I ran across a post at Sad And Useless yesterday about Modern Journalism. Go ahead and click the link first…..OK, now you have an idea of the over-the-top, unhinged, make everything beyond rationality journalism of today. Moving forward, we get this bit of insanity by Norman Eisen, Caroline Fredrickson, and Noah Bookbinder at Politico
Trump’s Saturday Night Massacre Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes
The FBI issued an extraordinary statement on Wednesday, pushing back on the release of a partisan congressional memo alleging the bureau used improper evidence to obtain legal permission to surveil a Trump campaign adviser. We’ve never seen anything like it. “[T]he FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,†the bureau said. “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.â€
As John Hinderaker explains, he has grave concerns, too. Concerns that the FBI and DOJ acted beyond improperly in the runup to the 2016 elections, and have become beyond politicized.
The memo, written by Congressman Devin Nunes and barreling toward public circulation at the president’s discretion, has already created a firestorm, and it is not even out yet. Nunes fired back at the FBI hours later, claiming, “It’s clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counterintelligence investigation during an American political campaign.â€
Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: This memo is the latest escalation in an eight-month effort to tarnish the Russia investigation that might be the most significant smear campaign against the executive branch since Joe McCarthy—only here, the effort is being led by the head of that branch himself. As the New York Times reported, the Nunes memo seems like a dagger aimed by President Trump at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is supervising the Russia probe for the Justice Department.
Interestingly, that 8 month effort has brought forth nothing that shows collusion, and no wrong-doing in line with the whole idea of the investigation. There have been a few process issues, and Mueller and his team have gone way off track in looking at things that have nothing to do with Russian interference. After all this time, one would think there would be something. Something that says “hey, there was collusion!” Which, while despicable, would not be illegal.
Unlike the investigation into Watergate, which is where the Saturday Night Massacre comes from, when “Nixon fired fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus.”
Hinderaker wrote
I’m so old, I can remember when liberals were in favor of revealing corruption in institutions like the FBI. Those days, of course, are long gone.
Yes, they are. They know there are serious problems in the FBI and DOJ. The Nunes memo will expose some of that corruption and politicization. And it could be the start of exposing Obama and his cronies. Which is why you get turn the volume to 11 articles like the Politico one.
