The “national security” claim is invoked regularly when our government doesn’t want to reveal things that might be embarrassing. Obviously misused a lot, it should be a red flag to the rest of us that they are doing something wrong.
“These are, after all, the same entities who insisted the North Koreans would not be able to launch a viable rocket for 3-5 years, …that insisted Saddam Hussein was in possession of WMD, …that there was no torture at Abu Ghraib prison, …and that the government had no bulk data collection program, until Edward Snowden revealed otherwise.”
This has been a long time in coming.
Few people are as well positioned as Roger Stone to maul the political witch-hunters running the House hearings and their ridiculous Russia-gate charade they continue to flog, (unsuccessfully) to the American people.
He has called congressman Adam Schiff, the witch-hunter-in-chief, a ‘Schiff-head.’
A remarkable aspect of the hearings, is that the men conducting them, are too scared to make them public. Read more here.