Posted at 7:06 pm on May 9, 2020 by Brett T.
As Twitchy reported earlier, former President Barack Obama held a “private” call with former administration officials to discuss how the Justice Department dismissing its case against Michael Flynn put the rule of law at risk. Plenty noted the irony of Obama suddenly expressing concern for the rule of law, but let’s talk for a second about how audio of that private phone call just happened to be “obtained” by Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News.
Shows Obama is starting to sweat. He deigns to dirty his pretty hands.
Don’t you wish we could hear the actual voices? I’d bet money that linguistic analysis would detect off-the-charts stress and fear in Barry’s voice, and anyone else’s who spoke. The conspirators are worried. The investigation is getting closer and big fish are in peril.
he remains startlingly slow at articulating a basic thought; heavy rhetorical voice inflection, low substance/time rate ("this, uh, is the stuff where, uh") Also all phrases that seem read from US college syllabus-"Worrying about the rule of law"; "trends that should concern us"
Did you hear the background noise…like papers were being shuffled? Preoccupied?
More like papers were being shredded.
I anyway agree with @Doranimated that it seems a little hard to imagine this would be a call to (former) colleagues–the line here is something out government 101; and you don't need to tell your colleagues that "uh, the rule of law, uh, you know: that's something important".
It’s fairly obvious that Obama staged the “private” call and also leaked the audio to Yahoo News so someone else could write it up, and The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway says that being implicated might explain why the call was leaked. Don’t forget: declassified court papers indicated that top Justice Department official Sally Yates learned about the phone call between Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak from Obama himself during a meeting in the Oval Office in early January 2017.
He’s clearly worried, this isn’t hyperbole he’s clearly worried about his legacy perhaps even criminal liability. Quite obvious.
This is the #ObamaGate and worse than the #WaterGate because the surveillance was continued before, during, even after the 2016 Presidential Election.
Obama was the ringleader. Can’t wait for Durham report.
His selective leaking hasn’t changed. Obama, Comey and Shiff use the same playbook.
Wasn't Obama an attorney? Shouldn't he understand what perjury is? Because that's not what Flynn was charged with.
Rice’s email to herself was a nice touch. And tread lightly Twitter-verse…focus on facts here. If @MZHemingway finds much more it’s gonna get really ugly, really quickly.
This column puts it all together. Does anyone think Susan Rice ACTUALLY wrote herself an email because Obama said to do everything by the book? COME ON!
Great article. Obama was orchestrating the whole coup attempt. He will be the grand prize for John Durham. Let’s who will turn first to save his/her own hide.
Excellent article that pretty much spells out what any rational onlooker would have to concede was a covert operation specifically designed to overthrow a duly elected POTUS. At this point WHY is a secondary consideration to be discussed in future jailhouse memoirs….
So much for that "peaceful transition of power" everyone was talking about back then.
Durham is over the target and the flack is gonna be tremendous.
The timeline is informative, but I’m not seeing a reason Obama’d want anything he says leaked to the press.
In your opinion, why is the Obama audio leaked?
It just says he's not hiding. There was no substance to it. Like most of his rhetorical speeches. Now the media can say he's "addressed" the allegations and we can move on. Same old DNC playbook. Ironic since Mollie points at coordinated leaking as part of that playbook.
Because all eyes are focusing on him at the center. He's trying to control the perception of his own misdeeds.
I agree. By “leaking” this, he controls the script, takes no questions, doesn’t have to face anyone.
That leak was so clumsy & transparent.
What an unequivocal weasel. Extra two faced when he’s pretending to be legit in this “leaked” call.
He even spied on the press and they still cover for him.
