Posted on 02/08/2018 4:53:38 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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How does FISA-gate compare to Watergate and Iran-Contra?
Once again, an administration is being accused of politicizing government agencies to further agendas, this time apparently to gain an advantage for Hillary Clinton in the run-up to an election.
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This time around, the press is not after a hated Nixon administration. Civil libertarians are not demanding accountability from a conservative Reagan team. Instead, the roles are reversed.
Barack Obama was a progressive constitutional lawyer who expressed distrust of the secretive "Deep State." Yet his administration weaponized the IRS and surveilled Associated Press communications and a Fox News journalist for reporting unfavorable news based on supposed leaks.
Obama did not fit the past stereotypes of right-wing authoritarians subverting the Department of Justice and its agencies. Perhaps that is why there was little pushback against his administration's efforts to assist the campaign of his likely replacement, fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Progressives are not supposed to destroy requested emails, "acid wash" hard drives, spread unverified and paid-for opposition research among government agencies, or use the DOJ and FBI to obtain warrants to snoop on the communications of American citizens.
FISA-gate may become a more worrisome scandal than either Watergate or Iran-Contra. Why? Because our defense against government wrongdoing -- the press -- is defending such actions, not uncovering them. Liberal and progressive voices are excusing, not airing, the excesses of the DOJ and FBI.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Yes, VDH was being sarcastic.
Don’t Restrict it with “Fisa-Gate” ... that is one tiny facet of OBAMAGATE!
“Not nearly sarcastic enough then...”
Yea, he blew it. You really have to follow VDH to understand that he knows Obama has trashed the Constitution from Day 1...and for the relatively few who do, then the sarcasm is understood.
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The scary thing to me is that so many powerful people seem to be involved in the conspiracy.
“Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer, she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the Committee, and the rules of confidentiality.”
A leopard doesn’t change its spots.
Also proposed putting "news monitors" in the newsrooms.
FISA-gate may become a more worrisome scandal than either Watergate or Iran-Contra. Why? Because our defense against government wrongdoing -- the press -- is defending such actions, not uncovering them. Liberal and progressive voices are excusing, not airing, the excesses of the DOJ and FBI.
Exactly. The press is the problem and has been for a long time.
Both of them had to surrender their licenses to practice law-—for different reasons. I think it is a lifetime ban, also.
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