The memo alleges abuses by top officials of the FBI and the
Asked about the political hate coming his way, Nunes said, "It's actually quite enjoyable. You know you're over the target when you're being attacked."
Each side wants to convince Americans that they're on the side of the angels. But if you look for angels in politics, you are apt to be driven mad.
And before the left pulls out one more strand of hair in anger, or makes one more banshee scream of outrage on cable news or in social media over "the memo," I'd like them to at least have the decency to consider the following:
What if it came out that a Republican-funded opposition research dossier against presidential candidate
And what if the federal judge who granted the warrant wasn't told that the partisan oppo-research was the basis of the surveillance warrant?
Or, what if senior FBI officials running the investigation of Obama had expressed loathing for the candidate and his voters?
What would the
About the same thing they're doing now, pulling out their hair and screaming like banshees, and wailing about institutional racism and the usual litany of complaints.
They'd shriek that the federal FISA judge was lied to by the Deep State to chop the legs from under a president, and that the country is going to hell and the
What we're looking at is politics.
It was politics when the political left loved
But now,
Now that he's special prosecutor investigating Trump, his final report could provide a political basis for
So we're in the Upside Down now. You see how this goes. You can see where it's going.
The best thing to do in this business of the president and the investigation and the memo is to have everything released, all the information, and hope that the American people actually care enough about their country to read it, rather than accept the spin by some that it's a nothing burger, and the spin by others that it's a book of revelations.
Americans should read the Republican memo, and also read the complete rebuttal from the
And also read the
What would be best is if we could all read the FBI's FISA application used against Trump, which
If this is, in fact, true, then it is an outrage and an assault on our freedom. If it is not, we best know it quickly.
Getting all this out in the open is preferable to relying on whispers and leaks from shielded investigators to political hacks.
And while the partisans are either pro-Trump or anti-Trump, there's something else that may be even more important.
It's the argument -- once offered by big-government
The only branch of our government to have proper oversight is
But in the damp swampy shadows, where there is little sunlight, infections tend to grow.
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John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune who also hosts a radio show on WLS-AM.