ANALYSIS: TRUE. Bureaucrats’ Hurt Feelings On Foreign Policy Don’t Justify Impeachment.
You see, it’s perfectly fine for Hillary Clinton to use her campaign funds to hire foreign national Christopher Steele to investigate Trump using (probably made-up) Russian sources. And there’s nothing wrong with the FBI using those partisan Steele smears to investigate the Obama administration’s political opponent.To me, the fuss indicates that this is over much more than “hurt feelings,” but actual criminal activity at risk of exposure.
Crossfire Hurricane, the official operational title for the investigation, employed assistance from the British government and an Australian diplomat. So the left believes there’s nothing wrong with asking a foreign government for help to investigate a domestic political opponent — so long as that opponent is Trump. After all, “Nobody is above the law, not even Donald Trump.” But if the shoe ends up on the other foot and Trump is the one investigating, it’s a constitutional crisis!
If you listen for more than a few minutes, you realize what’s really going on here is that Trump failed to prostrate himself before the “dedicated career professionals” who possess the “experience and expertise” that Trump supposedly lacks in foreign policy. Read your Constitution. Article II vests the power of foreign policy in the elected president. These “dedicated career professionals” aren’t even mentioned in the Constitution.
Maybe the framers made a drafting error in the Constitution? Or maybe we shouldn’t have a national impeachment circus over the hurt feelings of bureaucrats.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback, March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”
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Monday, November 04, 2019
Impeachment
I thought this was pretty spot on so I'll quite the entirety of the Instapundit post. It's all about the election--nullifying the last one or spoiling the next one.
I believe Benghazi is the key to Deep State.
ReplyDeleteHear me out. Why did the US allow Stevens to die? What had he stumbled upon? I believe this is a huge global smuggling enterprise. Look at the nations involved-China, Italy, Iran, Mexico-all nations who have benefited from open borders as a means to smuggle weapons, drugs and human trafficking. This is why they are fighting the weak response of the EU nations to the virtual invasion from African and the Middle East as well as fighting against US control of the border. They use "immigration" as cover for massive movement of contraband-drugs, weapons, knock offs and humans. The horrendous shooting of nine US national this week demonstrates that cartels "own" the northern border of Mexico and that their government is unwilling to do much about it because the corruption goes all the way to the top. I don't doubt that there are American politicians on the payroll as well. This is a really nasty operation.