“The Constitution don’t say that, and the privilege don’t exist.” — James J. Wells (Wilford Brimley), Absence of Malice, 1981

I’d like to make two points here:

  1. We seem to have something here that I would label the Permanent Office of the Inspector of the President.  I was not aware that the Constitution allowed for something quite like that.  If I were charged with developing a fitting analogy, it would go anti-matter is to matter as Anti-Executive Office is to Executive Office.  For instance, most law-abiding, air breathing, property owning Americans would neither welcome nor deserve the arrival of an all-powerful anti-existence than would the President of the United States welcome or deserve the arrival of an anti-president.  A key point here is that an anti-president exists and persists in spite of the total innocence and benevolence of a given president.  He, the anti-president, exists only to destroy.
  2. The Warren Commission took only ten months to present its definitive report on who was responsible for assassinating a U.S. president, yet Robert Mueller has spun his racing slicks for well over a year in hot pursuit of some nebulous, mysterious force that is supposedly tantamount to a western hemisphere rendition of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.                                                                                         “Well, isn’t that special?” — The Church Lady