It's Probably Bad That the FBI Had a Mole in Your Campaign

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

11 January 18

The ballad of Trump 2016.

y now, we all ought to have made ourselves comfortable down here in the rabbit hole into which the country dived in November of 2016. Laid down rugs. Hung a few pictures. Hooked up the WiFi and the cable. Because, otherwise, finding out that someone walked out of the Trump campaign and into the waiting arms of the FBI might be a story that rocked a few worlds. From Mother Jones:

The ex-British spy who authored a dossier of allegations against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was told the FBI had someone inside the Trump campaign providing agents with information, according to a newly-released transcript of a congressional interview…“My understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson said. Using the parlance of spies and law enforcement officials, Simpson said the FBI had a “walk-in’’ whistleblower from someone in Trump’s organization.

There seems to be some confusion over whether or not Simpson was talking about a heretofore unknown figure in the investigation, or about the Australian diplomat to whom George Papadopolous drunkenly ran his mouth in the British wine bar. But this I can guarantee you—this revelation is going to be twisted into some amazing shapes by people like Charles Grassley and the replicant that has replaced Lindsey Graham, to say nothing of the entire right-wing media network.

By the end of the week, we’ll be hearing about Barack Obama’s being on stakeout outside of Trump Tower in a nondescript white van, headphones securely on his head. Down in the rabbit hole, we won’t be surprised at all.