When Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's December 9 report did not challenge the claim by the FBI (and the CIA) that its surveillance and investigation of all things Trump were properly “premised”; when it failed to address the illegality of officials' trafficking to the media information from said surveillance; when it downgraded the FBI's misdeeds to “performance failures,” that report offered the deep state the opportunity to claim that its interference in American politics is a good thing.
William Webster, the only person ever to have headed both FBI and CIA, seized that opportunity with an op-ed in the New York Times, in which he claims both agencies acted to protect “the rule of law,” and that they should continue to do so. That claim abstracts from the undeniable—and undenied—clash between the FBI and CIA's anti-Trump campaign and current law.
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