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Links to a Realclearinvestigations story critical of Horowitz.

Short article, worth reading. Upshot - Horowitz will not deliver a hard-hitting review of FISA abuse. I agree with the prediction.

Fear not, Cbold. Disinfo is real. Disinfo is necessary.

Not afeared! From some deliberation, I don't think the absolutely outrageous conduct has squat in the way of criminal penalties. The government is by-and-large self-serving, while claiming to be serving the public. The laws are designed to protect law enforcement actors especially, from claims of misconduct. Otherwise the legal system would be swamped with claims, by crooks, of law enforcement misconduct. It's bad enough like that now, and no way are the floodgates going to be opened farther, in a systematic way.

It's going to be up to the public to figure out to channel its righteous indignation.

I've never come at the question from the other direction - what do you think the BEST outcome of the FISA abuse report could be. Let your imagination run with that. Who goes to jail? What systematic changes happen?

You'll get 20 people out of the FBI and DOJ. Comey, McCabe, Yates, Rosenstein, whatever agents filed "false" affidavits -- for the only possible wrongdoing that Horowitz is looking into, falsifying a warrant application in order to snoop on a political campaign.

I'll tell you what I think. I think the politically-motivated snooping on the Trump campaign is a tiny-tiny fraction of the abuse. I'd string 'em up or life in jail for perpetrating a hoax on the public for the last three years, a hoax that affected the president's ability to conduct foreign policy, public policy, and gain deserved popularity without a bunch of snakes lying about his character using the government as a cudgel.