West Wing Reads Flynn and the Anatomy of a Political Narrative

Flynn and the Anatomy of a Political Narrative “The FBI coordinated very closely with the Obama White House on the investigation of Michael Flynn, while the Obama Justice Department was asleep at the switch. That is among the most revealing takeaways from Thursday’s decision by Attorney General Bill Barr to pull the plug on the prosecution of Flynn,” Andrew McCarthy writes in National Review. “You’d almost think the Obama White House and its intelligence apparatus was weaving a political narrative out of . . . nothing.” Click here to read more. Fake news: “NBC News admits it aired deceptively edited clip of Barr on ‘Meet The Press’ with Chuck Todd” “Barack Obama is a lawyer, so it was stunning to read that he ventured into the Michael Flynn case in a way that misstated the supposed crime and ignored the history of his own Administration in targeting Mr. Flynn. Since the former President chose to offer his legal views when he didn’t need to, we wonder what he’s really worried about,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. “The U.S. Department of State will begin requiring a ‘clean path’ for all 5G network traffic between U.S. diplomatic facilities and the United States, as U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas move toward adopting 5G-enabled technology.” The goal of this new policy is to ensure untrusted IT vendors, including those from China, are denied access to State Department systems. Read more from Share.America.gov. “In many ways, the right to religious liberty stands as the first American freedom, the first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights.” For churches that abide by social distancing guidelines, “civil authorities should allow these gatherings to proceed and let Christians render unto God the things that are God’s,” Mary Vought writes in The Washington Post.