Byron York: If Mueller didn't charge Flynn and Manafort with collusion, then who was colluding? "Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller is authorized to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump." The popular word for that is collusion, and it remains at the heart of both the Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee investigations. (Majority Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee recently announced they were unable to find evidence proving collusion.)" The NSA was wiretapping pretty much everything going on between Trump's team and any foreigners. The FBI had an illegally obtained FISA wiretap on Trump's team because of the Steele dossier. Nothing going on in the Trump campaign communications were being obtained by either NSA or FBI, and the Obama administration was unmasking all of these contacts. The Obama Administration knew what the Trump campaign was doing at all times. More below. "Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to investigators about what he discussed in a phone conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. (Investigators have always known what the two men talked about, since the call was wiretapped, recorded, and transcribed.)"
All of the Trump team communications were being trapped, transcribed and reviewed by the Obama Administration, not just intelligence teams. Mueller and his team always knew exactly what the Trump campaign had been doing, the investigation was not about collusion it was about damaging the ability of the President to exercise the power of the office, to attempt to hide FBI, and DOJ malfeasance, to protect Hillary Clinton's and her campaigns role in the attempt to block the Trump election and protect against Trump exercising Presidential power, and last to protect the conspirators from criminal sanctions. These plans have failed miserably. It is now clear that the FBI, DOJ, CIA, State, the national security apparatus, Brennan, Clapper, Hillary Clinton, and Lynch all had parts in a criminal conspiracy to thwart the will of the people in the 2016 election, and, thereafter, institute a soft coup to either create an impeachment crisis for President Trump or seriously interfere with his ability to govern the nation. While such actions may seem treasonous, they are not: US Constitution Article III "Section 3.Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted." There have been crimes committed but not that crime. I leave it up to the DOJ OIG investigation into some aspects of this corruption to establish the baseline of corruption and criminality in the DOJ and FBI. The OIG cannot fully investigate these matters because some of the suspects and witnesses are no longer part of the DOJ as such a full investigation will need to occur. This will likely need to be by a special investigator since it is unlikely the DOJ can investigate itself or its subordinate units without bias. However, I will leave that to AG Sessions to determine. I look forward to the OIG investigation report and a full investigation into the everything including prior criminality and scandals of the Obama administration like the Benghazi fiasco, the Hillary email fiasco, and other high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Obama Cabinet officials and others.
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