Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Jim Jordan on State of the Union, Mueller's FISA history" video.

  1. Robert Mueller has long been known as a supporter of "parallel construction." Use the special powers of NSA and CIA to dig up dirt, and then try to find a believable chain of legally-obtained evidence to make the charges stick. And he's always been a VERY aggressive prosecutor, using the weight of his office to crush people. 4 a.m. perp walks are his trademark. In my opinion, he exemplifies the damage a good man can do with the powers given him by the Patriot Act. 9/11 served its purpose. While we were all freaking out, the U.S. Gov't rammed through laws that basically made us a police state. And Mueller's the exemplar of a hard-charging prosecutor can do (get away with), nowadays. FISA was DESIGNED to be abused, and the FBI wasted no time. I bet it gave a lot of police a thrill putting away drug dealers they couldn't've touched without NSA intercepts. Guilty? Some of 'em. But many were no doubt railroaded by blackmail. "We KNOW your kid brother did such-and-such (NSA taps), and if you don't roll over for us, we're gonna go after him. It doesn't have to be something on YOU or something they can actually prove in court against a loved one. But YOU don't know that. You may even cop a plea to get a 6-month sentence, just to keep your uncle from spending 20 years in jail for tax evasion. There are many ways to leverage illegally/improperly obtained information to bring somebody to heel, to commit perjury (Dershowitz calls it "composing") because it's what the prosecutor wants to hear. "Say this or your wife spends the next 5 years in federal prison."
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  2. I'm up in the air on Gowdy. I think he demonstrated how far Congress could push things in their oversight capacity. He proved that the FBI and DOJ are ungovernable beasts in the congressional-oversight sense. Congress really doesn't have that tmuch power. What DOES piss me off is that these full-time overseers in Congress didn't do what Judicial Watch did, and go after what they wanted with FOIA. If not for Tom Fitton and that crew, almost NOTHING would've been uncovered. And it's something any citizen can do. I'd think that a sitting representative or senator could push through FOIA requests on an expedited basis, if they got off their asses. I'm just not sure that Gowdy didn't press as far as he could, with the powers he had at his disposal. It's HARD to go after an agency that can just thumb their nose at you with a blanket "national security reasons," and dead-end your line of inquiry. And when they dragged their feet on producing the documents and evidence that his committee requested, there really wasn't anything Gowdy could do. It just proves the impotence of Congress to oversee the agencies it creates.
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  3. Mueller didn't start the investigation. He was the hatchet man brought in by those who DID. There's an entire crew of the bastards.
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