In baseball, we used to say "ofer", meaning no hits, as in 0 for 4. Trump's attack dog weaponized DoJ is ofer in trying to get back at critics of their master. They have failed repeatedly, from Comey to James to Slotkin and Kelly to others. This convoluted second attempt to get Comey might have the cult getting all wet and woody, but so did the last few dozen attempts by DoJ. Even in Trump 1.0 it failed, despite the endless cries of "Wait until Durham gets them!". Well, Durham found each person involved in the Russia investigation behaved professionally and followed the rules by the book. The fact is, when the intel began to come in regarding the Trump campaign's obvious cooperation with Russia, action had to be taken. It would have been a dereliction of duty not to pursue it. Intel came in via clandestine assets and foreign liaison to CIA. DCI Brennan followed the rulebook, as Trump et al are "US Persons", requiring him to hand everything over to the FBI, who has jurisdiction when US persons are involved. Brennan set up a Bigot List, which both limits distribution and catalogues everyone who has seen any of the intel, and severely limits who is allowed to be read in. Then it was up to the FBI to follow up. All of the intel was presented to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) as well as the House equivalent (HPSCI). SSCI was first chaired by Senator Richard Burr, but he had to step down due to an investigation into him. Senator Marco Rubio, now SecState, took the chair. SSCI released their report noting the many areas of cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia. Most notable was the trip to Spain carried out my Campaign Chair Paul Manafort, who handed detailed internal polling data to GRU asset Konstantin Kilimnik. Kilimnik than passed that data to the GRU's "Internet Research Agency" (IRA), who manufactured stories about Hillary Clinton's health or some fictitious involvement in a made up scandal called Uranium One. The IRA then used the data handed to them by Manafort to microtarget voters in key swing States. The SSCI report also noted the cooperation between campaign staffer Roger Stone and Wikileaks, who gave Stone many heads up regarding info Wikileaks was about to report, which were largely made up stories by a Romanian who was an asset of the FSB of Russia. Trump even noted one heads up in a campaign speech, saying "Soon, maybe Monday or Tuesday of next week, some information is going to come out on my opponent you will find very interesting." If Doj goes forward trying to build a case---and they specifically chose "friendly" south Florida where they might draw Trump lackey Judge Cannon---Comey's defense will absolutely call SecState Rubio to the stand as well as Paul Manafort. That would not end well for the prosecution. More likely this will be dropped, as one intent just seems to be staying a thorn in the side of Comey and Brennan and forcing them to endure legal costs (though they are likely to get pro bono help). The DoJ will then likely resume its search for a ham sandwich to indict, per the quote from Judge Wachtler, while the MAGA cult will be deflated once again and show themselves as impotent as ever.
