Douglas Brinkley, Presidential Historian and author of more than twenty books on American History and the men and women who created it, did not mince words in this quote cited in Saturday’s piece on Bill Moyer’s blog.
“There’s a smell of treason in the air. Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mindboggling event.”
The writer of the article, Michael Winship, characterized last week’s events in this way:
“But here we are, adrift in a Cloud Cuckoo Land of prevarication and incompetence in which little seems capable of boggling or driving our minds agog these days and where the truth shall not set you free but subject you to ridicule from the rabid trolls of the right.
And still there is hope. Even though neither Comey nor Rogers would reveal much of what they are discovering — continually citing the confidentiality they said was necessary to an ongoing investigation — the questions asked, despite the “no comment” answers, suggested ongoing areas of inquiry not only for investigating committees but also for the press.
For it is the free and independent media that continue to provide our clearest window into the extent of the investigation and the possible interface among the Trump campaign, Russia and the right.”
I encourage you to read the entire piece, which is excellent, for I am late for work and can’t give it the analysis it deserves.