What the NYT has in the article is a well constructed and brutally familiar pattern of what journalism looks like when the IC use reporters to cover their tracks and create a justification based on a false premise. The Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, Nellie Ohr etc. and subsequent Christopher Steele origin of the FISA application source material is a risk to the former leadership within the DOJ National Security Division and FBI Counterintelligence Division. That’s why both FBI and DOJ sides of this intelligence operation need to create a false origin. The actual FISA application content is a much more explosive risk.
And there it is, in short pants.
The traitor's tent poles are beginning to crack, and they know it.
But here is another observation: if the guilty are really at risk of being exposed, then the Deep State has two choices.
1. Double Down and fight even harder
2. Throw out a few sacrficial victims and move on
Take a look at this cartoon by the brilliant Ben Garrison. His interpretation is largely correct.
The Deep State is vast, and encompasses much, much more than partisan Washington journalists and corrupt low level FBI agents.
If the Deep States recognizes that their tactics to destroy Trump have not only failed, but backfired, I would anticipate that they would shift gears.
Watch for that.