If a president of one party is using his intelligence services to spy on the inner staff of the other party's nominee, there had better be an EXTREMELY good reason to do so. Those wiretaps (which the Dem's and MSM denied the existence of until yesterday) had better read like...bluetick wrote:Equally comical is Professor Tiger's passion that any revelations wrt what these crooked traitorous sumbitches were up to should be disallowed because they have 'special campaign immunity.'
Trump campaign official: "Sergei, if you can get Comrade Putin to deliver Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin to us, then we will win the election. If that happens, we will give you complete technical plans on the Ford-class aircraft carrier, the Virginia-class submarine, all the Russian codes that the NSA has hacked, and the identities of all the people in your government that are spying for us."
That would be worthy of a FISA and all the Democrat incontinence over Russia. If the investigations find stuff like that, then God bless them for saving us all:
But I doubt the investigations turn up anything like that. It'll probably be:
Trump campaign official: "Sergei, thanks for the specs on that promising oil field in Kamchatka that our joint exploration firm has been looking at. It really looks promising. Let's offer to buy at 15 million USD. But I'm willing to go as high as 20 if Dmitri plays hardball."
If the justification for spying on the staff of the opposition party turns out to be BS like that, then somebody needs to go to jail for weaponizing the first intelligence community for partisan purposes, just like Lois Lerner and John Koskinnen did with the IRS.