Eyes on the prize

Eyes on the prize

by digby



I wrote about Marcy Wheeler's rundown of the Susan Rice "unmasking" brouhaha over the week-end and if you haven't read it, you should. Her view is very balanced and rational from a civil liberties and political perspective.

The good news is that people aren't distracted by the distraction:
A woman asked if McClintock believed the FBI and congressional investigations into any ties between Trump campaign aides and Russia, which US intelligence agencies say interfered in the US election, are an attempt to delegitimize Trump’s victory, as some Republicans have said.

“We want to see all the facts on the table,” McClintock replied. “That’s why there is an investigation going on.”
When McClintock said those investigations should look into Trump’s accusation earlier this week that President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, likely broke the law by allegedly requesting the names of Trump campaign officials caught up in the broader surveillance of Russian officials — a claim for which Trump provided no evidence and which Rice has denied — the congressman’s answer was received with loud boos.



McClintock is one of California's few remaining Republicans with any name recognition. He's run for statewide office and was a leader of the Tea Party faction. He's feeling heat. Good.


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