Thread by @KingMakerFT

@shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew does the best job I’ve seen of explaining why it’s not the job- indeed the Constitution prohibits it- for an executive branch employee such as an FBI agent or director, to launch a counterintelligence investigation of a duly elected president to determine whether

@shipwreckedcrew ... he is a threat to national security. If the president commits crimes that threaten national security, it’s Congress’ job to impeach. If what’s at stake is a difference of opinion on how best to keep the country safe, that’s an issue for the voters in elections to decide.

@shipwreckedcrew But employees of the executive branch answer to the president, who is exclusively in charge of determining foreign policy. If employees disagree, talk to the president or someone close to him. If that doesn’t help, quit. Write a book. Become a whistleblower if you believe there

@shipwreckedcrew ... are crimes being committed. But national security is at bottom a policy issue. And the president decides. Allowing arrogant imbeciles like Peter Strzok to elevate themselves to running a secret inquisition into the ins, outs, and origins of that policy is destructive of govt

@shipwreckedcrew The product of all counter intelligence investigations goes to the president. It’s one of his tools that he can use or toss aside in deciding what his foreign policy and domestic security policies should be. Running a counter intel investigation on the president is upside down.