Bob Kerrey: How did Department of Justice get the Trump-Russia investigation so wrong?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Bob Kerrey: How did Department of Justice get the Trump-Russia investigation so wrong?
Omaha World Herald, Mar 29, 2019, Bob Kerrey

Bob Kerrey is a Democrat and former Nebraska governor and U.S. senator.

Delusions fascinate me in part because I have so many of my own. Most often delusions are harmless. Sometimes they are not.

At the moment my fellow Democrats are suffering from two that are harmful. The first is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives. That this is a delusion can be seen in the promises made by six successful Democratic candidates in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan: three governors and three senators. Not one of them supported the Green New Deal, a tax on wealth or “Medicare for all.”

The second Democratic delusion is that Americans were robbed of the truth when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded that President Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016. All evidence indicates that the full report will not change the conclusion that Donald J. Trump did not collude with Vladimir Putin to secure his victory in 2016.

Rather than investigating the president further, Congress needs to investigate how the Department of Justice got this one so wrong. If the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us. Members of Congress cannot do this themselves. We do not trust them enough with such a vital mission.

Congress should create a nonpartisan commission to find out what went wrong and to tell us what needs to be done to make certain it never happens again.

A commission to investigate the FBI needs to focus on four questions:


Read more:  https://www.omaha.com/opinion/midlands_voices/bob-kerrey-how-did-department-of-justice-get-the-trump/article_7b68c700-f356-5cb8-8baf-bbbdc5375bf4.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

One truthful Democrat emerges to call out party’s ‘delusions’
NY Post, Apr 6, 2019, Michael Goodwin

Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and governor, was always one of my favorite politicians in part because his politics weren’t perfectly polished. Among other free-wheeling moments, he called fellow Democrat Bill Clinton an “uncommonly good liar” and said a requirement for becoming president is that you must “want it more than life itself.”

Kerrey moved on to academia and now to an investment bank, but hasn’t lost the willingness to break ranks with his party. The habit surfaces in a withering criticism of current Democrats, where he says they are suffering from two major “delusions.”

“The first,” he writes in an op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald, “is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives.”

He cites as examples the foolish push for the Green New Deal, wealth taxes and Medicare-for-all, all of which are being embraced by 2020 candidates.

The Dems’ second delusion, he says, “is that Americans were robbed of the truth when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded that President Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016.” He goes on to say there is no reason to think the full report will change the finding that Trump is an innocent man.

Those are remarkable observations — but Kerrey isn’t finished. He also supports the movement to find out what the FBI was up to in 2016, and why it led the nation down the Russia rabbit hole.

“Congress needs to investigate how the Department of Justice got this one so wrong,” he writes. “If the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us.”


More:  https://nypost.com/2019/04/06/one-truthful-democrat-emerges-to-call-out-partys-delusions/

[mountaineer]

“If the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us.”

I couldn't agree more.

[truth_seeker]

Any thinking democrat should be sobered by Bob Kerrey.

I seriously doubt that even one single demcrat candidate, would pay the slightest attenion to his wise advice.

[Free Vulcan]

Bob wins today's Stopped Clock award.

[aligncare]

The DOJ got it wrong because it was Obama’s DOJ and this ain’t your father’s democrat party anymore. The transformation to a European-style socialist democrat party is nearly complete. The next six years – three election cycles – will answer a lot of questions about where the parties, and the voters, stand.