Sunday, August 26, 2018

When Justice Is Partial

When Justice Is Partial:
"The country has watched the
  • FBI treat one presidential campaign with kid gloves, the other with informants, warrants and eavesdropping. 
  • They’ve seen the Justice Department resist all efforts at accountability, even as it fails to hold its own accountable. 
  • And don’t get them started on the one-sided media.
And they are now witnessing unequal treatment in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
...let’s take Mr. Khuzami’s word for it when he says Mr. Cohen’s crimes are “particularly significant” because he’s a lawyer who should know better, and also because the payments were for the purpose of “influencing an election” and undermining its “integrity.”
If there is only “one set of rules,” where is Mr. Mueller’s referral of a case against Hillary for America? 
Federal law requires campaigns to disclose the recipient and purpose of any payments.
The Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS to compile a dossier against Mr. Trump, a document that became the basis of the Russia narrative Mr. Mueller now investigates.
But the campaign funneled the money to law firm Perkins Coie, which in turn paid Fusion.
The campaign falsely described the money as payment for “legal services.”
The Democratic National Committee did the same..."
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