{"id":41272,"date":"2017-12-16T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41272"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:31:05","slug":"why-not-try-an-truly-independent-independent-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/why-not-try-an-truly-independent-independent-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not try a truly independent “independent counsel”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Currie<\/a> suggests someone the US government could bring in to investigate the whole “deep state” mess who would not be in any way tainted by past contacts or entanglements:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The American mess is deep and sordid and, frankly, needs to be cleaned up. But by who?<\/p>\n

The fact is that virtually any special counsel appointed by the DOJ will be tainted one way or another. And so, apparently, will investigators drawn from the FBI. It is a mess but it also needs to be resolved.<\/p>\n

So, a friendly suggestion from Canada.<\/p>\n

Our deeply respected, longest serving, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada is retiring at the end of the year. Beverly McLaughlin, while I disagree with some of her opinions, is tough, fair-minded and very, very, smart. By the nature of her position, she is \u201cread in\u201d on intelligence and security cleared. She\u2019ll be bombarded with job offers but, if asked nicely, might be willing to lead an investigation into the whole ball of wax which the 2016 American election created. Russians, Hilly\u2019s server and how it was dealt with by the FBI, Lynch on the tarmac with Bill, Mueller, Comely: the whole thing.<\/p>\n

But Bev is not enough. Sending a small detachment of the RCMP \u2013 white collar and intelligence \u2013 with her, with really serious investigative powers, would get the whole mess cleared up in six months. (The scarlet tunics would be optional but would make great tv as they raided offices and homes of the swamp creatures.) McLaughlin would not proffer charges, rather she would write a report and recommend such charges as arise.<\/p>\n

Better still, the Chief Justice and the Horsemen would be paid for \u2013 independently \u2013 by the Canadian government with a bill to be presented to our American cousins at the end of the investigation.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the mess is so big you need an independent professional to clean it up. This is one of those times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay Currie suggests someone the US government could bring in to investigate the whole “deep state” mess who would not be in any way tainted by past contacts or entanglements: The American mess is deep and sordid and, frankly, needs to be cleaned up. But by who? The fact is that virtually any special counsel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,53,13],"tags":[188,282,267,752],"class_list":["post-41272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-fbi","tag-justice","tag-supremecourt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aJG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41276,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions\/41276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}