Thank You

Probably Not

As you may know, the case against President Trump's first National Security Advisor has collapsed due to all sort of illegal legal behavior that is really beginning to have a rotten aroma. All of a sudden former President Obama has jumped into the fray, voicing concern about the very foundations of justice being shaken by this clear miscarriage of justice. Yeah right. 

Kyle Smith in National Review draws a pretty telling analogy to test the verity of the former President's alleged concerns:

Picture a racist white FBI agent who hates a black student and became enraged when that teen publicly insulted one of the agent’s close friends. Say the FBI sends two guys over to the teen’s house, claiming it suspects him of being involved in drug trafficking, and starts asking the kid questions in hopes that the kid will lie.

Suppose the FBI does not read the kid his rights before questioning him. Suppose the FBI discourages the kid from hiring a lawyer and tells the kid its investigation is friendly, not an effort to incriminate him. Suppose further that the FBI, after grilling the kid, still doesn’t think he lied (but merely that he forgot details of things he’d been asked about). Suppose the FBI then dragged out the case so long that the kid rang up $5 million in legal bills, then threatened to arrest the kid’s mother. Suppose the FBI withheld exculpatory evidence from the kid’s lawyers and agreed to leave the kid’s mother alone if he pleaded guilty — but didn’t tell the judge about this side deal.

If the teen finally pleaded guilty to a single count of making false statements, would Obama then say, “Aha! Justice is served! The kid admits being guilty!”? If the prosecutors, years later, finally dropped the case against the kid, would Obama say, “You begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk” because he thought the kid deserved everything that had happened to him?

Justice you say? The ripe odor of a family of skunks moving into the neighborhood I say.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/dont-shrug-at-obamas-michael-flynn-scandal/