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Thanks for that Atlantic article . It helped me to calm down!
ReplyDeleteSo the FBI used an informant to investigate Russian ties
ReplyDeleteto Trump's campaign, but not to spy. Sure. OK. Which I
guess also makes it OK for the FBI and Justice Department
to justify their refusal to turn over documents related to
the issue.
The Story Must be Told because Democracy Dies in
Darkness says our friend the Washington Post. Except in
this case, or pretty much anything else associated
positively with the current President. This time, pretty
much everyone's OK with law enforcement and U.S.
intelligence services injecting themselves into partisan
politics. Good luck with that in the future.
The FBI has infiltrated criminal, political, and other organizations for a hundred years. Sometimes it's for political purposes, like to find "communists" in unions or Hollywood, or to discredit Martin Luther King. In this case, it was to investigate Russian interference in the election.
ReplyDeleteIf they had been in there to hurt Trump's campaign, they would have done something to hurt his chances in the election, which they did not. The FBI instead, did something to hurt Clinton before the election.