{"id":14673,"date":"2018-03-09T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14673"},"modified":"2018-03-09T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:56:53","slug":"an-investigation-is-not-a-sigil-of-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/09\/an-investigation-is-not-a-sigil-of-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"An Investigation Is Not A Sigil Of Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen discusses<\/a> the President’s exceedingly loose grip on facts, the GOP<\/strong><\/em>‘s unhinged belief that the other side is as bad they are themselves, and the possibility there will be more Special Counsels:<\/p>\n

As for the road ahead, the Washington Post\u00a0<\/em> reported<\/a>\u00a0in December, \u201cAttorney General Jeff Sessions is entertaining the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate a host of Republican concerns \u2014 including alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation and the controversial sale of a uranium company to Russia \u2014 and has directed senior federal prosecutors to explore at least some of the matters and report back to him and his top deputy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the attorney general be able to resist the pressure and acknowledge reality now that the GOP\u2019s story has collapsed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking as an independent, I say bring on those investigations<\/em>. Let’s see, once and for all, if any of the GOP<\/strong><\/em>‘s concerns have any substance.<\/p>\n

And if I were a Democrat, I’d be celebrating<\/strong><\/em> the chance of a special investigation, and crying it out to the stars. Why? First, as a Democrat, and given the lack of real evidence so far seen for the supposed scandals, I’d have to believe that there’s nothing there. Second, because of that, the chance to remove any taint of scandal on the Democrats greatly increases – and, with that, the greater the contrast with a scandal-bound Trump Administration, the various GOP<\/strong><\/em> legislators who’ve resigned, and a relatively clean Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

After all, has not Secretary Clinton been investigated a half dozen times or more regarding the Benghazi tragedy, and found completely clean of any wrong-doing? That would suggest the GOP may be looking for dirt where there isn’t any – and that would reflect well on the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen discusses the President’s exceedingly loose grip on facts, the GOP‘s unhinged belief that the other side is as bad they are themselves, and the possibility there will be more Special Counsels: As for the road ahead, the Washington Post\u00a0 reported\u00a0in December, \u201cAttorney General Jeff Sessions is entertaining the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14674,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14673\/revisions\/14674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}