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Eric,
You try to justify the US intelligence efforts around the last election by talking fast and sprinkling in comments Republicans will want to here, but the overall picture remains clear:
-The Russians, being weak now but having the intelligence infrastructure left over from when they were much stronger, try to cause trouble in every US election as a general practice.
-The US has counterintelligence agencies to keep an eye on this behavior and counter it when they can.
-As part of their duties, the counterintelligence agencies keep an eye on every US citizen who works abroad with foreign governments or multinational corporations, just in case they do something they shouldn’t.
None of this should ever be used as an excuse for us government employees of one administration to surveil the activities of a presidential political campaign.
If these agents heard something they though was improper they should have immediately notified the presidential candidate and let he or she fire their own employees.
The use of FISA warrants to investigate in this case was a abuse and betrayal of the entire purpose of this tool.
The failure of the Mueller report to find evidence of collusion is the last straw that might have justified the whole sordid mess.
The jig is up.