the unsung heroes

Moving from the conspiracy websites into the MSM:
Lots of stuff about the FBI/deep state conspiracy to exonerate Hillary and spy on the Trump campaign by using a FISA warrant.

essentially, not just "overlooking" Hillary's misdemeanors, which a lot of folks figure is business as usual (part of the problem: why bring a complicated case when famous folk are rarely convicted: see Senator Menendez recent court case). The real problem was that Trumpie's tweet about Obama "wiretapping" him during the campaign might be true: because there is information dripping out about the FBI/CIA to spying on Trumpie boy's campaign.

How can the "deep state" push back against such stories? well, they did charge General Flynn for lying to the FBI because he denied saying something that they had heard him say in an illegal wiretap... and General Flynn was their enemy.

All of this reminds me of Nixon using CIA operatives to spy on the Democrats: political spying under the guise of "national security" (the poor Cubans were told the burglary was for national security).

Watergate began because a lowly security guard named Frank Willis, stumbled on the burglary, reported it, and the story was picked up, not by the WaPo political folks, but by their local reporters as a police case.

in this case, one of the unsung heroes: the local AZ reporter who spotted Clinton and reported on his meeting with Lynch.

LINK

The meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton might not have been known if not for a local reporter who received a tip about it.

Christopher Sign, morning anchor at ABC15 in Phoenix, ...explained that he received a tip from a "trusted source" about the meeting and then met with management at the station. "Naturally my jaw dropped," he recalled.

 but for football fans, he's not a reporter: He is a former Alabama football player.

The facts are that Sign wasn’t a bit player in the story, he was the headliner who uncovered it and broke the news of a secret meeting between two of America’s most powerful figures. And he’s not just a local reporter; he’s an anchor on ABC15 in Phoenix. And when you talk to Sign, what he makes sure you really know about him is that he had the privilege of playing football for the University of Alabama under legendary coach Gene Stallings.
“My college football experience on and off the field prepared me for moments like this,” Sign says of the intense media scrutiny surrounding his breaking news report. “Being under pressure. Being under stress and under the microscope. These are things Coach Stallings prepared us for. He used to always say, ‘do your job and everything else will be fine’. I thought about that a lot as things were unfolding after we broke the story.”

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 Frank Willis was the faceless security guard whose report started Watergate

Did you know Willis was black? And had a sad life after his earth shattering discovery made history. Sigh.

Paul Blart, call your office.