For two years the media pounded away at the idea that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, even though there was no evidence and never anything more than reckless whispers to suggest there was. It didn’t matter. It happened.
Where there was smoke, there was fire, even though the smoke in this case was like the kind manufactured by smoke machines at concerts. The media were sure there was something to it and they went on about it daily, booking irresponsible guests like John Brennan and James Clapper to hear their baseless claims that they had information to prove it.
It was all a lie, but you heard it day after day after day for two years.
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And Robert Mueller was the patron saint of truth and justice, and had to be protected at all costs, until he announced that he had found no collusion.
Now, by contrast, there is plenty of evidence that the Obama Justice Department falsely conjured up nonsense pretexts to justify the “Trump/Russia collusion” investigation. We have seen much of the FISA wiretap application that was based almost entirely on the garbage Steele Dossier. We have seen the texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. We have a pretty good idea who leaked the Mike Flynn conversations with his Russian counterparts.
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There is lots of reason to think something was rotten here, and it’s easy to see why Attorney General William Barr would want to look into it. But don’t tell that to the mainstream media. They can’t imagine for the life of them why Barr would have any concerns whatsoever, as Reuters voices here in classic fashion:
“I think spying did occur,” Barr said. “But the question is whether it was adequately predicated and I am not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated.”
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He later declined to elaborate on why he has concerns.
Now look, I’m not asking the media to carry water for this suspicion like they did for the Russia thing. I don’t want them to do that.
But they are well aware of the reasons for suspicion that something was very amiss in the way this investigation started, and for notions that it might have been directed from the highest levels of the Obama Administration for political reasons. And if you are wondering what I mean by “the highest levels of the Obama Administration,” please refer to the first word of “Obama Administration.”
The media’s default stance on this is that every concern Trump has expressed is automatically invalid because Trump has expressed it. And they pretty much take the same tact with Devin Nunes, who as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee last year uncovered a treasure trove of evidence that this whole thing was not on the level.
The media basically echoed the Democrats’ claim that Nunes’s work was “an attack on the independence of the FBI.”
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About that: The FBI is not “independent.” The FBI is part of the executive branch and is answerable to the president and to the law. If the FBI abuses its power, it needs to be held to account. And if the FBI abuses it’s power because the president told it to, then we really need to know about that.
I have every confidence that Attorney General Barr will play this straight and tell us what he learns. And I expect what he tells us will be explosive.
I have no confidence the news media will treat it that way. They’re going to turn a blind eye to a scandal bigger than Watergate – the abuse of federal law enforcement to spy on an opposing party’s presidential campaign – because it’s a Barack Obama scandal and those cannot exist.
