No one is beyond the law, especially those who are pledged to uphold it.  They deserve special scrutiny.  That is why, particularly now, the FBI must take its medicine and allow the House Intelligence Committee to publish the Republican memo intact -- with names named.

If the memo is incorrect, inaccurate, or unfair, those who wrote and backed it will pay the price.  If it is correct, those named have things to answer for. Systems must be fixed. An organization must be repaired -- and quickly.  If the FBI was suborned for partisan purposes, it is an atrocity well beyond Watergate.

We live in an era when human privacy is essentially extinct.  Unless you stay entirely off the grid -- and few in the modern world can do that -- you are a fool to think your communications, and indeed movements, are not being monitored.  It's been that way for some time.

All our lives have been affected -- technologically, psychologically, and even morally -- in ways we are only just beginning to understand.

That is why the current House investigation into the activities of the FBI is of paramount, even epoch, importance -- way beyond the brain-deadening partisanship that seems to be engulfing the discussion.  Everyone, no matter the party, no matter the belief, even if they are foolish enough not to realize it, will be at risk at one time or another from the titanic (and anonymous) technological capabilities of government.

The responsibility of intelligence and policing organizations to protect the privacy of our citizens from this cannot be overstated.  It could not be more crucial if we believe in and hope to maintain whatever remains of our freedom.

Whatever the details of the Republican memo, unknown at this writing, and of future memos that may exist, their publication is mandatory, if only to serve notice that the people have primacy over the government agencies that are serving them.

It's surprising, and extremely disheartening, that those leading the FBI and the DOJ don't immediately realize and acknowledge that. Instead, they choose to stonewall, prevaricate, and redact documents in manners that are often fallacious and self-serving. They have failed mightily in their mission that is first to us, a distant second to themselves and the preservation of their organizations.  If the FBI serves itself more than the American public -- if this is even a close call -- it should cease to exist.

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