You’d
think that Robert Mueller might know what any licensed attorney-at-law in the
land tells a client in a tight spot with a lame alibi: better keep your mouth
shut. Instead, Mr. Mueller crept Sphinx-like out of the Deep State woodwork on
little cat’s paws and in a brief nine minutes blabbed out a set of whopperish
riddles much more likely to get himself in trouble than the target of his hinky
inquisition.
The key whopper was that he
could not make “a determination” on an obstruction-of-justice charge against
Mr. Trump because guidance policy from the DOJ’s
Office of Legal Counsel had said some years ago that a sitting president can’t
be indicted. That is not what he told his boss, Mr. Barr, the Attorney General
(and a roomful of the AG’s staffers who heard it), in person when he delivered
his final report a few weeks ago.
Upon receipt of that report,
Mr. Barr asked the Special Counsel three times whether his inability to
conclude anything on an obstruction charge was due to the OLC guidance, and
three times Mr. Mueller answered “no.” Mr. Barr relayed this on-the-record in
testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and, as averred above, he has
plenty of witnesses. It should not be hard to reach a determination on
who is telling truth here.
In fact, Mr. Mueller could
have declared that he found chargeable obstruction crimes were committed based
on the evidence, and also demurred to press them at this time — leaving them
available to federal prosecutors until after the president was out of office,
one way or another. The reason he didn’t is that Mr. Mueller does not want the
case to come to trial, ever, because he would lose badly and his reputation
would be destroyed. Consider that in any trial, the defendant gets to call
witnesses and make his own case. The evidence for gross prosecutorial
misconduct on the part of Mr. Mueller and his associates is mountainous
compared to the molehill of Mr. Trump’s temper tantrums over the seditious hoax
he was subject to. And that matter is now
moving in the direction of adjudication.
So instead, Mr. Mueller has
set in motion a potential political crisis as momentous as the Civil War, but
completely unlike it. Knowing that congress can impeach the president on just
about anything — especially this president,
publicly reviled like no other before him — he served congress the platter of
material to use in the form of his final report, and pretty much dared them to
not go forward with it. Get this: it is a ruse. The object is solely to divert
the nation’s attention with an impeachment circus, allowing Mr. Mueller to slip
away harmlessly into history without sacrificing his own reputation in a
courtroom.
Do you have any idea what a
fiasco this set-up is? I will tell you. The US government itself will be
discredited and crippled. At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, you’ll have the
impeachment circus in which the misdeeds of the RussiaGate perpetrators will be
revealed in all their naked political indecency; and at the other end of
Pennsylvania Avenue you’ll have many of the same government officials involved
in all that indecency marched into courtrooms to be tried by Mr. Barr’s
prosecutors on charges possibly as grave as treason. On the sidelines, you will
see something like a fight to the death between the White House and the rogue
leviathan that the nation’s “intel community” has grown into — like the
ghastly, slime-dripping creature that stowed away on the spaceship Nostromo in the horror movie Alien.
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In
his farewell performance, Mr. Mueller declared that he considers himself
unavailable to testify before congress in whatever proceedings they convene
going forward. That’s rich. If you take him at his word, he said that if
called, he would simply refer to his 448-page report, where all the mysteries
of existence may be found — like the Old Testament Yahweh laying his Good Book
on the table before the cringing multitudes. It will surely come as a surprise
to Mr. Mueller that he is actually not Yahweh with such supreme powers, but a
mere mortal who has fucked up mightily in the service of an earthly political
conspiracy. In the event, he may find himself citing not his fabulous RussiaGate
report, but the Fifth Amendment to the constitution.
That’s what we have to look forward to
in the months leading up to the 2020 election, if it can even take place during
what may be an epic paralysis of government verging on sickening collapse.
Reprinted with permission
from Kunstler.com.
James
Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency, Too Much Magic, The
Geography of Nowhere, the World Made By Hand novels, and more than a dozen
other books. He lives in Washington County, New York.
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