Marcy on McCabe - just like Comey, McCabe shouldn't push it too much. And why they hell did those 2 sit on Weiner's laptop with emails for 24 days, and go to the press before having his team spend 1-2 days figuring out what was there? Abramson thinks this is going to come out in some upcoming IG report, but I'm a bit skeptical.

Ah yes, the man you gave Russians sensitive Israeli intelligence and to whom Nunes leaked FBI investigation info is still worried about Hillary's State emails 5-6 years ago. Never mind the Comey memos that leaked within a half an hour of the House receiving them. Never mind the role Trump played in Wikileaks and the Russians leaking DNC emails.

PS - I've never met a Pakistani man who wasn't a mystery, and I don't mean that in a derogatory way.

Watergate was a break-in of DNC headquarters to steal planning documents. Russiagate started as a hack of DNC mails to steal planning documents (yes, they got a lot of it, this time using Wikileaks to post their private strategies on the internet). In 1972 we as a nation were appalled; in 2015 we were largely complacent - because it was Hillary, because "information wants to be free", because we were used to the internet and email and lack of privacy, because the far left (combined with who?) had set up the background meme that the "corrupt" DNC & others were plotting and committing all sorts of heinous crimes in the background.

I will contest Toobin's claim that "the news media have been aggressive" - they've largely been complicit, happy to get their Trump outrage financial windfall. There likely would have been *zero* investigation if Buzzfeed hadn't broken with the pack to publish the 6-month old Steele Dossier 2 months after the election (to much scorn and condemnation for its "unprofessionalism"). Even Comey pretends he was pushing the investigation of the FBI leaks but when fired *6 months after the election/6 1/2 after the FBI leaks* he had zilch). Most of the heavy lifting has come from citizen journalists like Marcy Wheeler (initially providing some healthy evidence-based skepticism about the more unjustifiable claims), Seth Abramson, *gasp* Louise Mensch, *gasp* Palmer Report, Adam Khan, and a huge bunch of others, along with a few outlets like Bloomberg that broke early news that was largely ignored. That some of this published info took 18 months to become certified by mainstream outlets (James Risen, ex-NYTimes/now Intercept, just this week breathtakingly discovered after a year of ridiculing others that there really is a "there there" - thank you, Pater, for issuing this sacrament...)

Revelations like Cohen's travels (possible flight numbers), meetings in the Mayflower, the length & details of Trump's lost Moscow weekend, what Papadopoulos was doing in Athens and Israel, what Eric Prince was doing in Seychelles, Manafort & Rick Gates' activities in Ukraine & elsewhere, SCL/Cambridge Analytica's behavior worldwide including the Mercers' backing, data laundering, money laundering in Little Moscow in Florida, the Kushner loan gambit, the GRU's role as Guccifer, Wikileaks role including UKIP's Nigel Farage as a go-between, and Giuliani's criminal ties to this group of rogue FBI agents were all rather well explored (including *gasp* investigative efforts) on twitter, blog, et al, usually long before they gained currency with mainstream press - often then taken & published without attribution.