Cohen indicates thousands of privileged communications between him and his clients were taken. The attorneys at Power Line indicate there can be a legal fig leaf for this relatively obvious breach of attorney-client privilege. It looks like straight-out harassment, in the absence of an awfully strong excuse which is so far not forthcoming.
We may yet see this President fire special counsel Mueller, even though he's said repeatedly he won't. Most cooler heads have said Mueller shouldn't be fired and even they are starting to change their minds. And here's a great conspiracy theory, courtesy of Power Line's Paul Mirengoff:
Mueller’s actions regarding Cohen are sufficiently provocative to make me wonder whether he would like to be fired. Maybe he and his gang have concluded that they don’t have much on Trump — not enough to bring him down, anyway — but that Mueller’s firing might bring the president down.I've seen guesses that seemed more far-fetched, how about you?
This seems far-fetched. But it’s clear that, at a minimum, Mueller is willing to be fired. Perhaps he views this as a win-win situation. Either way he makes a run at taking Trump down through hyper-aggressive investigatory tactics or he makes that run by being fired and becoming a martyr.
