Why isn’t everyone calling for Congressional hearings and/or an IG investigation into this? Look, the reality is we don’t know what was in the FISA application. Trey Gowdy does, and he says nothing in the memo discredits the Mueller investigation. If there were truly abnormalities and illegalities in getting the FISA warrant, I think they should be fully investigated and the guilty parties should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. No one seems all that interested in actual justice though; they seem to only want to use these allegations for partisan reasons to go after Rosenstein and/or Mueller.
I think we need to kick off Congressional hearings and/or an IG investigation to review the actual FISA application and to hear directly from McCabe, Yates, Boente, and Rosenstein, and if these folks broke the law, they should be prosecuted. That’s the appropriate process IMO – not releasing a partial partisan Republican memo while refusing to release the companion partial partisan Democratic rebuttal. I say let’s hear from those folks in the middle of this before we pronounce them guilty (especially since we don’t have access to the underlying intelligence that formed the basis for 4 FISA warrants). Just my $0.02.
I think that there is more than sufficient evidence for grand juries to consider already!
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