TWGB: Flynn Was Unmasked!

Wow, are we doing a thing about unmasking again and going back to the beginning regarding why Flynn was so shady that, for example, Obama warned Trump personally about not hiring the guy in the first place? Michael Flynn, who was apparently working for Turkey (and possibly, still, Russian interests) and the Trump campaign all at once? 

Oh, okay. On the face of it, a claim that Obama-era officials including VP Biden requested a person who was in contact with a foreign national under surviellance (Kislyak) be unmasked seems to me like it can't be targeting because I don't know how anyone was supposed to know they were supposedly "targeting" Flynn if they didn't know it was even him until he was unmasked? That sounds wrong. 

But cleverer people on the right than me (because honestly, I never would have come up with this retort) have said of course they had to be targeting Flynn, because of when they were asking for the unmasking and whether the person turned out to be Flynn after the request.  So they were asking about something that looked shady to them and it turned out to be Flynn? 

Hmm. Even if they were playing a hunch that paid off, that still sounds to me like a Flynn problem, not an Obama problem or a Biden problem, doesn't  it? Because he was still the guy on the call. I guess one could ask for transcripts though! I mean, if everyone wants to assume all Flynn's calls were, I dunno, perfect. But since Flynn was fired for lying to VP Pence and the FBI about his phone calls, and that was the official story in 2017, frankly, I don't know if Trump and them should actually be pressing that right now. 

Weird how they backed away from Flynn until Barr waded in and the prosecution decided that they couldn't follow through on a case where the defendant admitted he was guilty previously--and also supposedly substantially assisted with the Mueller investigation? 

That doesn't sound right, does it? (It sounds like Barr might be scuttling the prosecution, maybe in part because Flynn's lawyers could have a bit of reasonable doubt on their side--maybe--because of claims of bias and whatnot, but also because Barr is actually trying to cover Trump's ass like a cheap pair of briefs. Many people who know very well what the deal is feel that Barr should resign for this kind of ethical bullshit.) 

Anyway, Judge Emmett Sullivan doesn't seem to love any of the recent shenanigans to let Flynn off the hook, calling for amicus curiae argumenta as well as asking another judge to investigate whether Flynn should be held in contempt for wasting everybody's goddamn time lying to the court with his original guilty plea.  Flynn isn't yet out of the woods at all, at all. 

But as for the OBAMAGATE! shilling--goodness gracious! Can the mainstream media please recognize flak when shredded tinfoil is thrown up at them? Trump fans and associates are deflecting from Trump's manifest failures regarding the COVID-19 crisis and the attending economic crisis, and we should not forget, oh hell no, that doing a callback to Mueller (which did not exonerate) is a weird way to remind us he was always terrible, not a way to introduce a way that he's less at fault for anything, or that Obama and Biden did a damn thing wrong. 

Don't be played. Flynn lied. Russia certainly interfered (regardless of Trump's regular pronouncements to the contrary). And blaming Obama or Biden for Trump and them being found out is just tacky and unsportsmanlike.