Byron York @ByronYork
That nightmare scenario whereby under Director Patel, the FBI would:
1) Open investigations on presidential candidates.
2) Deploy undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate's advisers.
3) Hire a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering.
4) Present false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate's adviser.
5) Use false opposition research to brief the President of the United States.
6) Ambush the president-elect with false opposition research.
7) Seek to include false opposition research in Intelligence Community products.
8) Ambush the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation.
9) Mislead/stonewall Congress on the investigation of the president.
10) Mislead the president about the investigation targeting him.
Can you imagine the FBI doing something like that?
https://washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3267869/kash-patel-onetime-fbi-target-now-on-track-to-run-the-fbi/
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mikevolpe @mikevolpe
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Replying to @ByronYork
Whataboutism. You're cheering a descent into banana republic territory by saying the other guys did it first. So, every time a new administration takes over they'll target their political enemies and Byron thinks it's great.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1870453317513752890