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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

In disagreement with his fellow blogger John Hinderaker, Paul Mirengoff writes today at Power Line:

I’m in favor of investigating the Clinton Foundation and the uranium deal, as well as other matters as to which there is a basis for believing Democrats and/or their allies broke the law.  But I’m not in favor of more special counsels.

I find special counsels problematic.  Their appointment is a recipe for abuse.  Furthermore, the matters in question here are all within the ability of the Justice Department to handle.

“Punching back twice as hard” makes sense in many contexts.  But applied in this context, it will likely beget an endless, growing stream of special counsels in administration after administration, to the detriment of the Republic.

Anyway, appointing a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton and/or President Obama isn’t punching back even half as hard.  The Democrats have no use for Hillary at this point and only limited use for Obama.  For them, the whole ballgame is ruining Donald Trump.

Punching back effectively in this environment would mean firing Mueller.  Will that become a realistic option?  I don’t know.  But appointing special counsels to investigate Democrats would probably make firing Mueller a less realistic option than it otherwise is.

I commented:

FWIW, I am with Mirengoff on this one.  I think his logic is impeccable and his strategic thinking sun-bright.  With luck, Mueller is fired upon POTUS’s return from America’s West, the Indo-Pacific, as a trip-enhancer or end-zone dance.

In support of recognizing the Brennan-Hussein-Jarrett-Rice-Mueller-Comey-McCabe-etc. operation to manufacture inculpatory evidence framing Donald J. Trump and his Presidential Campaign and Administration with the prosecutable crime of endangering United States national security, I offer the following anthology of works by other observers:

John Kass: Obama’s silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation

VDH: Elites Value Mellifluous Illegality over Crass Lawfulness

Related from Ann Althouse

VDH: The Scandal on the Other Foot

Scott Johnson: To And From Russia, With Emails

Lee Smith: Tying Hillary’s Emails to the Russian ‘Collusion’ Probe

James Wesley Rawls: The Mathematics of Countering Tyranny

Bayou Renaissance Man: The “Russia! Russia!” court case is getting entertaining

Mark Wauck: A Guide To Spygate

John Hinderaker: Did The FBI Frame Flynn?

Sundance, quoting himself in the following excerpt in a post, identifies the subject of the fuss: freedom.  His full statement, containing this self-quote and its remarkable context and other points, is here.

When we see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion; when we see that in order to invoke our fourth or sixth amendment right to privacy and due process, we need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution; when we see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics; when we see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and our representatives don’t protect us against them, but protect them against us; when we see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified; we may well know that our freedom is soon to perish.

Scott Johnson: On Mueller’s Appointment

Sharyl Attkisson: 8 Signs Pointing To A Counterintelligence Operation Deployed Against Trump’s Campaign

Her timeline collusion against POTUS Trump.

Her The FBI’s Fractured Fairytale

Her 50 Media Mistakes In The Trump Era: The Definitive List

Clarice Feldman: The Great Unmasking

Conrad Black: The Collapse Of The Collusion Narrative

Margot Cleveland: 3 Reasons Rod Rosenstein’s Special Counsel Appointment Was Illegal

Malcolm Davis: China’s Strategic Strait In The South China Sea, Part One, Part Two

Thomas J. Farnan: How Then FBI And CIA Restarted The Cold War Top Protect Themselves

Karin McQuillan: Outside The Defensible Perimeter

Angelo M. Codevilla: The Tipping Point

Norman Borlaug, agronomist, Father of the Green Revolution

William A. Jacobson: Bernard Lewis RIP – “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”

Rod Dreher: Benedictine Agrarians

Lee Smith: How Anti-Trump Leakers Moved From Offense to Defense

Update 1: We need a new elite.  [And how!]

Update 2: Sharyl Attkisson: What Did Peter Strzok Do?

Update 3: Adam Mill: The DOJ Has Turned The Russia Investigation Into A Puzzle Designed Never To Be Solved

Update 4: Sundance: The DOJ-NSD division, and the FBI counterintelligence division, were actively engaged in a plot to destroy, then overthrow, a sitting U.S. President.  All of this Russia, Russia, Russia stuff is simply designed to hide and obfuscate this issue.

Update 5: Andrew McCarthy: Mueller’s Politicized Indictment of Twelve Russian Intelligence Officers

We got a special counsel not because of Russia’s espionage or any evidence indicating actual Trump-campaign complicity in it; we got a special counsel because Rosenstein was deeply involved in Comey’s ouster and wanted to fend off Democratic attacks on him over it.

Update 6: Sharyl Attkisson: What would the intelligence community’s ‘insurance policy’ against Trump look like?

Update 7: You know, after all these months watching Trump-Russia ebb and flow, I read this and think to myself, You know what?  All this fuss, because the CIA and FBI got mousetrapped by a simple, standard Russian disinformation campaign.  That’s what Mueller et al is covering up: their own unintelligence and incompetence.  And who has benefited?  Donald Trump.

Update 8: Sharyl Attkisson: A Citizen Suing the Department of Justice Needs More than Just a Winning Legal Argument

Update 9: Roger L. Simon: Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon But Entrapped

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA