New Cold War Eve of the New HUAC.
Stephen F.Cohen,@nyu @princeton University EastWestAccord.com
New Cold War Eve of the New HUAC. Stephen F. Cohen, @nyu @princeton University EastWestAccord.com
“…Schiff
and Nunes had already agreed to the scope of their investigation
when, on March 4th, Trump wrote, in an early-morning series of
tweets, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires
tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This
is McCarthyism!” He added, “How low has President Obama gone to
tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
Talking
to reporters a few days later, Nunes mounted a defense of Trump’s
reckless allegation. “The President is a neophyte to politics,”
Nunes said. “He’s been doing this a little over a year. And I
think a lot of the things that he says you guys sometimes take
literally. Sometimes he doesn’t have twenty-seven lawyers and staff
looking at what he does, which is, I think, at times refreshing.”
He added, “I don’t think we should attack the President for
tweeting.”
The
White House, struggling to defend Trump’s allegation, deflected
requests for proof by calling on Congress to investigate. Schiff
gladly accepted the challenge—on Monday, most of the attention will
be on Trump and his claim that Obama ordered surveillance against
him….”
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