James Comey: The fall of a Niebuhrian
“As Comey came under the microscope of national attention, we learned that he had written his undergraduate thesis on [Reinhold] Niebuhr.” RNS
….that Comey’s notes and Trump’s recordings ought to be subpoenaed, and I wouldn’t be sad if both of them went to jail if that’s where the evidence goes. For that matter, if the subpoenas reveal nothing, I will relish the shame that will rightly go to the New York Times in such a case.
Reality here, IMO, is that politics these days has become blood sport where the obviously guilty skate and good men are brutalized. We need to help the process by keeping our eyes on the ball and being sober in how we respond to the news—the pattern these days is that anonymous sources which cannot be corroborated or easily refuted become a ball that provacateurs run with to their heart’s content. At certain points, we simply need to say “oh, another anonymous source….ho hum”.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
We’re eye to eye on all that. Really tired of the whole anon sources thing… and if this all turns out to be nothing, the public will be—voluntarily or otherwise—much more calloused toward these kinds of stories in the future.
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