Thread by @hughhewitt

The #Podcasters3 don’t have a law degree between much less Nat Sec law experience and it shows. If they would like to have a debate w/ me and say @AndrewCMcCarthy and @KurtSchlichter we could perhaps make a dent in their collective ignorance regarding assertion v evidence. 1

https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1021102061021204481

Until then they can carry on not understanding that the files released do not support a FISA warrant against Page, but that the redacted portions might, though if those portions did, it would be hard to see why the Obama DOJ both padded and misled the FISC re provenance of 2

Steele Dossier. The Catholic Church has a doctrine of “invincible ignorance” —catholic.com/magazine/print…— which may pardon them here. They r burdened by a presidency that, w/ it’s #FantasyLeagueForeignPolicy, is summarized by references to “leading from behind,” red line, Libya, 3

Egypt, Syrian genocide, 60+ NORK nukes, Crimea, + sequestration. It is easier to string together assertions mixed with snarling personal attacks than explain how this five star collapse of American leadership culminating in transfer of a billion in small bills to Iran w/ #JCPOA 4

justifies a ticket to see the trio of echo chamber conductors avoiding the legacy in which they share. The silent ruins of Syria alone one would think sufficient to humble them all. The president I worked 4 defeated the USSR, + did so despite the domestic + European opposition 5

of a left that at least had the excuse of not understanding that appeasement was not the only option against a threatening, terror-exporting regime. I don’t know if they teach Cold War history at Holy Cross, Kenyon and Williams but you wouldn’t know it from these 3. Those 6

institutions apparently don’t teach logic or argument either. Somehow Tommy picked up the term Magna Carta which is a start. Only 800 years 2go towards historical literacy. The best news is that an IG report is coming on the FISA warrant. The IG will have had the opportunity to 7

review the redacted portions and render findings which I’ll accept and given my position won’t embarrass me but may perhaps embarrass those attempting to distort the release yesterday into a victory of some sort. The echo chamber won’t work this time or then. Nor will snark or 8

invective or any other cheap trick like “the ‘80s called.” They can’t outrun the record they assisted in compiling. And, to borrow from Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, they can’t put in what God and the FBI left out —namely evidence other than #SteeleDossier. If it’s there, IG 9

will exonerate the warrant applicants. If it’s not, the IG will let us know. The conclusory “logic,” feigned outrage, preening and amusing condescension of the #Podcasters3 isn’t going to end even if IG name checks them. There isn’t any audience on the left for admissions 10

against interest —another term certain to confuse them. But their almost frenzied effort to puff the warrant and pre-empt the serious review of its flaws tells anyone with eyes to read or ears to hear to look forward to the IG report. Here’s @charlie_savage story: 11

nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/… Read it closely for any indication that released documents provided evidence other than Steele Dossier. Evidence. Not assertions.