DC Tom

And I would like to add: Your all idiots.

I thought the Clinton impeachment was woefully silly...but at leas t it met an evidentiary stabdard greater than fourth-hand gossip.

That debate would devolve in to "Republicans want to kill grandma" nonsense inside of an hour. Trump isn't the problem. He's the symptom.

Is it really a leak if Schiff is leaking a lie?

I should hope so. It's honestly more worrisome that a president be ignorant about an investigation into foreign election interference, than for him to know about it and lie.

Hey, fun fact: Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, the Confederacy didn't. Face it, the CSA was stronger on civil liberties than the Union was.

Democratic reply: "Republicans want to focus on procedure, not the crime itself." Because Democrats truly believe the ends justify the means, and don't understand that the process of governance is ultimately more important than the results.

It's really bizarre, how many people I see saying "See, this exonerates everyone!" Uh...no, it doesn't. That's not what I read, at all. The report says, point-blank, that the professional conduct of everyone involved should be scrutinized. This is actually correct.

No, I really didn't.

"2016 called, they want their foreign policy back?" Yeah, you run with that.

Durham is colluding with Russians!

And the recommendations in the report, and the FBI's response to such (at the end of the report). Also interesting: the FBI may have tried to use the Presidential transition briefings for investigative purposes. I wish that were somehow against the rules...but there was no rule against interrogating the Presidential Transition Team during a transition briefing. It seems like that would just be common sense to me: don't bastardize the transition for a half-assed counter-intelligence investigation, but apparently we need a rule for that now.

I got the impression they followed it worse than usual - some people were professionally negligent (though not maliciously) with their confirmation bias, overweighting questionable evidence because it fit their preconceived notions. That's rather normal in investigations, of course...which is why processes should be in place to account for it; which, in this case, were not in place. Still amounts to bad process, but some people should still get their asses kicked for professional misconduct.

It leads with an executive summary, like all 500-page government reports. The end of the executive summary lists the IG's recommendations. Most of those are procedural; those that aren't I quoted - investigate Ohr, and review everyone else's professional conduct.

One interesting thing to come out of this that's going to be completely glossed over in the "Orange Man Bad" debate: the FISA application process had really weak safeguards. One would hope that a secret surveillance warrant process would have stronger requirements for issuing the warrant...but apparently, agents could easily cherry-pick the evidence they wanted to present with little in the way of supervision or oversight. That's encouraging. Just what I want in a secret surveillance warrant process.

You're really bad at this.

Looks like some people are going to get it in the back of the neck for their stupidity, though. But not Ohr. He's going to get ass-*****.

Yes...but that's not going to stop me from spinning ridiculous conspiracy theories out of this one, too.

Oh, shut the ***** up, you ***** dumbass. The report says they didn't even have enough suspicion of a Russian connection to investigate it. And you're still going to pretend "Russian collusion" is a fact?

Basically, a bunch of people ***** up, and engaged in wishful thinking. Whole lotta nothing.

The President doesn't have the authority to call witnesses in House committee hearings, dumbass.

Democrats think everything is a zero-sum game. It never occurs to them that it might be easier to negotiate a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine within the structure of the G8.

And the sitcom Benson.

Straight out of the Clinton playbook.

This is going to be so much nothing.