Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   The Trap is Set Date:   1/24/2018 10:13:50 PM

The Leadership is supposed to set the tone and the agenda, so I don't lay the blame all on the workers.  The very senior ones who are likely appointed or in the Senior Executive Service, can be fired for cause, without a lengthy process.  It's actually in the SES agreement.  Sessions is weak and they perceive he doesn't have the ear or the confidence of the President, so natually they are going be swarming.  Washington is like a shark tank, and you keep swimming or you die.  Blood in the water brings on a frenzy.  

Believe it or not, you are not, as a public servant supposed to use your  position for revenge against the opporsition.   As I understand it, Lois Lerner had the right to plead the 5th, and then she, as a career civil servant had the number of years to retire, so she did.  I don't like what she did, I believe she was wrong and misused the trust placed in her, but I can't critiicize her to taking the 5th and then retiring.  The President allowed her to do it.  When your back is against the wall, you do what you have to do to survive, and she's not the first nor the last to do so.  

You know, from a distance, it looks pretty clear what was wrong and what was done.  But when you are in the middle of it, it's not all that clear.  It's not always a big decision that puts the wheels in motion, but sometimes a series of small decisions and responses to taskings that will add up and before you know it, you are in the swamp.  Hindsight is 20/20, and it is easy to be self-righteous when you view it from a distance.  Now in the case of Hillary, yes, I do believe that she made deliberate decisions and they were all to her favor.  Hillary believes that no one knows better than her and that anything she does must be right, just because of who she is.  If anyone should go to jail, it is her. 

I am not trying to excuse any wrong doing by anyone.  But usually it is a path of breadcrumbs that leads to wrongdoing, not the whole loaf dropped on you at once.  

I am very worried about Trump.  I can see so many way that this could go wrong if he testifies under oath.  I hate to say it, but I'm not sure being under Oath will be anything more to Trump than it was to Clinton (either one of them).  He doesn't like to take advice.  He's not a polished speaker, nor is he known for thinking deeply about what he says before he says it.