What’s the big spy scandal in Washington? Depends which party you’re asking
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama fretted in his final days as president that Americans are so bitterly divided by politics, so isolated and esconced in disconnected conversations, that it would be easy for a hostile foreign actor to exploit them: just play one side against the other.
Look no further than this week’s events.
A major spy scandal has erupted in Washington — that much, America’s warring parties can agree on. They’re just talking about different scandals.
One side sees a foreign-based spy tale, with President Donald Trump’s team neck-deep in it. The other sees a domestic-spying scandal where Trump is the victim and Obama’s team the culprit.