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DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« on: August 31, 2017, 05:21:33 pm »
Rep. Ron DeSantis, who has presented an amendment calling for an end date to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian involvement in the 2016 election, said Thursday he presented the legislation because lawmakers don't want to fund such "fishing expeditions."
"When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller, he issued an order that did not identify a crime," the Florida Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program. "He identified a counterintelligence investigation that [former FBI Director James] Comey had been conducting. So you are in a situation where you don't have any limit. You don't have any scope."

And without "obvious evidence" of a crime, a prosecutor such as Mueller will have the incentive to keep the investigation going until something is found, DeSantis contended.

"My amendment basically says, look, this thing needs to be limited to the campaign and Russia and it needs to have an end date," DeSantis said. "If you haven't produced evidence of a crime, after almost two years of investigating, because Comey investigated for a year before Mueller was appointed, then at some point we have to move on with the American people's business."

Read more at: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ron-desantis-amendment-russia-probe-end-date/2017/08/31/id/810875/
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2017, 06:41:48 pm »
Dems screaming bloody murder in 3...2...1.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2017, 07:43:33 pm »
Funny, we had no problem with the length of the Ken Starr investigations.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2017, 07:47:44 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 31, 2017, 06:41:48 pm
Dems screaming bloody murder in 3...2...1.

See post imediately below yours that I'm quoting.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2017, 07:54:50 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on August 31, 2017, 07:47:44 pm
See post imediately below yours that I'm quoting.

Yeah, I'm seeing it.  Could you hear my eyes rolling all the way from Arizona?
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2017, 07:59:46 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 31, 2017, 07:54:50 pm
Yeah, I'm seeing it.  Could you hear my eyes rolling all the way from Arizona?

Not quite! But I somehow suspected they might be doing the same as mine!  888high58888
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2017, 08:00:42 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on August 31, 2017, 07:43:33 pm
Funny, we had no problem with the length of the Ken Starr investigations.

There were actual crimes involved with Ken Starrs investigations.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2017, 08:10:35 pm »
Quote from: driftdiver on August 31, 2017, 08:00:42 pm
There were actual crimes involved with Ken Starrs investigations.


Then let Mueller take his time.. Nothing wrong with it.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2017, 08:13:43 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on August 31, 2017, 08:10:35 pm

Then let Mueller take his time.. Nothing wrong with it.

Nothing except the entire enterprise is being conducted outside the law! There never was any legal basis to open the probe to begin with!
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2017, 08:17:48 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on August 31, 2017, 08:10:35 pm

Then let Mueller take his time.. Nothing wrong with it.

I think fishing expeditions are great.  When it's Marlin.  No so great when it's special prosecutors on the hunt for a scalp to justify his adventure.

I got a bit short with Mr Starr when he decided to go from a set of "real crimes" involving taking bribes from the Chinese to chasing the Monica BS, which he knew would lead to no convictions.  Told me he rigged the game, so your analogy of Ken Starr falls flat with me.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2017, 08:19:24 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on August 31, 2017, 08:10:35 pm

Then let Mueller take his time.. Nothing wrong with it.

unlimited budget, time and resources; everything except evidence of a crime.

I can see you and I have a different idea of what constitutes a free country.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2017, 08:21:35 pm »
I'll be surprised if this really goes anywhere.  I doubt there's a whole lot of support in Congress for specifying limits on investigations.  We'll see though.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2017, 08:28:35 pm »
Quote from: Concerned on August 31, 2017, 08:21:35 pm
I'll be surprised if this really goes anywhere.  I doubt there's a whole lot of support in Congress for specifying limits on investigations.  We'll see though.

Sadly I agree with you.  The only person with the stones to pull this plug is the target of the thing.  "Nothing wrong with that" he says.
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Re: DeSantis Calls for Time Limit on Mueller's Russia Probe
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2017, 08:33:00 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 31, 2017, 08:28:35 pm
Sadly I agree with you.  The only person with the stones to pull this plug is the target of the thing.  "Nothing wrong with that" he says.

As do I given the current state of the fetid swamp we call Washington.
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