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But it's not the one you're hearing about

Here's the one surveillance crime we know someone committed
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It’s not the one you’re hearing about. All the media attention is on the
notion that Russians “hacked the election” or something. Or they’re telling
us again that there’s “no evidence” Trump Tower was wiretapped, even though
the investigation isn’t over yet and we can’t possibly know that.

But here’s what we do know: Someone committed a felony by releasing the
names of Trump campaign associates whose phone conversations were caught in
surveillance. Congressman Trey Gowdy covered it on Monday during the James
Comey testimony. Congressman Devin Nunes gave more detail later in the week.

It may not have been illegal that the calls in question were surveilled,
because when you’ve got a legitimate warrant to conduct telephone
surveillance on a target, you’re going to hear the other side of the
conversation as well. But the law is very clear about how the identities of
such people are to be treated when information is released. If there is not
a compelling reason to release the names of non-targets involved in these
conversations, they are to be redacted. You’re not supposed to know who
those people are.

Unless that information is formally de-classified, making these identities
public is a felony.

When members of the intelligence community leaked such transcripts
involving Trump associates in recent months, they did no such redacting.
All the Trump associates who were involved in these conversations had their
rights violated as a result. And remember, these are almost certainly
people who remain to this day members of the intelligence community, quite
possibly working behind the scenes to undermine the agenda of the duly
elected president of the United States.

Not only that, but members of the media – who received these leaks and
published the information they contained – know who the criminal leakers
are, and are protecting their identities to this day.

This raises an interesting question, does it not? If someone in the White
House is alleged to have committed some violation of law – even if the
evidence is fleeting, or if the person making the allegation is a blatant
partisan – this is treated as a very serious matter and we hear about it
day after day after day. This whole business about the Trump campaign
“coordinating with the Russians” is based on the prospect that someone,
somewhere, might have committed a crime – although no one has shown any
evidence that this happened at all.

But the intelligence officials who leaked these names absolutely committed
crimes. The media know who they are and know what they did. Why is clear
evidence of criminal behavior among U.S. intelligence officials not
considered a major scandal and a very serious matter?

Is it because a) the news media are benefitting from the criminal behavior;
and b) the criminal behavior is being perpetrated at the expense of the
Trump White House? Is this why these people get a pass for their
lawbreaking, while we obsess endlessly over a matter that as far as we know
didn’t even involve any lawbreaking?

One of the rules of partisanship is that you pretend to be devoted to the
law when the other guy breaks the law, and it helps your side to act
indignant about it. But when someone breaks the law on your behalf or for
your benefit, they are brave whistleblowers or “truth tellers” or whatever
you think you can sell.

The fact of the matter is that we only know for sure about one criminal act
in this whole thing, and no one seems to care about it. If the law has
ceased to be anything but just one more tool of partisanship, it’s no
wonder Democrats don’t want judges like Neil Gorsuch – who actually takes
it seriously.



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