Spygate

Maybe they were not spying on Trump, merely eyeing.....

You're right, there's no question that spying on the Trump campaign was going. That the full surveillance powers of the government headed by a president from one party was spying on the presidential candidate from another party is shocking, and should never happen if America is to avoid becoming a police state. Further, there was no legitimate reason for undertaking such an investigation, as the information that has been reported and continues to be revealed clearly shows.

This entire episode is the greatest abuse of power in the history of our nation. Those who broke laws in any way connected to this scandal must be held accountable to the full extent of the law. Period.

I honestly think my characterization is no overstatement, so let me explain. Yes, the above scandals involved real abuses of power. At the same time, their gravity in our consciousness owes in part to a left-leaning media that never tires of reminding the public about the ever-lurking threat of those evil Republicans.

Spygate and the Russia Collusion Hoax are arguably far worse abuses since they strike at the very heart of our democratic process of free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power. Think about this: a Democratic administration, with no credible justification, used the full surveillance powers of the intelligence community to spy and plant evidence on the campaign of an opposition candidate; have somewhat successfully established a two-tiered justice system based on political affiliation; its sympathizers have for two-plus years refused to accept the results of a duly-conducted election, setting in motion another phony investigation to hamstring the new President and drive him from office, have regularly slandered him and accused him of treason, and have now sown doubt in the minds of half the electorate about the next Presidential election, thereby doing grievous damage to some of our most important national institutions. And we will soon see that much of the hoax was also a misdirection meant to cover the fact that the Obama IC was engaging in unlawful mining of NSA databases since 2012 in order to spy on its political opponents.

I call that pretty damned serious.

I agree it's very serious. Was looking for similar scandals from both parties as a point of comparison.

FBI forgot to tell Trump campaign they were being spied on. Folks, this was all orchestrated--or what Strzok called their "insurance policy."

DOJ/IG report on FISA abuse scheduled for release December 9. Leaks already dripping out. Not a coincidence that shortly after IG Horowitz delivered the draft of his investigative report to AG Bill Barr last September, Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who manipulated the Carter Page email, left the FBI.