Originally Posted by
Tranquillus in Exile
If their purpose was to sink Trump, I believe they would have made it public whether or not they found anything. The mere knowledge that Trump was under FBI investigation for what many people would see as traitorous activity - leaked, say, a week before the election - would have done the trick. Don't you think?
But for it to be a criminal investigation requires some standard of evidence—they didn’t have any, and were likely trying to manufacture it.
The safest thing to do is to keep it as a counterintelligence investigation but make selective leaks to get people thinking it was a criminal investigation. Which is exactly what happened.
Recall that a Comey refused to publicly state that Trump wasn’t under investigation.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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