A peculiar artifact of Obama's presidency is an email that Susan Rice, the outgoing national security adviser, wrote to herself on January 20, 2017, the day Trump was inaugurated.  In it, she purports to describe what took place at the now infamous January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting.  This was when Obama seemed to give the go-ahead to hunt down General Michael Flynn based upon Flynn's December 29 phone call with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Rice's email was extraordinary for two reasons.  First, she didn't write it until fifteen days after a pivotal meeting in the Russia Hoax and on the day she was leaving her office. Second, the email's tone is off.  In the part that was produced earlier, before it was fully unredacted, there's almost no substantive material.  Instead, the email exists almost entirely to assure everyone that Obama wasn't doing anything illegal (emphasis...(Read Full Post)