{"id":11554,"date":"2018-12-04T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2018-12-04T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:48:40","slug":"one-eyed-jack-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-eyed-jack-law\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Eyed-Jack Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">R<\/span>obert Mueller\u2019s legal team may write a damning report on Trump\u2019s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump\u2019s and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we know that the U.S. government decided to intervene in a political campaign to help one candidate and to smear the other \u2014 under the pretext of Russian \u201ccollusion.\u201d And so it hired or made use of spies and informants including Hank Greenberg, Stefan Halper, Felix Sater, and others to contact Trump campaign officials to catch them in supposed collusion traps. It enlisted the help of foreign intelligence agencies, specifically the British and Australians. It misled FISA courts into granting warrants to spy on Americans and, post factum, threatened long prisons sentences with those surveilled and interviewed. And as a result, it has so far found no collusion but may well find some misleading statements in hundreds of hours of testimonies from the likes of Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and perhaps Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller cannot fulfill the hype of the past 18 months, which forecast that the \u201call-stars,\u201d the \u201cdream-team,\u201d and the Mueller \u201carmy\u201d would make short work of the supposedly buffoonish Trump by proving that he colluded with Russia to swing an election. Collusion, remember, was hyped as doing what the Logan Act, the emoluments clause, the 25th Amendment, impeachment, media frenzy, and assassination-chic rhetoric had not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/12\/mueller-probe-fisa-warrants-fbi-informants\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Robert Mueller\u2019s legal team may write a damning report on Trump\u2019s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump\u2019s and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences. So far, we know that the U.S. government decided to intervene in a political campaign to [&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":[1161,1158,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-30m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11866,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-2020-news-cycle-will-look-very-different\/","url_meta":{"origin":11554,"position":0},"title":"The 2020 News Cycle Will Look Very Different","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Russia collusion narrative and associated Robert Mueller hysteria are all but over. Mueller\u2019s obstruction of justice narrative involving the non-crime of collusion is ending, too. Donald Trump\u2019s tax-return psychodrama is going the way of the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10943,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fisa-gate-boomerangs\/","url_meta":{"origin":11554,"position":1},"title":"The FISA-Gate Boomerangs","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Some things still do not add up about the so-called Steele dossier, FISA warrants, the Nunes memo, and the hysterical Democratic reaction to it. A Big Deal or a Nothing Deal? 1) Progressives and Democrats warned on the eve of the memo\u2019s release that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CIA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CIA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/cia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10941,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ticking-memo\/","url_meta":{"origin":11554,"position":2},"title":"The Ticking Memo","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The House Intelligence Committee memo is pretty simple. It should not have been classified and thus far withheld from the public. In fact, far more information now needs to be released. Despite the outcry, as Chairman Devin Nunes clarified, the memo can easily be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11050,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/swamp-things-in-the-russia-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11554,"position":3},"title":"Swamp Things in the Russia Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \"The Swamp\u201d usually refers to the vast federal bureaucratic machinery of mostly unelected top officials who exercise influence and power without worry about the appearance of conflicts of interest. They are often exempt from the consequences of the laws and regulations that affect others.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;James Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"James Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/james-comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10948,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fisa-gate-is-scarier-than-watergate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11554,"position":4},"title":"FISA-Gate is Scarier than Watergate","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Watergate scandal of 1972\u201374 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration\u2019s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FISA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FISA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fisa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11016,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/rethinking-watergate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11554,"position":5},"title":"Rethinking Watergate","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution The Watergate break-in is now 45 years old. The scandal is as distant from our own time as it was once from 1928. The median age of Americans is about 38 years old. Half of all Americans were likely born after the break-in. 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