Not a hell of a lot to say here, even for me:
Donald Trump’s new pick for director of national intelligence played a role last year in popularizing what briefly became one of the right’s most easily debunked conspiracy theories about the investigation into the president and Russia, offering what he presented as evidence of an anti-Trump “secret society” operating within the FBI.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, has been an outspoken critic of the FBI’s investigation into contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia before the 2016 election. Like other Republicans, he seized on text messages between FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, who were having an affair, as proof that the FBI had been biased against Trump in the run-up to the election.
Don’t know if this has been blogged yet here, but this is disturbing on soooo many levels. If he tried a hoax/conspiracy theory as a Congressman, what is going to stop him as DNI?
More insidiously, he likely wouldn’t make up hoaxes out of whole cloth as DNI, too much risk because that can be near proven. But he could certainly manipulate “facts” such that there would be no need to make something wholly up.
Awful.
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Peace, y’all.
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