Short thread:
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) January 13, 2019
I have a piece coming on this, hopefully later today, but I want to highlight one point re: the counterintelligence investigation bombshell:
A lot of people are talking about how big of a deal this is — and I agree — but they’re missing something:
Do you have ANY idea how hard it would be to get DOJ brass to approve a CI investigation into a sitting POTUS?
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) January 13, 2019
This required buy-in at the top levels of DOJ, and mounds of evidence. You thought Michael Cohen’s Office getting raided was big? This is bigger.
It also means that the possibility that there is/was at least one cooperating source in the White House, or at least the administration, has gone up significantly. The FBI was apparently getting info on POTUS’ actions in real-time. That leaves 2 options:
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) January 13, 2019
1. They were running a mole in the White House due to their previous suspicions of Trump and/or campaign officials.
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) January 13, 2019
2. A sitting POTUS is/was being surveilled because our IC believes — and has proof — he could be a threat to national security.
Let’s take a journey in the way-back machine.
First stop: November, 1963, Dallas Texas.
Next stop: The entire Richard Mildew Nixon presidency, 1969-1974.
Moles and surveillance indeed.
More like paranoia and the “deep state.”