To recap, after two weeks of hunting for a "mole" in the Trump campaign, the New York Times and Washington Post both printed incredibly detailed descriptions of Halper - printing all but his name, solidly corroborating a March report by the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross about Halper's meetings with the Trump aides. Neither publication give Ross credit, of course.
Somehow several anti-Trump intellectuals got their wires crossed, conflating President Trump and Senate Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes' calls for transparency by the DOJ, with the actual media outlets that exposed Halper.
Senior Brookings Institute fellow, and James Comey's close friend, Benjamin Wittes is beside himself - angrily tweeting: "I have a whole lot to say about how the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the President of the United States teamed up to out an intelligence source...," adding in a subsequent tweet "But I am too angry to write right now-and Twitter is probably not the right forum. So I'll leave it at this for now: Important people defiled their oaths of office for these stories to appear."
To which Paul Krugman replied: "We've basically crossed the line into treason now -- and a whole party is acquiescing"
Maybe Paul... there is just one problem:
Others have noted that Halper, a longtime asset of MI6 and US Intelligence - is a rabid Trump hater who openly supported Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US election.
"I believe [Hillary] Clinton would be best for US-UK relations and for relations with the European Union," Clinton is well-known, deeply experienced and predictable. US-UK relations will remain steady regardless of the winner although Clinton will be less disruptive over time," Halper, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs and senior adviser to the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, said.Yet others noted that the FBI's Russia "investigation" into Trump didn't seem to extend to Hillary Clinton. We would remind readers that her campaign chair, John Podesta, sat on the board of Massachusetts energy company Joule Unlimited, along with senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and Russian oligarch Ruben Vardanyan - who was appointed by Vladimir Putin to the Russian economic council.
Two months after Podesta joined the board, Joule managed to raise $35 million from Putin's Kremlin-backed investment fund Rusnano. Podesta transferred 75,000 shares of Joule to his daughter through a shell company using her address.
We're sure the FBI was all over that...
Even Midtown Manhattan bars were abuzz with people shaking their heads over the FBI's double-standards and ham-handed investigation.
Why is it the only truly safe people in this country are beneath contempt, irredeemably wicked, vile, psychopaths that get to go on national TV and lecture us on MORALITY. Guys like Seth Rich get taken out and the Podestas brazenly publish snuff porn, oh sorry, art, on their websites, yeah I know it's gone, NOW.
We unceremoniously dump a clean cut guy like Ron Paul, who I would trust with my grandkids, while the Clintons, who I would cringe to have look at a photo of my grandkids, are treated like some sort of Vatican Royalty. Meanwhile all the lawyers get government checks to keep these jackals in the money.
It's past broken. The jails have no room for the real criminals, but still we lock up pot smokers, as they make excellent cheap labor. We were so impressed by the operation paper clip guys we adopted all of Adolph's initiatives. This country and its leaders have turned into an international joke with nukes.
I used to be a proud honorably discharged Vet. Now I want to go to Syria and make some amends for all the damage my country has done. No I would not kill Americans, they are just brainwashed cannon fodder. But I would actually defend innocent people from Daesh, if I could, not just make a big show of it and then bomb the SAA 'accidentally'. God you idiots don't even have the balls to admit you invented and support terrorists. War on Terror, what a crock of shit! Very psychopathic, consummate liars.
So lets just skip the show with swearing on the bible and 5 lawyers turning the concept of common sense into a cartoon. Just send them home, take away the pension and for God's sake find some Sane people to run things!