Regardless of whether you lean left or right, you might have noticed that over the past few years, your party’s political heroes have become villains, or the villains have become victims, or maybe the victims are now the heroes.
Take for example this weekend’s widely discussed firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Following an investigation by the Department of Justice, McCabe was canned for leaking information to the press and then lying about it under oath. Like his former boss, James Comey, McCabe is now being viewed as a victim or a hero by many.
But let’s back up to 2016, when House Democrats Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. John Conyers, requested an investigation into potential FBI leaks that could benefit then-candidate Donald Trump. Cummings said that the FBI was experiencing “a crisis of legitimacy,” and together with Conyers wrote to Inspector General Michael Horowitz demanding an investigation into leaks from within the FBI which might benefit the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
“It is absolutely unacceptable for the FBI to leak unsubstantiated—and in some cases false—information about one presidential candidate to benefit the other candidate,” wrote Cummings and Conyers. “Leaking this information to former FBI officials as a conduit to the Trump campaign is equally intolerable.”
FLASHBACK: Dems demanded investigation into FBI leaks — until McCabe got caught
Take for example this weekend’s widely discussed firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Following an investigation by the Department of Justice, McCabe was canned for leaking information to the press and then lying about it under oath. Like his former boss, James Comey, McCabe is now being viewed as a victim or a hero by many.
But let’s back up to 2016, when House Democrats Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. John Conyers, requested an investigation into potential FBI leaks that could benefit then-candidate Donald Trump. Cummings said that the FBI was experiencing “a crisis of legitimacy,” and together with Conyers wrote to Inspector General Michael Horowitz demanding an investigation into leaks from within the FBI which might benefit the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
“It is absolutely unacceptable for the FBI to leak unsubstantiated—and in some cases false—information about one presidential candidate to benefit the other candidate,” wrote Cummings and Conyers. “Leaking this information to former FBI officials as a conduit to the Trump campaign is equally intolerable.”
FLASHBACK: Dems demanded investigation into FBI leaks — until McCabe got caught
