> On Dec 11, 2019, at 12:24 PM, Philip Brownell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The Senate hearings with the IG reporting. He cannot say there was bias.
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> If someone from Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan walks into a supermarket in London, Pittsburgh, Paris, or Antarctica, yells “Allah ‘akbar,” and then shoots up the place, do we wonder about their motivation? (Only if you are an idiot.) Or do we conclude, with reasonable inference, that radical Islamic jihadist ideology drove them to do it?
Is it idiotic for me to wander about Rick Perry’s claim that God chose Trump to be president?
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> If a group of people used flawed intelligence, which they knew was flawed, fabricated other things, and misled the FISA court so that they could spy on a campaign of a political opponent, do we wonder about their motivation? (Only if you are an idiot).
Here’s another idiotic inference or maybe just a fantasy. A 200 year old democracy manages to chug along more or less preserving itself and building values finally finds itself being governd by a —well, an idiot. They perceive the idiot to be an immediate danger to the democracy itself. At least a certain member of the Palace Guard (which would include the FBI in this case and even high level military) consider a coup, unthinkable in this most stable of all democracies. This certainly could inspire agents who are otherwise most punctilious rule followers, to cook the data (to continue the culinary metaphor, reduce the ragout) to get permission to mmmmm, spy.
Run a cost benefit analysis on that. One group did and the other apparently didnt. But nevertheless ther are those so appaled by the circumstances such tactics and stategies creep into the mind. I must confess that happens to me. But I quickly run the cost benefit and calculate the likelyhood of success that something like our democracy might still exist; and I return to learning to improvise interesting melody lines around altered dominants. Oh ! Maybe that's a hidden message -"melody lines around altered dominants"
JW
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> Phil
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