McCarthy documents in exhaustive detail how he was wrong in defending the FBI and DOJ. He shows how they screwed up, and how they conned a Federal FISA judge into approving something that judge shouldn't have approved.
McCarthy now believes the whole deal was politically motivated, based on a shared detestation of Donald J. Trump. People who knew better let their burning desire to believe Steele's salacious allegations - detailed in the so-called "pee dossier" - overwhelm their critical judgment.
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COTTonLINE shares a piece of hard-won conservative wisdom concerning human nature: if a person overwhelmingly wants or needs to believe something is true, they must be doubly skeptical about its veracity. Sadly, too often, we humans don't follow this dictum.
