The evidence we have seen over the last couple of years has raised substantial questions about that principle. What occurred in the last couple of days seems to have signaled that there are no questions about it anymore.
I thought that having the FBI exercise a search warrant on a high profile attorney was something we only saw when the Mafia was involved.
On Monday we saw it done on the personal attorney of the United States of America.
Perhaps Michael Cohen is rightfully suspected of some crime. However, are you telling me there is no other way of building a case against him than having the FBI raid his office, his home and his hotel room (he is staying there while his apartment is undergoing renovation)?
Does the attorney-client privilege mean anything any more?
What about the rights of President Trump?
Did the FBI raid the personal attorney of Hillary Clinton? No.
Did the FBI raid the personal attorney of Richard Nixon? No.
Can you imagine the outcry if the FBI had raided the office and home of Barack Obama's attorney?
Let's put this in further context.
It has already been established that Perkins Coie, the outside counsel for both the DNC and Clinton campaigns, paid for the Steele dossier that was used as the basis for the FISA warrants against Carter Page and the Trump campaign. This was almost clearly a violation of Federal Election Campaign financing laws in that it appears that the law firm was intentionally used to hide the involvement of the DNC and Clinton with Fusion GPS. By using the law firm to launder the payments, there was no evidence that the campaign or DNC was involved by looking at FEC filings.
Has the FBI conducted a morning raid on the offices of Perkins Coie?
Consider further that when the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton about her secret email server and missing emails, it allowed her Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills to sit in on the interview even though Mills was a material witness in the case. More germane to the Cohen situation, even though Mills was serving as Hillary's Chief of Staff in the State Department, and not as an attorney, the FBI allowed all of her communications with Clinton to be protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Do you see a little discrepancy here?
Sharyl Attkisson is a former CBS news investigative correspondent who I have a lot of respect for as a journalist.
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While she was at CBS her computer was hacked by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions. Attkisson believes that it was done by someone within the federal government during the Obama administration that was unhappy about her reporting.
This is what Attkisson said about the invasion of her privacy last September at TheHill.com.
I have spent more than two years litigating against the Department of Justice for the computer intrusions. Forensics have revealed dates, times and methods of some of the illegal activities. The software used was proprietary to a federal intel agency. The intruders deployed a keystroke monitoring program, accessed the CBS News corporate computer system, listened in on my conversations by activating the computer’s microphone and used Skype to exfiltrate files.
Evidence continues to build. I recently filed new information unearthed through forensic exams. As one expert told the court, it was “not a mistake; it is not a random event; and it is not technically possible for these IP addresses to simply appear on her computer systems without activity by someone using them as part of the cyber-attack.”
Attkisson seems to have a real experience and perspective on what the overreach of the federal government and unequal justice under the law looks like.
Before the raid on Cohen's office Attkisson tweeted out a thread on what ground rules should apply to assure that any Trump meeting with the Special Counsel would be equivalent to the treatment that Hillary got with the FBI.
Attkisson did all of it in good fun, but when you read through the thread you really see how slanted the scales of justice seem to be.
Of course, it got much, much worse on Monday with the raid on Trump's personal attorney.
And the odds of Trump ever sitting down with Mueller in this investigation should have also gotten much, much worse.
It appears that there is nothing that the Deep State will stop at in order to attempt to unseat Donald J. Trump as President of the United States.
It is all deeply disturbing for anyone who believes in equal justice under the law.
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