Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Face the Nation"
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What Barr said was that the entire Trump-Russia investigation seems to have been run outside the normal chain of command. Higher-ups were bypassing normal procedures and maybe even breaking laws and/or violating regulations and/or ignoring best practices (which Comey pretends to champion). All very irregular. As a highly experienced top-dog government lawyer, Barr knows when things aren't "jiving." We'll see what comes of it. But the picture that's emerging is one of unprecedented bypassing of the normal procedures and protocols by higher-ups, combined with a shocking lack of discipline down the ranks. I just get an impression people were more interested in getting their pictures taken than in minding the store, and contemptuous of the rules if the rules stood in their way.
In my view, the higher-ups had some smear materials handy, and knew they wouldn't pass the sniff test. The only way they could get this whole thing rolling was by pulling a fast one on the FISC. Once full surveillance got green-lighted, they probably figured they had it made. They'd turn up something, or get a petty crook within 2 degrees of separation from Trump (or Carter Page or George Papadopoulos), and have their star informant/witness. Amazingly, nobody, including Cohen or Manaforte, really gave them anything. Amazingly, nothing has really stuck to Trump, and the investigations are now in the other direction. And just as an outsider looking in, I figure there are enough facts in the public square that the Trump team has as many or more surveillance warrants out as were ever sworn out in his direction.
I think a major reason he hasn't gone after his accusers is to avoid the very obstruction charges on which the Democrats now pin their hopes. The Mueller report finally being submitted gets Trump out from under not being able to run the DOJ properly. Dems can rant against Barr, but he's head and shoulders above the AG they gave a free pass under Obama.
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@robertallred4515 As expected. They say that MAGA are much better at predicting what "liberals" will think or will do than conversely. I think it's because truly independent thinkers make a point of checking in on what the so-called "left" is doing and what the so-called "right" is doing.
While I do believe in a left-right dichotomy, I don't believe anybody embroiled in the current "left-vs-right" battle are using meaningful definitions of "left" or "right."
I feel like I'm traditional left, but I see many features of the old right on the new right and many features of the REALLY old right on the new left.
I agree with Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald on sane and moral foreign policy, but they're committed to re-branding aristocratic patronage and feudal serfdom as "sharing," "compassion," and "muh socialism." Very regressive. Re-branded as "progress."
A government that does everything for you is a government that can - and eventually will - do anything it wants TO you.
Principles laid down in the Bill of Rights are absolutely liberal concepts. The so-called "right" is the side that cares about THOSE things, or gives them lip service, while being totally wrong about foreign policy. "Yes, we meddle, entangle ourselves with foreign governments, and pursue regime-change operations when we don't get our (Lockheed-Martin's and BlackRock's) way, and that's a GOOD thing!"
Why can't we have limited government at home and abroad? Isn't that the whole point of the American Experiment? Everything we've gotten wrong since 1789 was a departure from our first principles, not a repudiation of them.
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