>>Here I think it will be difficult. Outfits like CIA or NSA dislike to share their intel, esp. as their sources or method to get the intel might be forced into the public by offering the intel brfore cpourt of law. My personal guess is that Flynn did break the law to a much higher degree than currently discussed - reason is the quick and silent flushing of his job with Trump admin. The typical MO now would be to have one of the "suspects" go for immunity, spill all he knows in a way to put pressure on the others without a need to offer intel transcripts.

That's the benefit of the SP who can compel disclosure and doesn't have to navigate a partisan investigation committee like the congressional investigations.

As for Flynn: AFAICS the allegation is that he broke the Logan Act by unauthorized negotiation with a foreign power in a dispute with the US. Based on available information, I'm not seeing it. The criminal act I can see, is leaking of his conversation to the Washington Post, which felony presumably will be looked at by the Special Prosecutor.

If Flynn did breach that act then it's easy to argue that so did Pelosi, Carter, Jesse Jackson, Russian ambassador McFaul even before Obama had won, and incoming officials going back to Kissinger at least. And suddenly a huge political MSM push to assert criminality? That's what the Harvard study is talking about. Does the MSM not realize that actions have consequences, especially if the SP doesn't validate months of rolling thunder about criminality by the MSM? Quoting former speaker of the house Gingrich today:

“It’s ironic that if you’re the king of Saudi Arabia, the prime minister of Israel, the president of Egypt - you treat Donald Trump with enormous respect as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, And yet the reporters treat him with contempt. The reporters are pygmies. They’re little midgets. They spent their lifetimes as voyeurs watching other people do real things... it strikes me that the president ought to establish a new rule and say, ‘Look, if you’re determined to be a midget, that’s fine. You’re not going to be at a press conference with me or my staff.' And I think they need to have a much tougher attitude towards the media and say, ‘I’m the president of the United States. You’re not. And if you’re not worthy of my talking to you, I’m not going to talk to you.’ ... Because the gap between how world leaders treat Donald Trump and how the American media treats him is inexcusably big.”