{"id":402726,"date":"2019-04-09T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-gates-successor-gambit-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:05:53","slug":"russia-gates-successor-gambit-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russia-gates-successor-gambit-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-gate\u2019s Successor Gambit \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now the propaganda crusade has been initiated to defame the AG, writes James Howard Kunstler.<\/span><\/p>\n

By<\/strong> James Howard Kunstler<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
Clusterfuck Nation<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

H<\/strong><\/span>aving disgraced themselves with full immersion in the barren Russia-gate \u201cnarrative,\u201d the Resistance is now tripling down on Russia-gate\u2019s successor gambit: obstruction of justice where there was no crime in the first place. What exactly was that bit of mischief Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller inserted in his final report, saying that \u201c\u2026while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s this simple: prosecutors are charged with finding crimes. If there is insufficient evidence to bring a case, then that is the end of the matter. Prosecutors, special or otherwise, are not authorized to offer hypothetical accounts where they can\u2019t bring a criminal case. But Mueller produced a brief of arguments pro-and-con about obstruction for others to decide upon. In doing that, he was out of order, and maliciously so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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