06-10-2017, 06:43 PM
(06-09-2017, 09:22 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(06-09-2017, 06:10 AM)Odin Wrote: The testimony makes it very clear that Comey was fired because of the Russia investigation. There is clearly obstruction of justice going on.
Not according to those who still believe in civil liberties, like Alan Dershowitz:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/0...wrong.html
Heck, Comey himself said that Trump would have been completely within his rights to shut down the Russia investigation.
... but only in the interest of national security, as when Senator Harry Truman started investigating the Manhattan Project for waste, fraud, and inefficiency. The President has no inherent right to squelch an investigation of criminal acts of the President or other elected or appointed officials.
Of course if the President is above the law, then we have a huge problem to solve.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.