Hanson: The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck

San Jose Mercury News ^ | April 26th, 2018 | By Victor Davis Hanson

[Mariner]

The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck.

In one direction, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump’s campaign team might have done wrong in 2016.

The oncoming train is slower but also larger. It involves congressional investigations, Department of Justice referrals and inspector general’s reports — mostly focused on improper or illegal FBI and DOJ behavior during the 2016 election.

Why are the two now about to collide?

By charging former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI, Mueller emphasized that even the appearance of false testimony is felonious behavior.

If that is so, then the DOJ will likely have to charge former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe with perjury or related offenses. A report from the Office of the Inspector General indicates that McCabe lied at least four times to federal investigators.

Former FBI Director James Comey may also have lied to Congress when he testified that he had not written his report on the Hillary Clinton email scandal before interviewing Clinton. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan lied under oath to Congress on matters related to surveillance.

Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin likely lied when they told FBI investigators they had no idea that their then-boss, Hillary Clinton, was using an illegal private email server. Both had communicated with Clinton about it.

[Flaming Conservative]

Dems in the comment section of the article have got the vapors. They can’t believe the Mercury would print an article that is favorable to President Trump.

[Lurkinanloomin]

There are simply too many people who are culpable for the Kenyanesian Usurpation and all of its myriad crimes for any of them to go to jail.
Almost everyone in the District of Corruption was complicit in the violation of the Constitution.

Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen.

[REDWOOD99]

Thanks for the off-topic attack. GFY.

[Jack Hammer]

Mueller missed his true calling in 1933.

[minnesota_bound]

Take over the Clinton ‘charity’ money. None has actually gone to help people other then the Clintons.
Maybe the corrupt news media will cover that.

[GOPJ]

High-ranking Obama administration officials may also be subject to indictments, given that they may have requested the “unmasking” of American citizens whose communications were intercepted during the surveillance of foreign parties and then leaked the names of those citizens to the press.

Mueller’s team apparently has assumed that Michael Cohen’s status as Trump’s attorney offers no protections under normal attorney-client privilege protocols.

If that is true, the DOJ will have to investigate why the FBI allowed Clinton aide Cheryl Mills to pose as Clinton’s attorney and thereby be shielded from providing testimony on what she knew about the email scandal involving her “client.”

Good read...

[zeestephen]

Re: “A reckoning is near.”

Only if “near” means before the November 2018 election.

Neither Trump nor Sessions are doing anything serious to investigate the Clinton campaign or the political corruption in the FBI and DOJ.

The DOJ Inspector General is an Obama appointee.

Nunes and Gowdy are honest, but uninspiring, investigators. If the GOP loses the House, their investigations will end instantly.

Except for the efforts of Judicial Watch, Free Republic, Sean Hannity, and a few lesser lights at Fox News, the Rule of Law in Washington D.C. would have already come to an end.

[philman_36]

I see that humor and sarcasm are lost on you.
Have a nice day.

[gattaca]

bmp

[Liz]

BOMBSHELL: Mueller's shocking confiscating of Michael Cohen’s documents decimates the protocols of accepted norms WRT attorney-client privilege.

CONTACTS:

President Trump:
Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
email. president@whitehouse.gov

CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

USAG Jeff Sessions
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000

TALKING POINTS: We, the people, demand the DOJ prosecute the equally shocking incident wherein Obama's FBI allowed Clinton aide, Cheryl Mills, to pose as Clinton’s attorney thereby calculatedly shielding herself from providing testimony on what she knew about the email scandal involving her “client.”

[Liz]

High-ranking Obama admin officials MUST be subject to indictments, given that they apparently requested the “unmasking” of American citizens whose communications were intercepted during the surveillance of foreign parties and then leaked the names of American citizens to the press.

Obama and the execrable Susan Rice are responsible for the most blatant undermining of our republic.......
b/c an overriding principle is that the machinery of govt cannot be used against its citizens.

[Liz]

High-ranking Obama admin officials MUST be subject to indictments, given that they apparently requested the “unmasking” of American citizens whose communications were intercepted during the surveillance of foreign parties and then leaked the names of American citizens to the press.

Obama and the execrable Susan Rice are responsible for the most blatant undermining of our republic.......
b/c an overriding principle is that the machinery of govt cannot be used against its citizens.

[xzins]

Hanson is correct, but the stonewalling, partisanship, and corruption says to me that they will start a civil war before they allow themselves to be brought to justice.

[ripley]

“Mueller’s despicable railroading of Gen Flynn is going to be his downfall.”

Comrade Mueller can do no wrong and neither can his allies in their attempt to delegitimize and impeach a sitting,
duly-elected President.

And, Mr. Mueller will never fall because he is being backed by a potentially dangerous, more-than-fifty-percent-of-the-population “democratic majority”.

The revolution is succeding comrades!

Long Live Democracy and the Revolution! (s)

IMHO

[ExTexasRedhead]

Let’s all pray that Rudy handed Mulehead all the treasonous dirt that they have on him and his henchmen.

[Grampa Dave]

"Amazing that this appeared in the Murky News, truly amazing."

My Chromebook had problems going to this story.

Even Google could not believe that the Jerky/Murky would print this.

D umb

N aturally

C ontinues!

[bitt]

ping to VDH

[TBP]

When the Mueller investigation turns up nothing after all that time and the DNC lawsuit turns up nothing, they’ll try to make the fact that no evidence turned up into some kind of crime.

Their hate for Trump consumes them.

[a little elbow grease]

"IMHO, Muller's despicable rail roading of Gen Flynn is going to be his downfall.

It all soon be revealed that Gen Flynn was set up and framed by the FBI and then knowingly extorted to plead guilty to charges that Mueller's team knew were false and manufactured."

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I like the way you think.

[a little elbow grease]

......... times are a changin’