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The media's defense of Obama administration spying - defies logic.

Posted: May 23rd, 2018 - 4:05 pm

It doesn’t matter what you think about Donald Trump — revelations that a major party’s administration was spying on another one deserve a seriousness that’s lacking in major media coverage. A recent piece by CNN’s Chris Cillizza encapsulates many of the absurd talking points adopted by an extraordinarily incurious media. And when I say incurious, I mean they’ve taken to actively dismissing evidence regarding a story that would be a huge deal in any other era.

The persistent claim that Trump is abusing power for engaging in actions that are well within his purview is especially galling coming from people who would often characterize the previous administration’s numerous abuses as nothing. Even today we are relegated to a Clintonian parsing of words to describe events.

Many journalists take umbrage at the contention that there was spying going on, because “spying” sounds far too serious for their liking. But it’s the right word. A spy is a “person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements, and plans of an enemy or competitor.”

Now, perhaps we’re going to find out that informants were warranted and that their presence did not predate the official launch of the investigation. We might learn that a number of Trump’s associates were part of some scheme to work with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during 2016. There is, to this point, “zero evidence” that is the case. It’s hardly a conspiracy theory, no matter how over-the-top or politically motivated the president’s comments might be, to investigate the Obama administration’s actions.

Bad opinions aren’t illegal. Putin’s support for a particular campaign doesn’t immediately translate into criminality. What kind of precedent are we setting if there’s no investigation into the Obama administration’s actions?

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