• Mitch McDeere: I got mine, Wayne, you get the rest of them.
• Wayne Tarrance: Get ’em with what? Overbilling, mail fraud? Oh, that’s exciting.
• Mitch McDeere: It’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth! Ten thousand dollars and five years in prison. That’s ten and five for each act. Have you really looked at that? You’ve got every partner in the firm on overbilling. There’s two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That’s racketeering! That’s minimum one thousand, two hundred fifty years in prison and half a million dollars in fines. That’s more than you had on Capone.

This movie moment reminds me of what we are facing if the Department of Justice (DOJ) allows the congressional clown show called congressional hearings to derail things.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified information that should serve as evidence to punish guilty parties.  But, my instincts tell me that this will be nothing more than circus act, that we’ve seen play out many times before.

The naysayers and Erebusic detractors can claim this is just revenge for what was “rightly and justifiably” done to President Trump.  Notwithstanding, just as they were lying when they went after President Trump before, so they’re now and will be lying then.  However, they’re pernicious calumniators, and that’s what they do.

This is an opportunity to put Obama behind bars.  It is an opportunity to replace the Ho Chi Minh tunic outfits Hillary Clinton wears, with an orange jumpsuit and the name of whatever prison she is sentenced, embroidered across the back, with her prison number over a front pocket.

It is the opportunity to charge the Democrat cabal and crooked Republicans involved in the Russia-gate falsity, the abuse of power, lying under oath, staging and organizing a coup against President Trump and disenfranchising We the People, and a litany of other charges.  Charges, that when added up will result in prison sentences for a phalanx of perpetrators who have forged their political careers on misdeeds.

But, never discount Republican’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  It’s what they do.  If there’s a way to ensure bad guys go unpunished, and at the same time punish their own, count on Republicans to do it.

The right-leaning media and their talking heads are clamoring about bringing charges based upon treason and associated charges.  Treason is the most serious crime someone can commit against the United States, but finding someone guilty of same demands reaching the near unreachable height of said bar.  It’s the only offense specifically outlined in the Constitution, in Article III, Section 3. The crime is also codified in 18 U.S. Code § 2381.  It requires a person(s) be found guilty of levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to her enemies.  That’s an incredibly high bar to reach.

A lesser-known, but still serious crime, I was at first amenable to, is seditious conspiracy.  It’s defined in 18 U.S. Code § 2384.  It involves two or more people conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government, delay the execution of federal law, or seize government property, all by force.  But, there’s a problem in charging a person(s) with this: The statute requires that the use of force was employed to commit said crime.