OPINION
Obama claims his presidency was free from scandal — but he’s full of it
By Kevin D. Williamson
May 16, 2020 | 9:48am | Updated
Democrats like Barack Obama think government abuse toward President Trump cannot be abusive just because Trump is a frequent miscreant.
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Q: What did Barack Obama know about the dodgy investigation of Michael Flynn, and when did he know it?
A: More than his attorney general, and before she did.
That is a detail worth keeping in mind.
Democrats take it as a matter of moral certainty that Donald Trump and his political allies can only do wrong and cannot be wronged. Trump and his colleagues insist that they have been wronged in a very serious way: by the Obama administration’s abusing federal counterintelligence tools as an extension (and a post-election extension) of the 2016 presidential campaign. That is a perversion of political power that should command the attention of all Americans irrespective of their assessment of President Trump.
The original decision to target Flynn in the counterintelligence probe was based on a pretty flimsy pretext. And it was driven by the White House, not by the top bosses at DOJ. When acting Attorney General Sally Yates heard about the investigation — from President Obama himself, not from her own department — she “had no idea what the president was talking about,” as she told investigators. The New York Times, not exactly the house organ of the Trump administration, reports that at every turn Obama aides were involved in the investigation even as the acting AG was in the dark.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/obama-claims-he-was-free-from-scandal-but-hes-full-of-it/
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The Russia investigation needs investigation. The problem is that there is no entity with the credibility to conduct that investigation — not the DOJ, not Congress, not a blue-ribbon committee appointed by the usual political players in Washington. There can be no real reform without acknowledging that fact, and all the facts.
It has always been a canard that the Obama administration was free of scandal. In fact, it had plenty of scandal. It was free of accountability.
Kevin D. Williamson is the author of the forthcoming “Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the ‘Real America.’ ”
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