“If they [bad political, partisan actors] can do it to an honorable Army general, they can do it to you.” I applaud this result, but my paranoia remains. There remains much house cleaning yet to be done in the FBI and Justice Department. mrossol ==== WSJ – 5/12/2020 The Justice Department dropped its case against Michael Flynn on Thursday, “with prejudice,” in... Read more
Archive for the ‘Special Counsel’ Category
The Vindication of Michael Flynn
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, FBI, Law, Losing Freedom, Party Politics, Special Counsel, The Left, US ConstitutionWhat Ails the U.S. Press? – WSJ
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Jenkins, Special CounselA timeworn TV commentator and professor of politics, in the moments before Robert Mueller ’s testimony began last week on MSNBC, told the audience that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election was an “act of war” by a “sworn enemy of the United States.”
Mueller’s Mole Hills
February 21 | Posted by mrossol | Jenkins, Russia, Special CounselThe clarity with which Mr Jenkins presents is refreshing. ===== WSJ 2/21/2018 On Aug. 17, 2015, 63 days after Donald Trump’s escalator ride at Trump Tower, a lightbulb went on. Certain pro Trump emails that colleagues and I were receiving were coming from Vladimir Putin’s internet trolls. “The Kremlin is now in the Donald’s corner . . .?” I emailed a... Read more
Facts Don’t Really Matter
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Jenkins, Liberal Press, Special Counsel, The Left, TrumpAs with Republicans who came before, they are guilty of “something”; the only question is when we will find it…. ======== WSJ 12/8/1017 Pressing in on many of Donald Trump’s critics finally is the unreality of a Putin Trump conspiracy to put him in the White House, so now the switch has been to accuse him, after the election, of violating the Logan... Read more
Still Looking for Evidence
December 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Law, Liberal Press, Russia, Special Counsel===== WSJ Dec. 1, 2017 7:01 p.m. ET Robert Mueller’s special prosecution machine grinds on, and on Friday it crushed former national security adviser Mike Flynn on the ever-ready charge of lying to the FBI. The guilty plea is a tragedy for the former three-star general and head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, but whether it is ominous for the Trump Presidency... Read more
Crime? What Crime?
December 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Special Counsel, The LeftWhat is the crime? ====== By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Dec. 1, 2017 6:36 p.m. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn on Friday pleaded guilty to lying about a non-crime. Even Adam Schiff, the House Democrat most determined to ride the Russia collusion story to bigger and better things, acknowledged that conferring with a representative of Russia about the incoming administration’s Russia policy is... Read more