FBI: Oversight is Crucial

Sonam Sheth has a new article today at Business Insider. New documents have been released to the oversight committee and I think Mr. Sheth did a good job of airing the concerns of Democrats who seem opposed to transparency. Let's dig in with a quote then.

 While Republicans say the requests are part of their congressional oversight responsibility, Democrats accuse their colleagues across the aisle of using classified information to play politics and compromise the Russia investigation.

A big part of the campaign to damage President Trump's administration has been the leaking of classified information by partisans within the DOJ and FBI. Then there was the shocking revelation of James Wolfe the director of The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence literally in bed with a journalist leaking classified information. So that we see, once again, Democrats accusing Republicans of doing what they have been caught doing.

"The immediate concern, said former CIA operative Glenn Carle, is that turning over information related to FISA records could compromise sources and methods."

Mr. Carle, when a secret court tasked to issue warrants for spying on terrorists and international criminal organizations is duped by officers of the court into issuing surveillance warrants on American citizens then oversight is justified. The documented partisan mindset of the officers involved makes it necessary to examine your precious sources and methods.  The Business Insider continued to quote Mr. Carle.

"If something is coming from an entire committee, rather than a party, then the government is speaking through that committee," he said. "If it's coming from one party, that indicates political bias and could skew the outcome and fly in the face of the oversight function itself." 

We have a situation unlike any in our history where the party in power, Democrats, used the offices of government to spy on the rival party during an election year. That Democrats have no interest in having their dirty laundry aired in public should be no great surprise. Mr. Carle seems to have no problems with the political bias which led us to this place.

Were they spying? What's the FISA court for, spying! I brought up the Business Insider story to point out the empty rhetoric on the left. Any reasonable person knows that if the roles and people involved in this had been reversed the leftists would have exploded in place. And rightfully so. Finally some sage observations by Alan Dershowitz at Fox Business.

“There has never been a more important time in our history for checks and balances to be operating, whether it’s regarding President Trump’s immigration policies, where we’re seeing checks and balances in play and whether it be the Mueller investigation,” Dershowitz said during an interview with FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Friday.

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