Reading @charlie_savage on the FISA failures, it seems like the incompetence defense - "it shows the process is always bad, not that they were politically motivated" - doesn't distinguish sufficiently btw two different ways of being "motivated."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-fbi.html …
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So if this indicts the whole system, it indicts it for paranoid credulity ... and if the FBI was swamped by paranoid credulity about Manchurian-Trump then they *did* effectively have anti-Trump motivations. Just not the simplistic and evil ones suggested by, well, Trump himself.
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Surprised you're brave enough to make a call this early in the process. Personally, I'm going with political bias.
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What explains the actions of Comey, McCabe, et al in the Clinton investigation? Making a statement about her case in July, then publicly re-opening the case in October. What motivated that?
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They found new emails that have been spread out and they had to account for them. it’s like her information wasn’t properly secured and was on every damn fucking computer they had access to.
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Maybe because, at that point: - it was crystal clear that the DNC was hacked by Russia, who was releasing their emails for Trump’s benefit. -Trump had already done “Russia, if you’re listening.” -The Manafort investigation was already well-developed.
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It's easy to believe some mistaken narratives (eg, Iraq & WMD's). But no one, incl Comey, believed Steele's absurdities until 'motivated' to do so by McCain. No sale.
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FBI atty Kevin Clinesmith's changing "yes" to "no" on an email from the CIA in order to keep using Page's contact with Russia as a pretext for continuing to spy on
@realDonaldTrump isn't "motivated reasoning". It's motivated *lying*.
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That is *at best* what happened here.
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It's totally innocent bc if a similar fever dream narrative had been cooked up about Obama, the FBI would have gone guns blazing after that, too. For sure.
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