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| The best of Victor Davis Hansen - What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama? |
| 2018-05-05 |
| [American Greatness] magine if a right-wing version of Robert Mueller, backed by a properly pro-Trump legal team, had sent former President Barack Obama the same sort of questions that Mueller allegedly delivered this week to President Trump. The special counsel might dress them up in legalese, innuendo, and with perjury-trap IEDs, thereby casting suspicion with the mere nature of the questions. If so, the interrogatories might run like the following‐ President Obama: What did you mean when you were heard, by accident, on a hot mic, providing the following assurances to outgoing Russian Prime Minister Medvedev: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space . . . This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility"? Did you and the Russian government have any private agreements to readjust Russian-American relations during your own 2012 reelection campaign? Were there other such discussions similar to your comments to Prime Minister Medvedev? If so, do you believe such Russian collusion had any influence on the outcome of the 2012 election? Did your subsequent reported suspension of, or reduction in, some planned missile defense programs, especially in Eastern Europe, have anything to do with the assurances that you gave to the Russian Prime Minister? Did the subsequent Russian quietude during your 2012 reelection campaign have anything to do with your assurances of promised changes in U.S. foreign policy? Did you adjudicate U.S. responses to Russian behavior on the basis of your own campaign re-election concerns? More specifically, what exactly did you mean when you asked the Russian Prime Minister for "space"? And further what did you intend by suggesting that after your 2012 election you would have more "flexibility" with the Russian government? Would you please define "flexibility" in this context? What do you think Prime Minister Medvedev meant when he replied to your request for space, and your promise for flexibility after the election, with: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you . . . I understand . . . I will transmit this information to Vladimir." Did you hear subsequently from the Russians that Prime Medvedev had delivered the message that you had intended for Vladimir Putin? Subsequently, did Vladimir Putin communicate with you about any such understanding that the U.S. government would modulate its foreign policy during your reelection campaign in exchange for "space"? Did any such arrangement in 2012 have anything to do with the later absence of a strong U.S. response to subsequent cyber-attacks by Russian operatives, or to the later 2014 Russian invasions of both Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea? During the email controversies over the illegal use of a private email account and server by your secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, you stated publicly that you first became aware of her improper use of a private server through press accounts. Yet records show that you yourself communicated with Secretary Clinton over her unauthorized email account. How do you reconcile your public statements with your private actions? Did you ever at any time improperly transmit classified information over Secretary of State Clinton’s email server under a pseudonymous email account? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |