The easiest way to know the dismissal of the phony prosecution case towards Gen. Michael Flynn and the discharge of secret congressional testimonies is to think about a large jigsaw puzzle. We all know the ultimate image will present a broad conspiracy by regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses beneath Barack Obama to undermine Donald Trump’s marketing campaign and assist Hillary Clinton win the 2016 election.
When that failed, lots of those self same folks turned their efforts to sabotaging Trump’s presidency. Some are nonetheless at it.
That’s the large image, and final week two extra vital items of the puzzle fell into place.
The congressional testimonies had been extra surprising as a result of they go to the center of the Russia collusion narrative spun by Democrats and their media handmaidens. The witness took the oath in 2017, however what they mentioned was hidden ever since.
Now we all know why. Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Dem, didn’t need the general public to appreciate that high members of the Obama administration had blown the collusion narrative to smithereens.
One after one other, James Clapper, Susan Rice, Samantha Energy, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates and others mentioned some model of “I do know of no proof linking the Trump marketing campaign to Russia.”
This was horrible information for Schiff, who launched the paperwork solely as a result of the White Home threatened to if he didn’t. Schiff, recall, relentlessly insisted he had seen a lot of collusion proof. Possibly he wants a watch check.
Clearly, there is no such thing as a such proof as a result of there was no collusion. Which means the three years spent on discovering it was an unlimited waste of money and time and created an unfair cloud over Trump, his marketing campaign and his administration.
However the Russia wild goose chase additionally concerned the corruption of the probe by particular counsel Robert Mueller and that’s the place the Flynn piece suits into the puzzle.
Briefly Trump’s first nationwide safety adviser, Flynn was a pawn, a loyal American soldier initially focused by James Comey’s FBI and his band of soiled cops within the effort to upend Trump’s presidency. In the event you don’t think about the likelihood that this was an tried coup, one can find it unattainable to know what occurred early in 2017.
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In formally dropping the Flynn prosecution, the Division of Justice launched a trove of paperwork displaying there was no crime. They show the FBI knew Flynn had finished nothing improper in speaking to the Russian ambassador after the election. Additionally they present brokers knew he didn’t misinform them in a gathering they tricked him into holding.
But nonetheless the odious Peter Strzok and others stored the case open and ultimately compelled Flynn to plead responsible to one thing he hadn’t finished by threatening his son. Most of that occurred beneath Mueller, who comes off trying like a dupe at finest and a coup participant at worst.
Both method, Mueller leaves the general public stage in shame, his last work uncovered as a sham that railroaded an harmless man and lined up greater crimes than it uncovered.
Mueller doesn’t exit alone. Comey and his crew already are unmasked as goons, but when there’s any justice in Washington, they are going to face prosecution.
The Flynn paperwork additionally present that Obama himself was actively engaged within the case and spotlight once more the suspect Oval Workplace assembly on Jan. 5, 2017. Comey, Rice, Clapper, Yates and Vice President Joe Biden all had been there when a entice was set for Comey’s assembly with President-elect Trump the subsequent day.
As a substitute of telling Trump in regards to the investigation into his marketing campaign, they agreed Comey would present Trump solely the 2 pages from the notorious Steele file that made salacious allegations towards Trump. After pulling the president apart to do this, Comey raced to his automotive and typed a memo about Trump’s reactions, proof the briefing was really a setup.
The paperwork’ point out of Obama’s function in all probability helped spark his Friday assault on Trump. He is aware of the fawning and biased Washington media will play up his criticisms on the Flynn case and the pandemic response slightly than cope with the proof that he participated in spying on his successor.
Whereas there are various key gamers within the effort to get the total image of 2016 and early 2017, none is extra vital than Lawyer Basic William Barr.
His elementary view — that one thing didn’t scent proper in regards to the Russia probe — led to the collapse of the Flynn case. It additionally led to the inspector normal report that discovered abuses of the FISA courtroom when the FBI bought a warrant to spy on Carter Web page, a Trump affiliate.
Barr, for his splendid service, has been attacked mercilessly. The frequent chorus, that he’s politicizing Justice, is one other instance of Dems accusing others of doing what they themselves really did.
In reality, Barr is de-politicizing the FBI and Justice Division the Obama administration corrupted.
His work just isn’t completed. John Durham, the US legal professional Barr named to look at the various tentacles of the Russia probe, is now pursuing a legal case, although no costs have been filed.
Barr additionally should resolve the conduct of former Deputy Assistant Lawyer Basic Rod Rosenstein. When former AG Jeff Periods recused himself, Rosenstein took over the Russia probe and appointed Mueller as particular counsel.
A extremely questionable transfer then, it now seems way more sinister, given the misconduct by Mueller’s crew on the Flynn case and different points.
Furthermore, Rosenstein himself was concerned within the FISA courtroom abuse, having signed an extension of the Web page warrant with out admitting that the FBI didn’t confirm the Steele file or that Clinton’s marketing campaign commissioned it.
Any of those was enough cause to drag the plug on Mueller by early 2018. But Rosenstein allowed the probe to proceed into 2019.
The impression was monumental. It’s doable, for instance, that Dems wouldn’t have taken the Home if voters knew by the autumn of 2018 that the collusion cost was false.
In that case, Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t have turn into Speaker and Schiff wouldn’t have had the ability to hide the 2017 testimonies.
Flynn wouldn’t have misplaced two extra years of his life and there would have been no phony Ukraine impeachment final yr. In brief, America would have been a really totally different place politically.
In order the hunt for items of the puzzle continues, add Rosenstein to the checklist of those that have some critical explaining to do.
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