Emmet Flood’s Letter Signals a New Phase

RUSH: … Emmet Flood, Trump’s lawyer, has sent a four-page letter to William Barr, and I think it means that they are on the warpath now.

“The [Special Counsel’s Office] instead produced a prosecutorial curiosity part ‘truth commission’ report and part law school exam paper.” This is another key part here: “The president is aware that, had he chosen to do so, he could have withheld such information,” talking about how much cooperation there was in the previous paragraph, how many witnesses, how many documents, how many pages, how cooperative they were with Mueller.

“The president is aware that had he chosen to do so, he could have withheld such information on executive privilege grounds, basing such an assertion on the established principle that to permit release of such information might have a chilling effect on a president’s advisers, causing them to be less than fully frank…” This is setting up that they’re gonna start declaring executive privilege, and they’re gonna do it on McGahn, because that’s what these clowns in the House want. They don’t even want Mueller. They don’t really want Barr. They want a piece of Mueller, but they really want McGahn — and this is a telegraphing that we’re playing hardball now.

Screw you people! We’re gonna start declaring executive privilege. We could have done it with Mueller, and we didn’t because we chose to be cooperative. (Final little excerpt here…) “Not so long ago, the idea that a law enforcement official…” This is about Comey. “Not so long ago, the idea that a law enforcement official might provide the press with confidential governmental information for the proclaimed purpose of prompting a criminal investigation of an identified individual would have troubled Americans of all political persuasions.

“That the head of our country’s top law enforcement agency [the FBI] has actually done so to the president of the United States should frighten every friend of individual liberty. Under our system of government, unelected executive branch officers and intelligence agency personnel are supposed to answer to the person elected by the people — the president — and not the other way around.” These people don’t answer to Comey! Nobody answers to Comey in the executive branch.

“This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue; it is a matter of having a government responsible to the people, and, again, not the other way around. In the partisan commotion surrounding the released report, it would be well to remember that what can be done to a president can be done to any of us.” I gotta take a break. I’m gonna tell you what I think this letter and other little bread crumbs out there mean. So hang on.

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