The coverup of the 2016 Trump-Russia conspiracy continues unabated. First, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the DC Court of Appeals’ requirement that they turn over Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials to the House of Representatives. They know that their line of bullshit will be exploded if people get to see the raw testimony.

Even more shockingly, William Barr’s DOJ decided to drop the case against Michael Flynn even though the bastard has already confessed and was awaiting sentencing.

The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation…

…The JDepartment said it had concluded that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and that the interview was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”

The U.S. attorney reviewing the Flynn case, Jeff Jensen, recommended dropping the case to Attorney General William Barr last week and formalized the recommendation in a document this week.

“Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case,” Jensen said in a statement. “I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed.”

I can’t imagine this is a popular move at the FBI, the DOJ or within the Intelligence Community in general, but it does relieve Trump from any temptation to pardon Flynn.

Now they’ll argue that he was wrongly prosecuted for something he actually admitted and pled guilty to doing,  I especially like the finding that the FBI had no legitimate investigative purpose for interviewing Flynn about phone calls he had with the Russian ambassador in which he undermined a sanctions regime put in place to punish Russia for their interference in the 2016 election. At the time, Flynn was known to have been an unregistered lobbyist for Turkey who had suspicious Russian contacts dating back to his time as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He’d feted Vladimir Putin as a dinner celebrating the anniversary of the Russia Today (RT) news network, and given a speech in Russia critical of U.S. foreign policy. He was suspected of being compromised at a minimum, and outright traitor at the worst. He had also subjected himself to blackmail bylying publicly about something the Russians could contradict with incontrovertible evidence. Now he was the National Security Adviser, in charge of the nation’s foreign policy. Seems like a crisis to me, and I’m glad the FBI treated it that way.

William Barr has been trying to clean this up, and he’s had a lot of success. But this charade isn’t going to hold water if Trump loses the election.