Nowhere is it even remotely suggested by your poster that there was insufficient evidence to warrant a prosecution.
As near as I can tell the only standard of justice on the right is 'guilty until proved innocent', which of course is the converse of the legal principle.
Remember all of the minds that were made up over 'locking Hillary up'?
Comey said, 'uh, uh' and much shit was lost on the right. Then he said there were more emails, and his praises were sung by those on the right. Oops, nothing there either.
Then Comey was on the case over Russian influence in the election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump
And so Comey was gone.....'because of the Russian thing', as Trump pointedly told us in an interview.... and then a 'big bowl of you REALLY didn't want this guy' was served up for Trump. LOL!
I firmly believe that Trump and his minions are acting as though they have things to hide. I'm also confident that is NOT a high enough standard for Mueller to deliver indictments.
So I hold my fire, save for the deserved ridicule I reserve for really, really, bad liars.
As near as I can tell the only standard of justice on the right is 'guilty until proved innocent', which of course is the converse of the legal principle.
Remember all of the minds that were made up over 'locking Hillary up'?
Comey said, 'uh, uh' and much shit was lost on the right. Then he said there were more emails, and his praises were sung by those on the right. Oops, nothing there either.
Then Comey was on the case over Russian influence in the election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump
And so Comey was gone.....'because of the Russian thing', as Trump pointedly told us in an interview.... and then a 'big bowl of you REALLY didn't want this guy' was served up for Trump. LOL!
I firmly believe that Trump and his minions are acting as though they have things to hide. I'm also confident that is NOT a high enough standard for Mueller to deliver indictments.
So I hold my fire, save for the deserved ridicule I reserve for really, really, bad liars.
Quote:Today in Conservative Media: Lock Lois Lerner Up!
A daily roundup of the biggest stories in right-wing media.
On Friday, multiple conservative outlets ran posts on the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute former IRS official Lois Lerner for allegedly penalizing conserative groups applying for non-profit status. “Yes, some progressive groups were victims of the same treatment, though even National Public Radio noted that the list, which is 426 groups deep, is top heavy with conservative groups,” Townhall’s Matt Vespa wrote.
“A federal judge ruled that the IRS has until October 16 to name those who were involved in the targeting, but for now—Lerner is in the clear once again.
In 2015, DOJ also declined to press charges against Lerner after concluding their investigation into the matter.”
RedState’s Jim Jimitis compared the failure to prosecute Lerner to the failure to “lock up” Hillary Clinton. “Just like the Trump campaign’s anti-Hillary chant ‘Lock Her Up!’ turned out to be all talk and no action, so has Trump’s bluster about the IRS targeting scandal,” he wrote.
“You’re not likely to see any tweets from Trump about why Lerner was able to retire with a cushy pension after refusing to answer questions about her role in turning the IRS into a political weapon for the Left.
Candidate Trump would probably have been as outraged as the Congressional Republicans who asked for Lerner’s prosecution.”
The Resurgent’s Steve Berman wrote that he agreed with the decision not to prosecute Lerner and admonished outraged Republicans:
It’s a terrible precedent for one administration to reach back into a previous civil service scandal just to get revenge or make political points. Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee faked outrage for the quote “terrible decision” unquote, which he knew full well was coming. ...
Politicians who do things purely for political advantage are what makes the public hate Congress. Brady’s fake outrage over something that happened three years ago, when nothing has changed is about what we expect from a Republican willing to go along to get along. Lerner is never going to be prosecuted. Let’s quit with the fake outrage from fake Republicans.
www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/08/today_in_conservative_media_lock_lois_lerner_up.html
