http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/12/a-transparent-lack-of-media-curiosity-why-was-judge-rudolph-contreras-recused-from-flynn-case/
Last Thursday it was announced that U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras was mysteriously recused from the Special Counsel case against General Mike Flynn, five days after Judge Contreras accepting the initial pleading. No explanation as to 'why'? ...
One might think the media apparatus, or pundit proletariat writ large, might be curious about why a U.S. District Court Judge would be recused. Alas One would be wrong. The recusal angle is transparently missing from any follow-up by media; and apparently the judicial cat also has stolen the tongue of congressional curiosity. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. ...
These are all just general questions that stem from Judge Contreras appearing to concede to a conflict, but doing so only AFTER the first administrative hearing on the case. If the conflict existed on December 7th 2017, such that a recusal was needed, would not that conflict exist prior to December 7th, 2017?
Apparently no-one else is in the least bit curious; and absent of anyone seeking such clarity; it leads CTH to wonder if U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras wasn't possibly the same judge that denied the initial FISA application in June of 2016.
It's very rare that a FISA application is denied. Considering he possibility the denial was based, in part, on the target (candidate Donald Trump) of the FISA warrant; and considering the massive ramifications within the U.S. government applying to monitor, wiretap and use surveillance upon a presidential candidate; it would not be a stretch to think Judge Contreras would establish a 'higher threshold' for granting such authority.
Given what we know now, that we did not know before, namely that FBI Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr were part of the counterintelligence operation that began in July 2016 ... and understanding that Nellie Ohr, Bruce's wife, was working for Fusion GPS the contractor for Christopher Steele and the Russian Dossier ... ultimately hired by Hillary Clinton; ... and accepting that the information within the dossier was part of the underlying FISA application ... the entire construct of the FISA application is suspect.
Adding yet another layer to that sketchy outline, today it is revealed that Peter Strzok's mistress within the DOJ, Lisa Page, might have been the actual DOJ official to apply for the FISA warrant. (SEE HERE)
Which takes us back to U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras. Was the recusal an outcome of Contreras recognizing the concerns he expressed in the June 2016 FISA denial, that were later presumably belayed with a more narrow FISA application, evidenced in his seeing how the FISA warrant he granted being used against the defendant that appeared in his courtroom.
Did Contreras see in Flynn's outcome - evidence of what he feared would happen? And that lead to Judge Contreras deciding to recuse himself from the case?
So many questions, and yet a transparent lack of overall curiosity around the recusal. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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