Barr wants to know if U.S. intelligence agencies were used to spy illegally on Americans, or if they outsourced that to friendly foreign services and then recovered the information from them.
These joint efforts will show whether there were good legal reasons to spy on Americans, whether the secret intelligence courts were given complete and honest information before they issued search warrants, whether top officials leaked secret information to the media, and whether U.S. intelligence agencies evaded that restriction.
We don't know how big the scandal is, how extensive the coordination was, and how far up it went.
We certainly need to know, just as we needed to know if Donald Trump won the presidency by cooperating with a hostile foreign power.
Now, we need to know if the U.S. government itself worked secretly and illegally to prevent his election and, when that failed, to damage his new presidency.
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," he wrote in Federalist Paper 51, "The great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." Under Comey, Lynch, Brennan, and Clapper, under Obama and Biden, it failed to control itself.
As the evidence comes out, a hard rain's gonna fall.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/28/a_hard_rains_gonna_fall_on_obamas_bad_cops_and_spies_140429.html
These joint efforts will show whether there were good legal reasons to spy on Americans, whether the secret intelligence courts were given complete and honest information before they issued search warrants, whether top officials leaked secret information to the media, and whether U.S. intelligence agencies evaded that restriction.
We don't know how big the scandal is, how extensive the coordination was, and how far up it went.
We certainly need to know, just as we needed to know if Donald Trump won the presidency by cooperating with a hostile foreign power.
Now, we need to know if the U.S. government itself worked secretly and illegally to prevent his election and, when that failed, to damage his new presidency.
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men," he wrote in Federalist Paper 51, "The great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." Under Comey, Lynch, Brennan, and Clapper, under Obama and Biden, it failed to control itself.
As the evidence comes out, a hard rain's gonna fall.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/28/a_hard_rains_gonna_fall_on_obamas_bad_cops_and_spies_140429.html
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