In today's Washington Post:
Regarding the Dec. 12 front-page article “Watchdog: Ex-FBI brass not vindicated”:
Isn’t it rather bizarre to learn — per instruction of Attorney General William P. Barr — that the FBI’s investigation of Russia’s attempt to distort the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s encouragement of that attempt was unwarranted and should never have happened? Has no one told Mr. Barr that the investigation resulted in 34 indictments of Trump advisers, Russians and others, and eight convictions or guilty pleas of Trump advisers and led indirectly to the likely impeachment of President Trump?
And isn’t it strange to learn from Mr. Barr that the investigation resulted from FBI animus against Mr. Trump and a conspiracy to deny him the presidency, when, in contrast to FBI investigations of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, that investigation was not disclosed to the public before the election?
Mr. Barr must have an extraordinarily low opinion of the intelligence and judgment of the American people to be making these nonsensical assertions. Believe me, the feeling is mutual.
Steven Y. Winnick, Washington
You can count us in on that, Mr. Winnick!
