[Paine in the Neck]

What should be more frightening is the scale of all of this private sleuthing and operating.

I agree. This appears to be the go-to method of monetizing one's tenure as a back-bench gov't employee. If you have a 'name' it's K St.; no name, dirty-tricks shop.

[virgil]

All of these players are democrats, and their sphere of expertise is investigative research, and manipulating public opinion. Now the democrat party has its own domestic and international spy agency to dig up dirt (true or false) on whoever it believes is its enemy. Then coordinate with the Democrat Coalition to gin up public outrage via the media? A huge conspiracy is what’s going on here. Conspiracy against the American public. They just didn’t expect Trump would win.