Commentary A lot of people don’t seem to grasp how problematic it would be for a president or an attorney general to be caught red-handed interfering with a special counsel’s office investigating what were widely alleged to be serious and historical abuses of federal law enforcement and surveillance powers in the targeting of a political campaign during a presidential election. The fact is—and it appears many have kind of forgotten about it at this point and need to be reminded—the Department of Justice’s own Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a damning report back in December 2019 (pdf) that overwhelmingly demonstrated that a federal surveillance warrant of a former Trump campaign adviser was granted through deliberate fraud committed against the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team and the private political operatives they were using as informants. Not only that, it subsequently turned out these political operatives working as FBI …