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Zippyjuan
12-15-2017, 04:00 PM
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/12/13/judge-napolitano-claims-robert-muellers-russia-probe-biased-against-trump


Some Republican lawmakers have seized on a trove of damning text messages as evidence that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is biased against President Trump.

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano doesn't think so.

The text messages were exchanged between two FBI officials who worked on Mueller’s Russia probe, and they reveal the agents expressing a steady stream of anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton sentiments.

"The issue is not: do FBI agents have political opinions and can they express them? The answer to that is yes and yes," Napolitano said on "Outnumbered Overtime." "The issue is: do those political opinions in any way influence the outcome of their investigation?"

He pointed out that the FBI has procedures in place to prevent that from happening.

"FBI agents operate in pairs, whatever the two discover has to be reviewed by five others, whatever the five have reviewed and decided is credible has to be reviewed by Justice Department lawyers," Napolitano explained.

He noted that the only final decisions that have been made in Mueller's investigation are to indict former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his aide Rick Gates and to accept two guilty pleas from former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.

Napolitano said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein painted a "very credible" picture in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee when he said it's too early to determine if any individual's political opinion affected the outcome of the investigation, because the outcome hasn't been reached yet.

In the meantime, Napolitano said he's not worried about the text messages.

"FBI agents are not choirboys or choirgirls. They are strong-willed people with strong opinions like the rest of us," he said. "None of this surprises me."

Zippyjuan
12-15-2017, 04:05 PM
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/11/30/judge-napolitano-robert-muellers-team-will-interview-president-trump


Judge Napolitano Believes Mueller's Team Will Interview President Trump

Judge Andrew Napolitano said Thursday he believes President Trump will be interviewed at some point by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team.

On "America's Newsroom," Bill Hemmer asked about a statement by Trump's lawyers that they do not expect Mueller's team to request to speak with the president.

"My belief is that the president ultimately will be interviewed. He will be interviewed to see if he tells the truth. It's a favorite technique of the FBI," he explained.

Napolitano agreed with an assessment by Gregg Jarrett that the longer the probe goes on, the more it will damage Trump's ability to negotiate with Russia.

"That is the problem with independent counsels. They have a tendency to want to justify their ... existence by indicting people," he said, adding that the alleged offenses may turn out to be unrelated to Russia or the campaign.

The judge stated earlier this week that the White House should be "very concerned" about new reports pointing to a potential deal between Mueller and Gen. Michael Flynn.

In a new Fox News Opinion piece, Napolitano notes that Thanksgiving has come and gone, with Mueller's probe showing no signs of concluding.


Regrettably, this purchased, bribed testimony is, more often than not, believed by jurors, even though they are told of the deals that brought the evidence to them. Though Trump’s lawyers are gainsaying this Flynn reversal, they must know how potentially dangerous it is to their client. Flynn was Trump’s nearly constant confidant from June 2015 to February 2017.

Thanksgiving is over. Mueller and his team remain hard at work.

The judge concluded by telling Hemmer that so far he has seen evidence of legal communication between Russia and Trump associates, but not "evidence of an agreement" -- which would be a potential crime.

Zippyjuan
12-15-2017, 04:09 PM
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/12/04/judge-napolitano-president-trump-possibly-facing-obstruction-justice-charges


Judge Nap: Feinstein Is 'Correct' on Potential Obstruction of Justice Case Against Trump

On "Fox & Friends" this morning, Alan Dershowitz disputed claims from some Democrats that Special Counsel Robert Mueller could build an obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump.

Dershowitz said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was incorrect when she argued that Trump obstructed the FBI investigation into possible collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia by asking former FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn and also by later firing Comey.

Dershowitz said a president cannot be charged with obstruction for merely exercising his constitutional authority.

On "America's Newsroom," Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano came down on the side of Feinstein.

"I respect Professor Dershowitz greatly. I do not know Sen. Feinstein, but she, in my view, is correct here," he told Bill Hemmer.

He said that if Trump asked Comey to end the investigation into Flynn for a non-corrupt purpose - such as if he felt sympathy for his former national security adviser or he wanted the bureau to use its resources on more important matters - it's not obstruction.

However, if Trump did it for a corrupt purpose - such as trying to protect himself or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, from what Flynn might say - then it is obstruction and there is no presidential immunity, Napolitano said.

"Obstruction of justice is a crime no matter who commits it, if done for a corrupt purpose. It's also an impeachable offense," he said, adding that the charge is "intentionally not easy to prove" for a prosecutor.

Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that she believes an obstruction of justice case is forming.

"The Judiciary Committee has an investigation going as well and it involves obstruction of justice and I think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice,” she said.

"I see it in the hyper-frenetic attitude of the White House, the comments every day, the continual tweets. And I see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of Director Comey, and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to ‘lift the cloud’ of the Russia investigation. That’s obstruction of justice."

Swordsmyth
12-15-2017, 06:05 PM
Judge Nap is exposing himself as controlled opposition with Russsiagate.

Judge Swamp.

Danke
12-15-2017, 06:15 PM
“The text messages were exchanged between two FBI officials who worked on Mueller’s Russia probe, and they reveal the agents expressing a steady stream of anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton sentiments.”

it it might not go against the Hatch Act Law, but in spirit it does. Group dynamics and all. Effectively surpressing dessenting opinion and actions.

Swordsmyth
12-15-2017, 06:20 PM
“The text messages were exchanged between two FBI officials who worked on Mueller’s Russia probe, and they reveal the agents expressing a steady stream of anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton sentiments.”

it it might not go against the Hatch Act Law, but in spirit it does. Group dynamics and all. Effectively surpressing dessenting opinion and actions.




There are MUCH more damning things we are finding out as well, Judge Swamp jumped on the Russiagate bandwagon early and he is hanging on like a Gila Monster.

I hope he goes down in flames along with the rest of the fake news purveyors.

goldenequity
12-15-2017, 06:37 PM
The 'Mueller Investigation' is a punch and judy show...
meant to attract and distract then exhaust the public appetite for justice.
It's meant to grab the narrative and define it as a 'partisan' issue..
criminal actions btw Dem vs. Pub involving some rogue agents and minor infractions in 'oversight'
and nitpicking over 'possible' hatch act violations (which law has NEVER convicted anybody of anything.)

It's smoke and mirrors and most of us know it.
Whether wittingly or unwittingly (borrowing a Clapper phrase.. haha) Judge Nap parsing the smoke
is part of the side show.

Swordsmyth
12-18-2017, 06:20 PM
Judge Swamp is at it again:

Napolitano: Mueller did not wrongly obtain Trump team emails (https://www.yahoo.com/news/napolitano-mueller-did-not-wrongly-143230179.html)