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The FISA Warrant

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OK, one post (at least) before I hit the road. The big news this weekend, is that Judicial Watch (finally) got a (heavily redacted) copy. Of course, the mainstream media is lying (or to be more charitable, ignorant and desperate to maintain the narrative) about its implications. I’m seeing lots of tweets from partisan hacks in both media and politics (like Adam Schiff) that this somehow undermines the Nunes memo, when in fact it supports it.

It’s been amazing how both sides can look at the same fact pattern here, and see a completely different narrative. It’s almost like the blue/yellow dress, or the “Laurel/Yammy” thing. The other thing that’s amazing is the dramatic historical role reversal, with Democrats defending the (corrupted) intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, and going into full McCarthy mode over Russia Russia Russia. Not to mention the amnesia about the Obama administration and “the eighties called, they want their foreign policy back.”

I’d expand on this and dredge up more links if I had more time, but I have to hit the road. But feel free to comment.

[Update a few minutes later]

The FBI goes full Nixon with the FISA report.

This is a clear abuse of power, and a much bigger scandal than Watergate, perhaps the greatest one in the nation’s history.

[Tuesday-afternoon update]

Byron York: The next step is to declassify the entire thing. I think it would be better to bring in someone else to go through it with White House staff, maybe out of Bolton’s office, to determine which things would actually damage NatSec if declassified, and which are only covering up the obstruction of justice and abuse of power.

[Update a couple minutes later]

OK, not what I’ve read the piece myself, that’s basically what they’re proposing, so it’s a misleading hed. Probably not Byron’s fault.

7 thoughts on “The FISA Warrant”

  2. Judicial Watch has done more to shed light on the Obama administration than any other organization, especially the media. The corruption and abuses of power that Judicial Watch revealed are the things that our media should be concerned about but we wouldn’t know anything about them if we relied on the media. Guess this explains why the Obama administration went so hard after groups they didn’t like.

    It’s been amazing how both sides can look at the same fact pattern here, and see a completely different narrative.

    Yes. One thinks that a President colluded with the Russians to influence an election and that President is doing something to help Russia somehow. The other thinks a President abused state powers to spy on opposing political campaigns, rig outcomes to investigations of both candidates, and is now engaged in a coup.

    Neither possibility is good for our country and while our media has been very heavy into pushing the what if Trump did collude angle, they really need to examine the more likely angle of what if Obama abused his power this way because if that is true, and most of what is known to the public supports this, it really is the biggest scandal in American history.

    It is going to be incredibly hard to get the media to cover this because they were active participants in helping Obama cover up his scandals and in engineering the Russian Collusion narrative. Admitting they were not only wrong but that they participated would ruin journalism for a generation and I can’t see them voluntarily doing that no matter what we find out.

    Someone did a great job tearing down our institutions and the public’s trust in them, but it wasn’t Trump.

  3. I’m having a hard time seeing the other fact pattern, and it goes back to the joke that is the Steele Dossier. It appeared absurd from the beginning, and I never accepted it as factual in any way. It seems my mistake was never believing that the FBI/CIA/NSA would be above peddling something like this.

    I’ve been thinking of those, like Andrew McCarthy, who felt passionately that the government wouldn’t be this abusive, at least not the LEO types. I suppose I can understand his view. What I wonder is how did he miss the IRS abuse? Or before that, Eric Holder being held in contempt of Congress and nobody in the DoJ caring. And if you are on the left, the claims of Iraq WMD, which was the CIA and NSA. So why no skepticism?

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  5. “The other thing that’s amazing is the dramatic historical role reversal, with Democrats defending the (corrupted) intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, and going into full McCarthy mode over Russia Russia Russia.”

    That’s easy to explain. I’ll describe it in two posts.

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