An ugly side of the F.B.I.
From the Daily briefing in this morning's NYT:
A long-awaited report by the Justice Department’s inspector general has mostly been viewed through a political lens since its release this week.
But congressional testimony on Wednesday by the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, underscored the report’s bleak portrayal of the F.B.I. and its wiretapping powers in ways that extend well beyond the Russia investigation.
News analysis: “At more than 400 pages, the study amounted to the most searching look ever at the government’s secretive system for carrying out national-security surveillance on American soil,” our Washington correspondent writes. “And what the report showed was not pretty.”
Allowing the public discourse of this report to be trumpcentric is doing a disservice to America.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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