Trump should immediately declassify all documents: Victor Davis Hanson
"The
only way to clear up this messy saga is for Trump to immediately
declassify all documents -- without redactions -- relating to the
Mueller investigation, the FISA court warrants, the Clinton email
investigation, and CIA and FBI involvement with the dossier and the use
of informants."
8/30/18, "The Truth Will Set Us All Free," Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics
"Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was star-crossed from
the start. His friend and successor as FBI director, James Comey, by his
own admission prompted the investigation -- with the deliberate leaking
of classified memos about his conversations with President Donald Trump
to the press.
Mueller then unnecessarily stocked his team with what the press
called his "dream team" of mostly Democratic partisans. One had defended
a Hillary Clinton employee. Another had defended the Clinton
Foundation.
Mueller did not at first announce to the press why he had dismissed
Trump-hating FBI operatives Lisa Page and Peter Strzok from his
investigative team. Instead, he staggered their departures to leave the
impression they were routine reassignments.
But Mueller's greatest problem was his original mandate to discover
whether Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016 to tilt the election in
his favor.
After 15 months, Mueller has indicted a number of Trump associates,
but on charges having nothing to do with Russian collusion. They faced
inordinately long prison sentences unless they "flipped" and testified
against Trump.
We are left with the impression that Mueller cannot find much to do
with his original mandate of unearthing Russian collusion, but he still
thinks Trump is guilty of something.
In other words, Mueller has reversed the proper order of jurisprudence.
Instead of presuming Trump innocent unless he finds evidence of
Russian collusion, Mueller started with the assumption that the reckless
raconteur Trump surely must be guilty of some lawbreaking.
Thus, it is
Mueller's job to hunt for past crimes to prove it.
While Mueller so far has not found Trump involved in collusion with
foreign citizens to warp a campaign, there is evidence that others most
surely were colluding -- but are not of interest to Mueller.
It is likely that during the 2016 campaign, officials at the
Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency broke laws
to ensure that the outsider Trump lost to Hillary Clinton. FBI and DOJ
officials misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to
obtain warrants to surveil Trump associates. National security
officials unmasked the names of those being monitored and likely leaked
them to the press with the intent to spread unverified rumors
detrimental to the Trump campaign.
A spy on the federal payroll was implanted into the Trump campaign.
Hillary Clinton's campaign team paid for research done by a former
British intelligence officer working with Russian sources to compile a
dossier on Trump. Clinton hid her investment in Christopher Steele's
dossier by using intermediaries such as the Perkins Coie law firm and
Fusion GPS to wipe away her fingerprints.
As a result of wrongful conduct, more than a dozen officials at the
FBI and DOJ have resigned or retired, or were fired or reassigned. Yet
so far none of these miscreants has been indicted or has faced the same
legal scrutiny that Mueller applies to Trump associates.
Hillary Clinton is not facing legal trouble for destroying subpoenaed
emails, for using an unlawful email server or for the expenditure of
campaign money on the Steele dossier.
No president has ever faced impeachment for supposed wrongdoing
alleged to have taken place before he took office -- not Andrew Johnson,
not Richard Nixon, and not even Bill Clinton, who lied about his
liaisons with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. With the effort to go
back years, if not decades, into Trump's business and personal life, we
are now in unchartered territory.
The argument is not that Trump committed crimes while president --
indeed, his record at home and abroad is winning praise. The allegations
are instead about what he may have done as a private citizen, and
whether it could have reversed the 2016 election.
The
only way to clear up this messy saga is for Trump to immediately
declassify all documents -- without redactions -- relating to the
Mueller investigation, the FISA court warrants, the Clinton email
investigation, and CIA and FBI involvement with the dossier and the use
of [US taxpayer funded] informants.
Second, there needs to be another special counsel to investigate
wrongdoing on the part of senior officials in these now nearly
discredited agencies. The mandate should be to discover whether there
was serial conflict of interest, chronic lying to federal officials,
obstruction of justice, improper unmasking and leaking, misleading of
federal courts, and violation of campaign finance laws.
It is past time to stop the stonewalling, the redacting, the
suppression, the leaking to the press and the media hysteria.
The
government must turn over all relevant documents to two special counsels
and free each to discover who did what in 2016. Americans need the whole truth to ensure equality under the law and to thereby set us free from this nearly two-year [US taxpayer funded] nightmare."
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