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On Monday, while most Americans were remembering the sacrifice of
fallen service members, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,
gave instruction to the mainstream media via tweet. The chief
Democrat of the U.S. Senate wants President Donald Trump to be taken to
task for using the term “Spygate” and insists that there is “absolutely
no evidence of a spy” being placed in the 2016 Trump campaign.
Two things:
First, to quote the great Mark
Levin, “the evidence is overwhelming” that there was an informant
involved in disseminating intelligence about the Trump campaign to the
CIA and the FBI. Both the New
York Times and the Washington
Post reported it. The Daily Caller connected
the dots and identified Stefan Halper, a
Cambridge professor with ties to the CIA and the British intelligence
agency MI-6, as the “informant.” The argument over whether an
“informant” is the same thing as a “spy” is semantics. Halper was tasked
by the FBI to meet Trump campaign officials and report any evidence of
Russian collusion (there is still no evidence so far). An individual who
gathers intelligence and reports it sounds an awful lot like a spy.
Second, who does Chuck Schumer think he is to give orders to the
mainstream media? A United States government official has no business
giving editorial direction to reporters — and, of course, it’s dishonest
direction at that. The fact is — reporters are still supposed to use
facts — that Trump’s campaign was surveilled and there was at least one
individual, Halper, who approached members of the campaign under false
pretenses to gather information to report to the government.
Actually, one more thing.
As National Review’s Andy McCarthy points out in his column from the
weekend, the spy
name game is a distraction from the real question: On what
grounds did the Obama administration begin a counterintelligence
investigation using “police
state tactics” against the Trump campaign?
“In the end, it is not about who the spies are. It is about why
they were spying,” McCarthy writes.
Chuck Schumer doesn’t want that question answered, and so here he is
distracting from the issue at hand.
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