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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInteresting comments from a WSJ columnist re Comey and Hillary
The whole piece did not make much sense to me, and I will give the link but these first two paragraphs got me: wow!
Trump and Americas Choice
By Holman W. Jenkins, J
(snip)
Mr. Trump likely never would have been elected in 2016 without FBI chief James Comeys insubordinate and improper actions, the most important details of which are still hidden in the only part of the scathing 2018 Justice Department inspector general postmortems on Mr. Comeys tenure to remain sealed under a top-secret classification.
The public knows only that, internally at the FBI and later in closed hearings of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, Mr. Comey justified his actions by citing false and likely fabricated Russian intelligence. His intervention culminated in his reopening of the email case 11 days before the election, which Hillary Clinton, independent pollsters and Mr. Comeys own FBI colleagues say caused Mr. Trumps victory.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-and-americas-choice-election-voters-harris-poses-risks-too-election-obama-cfc875b5?st=gALUg3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ocelot II
(119,835 posts)and is reliably full of shit.
I'm not defending Comey here, but his decision to re-open Hillary's email investigation wasn't on account of "false and likely fabricated Russian intelligence." He had other reasons, which weren't good ones, but they weren't related to Russia. Comey later headed an entirely separate investigation into alleged ties between Trump's campaign and Russia, and the Russian interference turned out to be real. Jenkins is still trying to deny that there was Russian interference.
It also tells you something about intelligence leaks. They dont happen by accident. They arent products of journalistic enterprise. They happen because somebody with a high degree of political immunity decides to leak something for a strategic purpose. Its notable, then, that the extremely newsy findings of the secret inspector generals report remain unleaked after five years.
Finally, the episode tells you something about the election were havinghow it got ramped up into an existential crisis, Mr. Trump and his establishment enemies resorting to every kind of demagoguery, conspiracy theorizing and name calling.
Again, bullshit. The demagoguery and conspiracy theorizing is entirely on the GOP side. Trump's "establishment enemies"? Who would those be, pray tell?
But it's the Wall Street Urinal, and this douche is on their editorial board, so...
stopdiggin
(12,614 posts)thorough job of deconstruction.