Josh Marshall at TPM has his take on John Podesta's take-down of the FBI in relation to the Russian hacking of the DNC and by extention the Clinton campaign. I think that he has the right of it. Basically, a good analogy of how the FBI acted is as follows:
Suppose that your neighbor sees that your house is on fire, but instead of calling the fire department, she calls a driver for the department of sanitation. She tells the driver that she sees some serious smoke, but that's it. Sure, the driver might stop what he's doing and call the fire department. Or he might think the lady is crazy and go eat lunch. Either way, your house has burned down. And when you find out that your neighbor called the sanitation department, you are rightly pissed!
Was the FBI nefarious in its actions. I think probably so. As Marshall points out, the head of the DNC at the time was a member of Congress, so they knew where to find who was in charge... but they didn't. At the very least, it was negligent beyond words.
And now we have a #childPEOTUS.
16 December 2016
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