I had an interesting e-mail conversation with NRO’s Andy McCarthy. Like him or not, as a former federal prosecutor, he knows a lot about this stuff and appears to be on Trump’s side in this.
First, I was interested in trying to debunk the “secret sting” that somehow John Huber is investigating the Deep State. I asked about the “60,000 sealed indictmens.” McCarthy thought that was a high number, said it could be anything from adding people to a single indictment to change of venue to continuances, to, say, a drug ring where other people are added because of ongoing testimony.
He did not expressly rule out a “secret sting,” but said it would be wouldn’t bet on it.
I asked about Huber’s grand jury with McCabe. That was different, McCarthy said because it appears McCabe gave false sworn testimony. He thinks there may be something to this grand jury and McCabe. I asked about why Combover wouldn’t get similar treatment, and didn’t really get a satisfying answer. Maybe Combover was just more clever in his lying. I don’t know.
Next I asked about whether the absence of leaks proved anything one way or another, and he said no. He was confident these juries don’t leak, but no leaks also could just be a sign that there is nothing to leak about.
We briefly discussed Mulehead. McCarthy thinks the fact that Flynn & Manafort are about to be finally sentenced is evidence that Mulehead is about done. If he still had anything, and thought they could give him anything, he wouldn’t sentence them.
Interestingly he still put a lot of stock in the next OIG report on the FISA stuff. So totally MY takeaway: I don’t think he’s sure that the investigation/prosecution of the Deep State is over yet. He thought going after Stone was going a completely different direction from Trump.
Thank you, Larry.
Thank you. I would think the FISA issue would have legs, and as an American citizen I would hope that that sort of thing would not happen again. More than just a report is needed, otherwise many people will think it’s OK, as long as it’s leftists or deep state doing it to the rest of us.
LS re: Andrew McCarthy
Thank you. I, too, mostly thing Andy is a stand up guy and sticks to the facts.
Thank you Larry.
Interesting take LS
Thx
At this point I can hardly expect this investigation to end with anything other than a smear of the President. President Impy would have never allowed it in first place. What do you make of the allegation that Trump wanted to go after Hillary but was scared off? Lies?
Serious question, firing this clown and pardoning everyone, the consequences of that would be what exactly? Can’t lose the house, already did. All the sissies will pee themselves? Why not do it? Why let all these men go to prison for pissant infractions?