FISA-gate may become a more worrisome scandal than either Watergate or Iran-Contra. Why? Because our defense against government wrongdoing -- the press -- is defending such actions, not uncovering them. Liberal and progressive voices are excusing, not airing, the excesses of the DOJ and FBI.It turns out the key variable is the politics of the offender: if the offender is Republican the media is vigilant, if the offender is Democrat the media plays dead. This time the offenders are Democrats. Therefore, the legacy media’s attitude toward rogue elements in the DOJ and FBI is “move along, folks, nothing to see here.”
Apparently, weaponizing government agencies to stop a detested Donald Trump by any means necessary is not really considered a crime.
VDH could have added the example of “bimbo-gate,” President Clinton’s troubles with, and perjury concerning, women-not-his-wife. The media also called that scandal a nothingburger.
