Media outlets, including Fox News, ABC News, CNN and others this week reported that the US Department of Justice sources announced that there will be “no more indictments” coming from Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
President Trump was thus not indicted, nor did Special Council Mueller recommend an indictment against the President for collusion or obstruction.
But the announcement opens up the question of the accountability that must follow Mueller’s report, according to The Hill. Both the Wall Street Journal and Senator Rand Paul also said the Obama administration must now account for its flagrant abuse of surveillance powers.
“The Obama administration, without evidence, turned the surveillance powers of the federal government against the presidential campaign out of power,” the WSJ commented. Paul tweeted that it was “time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!”
Many Russians linked to the 2016 election probe were charged, but surprisingly no American was charged with any effort to conspire with Moscow and hijack the election.
No one in the entourage of the US President has been formally charged with colluding with Russia. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn and campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, were charged with transgressions completely unrelated to the main probe, as was Paul Manafort.
The Steele Dossier that was the main FISA evidence, was paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party, and it was not verified before it was used as evidence of alleged Trump-Russia collusion.
Agents collected statements from key defendants that in fact strongly suggested their innocence, revealing that the dossier was a ploy to lie to a federal court. The participants in the fake dossier must be brought to justice, many pundits say.
An upcoming DOJ inspector general’s report should trigger the beginning of that accountability in a court of law, and President Trump can assist the effort by declassifying all evidence of wrongdoing by FBI, CIA and DOJ officials, The Hill noted.
The federal agents of the FBI and their leaders who had used government institutions against the Constitution, must face justice for their attempts to overturn the results of elections.
Hillary Clinton’s army who ran her 2016 campaign, devised the idea of creating the Steele Dossier through British intelligence channels by feeding it to an anti-Trump senator from Arizona whose staff peddled it in Washington and New York.
