I never made it a binary choice, you assumed it and still do. I never ruled out congress or another party launching an investigation, but the press has shown no interest, nor Congress. Until now; now we hear about because the left can't ignore it. Again, if Trump is the one to bring attention to it, I'm fine with that.
No, I made the statement as counsel, I'd have Trump back out of Ukraine and Burisma/Biden. let DOJ do their job - which encompasses Ukraine and may later envelop Biden. That he has larger fish in the fryer. That you still don't get it, is "amusing".
The directors can speak for anyone under them, but to imply Coast Guard and Geospatial, for example, contributed to and were in a position to approve the ICA is an "amusing", unnecessary exaggeration, and a lie. How many times does Clapper have to say "just three agencies"?
Trump was wrong to publicly doubt it was Russia, EVEN WHILE those same agencies, CIA, DNS, FBI and DOJ were two years into a campaign to throw him under the bus. When government agencies attempt to destroy your life, unwarranted, you can come tell us how understanding you are about it and what trustworthy, great fkn people they are.
I comprehend fine. Rice was claiming nefarious motivation to Trump's use of the "secret servers", and his entire presidency. She is attempting to excuse the leaking of Trumps CLASSIFIED conversations with the leftist qualifier "these are not normal times". Federalist dispassionately lays out both sides, links the Rice video (for crying out loud), and references ABC reporting that Trump has been doing so since 1st quarter of his term due to these CLASSIFIED leaks. RCI was similarly dispassionate and factual. In fact, you don't attempt to refute a thing they say; why is that? It must be "Faux News" or some other lame slur since you were unaware it it, huh?
I reference media when they get it right; to dispel your "17 agencies" for example. Should I not rely on NYT, either? So, don't be a putz trying to dismiss factual reporting until you actually rebut the argument or reporting.
The entirely of left wing media got nothing right for 3.5 years now. In fact, the only people who got it right were the Federalist and RCI types, Nunes memos, and even Fox News. Digest this; Sean Hannity was right while NYT, WaPo, and half a dozen 'news' networks floundered in biased, outcome-based reporting agenda; Fox News as a whole, kicked their collective, Marxist asses. And are still the only ones getting it right, as left wing coverage of Horowitz's report and impeachment shows us.