Why Predication Matters So Much
I hate to sound like a broken record, but ...
I've been saying for months that the Team Mueller Witchhunt was based on the same bogus predication as the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The Flynn case is similar. If an investigation is fraudulently started--in other words, based on invented predication, predication that's known to be untrue--then there is a strong case for suppressing all information that is gathered from the ensuing investigation. This is all the more true when the investigation fails to turn up any wrongdoing or when the wrongdoing is strictly of a "process" type.
With that in mind, consider the ruling of Obama judge Beryl Howell. You can get the details at CTH: Federal Judge Beryl Howell Grants House Judiciary Committee Access to Mueller Grand Jury Material . Sundance makes the point that the whole point of Mueller's Grand Jury investigation was to gather evidence for impeachment, to hand over to Jerry Nadler. They found nothing on "Russian collusion." And Barr said, look, firing Comey was not illegal, so you can't claim that that firing obstructed the collusion investigation. And nothing else that Trump did amounted to obstruction.
Well, shouldn't that Grand Jury material remain secret? I think it should, and the ruling will surely be appealed.
But there's another angle to this, and it's one that comes to the fore now with the revelations in the Flynn case of egregious misconduct in the Team Mueller prosecution of Flynn. And then there's Powell's contention that I cited as "key": That the FBI had no basis in the first place to investigate Flynn at all .
We also know that "predication"--or, more specifically, the lack thereof--is at the heart of Barr's investigation. He's said so himself. That means he's questioning whether there was any basis for opening Crossfire Hurricane, and that must also mean that he questions the predication for its continuation: The Team Mueller Witchhunt.
If that's true, and if Barr has evidence at this point to make that argument, then he has a very strong argument to ultimately overturn Judge Howell's politically motivated ruling. Because the Grand Jury material produced by Mueller's witchhunt was based on a fraudulent investigation. Remember: Lead investigator Peter Strzok said just before the Witchhunt started up, we know there's "no there there." It was illegal, and the GJ material should be the fruit of a poisonous tree--and should be suppressed. Even destroyed.
This is why predication is so important.