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Originally Posted by Ohio
I think you would be hard-pressed to find another kind of successful businessman. Do you think Manafort is any worse than the Podesta brothers? Did Comey, McCabe, Lynch, Yates, Holder, Strzok, Page, etc. never lie to investigators?
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Which is the point. Anyone who is in that position of power would not be able to go through that 2 year investigation without some embarrassing revelations. That is why they should not allow this to be used as a political weapon.
Another reason why these investigations should not be done in public. To the best of our ability we want a non partisan, non political appointee that is completely independent. Perhaps they could even require that the appointee for prosecutor not be a government employee. Since all prosecutors are that would be an interesting twist. But if the lawyer assigned was doing this as a civic duty and was eager to return to his lucrative practice that could also help avoid this political circus.
We should always expect, whether innocent or guilty, that these investigations will take years because you are investigating the most powerful people in the country with vast funds and plenty of counselors and experience. It is irresponsible to do this as theater.
In addition there should be forgiveness so that the prosecutor would be feared. This prosecutor should have the authority to forgive a witness for testimony relevant to the case that admits guilt in something outside of the scope of the investigation. This way we could eliminate the people lying for trivial reasons. If this was done in a closed door by this prosecutor (no politicians) that could be sued in the event they leak any of the revelations would also encourage them to be honest about non relevant matters. In this way the only real danger is if you lie and can now be convicted of obstruction when there was no downside to telling the truth and the possible upside that this prosecutor would "forgive" you of misdemeanor crimes not relevant to his scope.