NRO‘s Andrew McCarthy authors an article confirming a BlueCollar post of 18 days ago…“The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses”, but fails to connect a critical ‘dot’ to an otherwise solid analysis.

McCarthy’s article centers on FBI’s abuse of Trump aide Papadopoulos and meetings with a mysterious Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud, and Australian Alexander Downer, to fit a narrative that leading questions and speculative statement shrouds the truth…

…that Papadapolous never uttered the word ’email’ unless he was led by suggestive questioning that was meant to formally justify the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe.

McCarthy’s analysis is sound, but inconceivably leaves out a crucial first dot…that the ‘hacked’ emails causing all this subterfuge was never forensically confirmed by feds.

As noted in our April 18 post, the forensic investigation was done by a Democrat-funded private company (CrowdStrike); ‘hacked’ servers were never given up for FBI analysis.

So, ok: Papadapolous was a useful foil in the Obama administration’s effort of spying on the Trump campaign…but even if he had mentioned emails, it doesn’t alter the fact that the so-called ‘hacked’ claims center on a private firms findings…NOT FBI analysis.

There’s no GOOD reason for not giving the federal authorities server access. Why would anyone not want the credibility of an FBI analysis to confirm their claim?

The ONLY logical reason would be Democrats wanted that narrative to fit their HOAX, and they knew an honest FBI forensic investigation wouldn’t meet that desired purpose.

That said, Mr. McCarthy’s analysis fits more pieces of this deceptive puzzle together.