There's nothing worse for the credibility of all of Washington than an intel "leak off" -- entering a potentially destructive phase.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) March 22, 2017
ADDED: "President Donald Trump said he felt 'somewhat' vindicated on his wiretapping claims against former President Barack Obama after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he had seen evidence that members of the Trump transition teams were surveilled following November’s election."
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 204 of 204Then, you call the Ranking Member (Rep. Adam Schiff), get him in the room with you.
Not unless you want the whistleblower’s name to appear the next day in the NYT. I’ll be blunt: That you would trust that whore Schiff with the name of a whistleblower with info that could be positive for Trump reveals a total lack of reality, Chuck.
It appears that those most dangerous to democracy are those who fondly imagine they're defending it. Here in these comments we hear the kind hysterical, paranoid, innuendo-filled, conspiracy-theorist, “Treason!!”-shouted ravings that now pervade political discourse from the so-called “Democratic” left in this country.
After many months of such fact-free innuendo, however, we're finally about to be exposed to solid information about the nature of the supposed Trump/Russian collusion which purportedly swung the election — which as it turns out flat doesn't exist. As a result the whole Democratic post-election narrative appears to be about to disintegrate in tatters.
Glenn Greenwald (who of course is very far from being a right-winger) has noticed this: that Democratic leaders in Congress — as well as high Obama administration intelligence officials such as former acting CIA chief Michael Morell and former director of national intelligence James Clapper — are stepping away from the heated rhetoric that for so many months since the election has enthralled the Democrats' heavily conspiracy-theorist base; meanwhile gingerly attempting to steer their avid base towards grim realization that their enthusiasm for the “Trump is Russia & Putin's bitch” narrative ultimately has NO — zero, zilch — solid evidence behind it.
As a result — as hearings commence in congressional committees concerning the matter — this latter fact will soon become glaringly evident to the American public. Thus, one can foresee, as Greenwald does, that the Great Democratic Narrative, post the November election, is about to ignominiously collapse.
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After quoting Obama's intelligence chiefs, Senate Democrats and other Democratic officials' recent observations in this regard — which, once again, is that they (Obama's intelligence chiefs!!, etc.) know of NO such evidence — Greenwald warns:
For so long, Democrats demonized and smeared anyone trying to inject basic reason, rationality, and skepticism into this Trump/Russia discourse by labeling them all Kremlin agents and Putin lovers. Just this week, the Center for American Progress released a report using the language of treason to announce the existence of a “Fifth Column” in the U.S. that serves Russia (similar to Andrew Sullivan’s notorious 2001 decree that anyone opposing the war on terror composed an anti-American “Fifth Column”), while John McCain listened to Rand Paul express doubts about the wisdom of NATO further expanding to include Montenegro and then promptly announced: “Paul is working for Vladimir Putin.”
But with serious doubts — and fears — now emerging about what the Democratic base has been led to believe by self-interested carnival barkers and partisan hacks, there is a sudden, concerted effort to rein in the excesses of this story. With so many people now doing this, it will be increasingly difficult to smear them all as traitors and Russian loyalists, but it may be far too little, too late, given the pitched hysteria that has been deliberately cultivated around these issues for months. Many Democrats have reached the classic stage of deranged conspiracists where evidence that disproves the theory is viewed as further proof of its existence, and those pointing to it are instantly deemed suspect.
[…] [T]he silver bullet that Democrats have been led to expect will sink Trump appears further away than ever.
But given the way these Russia conspiracies have drowned out other critical issues being virtually ignored under the Trump presidency, it’s vital that everything be done now to make clear what is based in evidence and what is based in partisan delusions. And most of what the Democratic base has been fed for the last six months by their unhinged stable of media, online, and party leaders has decisively fallen into the latter category, as even their own officials are now desperately trying to warn.
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As Glenn Reynolds the Instapundit commented, we're in a strange place when Glenn Greenwald becomes the voice of sanity, but that's where we are.
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