{"id":11314,"date":"2018-08-01T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2018-08-01T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T03:14:09","slug":"muellers-problem-is-not-trumpers-zeal-but-the-perception-of-inequality-under-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/muellers-problem-is-not-trumpers-zeal-but-the-perception-of-inequality-under-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller\u2019s Problem Is Not Trumpers\u2019 Zeal \u2014 but the Perception of Inequality under the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>What is disturbing about the Mueller investigation is not per se that a special counsel is looking into charges of wrongdoing known as \u201ccollusion,\u201d but that he is indicting or leveraging suspects, amid a larger landscape of related perceived wrongdoers, who so far have not been subject to the same federal zeal.<\/p>\n<p>We do not know all the details, but the public wonders exactly why Michael Flynn was leveraged to confess about lying to federal authorities (in theory, in part due to surveillance obtained by questionable FISA warrants), while, for example, Clinton aides Human Abedin and Cheryl Mills were given partial immunity for their reported misleading statements about their knowledge of the Clinton email server.<\/p>\n<p>People rightly wonder whether there will be consequences facing Andrew McCabe for allegedly lying about leaking to federal investigators, or for the flagrant way that John Brennan has so serially prevaricated under oath to Congress (about Senate staff computers, drone collateral damage, and the seeding of the Steele dossier).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/robert-mueller-investigation-perception-inequality\/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=3e825c9f0b-HDR_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-3e825c9f0b-73437989\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review What is disturbing about the Mueller investigation is not per se that a special counsel is looking into charges of wrongdoing known as \u201ccollusion,\u201d but that he is indicting or leveraging suspects, amid a larger landscape of related perceived wrongdoers, who so far have not been subject to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1139,1090,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Wu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10866,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/criticisms-of-comey-and-mueller-arent-character-assassination\/","url_meta":{"origin":11314,"position":0},"title":"Criticisms of Comey and Mueller Aren\u2019t \u2018Character Assassination\u2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review \u00a0 In his efforts to refute Charles Cooke\u2019s recent expos\u00e9 of Jennifer Rubin, I was surprised to see David Frum, in passing, attack my Hoover colleague, legal scholar Peter Berkowitz (a \u201cSean Hannity\u2013style character assassination of James\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DOJ&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DOJ","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/doj\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10964,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scandal-corruption-lawbreaking-and-so-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":11314,"position":1},"title":"Scandal, Corruption, Lawbreaking \u2014 And So What?","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The FISA-gate, Clinton emails, and Uranium One scandals are sort of reaching a consensus. 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