emptywheel

Yeah. I absolutely am. It doesn’t matter what you wrote on your blog. You’re defending it right now. That kinda makes you hypocritical.

No. I'm saying people who ONLY NOW have discovered problems with how FISA launders dodgy intel are obviously 1) ignorant and/or 2) partisan opportunists.

And once I pointed that out to you you claimed I was defending the dossier, which couldn't be more hysterical.

An entire narrative swept the country over a fictional dossier. Americans were spied on. It was used by an admin to target people, politically. People need to go to prison over this.

You're arguing that a good faith belief, based on far more than the dossier, that Russians are recruiting people is political? Your worries about foreign recruiting turn off during elections?

No I never actually had hysterics over it in the first place. Welcome to reality. It’s been going on since politics were invented. I’m much more concerned with the weaponization of our IC and LE for politics. That’s a big problem.

No. You're concerned that bc some of the people Trump employed were of pre-existing (by years!) CI interest, the subsequent investigation affected those same people post-campaign.

Now you’re telling me what I’m concerned about? How arrogant.