>>5866468 (pb)
Standard legalese around an investigation that was illegitimate out of the gate. No reasonable basis for suspicion. Fishing expedition, witch hunt. It's what the FBI does. We are all targets.
Thank you for that. Much fodder for BS in the obstruction section. Good that Barr is making public at the same time he is delivering to Congress. Hope same pattern holds as the unwinding progresses.
Obstruction without an underlying offense is possible, and sometimes charged. See Scooter Libby case. Not saying Trump even came close to obstruction, IMO not even a whiff.
Mueller is a dirty prosecutor. Barr is protecting him, in order to protect the institution and a friend.
The left has always operated in a fundamentally dishonest way. Burden is on Trump because he won. The full weight of the FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc. can be brought to bear against anybody for political ptrposes. That is the reality, and the perps will of course deny it. The instituo9utions are beyond salvage.
FISA is used to investigate spies, has nothing to do with criminal investigation. "Probable cause" only has to be that the entity surveilled is an agent of foreign government. For US person, supposedly also has to include suspicion of crime, but as a practical matter that hurdle is pointless. The only remedy is exclusion of evidence IF there is a criminal trial. Snooping is rampant, just keep it out of court.
Bingo. Same as before. No conclusion, so speculation and innuendo continue to rule the narrative.
Plus the "not criminal, but ought to be"
Mueller's indictment of the Russian troll farm, IIRC, does not allege Russia hacked DNC and delivered to Wikileaks. Whatever the troll farms did would have been legal and protected by the 1st amendment if they had registered with the US government.