In the guise of chiding President Trump, Professor John Yoo (yes, the same lawyer who, as a George W. Bush public official made the case justifying "enhanced interrogation", ie. torture), now gives cover to the unjustified forcing out of F.B.I. deputy director Andrew McCabe and the release of an apparently one-sided, hatchet-job memo prepared by the staff of the hopelessly conflicted Rep. Devin Nunes.
Prof. Yoo, in substance, applauds the "clearing out" of McCabe because of his wife's political involvement and gives credence to the notion that the use of information obtained from Russian sources by a recognized intelligence professional is, somehow, a "shocking collapse of standards" because it was financed by a political campaign. All of this would be OK, Prof. Yoo suggests, if only President Trump didn't muck it up by taunting McCabe and injecting a claim of conspiracy to eavesdrop by the Obama administration.
Ironically, Prof. Yoo's article invokes Machiavelli without seeming to recognize the Machiavellian nature of his own presentation.
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