The Washington Post reported last week that Flynn had engaged in potentially illegal discussions with Russia's ambassador about easing U.S. sanctions against the country in the days following former President Barack Obama's imposition of the penalties.
Of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's relationship with Russia, Navarro said that, "there is a mounting level of evidence here that should be troublesome to every single American regardless of party". Flynn resigned Monday night over potentially illegal discussions he had with the Russian ambassador last year.
But in September 1999 a federal appeals court overruled Judge Johnson, saying there was nothing illegal in discussions by Mr. Starr or his aides with reporters about deliberations over whether to indict Mr. Clinton.
When Ulbricht, the ringleader, was hiring help to expand his operation, he used the same pseudonym he had adopted years before to post announcements on illegal drug discussion forums; that and other moments of sloppiness made him a suspect.
Just as it appeared Clinton would escape the illegal immigration discussion without a mention of her support and then opposition to a plan in New York to give drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants, Obama brought it up.
The news media are obsessed with the illegal immigrant discussion, but that should be a side issue in a country overrun with debt, mired in a recession, and -- most importantly -- stuck in a morass of self-doubt.
In fact, it is already illegal to forbid discussions of pay, under federal labor laws enacted in 1935.
Moreover, a federal appeals court ruled last September that there was no violation of grand jury secrecy, and thus nothing illegal, in the discussions Mr. Starr and his aides may have had with reporters about these deliberations, either for direct attribution or on a background basis.
China solves this by declaring certain online discussions illegal.
It is too bad that in their weekend discussions about illegal immigration and asylum policies -- perennial political hot potatoes on the Continent -- Europe's leaders couldn't have reflected on how their agricultural policies contribute to the very desperation that provokes such migratory flows.
"Everybody said it was a terrible shame and against international law, but there was really no enthusiasm to tackle it," said Peter van Walsum, a Dutch diplomat who headed the Iraq sanctions committee in 1999 and 2000, recalling the discussions of illegal oil surcharges.
