The real truth about the Stone sentencing...

Kimberley Strassel: Bill Barr delivers on his pledge of accountability as AG and bureaucrats bristle

Here’s what actually happened: Justice sources tell me that interim U.S. Attorney Tim Shea had told the department’s leadership he and other career officials in the office felt the proposed sentence was excessive. As the deadline for the filing neared, the prosecutors on the case nonetheless threatened to withdraw from the case unless they got their demands for these stiffest of penalties. Mr. Shea—new to the job—suffered a moment of cowardice and submitted to this ultimatum. The filing took Justice Department leaders by surprise, and the decision to reverse was made well before Mr. Trump tweeted, and with no communication with the White House. The revised filing, meanwhile, had the signature of the acting supervisor of the office’s criminal division, who is a career civil servant, not a political appointee.

So the irony in this so called debate (which is just more liberal pearl clutching because they keep losing over and over) is that nobody on the left actually wants to address the merits of the sentencing. Let's forget about the fact that pretty much all of their allegations (EVERY SINGLE TIME) are unproven, wrong, and just equate to more barking at the moon.

During the same week when the DOJ came to the conclusion that Andrew McCabe's lying to the FBI over the leaking of classified material was not worthy of even a charge, others in the DOJ (associated with the Mueller probe) decided to recommend a sentence a 67 year old man with no criminal record to upwards of nine years in prison for lying to Congress (a charge that has been brought only six time in the past seventy five years) regarding an investigation that was proven flat out to be a partisan witch hunt.

Moreover, the original sentencing memorandum had never gotten the sign off from the people who are generally required to sign off on them. It's like they were going around leadership, in order to recommend a sentence so outrageous that it's literally impossible to justify. They effectively threw a fit, stomped their feet, and are now all holding their breath because they didn't get their way.

To be clear. By any and all objective standards lying to the FBI is 99.99% more likely to get you charged with a crime than lying to Congress. That is just an undeniable fact. So far, not a single person has been able to explain the extenuating circumstances surrounding Roger Stone, other than the fact that certain people associated with the Mueller probe are still trying to validate their own existence and want to punish anyone associated with Trump.

In any sane world, everyone would see the horrendous abuse of power where such power was used to save one of their own from prosecution, while using that same power to suck the life out of a 67 year old man with no criminal past who committed no crime that anyone else would have been charged with (had it not been for his association with Trump).

Since when is an old man trying to dig up information on the next wiki-leaks drop a bigger threat to society than an FBI leader who uses his position of power to authorize the leak of damaging classified information to the media and then lie about it to Federal investigators? If someone could answer me that simple question, then I would be grateful.