When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest
assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model
public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings
of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part
of the same organization, even at a remove.
The defendants were charged with criminal conspiracy, obstruction
of public servant from performing his lawful duties, abatement and
assault on police officers, offences said to be contrary to sections 97, 85, 267 and 173
of the Penal Code Law.