editorial
Susan Rice’s now-infamous memo was blatant bid to cover Obama’s butt
By Post Editorial Board
May 20, 2020 | 7:04pm
Susan Rice’s memo about a high-level Jan. 5, 2017, meeting plainly aimed to protect the then-national security adviser’s boss, President Barack Obama — but it’s backfiring spectacularly.
Rice sent the Jan. 20, 12:15 p.m., note (recently declassified) to herself at literally the last minute: President Trump was sworn in at noon that day; her administration was headed out the door.
Oh, and Rice’s lawyer says she drafted it “upon the advice of the White House Counsel’s Office,†Fox News reports.
The point? Ostensibly, to memorialize the meeting with her, Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, FBI boss James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, following a briefing on Russian hacking.
Obama, the memo claims, stressed that “every aspect of this issue†be handled “by the book†and then “reiterated†that law enforcement proceed “by the book.†Comey “affirmed†he’s “proceeding ‘by the book.’  †That’s right: She used the term three times.
Could a note scream “cover your butt†any louder? Why would lawyers want a document created, two weeks after the fact and at the very last minute, that purported to show the Russia probe was totally kosher?
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