Tucker Carlson with a great opening statement on this interesting turn of events (it's a video):
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/1...rt-trump-tower
Remember, 6 months ago Trump claimed Trump Tower was wiretapped. It now seems likely that he was right, b/c the FISA court did OK wiretapping of Manefort.
Now we can debate if that guy was supposed to be investigated, if he is guilty, etc. IN this case IMO it really doesn't matter, b/c what I'm fearing isn't Russian collusion to subvert our democracy, but our own institutions and leaders subverting our democracy.
Basically, we don't need Russian help to end liberty in this country, we're doing it to ourselves.
How?
Well, first we have the FISA court, which is all but beyond review, and completely secret. There is no way for the American people to ever determine even post facto that an investigation into someone was fair or persecution. NO way for the People to know what was done.
Then there's the fact that once Trump tweeted about this, that numerous senior people all denied there was any evidence whatosever of a wiretap. Well there apparently WAS a wiretap, obvious evidence that almost assuredly included Trump Tower and may have captured talks between Manafort and others in the campaign. This included denials by the House Speaker, the ranking members of the senate intel committee and the Attorney General.
So we're left with two, equally bad, conclusions:
1) They lied. After all these people ARE supposed to be privy to the orders of the FISA court, they have the clearance. They should have known there were such things, and they didn't just say narrowly that Trump wasn't recorded etc. but acted as if the whole idea was just crazy talk. If that's the case then ranking members of both parties all closed ranks as elites who run this country and lied to the entire American people jointly.
2) They didn't know. This is just as bad if not worse, b/c it means the Deep State is out there getting warrants from FISA for about anything they want without oversight from elected officials. If the ranking members of the Congress and the Dept of Justice didn't know, then we have a deeply rogue government.
I'm not defending Trump on this, I dont' know who is guilty of what, but I'm deeply fearful of how this is playing out, and IMO worrying about Russia undermining us is way down the list of threats to our democracy and nation. WAY down. If this Great Experiment ends it will be b/c we ended it ourselves, not b/c of some outside influence.
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