"Following Michael Flynn's guilty plea for "lying to the FBI", there seem likely to be further feverish developments in Robert Mueller's "Russia investigation".
Professor William Jacobson asks the obvious question:
Why is Robert Mueller even investigating the presidential transition?The Order appointing Mueller concerns election interference, not post-election political decisions of the winning candidate.
Indeed.
First, it shouldn't be a crime to lie to the FBI given the way the FBI lies to us with impunity. Yours truly thirteen years ago:
First, it shouldn't be a crime to lie to the FBI given the way the FBI lies to us with impunity. Yours truly thirteen years ago:
Martha, it seems, will be going to jail for telling a lie. Not in court, not under oath, not perjury, but merely when the Feds came round to see her about a possible crime...
Martha Stewart wound up behind bars for telling a lie in a matter in which there was no underlying crime.
...But, as Professor Jacobson points out, it's hard to see how Russia can "interfere" with the election after it's been held.
Flynn's conversations occurred in his capacity as a senior figure in the incoming administration.
That's the normal business of diplomatic relations - and it is most emphatically not the business of minor policemen within a leaky and insecure permanent bureaucracy.
...But, as Professor Jacobson points out, it's hard to see how Russia can "interfere" with the election after it's been held. Flynn's conversations occurred in his capacity as a senior figure in the incoming administration.
That's the normal business of diplomatic relations - and it is most emphatically not the business of minor policemen within a leaky and insecure permanent bureaucracy.
So Flynn's "lies" are not material - unless the Deep State is "investigating" the winning side in the election for engaging in the usual business of government..."
Read on!
Read on!
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