Obstruction of Justice?

The concept of obstruction of justice has been much in the news this last year.  For the media and the Democrats, nearly everything that President Trump has done with regard to the Russia-Trump campaign investigation has been called obstruction.  If Trump met Bob Mueller at a dinner and said hello, there would be twenty stories the next day screaming "OBSTRUCTION!!!!"  Now, however, Andrew McCarthy has written a column which details a very different type of obstruction.  McCarthy's focus is on the conversation between Andrew McCabe and the deputy attorney general about the investigation of the Clinton Foundation in 2016.  The Obama Justice Department called the FBI deputy director and made clear that he was to shut down any investigation into the Clinton Foundation.  The call devolved into an angry mess since the FBI investigation was being done quietly with no public knowledge as was required by the FBI's internal rules.  There was no basis to stop that investigation other than the Obama desire not to allow such an investigation to torpedo Hillary Clinton's campaign.  This was the phone call about which McCabe leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and because of which he is now the subject of a criminal investigation and likely indictment for lying to the FBI and perjury.

Think about it.  When President Trump made a remark about General Flynn to Jim Comey saying that he hoped Comey could let the matter go after Flynn was fired by the White House, the media and the Democrats went crazy.  It was obstruction according to them even though Comey said that he did not feel ordered to drop the investigation of Flynn and did not do so.  When Obama sent word that the investigation of the Clinton Foundation had to be dropped, McCabe did stop that probe right away.  The media has ignored this as obstruction and hasn't even talked about the subject.  That can't be.  If what Trump did is obstruction, then what Obama did with McCabe is ten times worse.