The Impeachment

     Hiding in plain view within Mueller’s statement today was the first article of impeachment of the president, and it does not concern obstruction of justice, but failure to protect the United States from foreign enemies. The special prosecutor reiterated his conclusion that the Russians perpetrated multiple and systematic intrusions into the election of 2016. He said every American ought to pay attention to this, but he did not spell out the fact that the president has denied, downplayed, and ignored this intrusion, and that any attempts to prevent further election intrusions by the Russians have been carried out despite him, not because of him or with his assistance, by the FBI, the CIA, and intelligence agencies he has done his best to question, insult, and demean. There will be a lot more articles in that impeachment proceeding, most of them dealing with obstruction of justice, but the president’s failure to deal with this foreign threat is a violation of his oath, and his undermining of agencies that can do the job for him is treasonous.