"By the people, for the people?" Not so much.
The mainstream media has no desire to report information; rather, they strive to construct a narrative which condemns the Right and hails the Left. Therefore, the notion of making the GOP-authored memo detailing abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on the part of the FBI is, according to leftists in the media, unacceptable.
The potential abuses exposed by the memo -- spearheaded by Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Devin Nunes -- could soften the investigation going forward, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation continues its probe into possible Russian-Trump election collusion. Hence, according to the Big Three networks, making the report available to the public is a miscarriage of justice. In fact, according to CNN guest and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Kom Wehle, on Thursday's Wolf, it is a "scam on the American public" and a "Constitutional abomination":
"I’m...a Constitutional Law professor and I worked on Ken Starr’s Whitewater investigation. And I would say this is really a constitutional abomination and potentially a scam on the American public in that we have a three part system of government and the challenges here in the memo are to a judge’s decision to issue a warrant. That’s a judicial determination by an Article III judge and an Article II prosecutor making a determination to present that to the judge. So, in, in the memo itself, we know was actually created by a member of Congress. This is not some kind of factual piece of evidence that, they was in a file somewhere that actually demonstrates real-time information. This was a memo created by a partisan branch of, of the government. And so, the American people, regardless of which side they are on the aisle have to understand, this has severe consequences, potentially, to the integrity of our separation of powers. I mean, Paul Ryan has said 'this is about accountability' and this is not how accountability works in our tripartite structure of government."
The guests also discussed a statement by John Brennan -- former CIA Director -- denigrating the "political partisan behavior" on the part of Republican Representatives. According to Brennan, the GOP suffers from an "absence of moral and ethical leadership in Washington":
"Let me read to you and to our viewers, Jim, what the former CIA director John Brennan is now saying. He’s blasting Republicans for wanting to release this controversial memo. 'I had many fights with Congressional Dems, Democrats, over the years on national security matters. But I never witnessed the type of reckless partisan behavior I am now seeing from Nunes and House Republicans. Absence of moral and ethical leadership is why it’s fueling this government crisis. Let me repeat that. Absence of moral and ethical leadership in the White House is fueling this government crisis.' Those are serious, serious words."
Perhaps Brennan's stance against partisanship would have been best utilized when he still held a position of power, applied to the Internal Revenue's targeting of conservatives.
As the memo's disclosure approaches, the Left braces itself for impact, preemptively striking against anything that could derail their hoped-for crucifixion of Donald J. Trump. Across the major news networks, the smell of desperation looms. To those of us on the other side, it smells like victory. The world has changed, and they can't accept it. Gone is their divisive, apologist left-wing Savior, replaced by a billionaire who wants to Make America Great Again. We'll celebrate Trump, as they cry "abomination" -- it's so much better than an Obama nation.
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