The Media's Reliance on Skeevy Leaks and Crazy Conclusions
Our institutions are failing us. The skies are filled with bitter accusations thrown at our president. This is the outcome we should expect when we allow a man to rise to governmental heights beyond his experience and competence. The problems are aggravated when that man shows no respect for the normal boundaries and limits on his power; When that man is unable to simply do his job, but launches public outbursts that undercut the people with whom he works, he is unfit. If you've been following the ongoing soap opera in Washington, you know the man I'm describing is James Comey.
- 1. The Washington Post reported that newly appointed Assistant Attorney General Rosenstein threatened to resign. The implication being he'd encountered inappropriate roadblocks erected by the Trump White House. Rosenstein denied this charge while testifying under oath before Congress. Denials don't get more bulletproof. When confronted by Rosenstein's denial, Philip Rucker, White House bureau chief for the Post, stood by his reporter and her source. "We don’t know how serious the threat was. We don’t know if it reached, you know, the level of the President or the Attorney General. But we do know that he threatened to resign..."
- 2. The Washington Post reported that in a White House meeting President Trump revealed classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. That can be a bad thing. It can also be perfectly benign. In this case it was benign The information was the city from which a foreign intellenge agency acquired information about ISIS current plans to blow up airplanes. If that information was made public it is possible that ISIS could identify the spy who provided it. Trump wasn't speaking publicly. He was talking with the Russians, who are as plagued by ISIS terrorists as we are. They have already lost a commercial airliner full of tourists to ISIS. The chance that the Russians would publicize this information or share it with ISIS is zero.
- 3. There is no question that Comey was in over his head. There were many reasons to fire him as head of the FBI. (If I were president, Comey would have departed with the second leak of classified material.) The initial reaction among rank and file Democrats was enthusiastic approval. A belated concern for the integrity of the Russian/Trump collusion investigation turned their mood to outrage.
As an earlier and better critic of Trump than the national media, I feel very comfortable in calling them out. Whatever, if anything, comes from the various investigations, the actions of especially The New York Times and the Washington Post are worse than anything Trump's been accused of. This wild undisciplined media behavior is inexcusable.
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