{"id":56383,"date":"2020-06-26T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56383"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:30:34","slug":"56383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56383","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

No Holds Barred: Barr & Durham Must Investigate Obama & Biden Too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roger L. Simon<\/p>\n

Roughly a week ago Attorney General William Barr made two noteworthy comments in an interview with Fox\u2019s Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n

The first was that we would likely learn some significant information from John Durham\u2019s investigation into the provenance and conduct of the Russia probe by end of summer.<\/p>\n

The implication was that some people were going to be in legal jeopardy. Barr didn\u2019t name them but we can imagine Messrs. Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Strzok, McCabe and so on could be among them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also noteworthy how these same individuals have suddenly been less in the public eye, not appearing ad nauseam on MSNBC and CNN and sparing us their tweets (mostly), perhaps on advice of counsel.<\/p>\n

All to the good. May justice finally be served.<\/p>\n

But Barr\u2019s second major point raised some eyebrows in conservative and libertarian circles. He averred that former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden were not under investigation.<\/p>\n

One can imagine his reasons. The attorney general has long said he wants to take the politics out of justice and he could fear, with some justification, that indicting (or doing something similar to) Obama and\/or Biden would divide a country already riven as never since the Civil War.<\/p>\n

Of course that didn\u2019t stop the other side that investigated, and continues to investigate, President Trump until the proverbial cows come home, but, as Gandhi famously told us, an eye for an eye has got to stop somewhere.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, something is wrong here, increasingly wrong as we were reminded just the other day by the release of yet another heretofore \u201clost\u201d (or was it missing?) page of notes\u2014riddled with redactions, needless to say\u2014from the Department of Justice, this one the scribblings of disgraced FBI Lothario Peter Strzok himself.<\/p>\n

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Strzok was reporting on what he heard of the January 2017 Oval Office meeting with the then president and vice president, James Comey (still director of the FBI) and that woman of preternatural loyalty Susan Rice.<\/p>\n

The topic du jour was Trump\u2019s national security adviser in waiting Michael Flynn and his (supposedly suspicious) private phone calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.<\/p>\n

Obama, Ms. Rice informs us ad infinitum in an email she suddenly saw fit to send to herself weeks later, insisted that the investigation of General Flynn be conducted \u201cby the book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strangely, however, Stzrok quotes the president\u2014yes, it\u2019s second hand\u2014as saying he wanted the \u201cright people\u201d to conduct the investigation.<\/p>\n

En anglais, that\u2019s significantly different from \u201cby the book.\u201d In the same notes, Stzrok writes there was \u201cno derogatory\u201d evidence Flynn committed a crime and that Comey indicated the phone calls to Kislyak \u201cappear legit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, as we know, the investigation went on. And on. Obama must have gotten the \u201cright people.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his sidekick Mr. Biden, he apparently urged Flynn be investigated for breaking the Logan Act, that obscure hundreds-year-old law that is never utilized and many think is unconstitutional\u2014not that that would have particularly bothered the vice president who is known to have plagiarized in law school.<\/p>\n

The impetus of much of this back and forth reported by Strzok, which I tend to believe all the more since it was hidden from the public for so long, was Obama\u2019s deep hatred of Flynn, the enemy of the former president\u2019s sainted Iran Deal, among other putative sins, making him the equivalent in Obama\u2019s eyes, as he told Trump, of Kim Jung-un.<\/p>\n

Talk about motivation for a crime.<\/p>\n

Okay, none of this is necessarily probative but it is far more than what we are told launched the entire Russia probe in the first place, a vague and innocuous conversation between retired Australian politician Alexander Downer and Trump campaign outlier George Papadopoulos.<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to the attorney general and his responsibility. Barr must know that without a full investigation that includes Obama and Biden this incredible story of possible treason will never be put to rest.<\/p>\n

If Obama is to skate, if this all wasn\u2019t at heart and at base Obamagate, as many call it, then Obama must be fully exonerated by Barr and Durham. They must explain to us how this could have happened without him.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, they will not only have launched a thousand books, now into infinity, they will have launched an equal number of conspiracy theories, at least one of which will be more than a theory.<\/p>\n

And they will have split the country in a deeper, more enduring way, by obviating the rule of law in the process. It will never be the same.<\/p>\n

I sympathize with William Barr who seems to me in many ways a remarkable man. He now has his greatest challenge. I fervently hope he does not let us down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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