The primary blogger at emptywheel, Marcy Wheeler, is (or claims to be, I’ve made no effort to verify it, but I ran across a mention of these qualifications in WaPo) a journalist with long experience in national security and civil liberties issues. Enough so that, she claims, the FBI chatted with her about some information she came up with, which incidentally caused a bit of an uproar as it was a reveal of a source, unusual in journalistic circles.
But this gave her an insight into today’s House interrogation of FBI Agent Peter Strzok, infamous for writing anti-Trump texts while on the job investigating Hillary Clinton during the Presidential campaign. Specifically:
So tomorrow, as House Judiciary Republicans spend half the day or longer publicly flogging Peter Strzok, know that all that flogging cannot change the fact that key evidence in Mueller’s possession, evidence which I suspect implicates the President directly, has absolutely no tie to Peter Strzok at all. None. Tomorrow will be just one big giant show that in no way can alter the provenance of key, damning evidence in Mueller’s possession.
Someday in the future we may discover if Marcy is correct or not. If she is, this may just be another circus put on by the second- and third- rate GOP House members who believe Party victories are more important than getting things right.
And if she’s not? I’ve been getting antsy about the Mueller investigation because there hasn’t been any public activity in the last couple of months. Is he wrapping things up? Avoiding negative publicity during the run-up to the mid-terms?
Preparing to lower the boom on someone who’s pivotal in this mess?
Or were the criminal indictments and pleadings all we’re going to get?
If you believe Marcy, there’s more to come. And that’s what my gut tells me as well.
