Damn, when it rains it seems to pour.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/14/jeff-sessions-no-trump-influence-doj-clinton-244885

Attorney General Jeff Sessions seemed to throw some cold water Tuesday on Republicans clamoring for the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel to investigate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pressed Sessions on why it had taken the Justice Department months to hint, as it did Monday, at the prospect of considering a special counsel to probe years-old matters connected to Clinton.

Jordan said he thought evidence unearthed in the past year about how the FBI decided against charging Clinton over her handling of classified information at the State Department appeared to warrant a special counsel, and he also raised questions about the FBI's links to a disputed dossier of information about Donald Trump's alleged Russia ties.

"'Looks like' is not enough basis to appoint a special counsel," Sessions responded.

A Department of Justice spokesman said Sessions was not taking sides on GOP lawmakers' monthslong call for a special counsel to investigate Clinton. "The attorney general was clarifying the legal basis for appointing special counsel — not passing judgment on whether it applied in any specific investigation," spokesman Ian Prior said.

And Sessions, too, later clarified his comments. "I did not mean to suggest I was taking a side one way or the other on that subject," he said.

Still, the attorney general's comments on the matter are significant because they won't be heard only by lawmakers. Trump has badgered Sessions and the Department of Justice to launch further probes of Clinton, his rival in the 2016 election, and has lamented that DOJ has historically been independent of the president.

Trump was a big disappointment to a lot of outsiders, and it does affect our way of life, not as much as it did before but even so if the US was able to come to terms with its Balance of Trade deficits we'd all be able to breathe more easily, the swamp is I think a legacy of Carter and Reagan the D.& R's working together, which one was the man is anybodys guess, I take a double guess there, and say that they both were boys with a Cape Walk mentality. Trump was a tonic for us anti-free traders but failed himself badly by not having a deep enough understanding of what the game was, let alone knowing how to play it, but still better than Obama who was the little sister of the Dynamic Duo.

Trump was a big disappointment to a lot of outsiders, and it does affect our way of life, not as much as it did before but even so if the US was able to come to terms with its Balance of Trade deficits we'd all be able to breathe more easily, the swamp is I think a legacy of Carter and Reagan the D.& R's working together, which one was the man is anybodys guess, I take a double guess there, and say that they both were boys with a Cape Walk mentality. Trump was a tonic for us anti-free traders but failed himself badly by not having a deep enough understanding of what the game was, let alone knowing how to play it, but still better than Obama who was the little sister of the Dynamic Duo.