Stephen Miller caught up in FBI counterintelligence investigation
It’s long been widely reported that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller drafted a never-sent letter explaining the firing of FBI Director James Comey which was essentially a confession to felony obstruction of justice. Whatever the legal stakes were for Stephen Miller when it came to his role in this incident, those stakes just got a lot higher for him.
Last night’s bombshell report from the New York Times does not mention Stephen Miller’s name. But it does spell out that when the FBI decided to open a counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump for being a Russian operative in mid 2017, one of the pieces of evidence considered was the letter that Trump (and Miller) drafted regarding Comey’s firing. The article explains that there was also additional evidence involved, and not all of that evidence is known to involve Miller.
But still, if you’re Stephen Miller, and the FBI opens a counterintelligence investigation into your boss based partly on a letter you helped him write, you’re in deep. It was long ago reported that when Robert Mueller began interviewing Donald Trump’s White House advisers, he started with Miller, and this new information would seem to help explain why he did.
The question, of course, is what Stephen Miller is on the hook for. By helping to craft the letter, he engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct justice, and that alone comes with a prison sentence. The length of Miller’s sentence (unless he cut a plea deal we don’t know about) will come down to whether or not he knew he was helping Donald Trump to act on behalf of the Kremlin at the time he helped craft the letter.
