The White Houses Creeping Fear About Michael Flynn [View all]

[kentuck]

Perhaps this has been posted already?
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-white-houses-creeping-fear-about-michael-flynn

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In early March, as part of my “Innocent Explanation” series, I discussed what I called the Mailer Standard. You can read the full background here. But the gist is that sometimes people cover up not because they know they’re guilty but because they don’t know. They don’t know whether they’re guilty or not. So they don’t know what investigators might find. In that case it was about the Kennedy assassination and the almost endless list of bad guys, unreliables and unknowns the CIA was working with in the early 1960s. I have long thought that something similar might be at work with the Trump administration with respect to the campaign’s ties to Russia and possibly Russia’s election interference campaign.

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Here’s the transcript …

It suggests to me that the White House doesn’t know where this goes. They didn’t seem to have much of an idea of what Michael Flynn was up to when he was working for the campaign, when he was in the transition, and even when he was in the white house. And so it’s not surprising that they’re trying to kind of limit the scope of how deep this investigation is going because if you don’t know what investigators are going to necessarily find or what they’re looking for, it’s hard to want to open the door to them. That’s why this is such a big problem. As this investigation goes on, there’s a limit to how much it seems the White House believes they have a handle on what’s going on. On what might be found. And that makes it a very dangerous political situation.

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Remember, who’s making these document production and compliance decisions? Probably the White House Counsel’s Office. That’s Donald McGahn. He wasn’t on the campaign. He’s a party loyalist GOP lawyer. Does he even know the full story on Flynn? I doubt it. Does he even know all the details about Trump himself? I wouldn’t assume that either.

Is the White House covering up? Of course they are. Maybe it’s because they know the truth is that explosive. Or maybe it’s because they simply don’t know what a real investigation would find.

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