{"id":11837,"date":"2019-05-21T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11837"},"modified":"2019-05-21T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T01:47:16","slug":"the-epidemic-of-electronic-deletions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-epidemic-of-electronic-deletions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epidemic of Electronic Deletions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are lots of ways to adjudicate the present political divide over the collusion hoax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One method might be to see whether those targeted by Robert Mueller had ever begun accusing each other of \u201ccollusion\u201d to save their own skins. That did not happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the perjurer Michael Cohen, who accused Trump of all sorts of improper business practices in an effort to negotiate a lighter sentence, never claimed that the president had colluded with the Russians \u2014 the Holy Grail search of the Mueller \u201call-stars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe are suddenly alleging that someone other than themselves is the guilty instigator in seeding the dossier into a presidential intelligence report, is the guilty party that deceived a FISA court, and is the guilty culprit who was leaking to the media. So apparently the new climate is now no longer \u201cThere was no crime committed\u201d but rather \u201cHe did it, not me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another calibration might be who exactly is deleting documents and who is not. So far Robert Mueller has not accused Donald Trump or his subordinates of deleting Trump\u2019s emails. Indeed, Trump\u2019s campaign and administration reportedly turned over 1.4 million documents to Special Counsel Mueller. Again, no one has claimed that they have been destroyed.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/05\/democratic-government-officials-epidemic-electronic-deletions\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are lots of ways to adjudicate the present political divide over the collusion hoax. One method might be to see whether those targeted by Robert Mueller had ever begun accusing each other of \u201ccollusion\u201d to save their own skins. That did not happen. Even the perjurer Michael Cohen, [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11763,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity\/","url_meta":{"origin":11837,"position":0},"title":"With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos. 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