The Department of Injustice.

HAVE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS BEEN TREATED EQUALLY

IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT A DEEP STATE WEAPON

Everyone is whooping it up in Washington since Trump voiced his opinion about an excessive sentence recommended by DOJ prosecutors for Roger Stone. Stone was convicted of perjury and witness tampering and the former Mueller investigators recommended a 9 years sentence. A sentence in excess of what is often handed out for rape, assault and manslaughter.

Lets take a look at the DOJ treatment of political suspects in recent years. 

1. Hillary Clinton, who maintained her own personal server while Secretary of State. This is a clear violation of the Federal government records law and the freedom of information record keeping law. When confronted and subpoenaed she had the server and its contents destroyed along with multiple cell phones. The members of her staff were granted immunity from prosecution by DOJ without any explanation.

2. Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, campaign chairman of the Clinton campaign was the lobbyist of the overthrown Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych. Never registered as a foreign agent. He was never charged or indicted for his role. While Paul Manafort who was a political consultant for Yanucovych was charged and convicted as an agent of a foreign government.

3, Greg Craig, former Clinton and Obama lawyer, while also working for Yanukovych was not charged as a foreign agent, was charged for perjury for lying about it, but acquitted in a jury trial. Did the DOJ  aggressively push this case?

4. James Clapper, former NSC director, swore under oath on national TV, in a congressional hearing , that the government does not engage in surveillance of U.S. citizens, it was a proven lie. The whistle blower,  Snowden who proved the lie,  had to flee the country and if returned would possibly get the death penalty. Clapper was never charged.

5 FBI director James Comey has admitted he leaked confidential information to a college professor who leaked it to the New York times to trigger the naming of Independent council Robert Mueller, a close friend of Comey. This was an attempt to force Trump from office. No charges brought.

6. Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, fired for lying to the FBI, no charges Brought.

7. Comey, McCabe and Acting Attorney General Rosenstein all signed and swore under oath that the information in the FISA warrants was true and correct when it has been proven that they knew it to be false and was produced by the Clinton campaign.

These are only some of the possible examples.

How about some Republican cases brought by the DOJ.

1. General Michael Flynn, 30 year military career, former Defense department intelligence director.  Fired by the Obama administration when he raised the warning about the rising threat from ISIS. He was approached by 2 FBI agent within days of his becoming the National Intelligence Director for Trump. He engaged in a casual conversation, he suspected it was all routine, little did he know that he had been under surveillance by the FBI for months. While the agents testified that they believed he did not knowingly lie to them. He was charged with perjury for lying to the FBI and forced out of his position. He was given the choice of pleading guilty or they would arrest and prosecute his son as a foreign agent because he had talked to Turkish officials about a possible consulting contract with Turkey. Flynn plead guilty to protect his son.

It was later revealed that FBI director Comey bragged how easy it was to entrap inexperienced Trump appointees and associates who trusted government officials.  Flynn has since attempted to reverse his plea, but the DOJ wants him to serve a jail term.

2. Roger Stone was charged with process crimes, there was not evidence that he colluded with Russians or Wikileaks, but he dared to challenge the DOJ in court. They want to make an example that if charged, just plead guilty or they will crush you.

3. George Papadopoulas a low level consultant for the Trump campaign, was fed information about Hillary Clinton by an FBI operative, then contacted by another FBI informant in a bar with whom Papadopoulas talked about this information. He was then questioned by the FBI who charged him with perjury for not being  exact in his recollection. It was only later that the whole plot was revealed. Papadopoulas served some time and has a felony record. He is now suing the FBI. Good luck with that.

4. Paul Manafort the first target of the FBI, was forced out of the Trump campaign when information from the Ukraine was produced to show money transfers to Manafort. This so called black-ledger has since become questioned as a fabrication. Manafort was eventually indicted and convicted of this, plus perjury, and acting as a foreign lobbyist. He was held in solitary confinement, without bail for 9 months, allowed out 1 hour a day.  He is presently serving a 30 year sentence.

Now any attempt to address abuses by the FBI or DOJ triggers the explanation that it is a vindictive president Trump abusing his power to even suggest corruption in the federal government.

These charges are all supported by the democrats and the media, who know the truth, but their fear and hatred of Trump overcomes any thought of fairness and justice. They have a lot of nerve to ever talk about trying to preserve our democracy. when they are the very ones destroying it.


Originally published 2/13/2020  More relevant as the days go by.