Arrrgh!! What the hell is going on in DC with our “US Officials” AND our news media?
An article with the above title just went up (Oct 31) on the New York Times from the 2 reporters (By ERIC LICHTBLAU and STEVEN LEE MYERS) cited in the Slate Article entitled Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead — which they ultimately came to doubt — about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.
I thought the FBI doesn’t comment on on-going investigations, but it sure seems like they are perfectly happy to comment that there’s no there there when it comes to Trump. The Slate article appears, the Clinton campaign questions it, and BOOM!
This article almost immediately appears from Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Meyers of the NYT.
Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.
Hey folks, you’re questioning that there may be questionable issues with the Trump campaign? Well, within hours, a couple of NYT reporters get right on reporting about Hillary’s angry supporters and that there’s nothing to see here with Mr. Trump and Alfa Bank, move along.
But, for Hillary?
The head of the FBI sends an unprecedented, against decades of policy, POS letter full of innuendo and sans ANY facts, to a Republican Congressman who has it in for Hillary, and despite bipartisan outcry — what does Hillary get?
Well, it’s been 3 whole days, and our “US Officials,” including Comey, have yet to say one way or the other if anything Comey wrote about has anything to do with, anything!
We get crickets.
Trump gets an immediate, full article saying, “ … Mr. Trump himself has not become a target. And no evidence has emerged that would link him or anyone else in his business or political circle directly to Russia’s election operations.”
Oh, and if that doesn’t piss you off enough, NYT Lichtblau and Meyers end their article with a quote from Roger Stone on Breitbart accusing Michael J. Morell with McCarthyism.
Mr. Stone derided the accusations and those raised by Michael J. Morell, a former C.I.A. director and a Clinton supporter, who has called Mr. Trump “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” In an article on the conservative news site Breitbart, Mr. Stone denied having links to Russians and called the accusations “the new McCarthyism.”
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The above quote is how Lichtblau and Meyers of the NYT ended their article.
Seriously?
WE’RE the new McCarthyites?
Is anyone else feeling like they’re living on the other side of a broken looking glass, because I sure am.