emptywheel

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.

Well, you're misportraying what actually happened. I'm more fact-checking you than telling you what you're concerned about. Perhaps you're concerned bc you misunderstand dates? Or love foreign spies? I don't know why you're concerned.

I’m fascinated with how sure you are that you’re correct. What will you do if you’re not? Because the facts aren’t actually known yet. Will you still stubbornly insist you’re right?

Do you admit that you can subtract 90 + 90 days from April 27 in reliable fashion?

Laugh as much as you like but if the dossier was used to justify mall of this, and it appears it was, none of this is valid and it’s all been a waste of time.

Um. Why is DOJ panicking about the response of our foreign partners and other IC components if the dossier justified "all" of this? That's a laughable claim.