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Come to think of it, Sessions does kinda look like a possum...
Posted by ed in texas 2017-12-15 13:21||   2017-12-15 13:21|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-15 13:56||   2017-12-15 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Everyone in a leadership position should be forced to submit their resignation, and be let go,. subject to review. Clean house.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-15 22:19||   2017-12-15 22:19|| Front Page Top

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