A Study In Contrasts

Reading Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion, which is simply the finest book length treatment on the Russia Collusion Hoax perpetrated by the Democrats and their embedded allies in the intelligence agencies, FBI, and Department of Justice, reminded me of the striking contrast in how Democratic and Republican administrations respond to investigations.

Carter Page, one of the supposed starting points for the Russia investigation and who was used as the vehicle to obtain a FISA Warrant enabling the anti-Trump crowd to gain broad access to communications of both the campaign and later the new administration, completely cooperated with DOJ and later the Mueller probe.  He never retained a lawyer and made himself freely available for questioning.  I thought he was an idiot at the time.  Nonetheless, he was never indicted, nor even mentioned as an unindicted co-conspirator in any other case, and despite the colorful and distorted language used about him in the Mueller report, it found no evidence of collusion.  What does that tell you?

This reminded me of a little known fact - little known since it served no purposed for the NY Times, WaPo, or CNN to let its readers and viewers know - the Trump administration’s cooperation with the Mueller probe.  President Trump waived executive privilege and released millions of documents and allowed administration officials, including his own White House Counsel, to be interviewed by Mueller and his team of Democratic party tools.  And once again, the Mueller report found no collusion.

In a similar mode back in 2004, the Bush Administration ordered its officials to fully cooperate in James Comey’s prosecutorial vendetta against Dick Cheney (for more on this read Why Scooter Libby Was Pardoned Now), a terrible tactical mistake by the President.

We can see a clear contrast with the approach of the Obama Administration during which Eric Holder, who saw no problem in describing himself as the President’s “wingman” and his successor Loretta Lynch, did not hesitate to thwart investigators.  Holder was even willing to become the first Attorney General to be cited for contempt of Congress for his refusal to turn over documents related to Fast & Furious (the program under which the government allowed guns to be purchased in the United States and then transferred to Mexican cartels for use in crimes in that country and along the American border - at least one American border patrol officer and hundreds of Mexicans were killed used these weapons).  Strangely, the government did not directly follow these transfers in order to arrest violators and it never notified the Mexican government of the program; the revelation of the program caused outrage in Mexico (confirmed by my friends there) though you would never know it in the U.S. since the press went to great lengths not to report on it.  For those who read the NY Times, the story was completely ignored by the paper of record, until AG Holder decided to call in one of the paper’s DC stenographers to take down his accusation that the accusations of misdoing regarding Fast & Furious were being made by racists, which the Times duly noted.

Note: For anyone reading or watching the progressive media to the extent Fast & Furious was not totally ignored, you will have been fed the idea that the Obama administration program was the same as one conducted by the Bush Administration.  That’s true, except for the critical facts that under the Bush program the purchased weapons were actively tracked and the Mexican government was informed by the administration of the program and agreed to it!

The pattern of Fast & Furious was repeated time and time regarding Congressional requests for documents regarding alleged administration scandals.  We saw the same pattern of delay and obstruction when Congress attempted to investigate the IRS targeting of conservative organizations. 

This obstruction was not limited to Congress.  In 2014, about 2/3 of the government’s Inspector Generals - independent officials appointed to oversee the compliance of federal agencies with the law - wrote an open letter to Congress protesting the Obama Administration’s active obstruction, via the Department of Justice, with its investigations.  Can you imagine the uproar if this happened while Trump was president.  Instead, the letter drew little (a one-day story in the WaPo) to no (in the NY Times and CNN) coverage in the progressive media.

And, most dramatically, was Barack Obama’s announcement on national TV (while the investigation was ongoing!) that Hillary Clinton had committed no crime regarding her handling of classified emails while Secretary of State and the failure his Justice Department “wingman” to appoint of a Special Counsel after the President had clearly compromised DOJ’s supposed impartiality regarding its ongoing investigation.  After all, they had to clear Hillary in order for her to win the presidential election.