One quibble: the Democrats and the media are bawling for the public release of the full text of the report, and Mr. McCarthy seems to think that would be OK — as long as we get everything else as well:
You want disclosure? Me too. But let’s see all of it. Not just Mueller’s report. Let’s see everything: all of the memoranda relevant to the opening of the investigation, all of the testimony at closed hearings, all of the FISA-warrant applications, all of Rosenstein’s scope memo. (A year ago, I surmised that scope memo is redacted because it relies on the Steele dossier ”” as did the FISA-warrant application Rosenstein had approved just a few weeks earlier; anyone want to bet me on that?)
I’m not so sure. There are sound reasons why we don’t release details of prosecutorial investigations of people who are never charged: mainly because it drags their names and reputations through the mud, while they have no representation or remedy. That quibble aside, though, read the article. Andrew McCarthy, who is himself a former Federal prosecutor, has been an enormously important resource throughout this long and shameful farce, and this essay is as thorough and detailed as always.
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I’m of two minds .. well, allow me to put it this way, octopus minded where stuff like Grand Jury testimony and such is concerned.
The Investigative Targets’ names have already been dragged through the mud and, looks like, they’ll continue to be for at least as long as the Dems continue in Executive exile. So far as ‘witnesses’ go I’m figuring most of those will have been law enforcement, IC, probably some pols, probably some oppo researchers; those of that sort of ilk probably deserve some (alot?) of the same.
It’s only where the innocents, the just-happened-to-be-where-could-witness like maybe Sioux City’s public librarian who was working the shift that saw Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele using the library’s printers to produce damning evidence to be mailed (so postal workers too) to the NYT that I’d have concerns for – but somehow I’ve got this feeling there’ll be damned few ‘collaterals’ deserving of “Justice’s Cloak.” But where and if they exist …
There is the one sort of specific activity I’d think ought be totally excluded from public release, the prosecution team’s bull sessions, (when the team’s out for beers and the shit’s flying) that sort of stuff ought never see the light of day.
I’m of two minds also.
Well, maybe not all of them.
With regard to that, by the way, I think that perhaps the most appalling part of this whole stinking business was the deliberate ruination of Michael Flynn.
Agreed.
I’ve noted Flynn was ever spoken of as “highly regarded” until that is, some specific point during the previous administration. And I’d always been curious about when that exactly was?
Until that is within (I’m pretty sure) these past seven days or so I read, “He was [..] until he disagreed over the Iran Agreements.”
And thinking back on it I think that fits.