Why the what-about-ism? James Comey says the FBI is investigating possible links between Trump and Russia
But the House intelligence committee’s Republican members seem more interested in leaks
.. The real issue which the FBI and NSA should be focused on, they suggested, the issue that threatens national security is this: who leaked the news of Mr Flynn’s meeting with the Russian ambassador? The journalists who allegedly published this classified piece of information should be prosecuted. The officials who provided the journalist with the information should be prosecuted too. And who were those officials anyway? Mr Gowdy provided a helpful list of suggestions for the FBI to investigate: Ben Rhodes (an adviser to Barack Obama), Susan Rice (the president’s National Security Adviser), Loretta Lynch (Mr Obama’s attorney-general), Sally Yates (the deputy attorney-general) and Mr Obama.
.. Had news of Mr Flynn’s conversations with the Russian government not been leaked, he would still be in his job. This would be good for the aforementioned Russia Today, which hosted Mr Flynn at a jamboree. It would be good for the Russian government, which Mr Nunes described as a menace to Western democracies. It would not be very good for Mike Pence, the vice-president, whom Mr Flynn deceived over his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
.. Faced with an accusation, for example that the Soviet Union worked political dissidents to death in prison camps, the propagandist would respond: well, what about those black men being forced to work on chain gangs in the South? This was effective, because by the time anyone had explained that the two are not, in fact, morally equivalent, the technique had done its work, changing the subject away from the gulag.