{"id":30549,"date":"2017-04-01T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30549"},"modified":"2017-04-01T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:57:02","slug":"some-sanity-from-andrew-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30549","title":{"rendered":"Some Sanity From Andrew McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Andrew McCarthy<\/a> posted an article at PJ Media<\/a> about General Flynn<\/a>. Mr. McCarthy makes some very good points about General Flynn’s supposed request for immunity if he is to testify before Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Long before riding the front of the Trump Train, Flynn made himself the b\u00eate noire<\/em> of the intelligence community, accusing it of politicizing intelligence analyses and concealing the ineffectiveness of Obama<\/a>\u2019s approach to jihadist terror \u2013 claims which, to the great embarrassment of Obama\u2019s spy chiefs, have been corroborated by intelligence agency operatives. Like Trump, moreover, Flynn \u2013 brash, unpolished, and erratic \u2013 has a knack for making enemies on all sides, such that Washington<\/a> is now full of two kinds of people: those out to get Flynn and those who whisper that he had it coming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even that does not begin to describe the jeopardy Flynn had to be sensing when his lawyer reportedly offered his cooperation with investigations into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign in exchange for some form of immunity from prosecution<\/a>. But it does provide a sense of the poisonous atmosphere in which, as night follows day, government officials leaked the offer to the media, spinning it as an admission of guilt \u2013 although, of what offense<\/em>, no one seems able to say.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…When the conduct of Democrats was at issue, the media told us not to read too much into immunity requests. Standard fare to get a lawyer and seek immunity \u2013 doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ve done anything wrong. Even when subjects of the Clinton investigation claimed their Fifth Amendment<\/a> privilege against self-incrimination rather than testify before Congress; even when reports surfaced of bizarre Justice Department<\/a> agreements that evidence from the subjects\u2019 computers would be destroyed rather than preserved; even when publication of the subjects\u2019 FBI<\/a> interviews detailed patently misleading statements \u2013 the media-Democrat complex steadfastly maintained there was nothing to see here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though the Republicans control both houses of Congress, it is not a safe place for anyone who does not tow the establishment line. General Flynn is wise to realize that and act accordingly. I don’t know what we need to do to bring America back to being a nation of laws, but I hope it is not too late to go back to following our Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Andrew McCarthy posted an article at PJ Media about General Flynn. Mr. McCarthy makes some very good points about General Flynn’s supposed request for immunity if he is to testify before Congress. The article reports: Long before riding the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,420,10617,68],"class_list":["post-30549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-general-flynn","tag-united-states-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30550,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549\/revisions\/30550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}