If you look at source documents, the “provided material” was polling data of the kind one could find on the news. Thus, this is the thinnest conceivable gruel

If you look at source documents, the “provided material” was polling data of the kind one could find on the news. Thus, this is the thinnest conceivable gruel for spying on a campaign with FISA warrants, framing an incoming national security advisor, multiple impeachment efforts, four years of media hysteria deeply interned with leaks and special council, and countless lives ruined. In the course of history, there are simply no excuses for this kind of casual slander, excepting smack dab in the middle of an outrageously powerful police-bureaucratic state.