Bill Palmer at the Palmer Report has this bit of news:
No wonder Robert Mueller has been waiting to testify
Last night Robert Mueller’s prosecutorial team – which apparently still exists on some level – made a court filing in the Michael Flynn case, despite the fact that it wasn’t under obligation to do so, and it wasn’t even close to being up against any deadline. The filing revealed that Flynn witnessed Trump and his underlings commit several crimes. This in turn prompted the judge in the case to order that far more evidence of these crimes be publicly released soon. This, of course, wasn’t coincidence.
With his filing yesterday, Mueller is essentially unredacting the most important pieces of his own report by force, in a way that Attorney General William Barr can’t stop. If Mueller had publicly testified on the 15th as originally planned, would he have been legally able to discuss the Trump crimes that Flynn witnessed? But now that Mueller has found a way to force the Flynn stuff into the public purview, there’s nothing that Trump and Barr can even try to do to stop Mueller from testifying about the Flynn stuff.
I expect this will start heating up in the news cycle — and is why Trump is tweeting about nobody warned him about Flynn. It will be interesting to see if this gets picked up by others in the media, or whether it will disappear into the weekend news dump death zone. Right now a quick search on “Mueller, Flynn” is turning up news stories in all the right places.
Somebody call Speaker Nancy Pelosi and tell her to put impeachment back on the table, dammit.
UPDATE: Charles P. Pierce is interested by one development in this. He sees it as significant.
It makes a difference if there are tapes. From NBC News:
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn told investigators that people linked to the Trump administration and Congress reached out to him in an effort to interfere in the Russia probe, according to newly-unredacted court papers filed Thursday. The communications could have "affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation," special counsel Robert Mueller wrote in the court filings. Flynn even provided a voicemail recording of one such communication, the court papers say. "In some instances, the (special counsel's office) was unaware of the outreach until being alerted to it by the defendant," Mueller wrote.
The "Congress" element is a lovely bit of business. (Lindsey Graham? Tom Cotton? Devin Nunes? Some as-yet-unknown administration* tool on someone's staff? The mind reels.) But the important thing in this report is that there is a tape. Someone wanted to obstruct justice in the case of Michael Flynn and is now in that Nixonian He-Said-He-Said bind. And the judge in this case clearly knows it.
UPDATE: Subtropolis points out Palmer got it wrong - the judge in the case is the one who brought out the new info.
Still good news. More, please.