Democrat Game Plan--Deny, Deny, Deny

For John, BLUF:  The other way of saying this is "riding into a box canyon".  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Democrats Charge Into a Political Cul-de-Sac

Here is the sub-headline:

Democrats don’t have much hope to cling to, but they don’t deserve better.

From American Greatness, by Mr Conrad Black • May 11, 2020.

Here is the lede plus five:

President Trump’s almost total silence on the matters being investigated by special counsel John Durham, and his gentlemanly remark concerning the allegations against Joe Biden coming from his former aide, Tara Reade, that sometimes people make false allegations, is an enactment of Napoleon’s advice not to interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake.

Just as he studiously avoided any comment when Christine Blasey Ford testified against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, other than that she seemed pleasant and credible, when a nasty word would have blown up Kavanaugh’s candidacy, he sometimes surprises his opponents and even his supporters by acts of unusual tactical discretion.

Trump’s opponents are advancing down several cul-de-sacs simultaneously.  They are standing firmly on the legality and propriety of the prosecution of General Michael Flynn and the applications for warrants to conduct espionage against junior Trump campaign aide Carter Page and the campaign and transition team.

This position cannot be sustained.  The prosecution was an outrage which the Justice Department has withdrawn as not only the prosecution of an innocent person, but a prosecution of one whom the prosecutors knew to be not guilty.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) activity, as Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has determined, was in gross breach of department practices and customs.  It is not his position to determine legality, but he pointed out 17 areas that were, he determined, illegal.  The whole operation was based on the infamous Steele dossier, which was exposed years ago as a tissue of lies funded and shopped to the media via the intelligence agencies in a sequence of monstrous improprieties, to influence the election and then destabilize the incoming administration.

There is no longer any serious doubt about any of this and those who follow these things are waiting for the special counsel’s indictments.  But this past weekend, former President Obama leaked to the country his view that when someone has pleaded guilty to a criminal offense if the charge is withdrawn without being tried, this shakes his confidence in American justice.  At about the same time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) issued a press statement accusing Attorney General William Barr of using the Justice Department to maintain “the president’s cover-up.”  This is both bizarre and insane conduct.

And on it goes.

I figure that the Democrats are heading into a cul-de-sac, but perhaps they hope the media will protect them, as it seems to be doing with the unwinding of Russiagate.  With the media providing cover the Democrats can avoid contact with reality for some time.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff