Long story short:
The MSM/Dem narrative is going to be: The intel community did Trump a favor by keeping their espionage into his campaign a secret so the American public wouldn’t know he was under investigation prior to the election.
The answer to which is:
The FBI was not conducting a criminal investigation. They couldn’t, there was no crime. So they could not say that he was under investigation.
What the FBI was conducting was (is?) a counter-intelligence operation. Think what would have been the reaction of the public if this was known. But by its very nature, a counter-intel op is secret, so they would never have revealed it.
Andrew McCarthy easily refutes that argument. The counter intelligence effort was required by law to be conducted in secret. People would have broken the law if they had talked about it publicly. They ginned up the CI effort specifically to conduct it in secret.
If the MSM and Dems use that narrative, they will be easily and quickly demolished.
Thanks. Very insightful and succinct.