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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
With these dog whistles from the intel community, and Trump's dog whistles to his "movement," all of which seem intentionally transparent, I have to wonder, When does the fourth wall break? When does Brennan or Clapper openly call for a leak of Trump's taxes? When does Trump announce, "Everybody who shuts his mouth gets a pardon"?
I understand we needed a little Kabuki to provide the public with a fiction that political games were legitimate, but Trump nakedly told Manafort he'll be getting a commutation last week, and Brennan's charge of treason is the CIA chief calling the President a Russian asset. Do we really need the dog whistles anymore? Brennan and Clapper should call for more leaks, and impeachment. Trump can return that serve with a declaration of pardons and commutations for all, and then revoke Mueller's security clearance. Nobody has complete faith in any of these institutions or these people anymore. Let's get the real dialogue out there, in plain English.
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If "you don't need a secret decoder ring to see what's happening here," it's not a dog whistle.
Hoover's FBI was politicized, as was the CIA. For the last few decades, the intel community has worked hard to stay out of politics. It has been dragged back into it, largely because of Trump, who is threatened by the Russian probe (and let's be honest, by the potential exposure of a lot of bad stuff) and who cares much more about that than about the institutional status of the intelligence community. The Republican Party is full of the likes of Devin Nunes, who will side with Trump. Not that the intel community has handled this flawlessly, but who ever does?
When conservatives want to polarize things, what are the rest of us to do?
