Unprecedented!

Unprecedented!  What a great word.  It seems like all we hear these days about the political maelstrom enveloping the government is that everything is unprecedented.  I can’t argue that each day brings unprecedented events from the Trump administration, almost all of them bad. 

Today, Friday, we are all waiting breathlessly for “The Memo” to be released(it may have even been written and edited) by the White House.  It has already been panned and the disassembling of the memo is set to begin immediately.  What is unprecedented is the absolute stupidity and malfeasance being exhibited by the Republicans who really believe this is going to be the ‘coup de gras’ for the FBI and Mueller investigation.

The FBI and the DOJ have repeatedly warned the House Republicans and the President that releasing this memo will compromise classified material and national security.  Remember how Trump railed about Hillary’s reckless exposure of classified materials on a personal server?  How is that more feckless than purposely releasing secret material by the sitting President to damage the reputation of his own FBI and Justice Department?

What is worse is that this action is an effort to undermine the serious investigation into the President’s obstruction of justice and collusion with the Russians that has left this country vulnerable to a foreign power’s mischief.  (In fact, why has nothing been done by this administration to protect our country against further continuing intrusion and attack?)

What is clear is that the Republican Party has fully surrendered.  They are now not Republicans….they are Trumpists, and they may be doing more damage to our democracy than even the Russians can do!

The effort to disparage the FBI, and by association the investigation, hinges on the Republicans making a case for some sort of biased decision by Rod Rosenstein, the acting AG, to extend the FISA surveillance on Carter Page.  Page has been in the sights of our intelligence community for over 3 years as a willing or unwitting agent being cultivated by Russian intelligence while working for the Trump campaign, transition and presidency over the past three years.  There was no question his surveillance needed to be extended.  Yet now, the President and his cronies on the House Intelligence Committee are trying to hang this extension on Rod Rosenstein and the FBI as the most egregious of biased acts.  How foolish!

Apparently, Devin Nunes, the Chairman of the House Intel Committee, has not even read the underlying top secret material that his ‘memo’ is based on.  In fact, the only member of that committee that has actually read the underlying documents is Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member.  Worse, Nunes wrote the Memo and apparently cherry-picked unread facts to support this sham effort.  The FBI has already commented that not all the facts are included in this document.

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This is all going to backfire on Trump and the Trumpists because it is based on shoddy work that will be exposed for what it really is over the following weeks after the release.  Oh well, why should we be surprised since all of this madness is just another distraction to turn our attention away from the unrelenting tightening of the evidence against the administration for obstruction and collusion.

Yep, it's unprecedented!