An interesting story was reported on a number of news sites last week. A federal judge, Judge James E. Boasberg, ordered the FBI to produce all documents relating to the infamous Comey memos. This is to be done by today April 1st.
Earlier this year the same judge had rejected a lawsuit that asked memos by former FBI Director James Comey be made public. The Department of Justice had argued that releasing the memos “might prematurely reveal . . . the nature, scope, direction and focus of its investigations” involving Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
U.S. District Judge Boasberg agreed after speaking with an attorney from the Office of Special Counsel, though calling the entire situation “rather unprecedented.” He said releasing the memos “could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
Keep in mind that part of Comey’s memos had been leaked by Comey himself to the news media through an intermediary. In testimony to Congress he said he did so in the hopes of getting a Special Counsel investigation underway.
With the conclusion of the Mueller witch hunt investigation, keeping the contents secret because of an “ongoing investigation” was no longer valid.
Why is this significant? The documents in question would most likely include the specifics of why the DOJ wanted the memos not to be released. It is speculated that the specific reasoning offered was the obstruction side of the Mueller investigation. If so, it would support various theories that the Russia collusion narrative has been little more than a smokescreen to keep the SC investigation going.
This is evidenced in several places not the least of which are text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok regarding joining the Mueller team.
Courtesy…CTH
Of course, they did become part of the Mueller team until their bias against PDJT was exposed to the country.
Within a few months after Mueller’s appointment, several columnists had noted that Mueller’s appointment appeared to be deficient. Mueller was conducting a counter-intelligence operation. Comey himself had said such an operation was ongoing within the FBI. This was not supported by the Special Counsel regulations that are designed for a criminal investigation.
The applicable regulation…
As Andrew McCarthy at National Review noted,
In the counterintelligence context, because the government is not trying to build a criminal case, the constitutional protections that apply in criminal investigations are significantly diminished. Thus, if the government pretextually exploits its counterintelligence authorities to conduct criminal investigations, serious legal problems arise.
DAG Rosenstein “clarified” Mueller’s status via a classified memo on 8/2/2017. This did outline the specific crimes that the Special Counsel was authorized to investigate. It was somewhat broad-based (do the words witch hunt come to mind?) It allowed Mueller to continue to leverage Paul Manafort, General Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Michael Cohen. But, it wasn’t about “collusion.” The whole operation after a few months was dedicated to building an obstruction case and continuing to shield corrupt players in the Obama administration. The “collusion” narrative was the smokescreen to keep the operation going.
The Mueller investigation had two purposes. First, find something, anything that could be used to impeach PDJT. This was a continuation of the Hurricane Crossfire counter-intelligence project that was supposed to see to it that Trump did not become President. Second, act as a shield to protect the corrupt members of the previous administration. Prevent sunlight from being shined on the origin of the counter-intelligence operation to prevent the election of PDJT and then to oust the duly elected President of the United States.
Despite $25 million and 22 months Mueller failed to find something to recommend impeachment for. He has maneuvered to help the Dems by failing in his mandated duty as Special Counsel to either charge or decline to charge the objects of his investigation. He did decline in the collusion narrative but passed the obstruction narrative onto AG Barr. This is contrary to the Special Counsel’s protocols. Doing this is unprecedented. It allows the Dems to impeach the AG’s credibility regarding turning down the obstruction charge. And this they have done.
It should be interesting to see what is in the documents that are produced for the court today. If the optics are bad for the Democrats, expect to see some tactic designed to divert the public’s attention from them.