Republicans Move to Establish Second Special Counsel to Investigate Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, President Obama

The_Real_Fly, Zero Hedge, Jul 29 2017

The grounds for war have been laid. You know it and I know it. The Demagogs have forced the Thugs into a small corner and have been scratching away at their fat faces since election night. For every action, there is is reaction, basic physics. Rep Gaetz and a few dozen other republicans are now calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the great and many crimes of the previous administration and Hillary Clinton. Rep Gaetz said:

The Pindo creeple has a right to know the facts, all of them, surrounding the election and its aftermath. We urge you to appoint a second special counsel to ensure these troubling, unanswered questions are not relegated to the dustbin of history. I don’t think that the crimes of the prior administration, of Hillary Clinton, the collusion with James Comey and Loretta Lynch should be forgotten just because Hillary Clinton lost the election.

Here is their 14-point request.

We call on a newly appointed special counsel to investigate, consistent with appropriate regulations, the following questions, many of which were previously posed by this Committee and remain unanswered: Then-AG Loretta Lynch directing Mr Comey to mislead the Pindo sheeple on the nature of the Clinton investigation; The shadow cast over our system of justice concerning Sec Clinton and her involvement in mishandling classified information; FBI and DOJ’s investigative decisions related to former Sec Clinton’s email investigation, including the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to potential Clinton co-conspirators Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, John Bentel and possibly others; The apparent failure of DoJ to empanel a grand jury to investigate allegations of mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and her associates; The Dept of State and its employees’ involvement in determining which communications of Sec Clinton and her associates to turn over for public scrutiny; WikiLeaks disclosures concerning the Clinton Foundation and its potentially unlawful international dealings; Connections between the Clinton campaign, or the Clinton Foundation, and foreign entities, including those from Russia and Ukraine; Mr Comey’s knowledge of the purchase of Uranium One by the company Rosatom, whether the approval of the sale was connected to any donations made to the Clinton Foundation, and what role Sec Clinton played in the approval of that sale that had national security ramifications; Disclosures arising from unlawful access to the DNC computer systems, including inappropriate collusion between the DNC and the Clinton campaign to undermine Sen Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign; Post-election accusations by the President that he was wiretapped by the previous Administration, and whether Mr Comey and Ms Lynch had any knowledge of efforts made by any federal agency to unlawfully monitor communications of then-candidate Trump or his associates; Selected leaks of classified information related to the unmasking of Pindosi personal identities incidentally collected upon by the intelligence community, including an assessment of whether anyone in the Obama Administration, including Mr Comey, Ms Lynch, Ms Susan Rice, Ms Samantha Power or others had any knowledge about the “unmasking” of individuals on then candidate-Trump’s campaign team, transition team, or both; Admitted leaks by Mr Comey to Columbia University law professor, Daniel Richman, regarding conversations between Mr Comey and Pres Trump, how the leaked information was purposefully released to lead to the appointment of a special counsel, and whether any classified information was included in the now infamous “Comey memos”; Mr Comey’s and the FBI’s apparent reliance on “Fusion GPS” in its investigation of the Trump campaign, including the company’s creation of a “dossier” of information about Mr Trump, that dossier’s commission and dissemination in the months before and after the 2016 election, whether the FBI paid anyone connected to the dossier, and the intelligence sources of Fusion GPS or any person or company working for Fusion GPS and its affiliates; and Any and all potential leaks originated by Mr Comey and provided to author Michael Schmidt dating back to 1993.

The critturs wrote:

We have no interest in engendering more bad feelings and less confidence in the process or governmental institutions by the Pindo sheeple. Rather, our call is made on their behalf. It is meant to determine whether the criminal prosecution of any individual is warranted based on the solemn obligation to follow the facts wherever they lead and applying the law to those facts.

Gaetz tears into Clinton, Rice, Obama and the whole cabal, calling for an investigation into these matters.

And here is the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep Goodlatte, discussing the hypocrisy of the left, wanting a Russian investigation but not one that pursues the truth in the sundry of apparent crimes committed by the previous administration and Hillary.

With AG Sessions under pressure to deliver, I would not be surprised to see dueling Special Counsels investigating both matters at the same time.