Mr. President, tear down the wall hiding those FISA abuses thehill.com/HillTV/rising/…
Today's prevailing question is far less about a still unproven alliance between Moscow and Trump. Rather, it is whether Trump-hating bureaucrats inside the U.S. intelligence community abused their position to mislead the nation's FISA court in an effort to negate Trump's victory.
As one senator who has read most of the classified docs told me last week, "the real question we must now answer is did U.S. intel conspire with a foreign spy, a Democratic campaign and a few foreign allies to attempt a soft coup against the man Americans chose as president?"
The Democrats who once cheered every media story that leaked classified and sensitive law enforcement information that built a narrative of collusion now have an allergy to the continued release of such info. Such hypocrisy must further weigh into a declassification decision.
Finally, there are those two nervous allies, Australia and Great Britain. Their continued collaboration undoubtedly remains important to the United States.
But, in this case, the American public deserves to know why two foreign countries - no matter how friendly or well intentioned - were involved in an American domestic matter such as a democratic election.
Furthermore, why would the FBI need their assistance if, as it represented to a federal court, the FISA evidence was corroborated and reliable?
Sometimes, the American interest in resolving a domestic question as important as the integrity of our law enforcement and intelligence outweighs an ally's discomfort.
Right now, the opposition to declassification feels more like a political Berlin Wall than legitimate national security risk. I say, tear it down.
