Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

There it was: How could the FBI charge Flynn with lying to investigators when they could not establish that there was any underlying crime -- violating the Logan Act or any other law -- that would justify going to the White House to question him? It was the fatal flaw of the Flynn pursuit.

That glaring weakness -- no underlying crime -- was also the fatal flaw of the Russia investigation as a whole. Mueller was appointed to investigate collusion. He could never establish that it even took place, much less who might have taken part in it. As I wrote in OBSESSION, that failure made the rest of his job essentially impossible. When he investigated allegations that Trump obstructed justice, he was investigating whether Trump impeded an investigation into something that did not happen. Likewise, when he sought to interview Trump, he would not point to a reason -- an underlying crime -- so compelling that he could meet the high standard for imposing on a President of the United States.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-yorks-daily-memo-damning-new-evidence-from-fbis-pursuit-of-michael-flynn