[thinden]

here's an interesting excerpt from the piece that stumbles around the question Liz proposed the congressional committee should be asking mccabe & strzok: "did the insurance plan include an attempted assassination"?

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The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that, “according to people familiar with his account,” Strzok meant that it was imperative that the FBI “aggressively investigate allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia.” In laughable strawman fashion, the “people familiar with his account” assure the Journal that Strzok “didn’t intend to suggest a secret plan to harm the candidate.” Of course, no sensible person suspects that the FBI was plotting Trump’s assassination; the suspicion is that, motivated by partisanship and spurred by shoddy information that it failed to verify, the FBI exploited its counterintelligence powers in hopes of derailing Trump’s presidential run.

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this "clarification" by national review author seemed to come out of nowhere, imo.

[Liz]

Of course, no sensible person suspects that the FBI was plotting Trump’s assassination; the suspicion is
that, motivated by partisanship and spurred by shoddy information that it failed to verify, the FBI
exploited its counterintelligence powers in hopes of derailing Trump’s presidential run.

Assassinations? Oh, that's the CIA's specialty.

[hoosiermama]

GEE assignation was the first thing I thought of and until they prove it was something else I’m sticking to it!

[The Westerner]

When I read the text about insurance, I knew he meant the unthinkable, These people subsequently acted according to this very plan day by day as Inauguration approached. They had no limits. I believe only Trump and his brain trust of superior intellects saved his life, his transition, his candidacy.

If any of you came of age during the violent days of the Weather Underground (Bill Ayers) and the Black Panthers (Hillary Rodham), you know these people stop at nothing.