I've spoken tongue in cheek about the soap opera going on in DC that includes the DOJ's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election by posting a YouTube video of the famous comedy routine of Abbot and Costello - "Who's on First." It's not easy to keep up with the drama and I read a very good BBC piece on Sunday that laid out what's playing in DC as a 3 season rendering of "House of Cards" with a wiki like encapsulation of the drama and all it's characters. Very good.
Now we have the release by the FBI of the application for the FISA Warrant issued by the FISC to surveil one time Trump campaign FP advisor Carter Page. Bombshell one way or the other? Of course, Trump does his usual Tweet storm following the release of the FISA application asserting the entire FBI investigation is a "witch hunt." (see CGVT's post above - heh).
Anyway, probably because I think the issues surrounding the FBI investigation have been so ridiculously politicized and polarized appropriate Congressional oversight of it, I just didn't pay much attention to it. I wrote off the whole thing as politics as usual while at the same time thinking we should know as much as we can about Russian meddling in US elections so we can protect against it going forward, i.e., we should view the investigation as having little to do with by-stander DJT unless it can be proven he was involved ..... and so far that has not been the case.
So, message to Trump: STFU about this you tool. Message to Congress: stop the very public political bickering over this in the press and let Mueller finish his work and report results to you. Our national security depends on this getting done.
Fact of the matter is that the release of the FISA Application into the public domain really hasn't demonstrated anything substantial with regard to the investigation:
What the document released on Saturday does not detail is much of the rest of the story, or how much the FBI knew about Page's activities in 2016 that did not involve the reporting from Steele. Entire sections of the file, including one under the heading "Clandestine intelligence activities of the Russian Federation," are blacked out.
So, both sides should calm down and let the FBI do it's job. It's important.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/23/63134...-fisa-document
Now we have the release by the FBI of the application for the FISA Warrant issued by the FISC to surveil one time Trump campaign FP advisor Carter Page. Bombshell one way or the other? Of course, Trump does his usual Tweet storm following the release of the FISA application asserting the entire FBI investigation is a "witch hunt." (see CGVT's post above - heh).
Anyway, probably because I think the issues surrounding the FBI investigation have been so ridiculously politicized and polarized appropriate Congressional oversight of it, I just didn't pay much attention to it. I wrote off the whole thing as politics as usual while at the same time thinking we should know as much as we can about Russian meddling in US elections so we can protect against it going forward, i.e., we should view the investigation as having little to do with by-stander DJT unless it can be proven he was involved ..... and so far that has not been the case.
So, message to Trump: STFU about this you tool. Message to Congress: stop the very public political bickering over this in the press and let Mueller finish his work and report results to you. Our national security depends on this getting done.
Fact of the matter is that the release of the FISA Application into the public domain really hasn't demonstrated anything substantial with regard to the investigation:
What the document released on Saturday does not detail is much of the rest of the story, or how much the FBI knew about Page's activities in 2016 that did not involve the reporting from Steele. Entire sections of the file, including one under the heading "Clandestine intelligence activities of the Russian Federation," are blacked out.
So, both sides should calm down and let the FBI do it's job. It's important.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/23/63134...-fisa-document
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