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This sort of article makes me see red.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/27/mueller-giuliani-russia-probe-226238

Why are real Americans supposed to give a damn because the Mueller investigation was inconveniencing some ‘savvy’ MSMer’s life? Is this why they’re in such a rush to declare Trump exonerated? Because they’re tired of the story? That’s what happened with Iran-Contra too it was less what the evidence said than that the MSM decided they wanted it over-Ken Dilanian had been beating that drum for months. On Sunday Kasie Hunt gave the game away when she said ‘people have Mueller fatigue.’

In other words her and her Hillary Clinton hating friends are over this. They want to be nicer to ‘President Trump’ so he sees they don’t hate him-maybe they’ll earn Twitter praise from ‘the President.’ They are apologizing to him in a way they still haven’t had over their absurd Emailgate coverage.

 

One thing Sargent says I do take issue with is this:

One glaring analytical error we’re seeing in the coverage of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings is the idea that we’re suddenly in a “post-Mueller” political world. The suggestion is that there’s been a sudden, clean break from a rapidly-receding past in which the special counsel’s activity threatened President Trump, to a new future in which it does not.

The reality is quite different. In fact, while Mueller’s no-conspiracy finding does close one chapter of this affair, the Mueller probe and its spinoffs added substantial new material to the building case against Trump’s corruption, and it has spawned other investigations that will keep that process moving forward.

This is important: the conspiracy chapter hasn’t been closed. While there may be no conspiracy with enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt there is nevertheless a lot of evidence for it.

The distinction between criminal collusion and noncriminal collusion seems to be one too subtle for even many of the legal experts analyzing this and members of the House Democrats own intelligence committee-even Michael Morelli former CIA deputy director seems to be missing it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/27/case-against-trumps-corruption-will-continue-build/?utm_term=.dd60dcee6073

 

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/expectations-muellers-report-were-too-high/585757/

 

https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1110891263186866176

 

The Washington Post:

‘Undoubtedly there is collusion’: Trump antagonist Adam Schiff doubles down after Mueller finds no conspiracy
This is wrong-it should say ‘didn’t find criminal conspiracy’

Mueller “always noted that the term evidence meant something different to intelligence analysts who had to work with a variety of sources of varying reliability, whereas an FBI officer needed something so unassailable as to work in a court prosecution,” McLaughlin told me, referring to the conversations he had with Mueller while he was FBI director. But as former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell, who now hosts the Intelligence Matters podcast, told me, “We still do not understand why President Trump has this affinity for Putin. What happened yesterday is Mueller took one possibility off the table—that there was a criminal conspiracy. But we still don’t know what is going on between these two leaders, and what is driving this relationship.”

But it seems to me that even Morell-the former CIA Deputy Director-gets it wrong here. Look at this guy Mike Sax he think knows more than the former CIA Deputy Director-right?

But false modesty notwithstanding-or the lack thereof-it does seem to me that it isn’t quite true that the possibility of a criminal conspiracy was taken off the table or more precisely there may still well have been a conspiracy that didn’t meet the threshold for criminal prosecution. It’s still totally possible-based on the already public evidence probably likely-that there was a coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia but that it wasn’t strictly criminal-collusion isn’t a crime. But in truth few counterintelligence investigations lead to criminal charges.

Again as folks like David Frum and Ryan Goodman warned us, the likelihood of criminal collusion charges was already unlikely. But in truth it may well be the case that it’s the counterintelligence aspect of the Mueller investigation that is of much greater interest for us than the strictly criminal aspect.

 

 

 

 

 

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