Looking At The Other Side

On Friday, I looked at what seems to be the best case for the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, that there was ample evidence of highly classified material stored there willy-nilly in rooms that, while they were under locks with video surveillance and controlled by the US Secret Service, had not been formally designated facilities eligible to receive classified material. This is a violation of bop-de-bop. Both Andrew McCarthy and Alan Dershowitz argue that this meets the probable cause standard for both an indictment and a search warrant. On Saturday, I pointed out that in well-publicized prior cases, Hillary Clinton received no penalty for an equivalent violation under the "no reasonable prosecutor" standard, while John Deutch. having run afoul of the Clintons as CIA Director and being eased out of that job, went though several years of investigation in which neither the Justice Department nor the CIA would prosecute for similar violations. His case, clearly a political grudge by...