| | | Clinton pollster blisters Mueller witch hunt
Don Surber by Don Surber
Pollster Mark Penn was one of the men who helped keep Bill Clinton president. Penn innovated new methods and used a microcomputer kit in the 1970s to calculate overnight results.
Buthe is more than a numbers cruncher, and a piece Penn penned for the Hill displays a sharp anaysis that goes beyond the polls.
Beneath benign numbers -- most people think Mueller will find an "impeachable" ofense -- lies a constitutional crisis. And Penn, Harvard '76, is enough of an American to call them out.
"The investigation was polluted from the beginning. Former British spy Christopher Steele was a government contractor when he illegally leaked the dossier and lied about it. Mueller team members and FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok operated with such open hatred for Trump that they were removed from the investigation after managing key parts of it. The heads of the FBI and CIA participated in spreading and vouching for a Trump dossier they never verified and yet used to spy on Americans," Penn wrote.
Penn follows the facts, and compares them to the talking points. The church of Russian collusion is built on the shifting sands of lies.
"Perhaps most puzzlingly, Rosenstein wrote a critical memo supporting the Comey firing and then appointed a special counsel after the firing. By doing this, combined with the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Rosenstein set up a government within the government, with a super broad charter and practical immunity from being removed. The Mueller investigation then operated without any independent supervision from outside the agency, review by any elected officials or contemporaneous judicial review," Penn wrote.
Setting up a government within a government is a coup. Penn -- who studied law at Columbia University -- realizes the ramifications.
He believes that because the investigation was based on a lie, and the people managing key parts of it (Page and Strzok) are liars, Mueller's work is invalid. The brutal Third World dictator tactics against targets in the investigation alarm him.
His advice at the end is to get the courts to stop this charade.
"The best way to end all this is not to fire Mueller and Rosenstein or wait for them to wrap it up but to challenge this entire process in court as irretrievably tainted. If Mueller does not agree to end the investigation in exchange for presidential interrogatories, then it may be time to try to block the whole thing in court, with full discovery into whether its foundation was so corrupted — and the stonewalling actions so blatant — that the doctrine of the fruits of a poisonous tree can be invoked to stop this national distraction," Penn concluded.
I am surprised that Penn who has so much to lose by speaking out (friend or foe, Marxists will destroy you) has spoken out.
I applaud him. |
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