By Gary Bauer
If you are trying to keep up with the ebb and flow of the Russia collusion investigation, I highly recommend former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy's columns at National Review.
If the American media truly valued journalism, McCarthy would win the Pulitzer. But he won't because his columns don't fit the narrative that the overwhelming majority of left-wing reporters are attempting to spin.
Here is one point in his recent column that deserves your attention. Whenever an appropriate oversight committee asks the Justice Department, the FBI and other national security agencies to see information explaining the basis of the Russia investigation, they are stonewalled on the grounds of protecting national security secrets.
Eventually, Congress gets some details and it turns out that national security wasn't jeopardized by its release. This charade has played out time and time again. Here's how McCarthy explains the concern:
"Their Chicken Little shrieks that public disclosure of FISA warrants and texts between FBI agents would imperil security have proven overblown at best (and, in some instances, to be cynical attempts to hide embarrassing facts). 'Trust us' is not cutting it anymore.
"In the end, it is not about who the spies are. It is about why they were spying. . . Enough bobbing and weaving, and enough dueling tweets. Let's see the evidence."
One is left with the suspicion that the ability to hide their tracks is precisely why Obama officials launched a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign and not a criminal investigation. Not only are the rules and tools different, it gave them the ruse of national security to hide behind.
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