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    Breaching Norms Has a Price

    Trump may not care that he is upsetting the safeguards imposed on intelligence agencies in the wake of Watergate—but the damage will prove lasting.
    by David Kris May 24, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernstl / Reuters

    If Donald Trump was elected with any mandate, it was to shake up the orthodoxy—to challenge the establishment and its established ways of operating. To drain the swamp. What he actually delivers, however, may be transformation that even many of his supporters come to regret.

    Nowhere has the mandate for change been more forcefully exercised than in the field of criminal and counterintelligence investigations of the president and his closest associates. His last tweet of the day on May 20 sounded more like a proclamation:

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