Why would a presumably honest and presumably conservative attorney general and his Specially Selected Trial Prosecutor hide the ball? After all, the guilt for many crimes beginning with Hillary Clinton's email server are both clear and notorious. Perhaps it all began with President Trump's public statement that Hillary should not be prosecuted. Perhaps it has to do with institutional resistance and turf guarding by the Department of Justice in the deep state. Perhaps it comes from an overblown sense of decency, a desire not to engage in the very conduct which taints the Obama Justice Department, producing a punctiliousness that makes Barr and Durham allergic to any wiff of political motive.
Whatever the motive, to make justice dependent on the reelection of President Trump, or any president for that matter, is to put lie to Attorney General Barr's pious was hosannas to the rule of law.
In trying perhaps too hard to reach a higher moral ground than the corrupt Obama administration, Barr has perhaps unwittingly slipped into politicizing his own department even as he would rise above the sordid history of Obama's Department of Justice. The need now is to correct the politicization of the Department of Justice, the FBI and other branches of government. To condone the rank criminality of the Obama administration merely by delaying is to gravely undermine the rule of law for this season and for generations. "Justice delayed is justice denied" is a two-way street.
If President Trump is not reelected, justice will be denied and the rule of law dies.
