The investigation was a failure from the beginning. It was hands off the president.

The US House needs to have the supporting documents to this investigation and actually find where laws were broken regardless of who broke them.

Donald Trump, without any reason except the fact the Russians wanted the investigations stopped, fired the Director of the FBI. The Russians had James Comey removed from his position at the FBI. How many years did that man give to this country and the Russians through Trump fired him? Like what? And Trump expects this country to accept that? I don't think so.

Speaker Pelosi is correct, this is a cover up by Trump as mentored by Putin. The Russians fully expected to have control of this country when Trump was elected. Ain't no way.

One of the things James Comey stated in interview after interview and in his book is, How do you approach the protections of the country when it is the president that is of utmost concern? Trump was a problem from the very beginning and it has nothing to do with politics. Now, Nancy Pelosi is the lone soldier with the burden of discovery to return the USA to constitutional context. I applaud her. She never expected this and yet she is burdened with it. This is the worst circumstance the USA has ever discovered itself in and it is the people that have to shoulder this with their House Speaker.

Third, (click here) we considered whether to evaluate the conduct we investigated under the Justice Manual standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but we determined not to apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the President committed crimes. The threshold step under the Justice Manual standards is to assess whether a person's conduct "constitutes a federal offense." U.S. Dep't of Justice, Justice Manual§ 9-27.220 (2018) (JusticeManual) (click here). Fairness concerns counseled against potentially reaching that judgment when no charges can be brought. The ordinary means for an individual to respond to an accusation is through a speedy and public trial, with all the procedural protections that surround a criminal case. An individual who believes he was wrongly accused can use that process to seek to clear his name. In contrast, a prosecutor's judgment that crimes were committed, but that no charges will be brought, affords no such adversarial opportunity for public name-clearing before an impartial adjudicator. 5

The measure of this Special Counsel is whether or not a federal offense occurred. EXCEPT, if it is the president. The president handed Russia classified documents, BUT, the EXISTING OPINION of the DOJ was that the president was above the law. That is all Russia needed and it had what it wanted, a USA president that could do no wrong while he was doing wrong. Donald Trump today is a huge national security issue, ie: Iran.

While Trump fiddled with Iran, Putin was assembling a bomber force to assault the USA coast and if they succeeded in breaching the USA sovereign borders with impunity, what does anyone think would happen?

Putin was handing Trump a country to rule, while he plotted to take it from him. It was possible because of greed and laundered Russian money. Trump was snow blind in a storm of Russian money.

...when no charges can be brought...

That is the most ridiculous circumstance to ask a Special Counsel to operate. The Special Counsel had before them the open and free access to evidence in order to bring about results to protect the USA, BUT, when no charges can be brought is a really interesting set of rules that a Special Counsel has to follow. It opened the USA up to not only invasion of a USA election, but, the exploitation of and by a USA president.

In contrast, a prosecutor's judgment that crimes were committed, but that no charges will be brought, affords no such adversarial opportunity for public name-clearing before an impartial adjudicator.

And look what we have today in the Oval Office. A man uncharged of any crime, regardless the evidence, ranting and raving on Twitter to exonerate his name as the evidence is hidden in the DOJ under scrutiny of a corrupt Attorney General. 

You want to talk about government failure, that it is beyond any imagination of any Amerian at any level of government, but, it was never out of the imagination of Vladimir Putin.

This is just the introduction. Not even the entire introduction of Volume II. Robert Mueller, the most qualified patriot this country has was mired in a world of shit he could only wonder about and express on paper. There was no way to reach the very AGENT that Putin instilled in the Oval Office and all Mueller could do was work the circumstances as they were presented all around Trump. This situation stinks and it was never fair to Mueller from the beginning.

The people of the USA have no idea how diabolical a foreign power can be. Everything the USA stands for, everything the USA can muster as an economy and the USA military is always under attack. There is always a battlefield and there is always assault to USA sovereignty. Let this be a prime example of the failure of a government agency provided power never legislated in the USA Constitution. The DOJ made the president a king.

Putin didn't write the opinion, some idiot with the idea the president should remain untouchable wrote this mess and now the USA has to wade through the muck of such opinions.

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