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Instead, it is acknowledgement of something more insidious that is afoot, something that may be hinted at by Robert Mueller’s findings but which we are now seeing fully realized—a full-scale and disturbingly successful assault on the rule of law in America. 
Something broke in America in the past week or two ... we have crossed a line. Tweeto & gang his men asserting that they were above the law—and effectively no one in our system did anything to stop them.
Barr did this despite knowing full well that there was an urgent and proven national security rationale for the investigation.
It is the stuff of the world's most dysfunctional tinpot dictatorships or self-dealing monarchies. But rather than generating a response from within our system commensurate with the threat, nothing occurred.
In so doing, they sent a message that they would never challenge him, much less convict him of the myriad crimes he has committed.
What once was black and white blurs into gray. Right and wrong, old principles, enduring values, fade from memory.
