“No, Mr. President, don’t do this through the preferable, legal, transparent channels. Instead, have your personal attorney back channel it, using whatever state department employees he can recruit, and exert leverage to get them to do it, so that the NSC lawyers ultimately have to hide your conversations about it on a classified server and give conflicting stories about how that happened. You should do it this way because the entire federal investigative apparatus doesn’t have time for it right now and/or doesn’t have enough investigators who are sufficiently loyal to you that they will disregard the consensus opinion of all 17 intelligence services and the sworn testimony of multiple state department holdovers who all said that Biden’s actions with respect to Victor Shokin were not only the policy of the United States but with multiple foreign allies...”
That would be your advice as White House counsel?
Chortle! - that's a damned quantum leap to conclusion. Must I qualify every comment?
No, I'm advising him that his plan to bring it to Barr is not a good idea, which is likely why Barr wasn't subsequently approached.
So, you aren't aware presidents have used non-governmental persons they trust to do exactly what Giuliani is doing - and more - since Washington.
There were no "17 agencies" involved, just three - CIA, FBI, and NSA. That was a wild extrapolation by NYT (who retracted) and others, but like every lie propagated by press, many - perhaps most - do not retract and continue with fascist zeal propagating the lie. You're the evidence.
The good news; that indicates maybe,
just maybe, all 17 agencies won't have to be sanitized, just the Big Three and purge DOJ of Rosenstein's ghost.
And what if it had been all 17 if they got the headline "Trump-Russia Conspiracy" so wrong as the three did? Consensus doesn't turn a crap premise into chocolate souffle.
"so that the NSC lawyers ultimately have to hide your conversations about it on a classified server..." - Yeah, that must be it.
I mean, surely having prior conversations with foreign leaders criminally leaked by
Resistance! azzhats has nothing to do with it....good grief.