I can't
get excited about protecting
the source who reported on Trump's campaign. His name has been revealed by the Washington
Post as Stefan A. Halper. I don't
know who revealed it first, but it has now been published by liberal media like
the Washington Post who earlier were claiming that it would be the end of the
world if the name was revealed.
We still
have to figure out the impact of this spying on the 2016 election. Looking at two or three Trump campaign
hangers-on to see if they were Russian agents didn't affect the election, as
Russian media meddling may have. It does
raise the odd issue that the President does not have to get a security
clearance like any other government official who has access to classified
information. The voters give the
President his security clearance, although at the beginning of his
adminsitration, there seemed to be some reluctance by the intelligence
community to give Trump an unlimited briefing on the most sensitive
intelligence.
If the FBI
had found through their spy that Trump was actually working in cooperation with
the Russians, what would the FBI have done?
Presumably it would have publicized this fact, as it did Hillary
Clinton's email investigation. The
American people can elect someone who favors a Russian alliance or a Communist
government if they want to. Should the
FBI arrest Donald Trump because they think his politics are too favorable to
Russia? Isn't a Communist allowed to run
for President? Should we prohibit
someone from running for President simply because he likes Vladimir Putin?
The FBI
and CIA were probably justified in trying to find out whether Trump was a
stalking horse for Putin, but that would not justify their arresting him or
killing him. In fact, the proper way for
America to handle this situation would have been for the media -- newspapers,
TV networks, and on-line channels -- to investigate and publicize Trump's
connections to Russia, rather than organs of the US government. Trump is right to be outraged that Obama's
government treated him as if he were a traitor.
The only remedy for a treasonous President is impeachment.
The whole
Russia connection brouhaha is a charade to cover up the fact that the
Democratic Party ran the worst political campaign in recorded history in
2016. First, the Democrats pushed out
Joe Biden by choosing Hillary Clinton while Biden was mourning the death of his
son, displaying despicable callousness and disrespect for him. Then they ran a fecklsss campaign with no
message and no enthusiasm, in essence saying Democrats rule this country by
divine right; we don't have to campaign.