The Hunting of the President

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THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
spectator.org
20 May 2020

_Washington_

Let us turn to the controversy surrounding Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first choice for national security adviser. Mr. Flynn was prosecuted and found guilty of lying to the FBI years ago, and, as the wheels of justice grind slowly in the United States, after much expense to both the government and to Mr. Flynn he was found guilty and about to be sentenced when the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr two weeks ago let him off the hook. The attorney general, after a lengthy procedure, found Mr. Flynn committed no crime.

Yet, if no crime was committed by Mr. Flynn, that does not mean no crime was committed at all. His perfectly legal conversation with the then–Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was leaked to the _Washington Post_’s David Ignatius. As George Neumayr [1] and I have been claiming since this story broke, the person or persons who leaked this classified conversation committed a serious crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. They are the people who should now be indicted.

What we are seeing is a reinvigorated Justice Department intent on exposing and prosecuting the greatest threat to American democracy in our history.

The attorney general was right. There was no predicate for charging Mr. Flynn with a crime back in 2017. Incidentally, that was not his judgment, or at least it was not his judgment alone. The Justice Department’s decision was reviewed by a seasoned prosecutor, Jeff Jensen, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. He found in a 108-page report that there was reason to dismiss the case against Mr.
Flynn. His report is damning. It throws the FBI’s whole pursuit of Mr.
Flynn into doubt — as George and I said back in 2017. There should be prosecutions here, and they will not be prosecutions of Mr. Flynn.

Yet if Mr. Jensen’s report cleared Mr. Flynn, why are the Democrats and the press so eager to castigate the attorney general and not Mr. Jensen?
All we read in the press is that the country’s best legal minds are outraged at the attorney general. Almost 2,000 former employees for the Justice Department signed an open letter protesting Mr. Barr’s action.
(Thousands of other former Justice Department employees apparently
abstained.) The answer is because the attorney general oversees the entire cleanup of “Spygate” with all its working parts. The surest way to close down this enormous undertaking is to take out Attorney General Barr.

I think that the president knows this. What we are seeing is a reinvigorated Justice Department intent on exposing and prosecuting the greatest threat to American democracy in our history. What was attempted in
2016 by scores of bad actors makes Watergate look like child’s play.

Let us return to the effort to prosecute Mr. Flynn. The purpose of the FBI to interview him was entrapment pure and simple. Someone — probably James Comey — sent agents to the White House to ensnare the president’s national security adviser in a lie. Then FBI Director James Comey said [2] as much when he bragged about sending agents into the White House, “something … I wouldn’t have gotten away with in a more organized administration.”

The FBI never informed the White House legal team prior to Mr. Flynn’s interview, the better to catch him off guard. The FBI failed to share its transcript of the Flynn-Kislyak conversation with Mr. Flynn during their interview. As would be appropriate if they were merely seeking to verify rather than to prosecute Mr. Flynn for falsifying his testimony. Thus, he had only his memory of a passing conversation to recall what he had said.
Finally, the FBI never warned Mr. Flynn that he would be held accountable for what he said in the interview. Boy was he in for a rude awakening.

Now comes Judge Emmet Sullivan from the Federal District Court to challenge the Justice Department’s decision. He has asked the “non-partisan” former judge John Gleeson objectively to review the Attorney General’s decision to drop charges against Mr. Flynn.
Unfortunately, research reveals that Mr. Gleeson, as a former prosecutor, worked with the infamous Andrew Weissmann on Robert Mueller’s team that nailed Mr. Flynn the first time. Moreover, Mr. Gleeson wrote an op-ed piece in the _Washington Post _last week calling on Judge Sullivan to deny the Justice Department’s prosecution motion and allow Mr. Flynn’s conviction to stand. Nice try at nonpartisanship, Judge Sullivan.

So, who are the people who are to be indicted for leaking the contents of the Flynn-Kislyak call all those years ago? Well, Mr. Richard Grenell, the public-spirited acting national intelligence director, just supplied us with a list of likely culprits. They are people who submitted unmasking requests regarding the name of Mr. Flynn. It is not a long list, and it includes several very famous names, for instance: former UN Ambassador Samantha Power, former national intelligence director James Clapper, and former vice president Joe Biden. Yes, the name Joe Biden is on the list.
Say it isn’t so, Joe. You were just getting your Basement Campaign [3] underway.

Links:
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[1] https://spectator.org/author/gneumayr/
[2]
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/...estigation.html
[3] https://spectator.org/joe-biden-and-americas-first-basement-campaign/

Regards,
hm
 
Originally Posted By: jumprightinitI don't think you'll ever see a democrat president criminally prosecuted. Now if it was a Republican POTUS that did this ............

Yep, diplomatic immunity is good, executive privilege is silver standard, but Democratic Immunity is golden!
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Regards,
hm
 
Originally Posted By: ADKIs that because 'Democrat Immunity' was secured by 100 years of the communist Comintern activity in the good old U.S.A.? Organizations like the Young Communist League USA (1920 to the present). Or the Communist Party USA (1919 to the present)? Countless other organizations both past and present?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_International

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Communist_League_USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA


Here's a good case for the democrat 'gold standard'. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact...mmunist-mentor/
 
Yes jumpright, another example of America's Pravda doing what the leftist fake news does best. Providing cover for communists. The following is all anyone needs to know about pro left-wing bias by the Washington Post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post

On October 17, 2008, the Post endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.[110] On October 25, 2012, the newspaper endorsed Obama's re-election.[111] The Post has endorsed Democrats for president during at least nine different presidential elections.[112] The paper has never endorsed a Republican for president.[112] On October 21, 2014, the newspaper endorsed 44 Democratic candidates versus 3 Republican candidates for the 2014 elections in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.[113] On October 13, 2016, it endorsed Hillary Clinton for that year's presidential election.[114]



https://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarb...bility-n2202573

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/washington-post-fake-news-passports-media-bias/
 
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