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NYTimes columnist, National Review film critic, author of The Decadent Society (2020) and The Deep Places (2021), jottings at https://douthat.substack.com 

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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

      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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    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

      There's "motivation" in the sense suggested by the president and some of his allies, where ppl in the FBI were supposedly *consciously* cooking up bogus intel in order to frame POTUS and his advisers. That always seemed implausible, and the report confirms its implausibility.

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    3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

      But there's also "motivation" in the sense of "motivated reasoning" -- reasoning that assumes guilt and cherry-picks around that assumption. That's what civil liberties ppl assume happens too often with, say, Muslims under FBI scrutiny. And it seems like what happened here.

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    4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

      Meaning: If you had a case where the FBI built a FISA application around implausible intel bc they wanted to surveil a mosque, you wouldn't necessarily call it a frame-up, but you also wouldn't call it just a bureaucratic accident.

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    5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

      You would say that a somewhat paranoid assumption of Muslim guilt led to highly credulous police work by agents easily taken in by hyped-up intel from dubious sources. Not a frame-up, but a motivated-reasoning fiasco.

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      Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

      And that's what happened here, seemingly: Agents became caught up in the wild Steele dossier narrative and the general establishment paranoia about Trump that they made bad choices -- not dishonestly, but credulously.

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        2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

          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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        3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 12 Dec 2019

          In summary:pic.twitter.com/ITlrt9UR3S

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        1. Creighton‏ @DohoGg 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @charlie_savage

          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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        2. Ken Goodrich‏ @KenGoodrich 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @charlie_savage

          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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        3. CanadianGuineaPig‏ @CanadianGuinea 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @KenGoodrich @DouthatNYT @charlie_savage

          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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        1. Austin Flack‏ @austinflack 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @charlie_savage

          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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        2. Gaetano Catelli‏ @LesbiasSparrow 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @charlie_savage

          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.@michaelbd @BrianLehrer @douglasbulloch @JonahDispatch @nytdavidbrooks @NYTimesCohen @RubinReport @EricRWeinstein

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        3. Gaetano Catelli‏ @LesbiasSparrow 12 Dec 2019
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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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        2. Frank Lloyd Righteous, Mr. Subjunctive‏ @BostonDelendEst 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @charlie_savage

          That is *at best* what happened here.

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        3. CHuck Fina‏ @TomDCL 12 Dec 2019
          Replying to @BostonDelendEst

          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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