Andrea Mitchell: Trump’s Cancellation of Brennan Clearance Could be “Obstruction of Justice”

[Right_in_Virginia]

Andrea Mitchell: Trump’s Cancellation of Brennan Clearance Could be “Obstruction of Justice”
FinkelBlog, Aug 16, 2018, Mark Finklestein

Can doing something you have the legal right to do nevertheless constitute a crime? Yes . . . according to Andrea Mitchell.

On today’s Morning Joe, just moments after acknowledging that President Trump “has the legal right” to have canceled John Brennan’s security clearance, Mitchell continued:

“Arguably, some people will say, and I’m not a lawyer, but I’m certain that Mueller is looking into this, that this could be another issue of potential obstruction of justice. Whether it is of criminal import or not, it certainly is a question.”

Video at link:  http://finkelblogger.com/2018/08/16/andrea-mitchell-trumps-cancellation-of-brennan-clearance-could-be-obstruction-of-justice/

[Right_in_Virginia]

The 24/7 news cycle has been the undoing of critical thinking skills.   

[Free Vulcan]

Shine your tinfoil Andrea, it's getting dull.

[INVAR]

Ah yes, only in the minds of dipshit Leftists on TV could it be opined that a FIRED employee whose security clearance is rescinded, is 'obstruction of justice'.

Then again, in their feeble minds, illegals are 'citizens' and 'citizens' are 'illegal nativists with privilege'.

Black is white, straight is gay or transgendered and espionage for an enemy is 'patriotic'.

[mountaineer]

A so-called journalist reports this without even bothering to find out what obstruction of justice really means. 

[INVAR]

A so-called journalist reports this without even bothering to find out what obstruction of justice really means. 

Do today's "JournOlists" ever bother to find out what ANYTHING really means beyond pushing their political ideology on everyone and telling us what to think?

[Wingnut]

All that stress of running Alan Greenspan’s bath water and washing his "shrinkage" has taken a toll on her reasoning abilities. 

[mountaineer]

Do today's "JournOlists" ever bother to find out what ANYTHING really means beyond pushing their political ideology on everyone and telling us what to think?

No, and that's why I call myself a news reporter (semi-retired now), not a journalist. The ideologues have turned the profession from simply reporting the news into telling the reader/viewer what to believe.

I've mentioned this before, but will again: several years ago, the dean of our state university's J-school visited the newspaper where I worked. She gave a little talk and expressly stated that the J-school teaches its students that their job as journalists is to mold and influence public opinion. Apparently, that's their only job. No mention whatsoever of the task of informing the public what's going on and letting them draw their own conclusions, which is the way I'd always done it.

[Bigun]

I've mentioned this before, but will again: several years ago, the dean of our state university's J-school visited the newspaper where I worked. She gave a little talk and expressly stated that the J-school teaches its students that their job as journalists is to mold and influence public opinion. Apparently, that's their only job. No mention whatsoever of the task of informing the public what's going on and letting them draw their own conclusions, which is the way I'd always done it.

And that is, as you say, 180deg out from what we were taught way back when!  Who, what, when, and where and keep you damned opinions out of it!

[txradioguy]

A so-called journalist reports this without even bothering to find out what obstruction of justice really means. 

@mountaineer the so-called journalists are letting Brennan and others get away with claiming this is a First Amendment violation too without challenge.

The irony of what they are claiming totally escapes them.

[txradioguy]

No, and that's why I call myself a news reporter (semi-retired now), not a journalist. The ideologues have turned the profession from simply reporting the news into telling the reader/viewer what to believe.

Reporters report the news...journalists seek to put themselves into the story.

We have far too few reporters and far too many journalists these days.

I've mentioned this before, but will again: several years ago, the dean of our state university's J-school visited the newspaper where I worked. She gave a little talk and expressly stated that the J-school teaches its students that their job as journalists is to mold and influence public opinion. Apparently, that's their only job. No mention whatsoever of the task of informing the public what's going on and letting them draw their own conclusions, which is the way I'd always done it.

And that right there is the reason that when I retire I won't pick up a video camera or write a script or edit video after I stop wearing the uniform.

I'll go back to being a radio DJ and be a happy man.