Opinion: Yes, Investigate the investigators
Its boosters didn’t experience it as such, of course. They enjoyed it and played it up and hoped for the very worst. But it cast a shadow over the White House, occupied an inordinate share of the nation’s political attention and saddled innocent people who were caught up in it with large legal bills.
Not to visit vengeance upon Trump enemies or “lock them up,” in the repurposed chant from Trump rallies, but to get to the truth, both for the sake of transparency and, one hopes, to avoid going down this route ever again. Everything is fair game is the era of nonstop investigations — except for the work of the people who stoked a yearslong hysteria about a nonscandal.
It may be that without the dossier there wouldn’t have been a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page. Barr is surely at least thinking of Page when he talks of spying during the campaign. It’s true that the FISA warrant on Page was approved after he had left the campaign, but the surveillance would have extended both forward and backward in time, to likely include campaign communications.
How was it that the FBI opened an investigation against the president when he fired its director? And why did it apparently think it could make an obstruction of justice case against Trump for acting within his lawful powers?
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