Attorney Victoria Toensing Slams U.S. Attorney John Huber's 'Potemkin Investigation'
Attorney General Jeff Sessions tasked Huber with reviewing Obama-era surveillance abuses and the Uranium One scandal late last year and many of President Trump's supporters are depending on him to get to the bottom of the corruption.
It's a lovely thought, but one that Washington, D.C. attorney Victoria Toensing of diGenova & Toensing threw a bucket of cold water on Wednesday evening.
"What exactly are Mueller and Huber doing if they're not questioning key officials in the Department of Justice?" Fox Business host Lou Dobbs asked Toensing.
The attorney replied that she wasn't surprised about Mueller because his mandate is just to go after President Trump and the Russians, but said she was "absolutely shocked -- shocked" that Huber had not spoken with Bruce Our or Nellie Ohr. Even worse, he hasn't contacted her client Doug Campbell, the FBI whistleblower in the Uranium One case.
Toensing reminded Dobbs and his viewers that Huber's appointment came last fall, only after repeated calls from Trump-supporting congressmen for a special counsel to investigate the surveillance abuses and Uranium One. The assistant attorney general wrote to the lawmakers, she explained, telling them that they had "senior prosecutors" on it to "evaluate" their accusations.
In March of 2018, she said, AG Jeff Sessions announced that he had appointed Huber to look into all of the issues.
"And now -- nine months later -- not only has [neither] Bruce Ohr [nor] Nellie Ohr been interviewed, but my client in Uranium One ... has not been interviewed," Toensing exclaimed. "Now, how can you even evaluate those two issues without talking to those three people?! It's a sham! -- it's a Potemkin Village! It's a Potemkin investigation! I'm appalled!" she added.
Toensing had a message for Republicans in Congress: "You've been snookered! Get the department to tell you why these people have not been interviewed nine months into the evaluation," she advised.
Dobbs was flabbergasted that Republicans, who currently control all the levers of power, have been so weak and useless in the face of so much corruption.
"Republicans have never known how to kill," Toensing explained matter-of-factly. "You've gotta know how to kill."
"They don't even know how to wound!" Dobbs shot back. "What would it take for anyone of conscience in that Department of Justice, any one of our congressmen, our senators, Republicans, to say 'this -- this special counsel is a sad, pathetic joke and it is tearing the nation to pieces and it's got to end and NOW!'? Why is there not a single voice, other than that of the president here?" he lamented.
TRUST SESSIONS TRUST HUBER My Ass.
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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
