Questions I Can't Get Answers to From People I Disagree With

No, I never said that opinions are not valid, I said for true debate, which Rick started this thread on that note, you should cite evidence.

Rick wrote: I’d honestly love to debate that one too. That’s why I’m here.

Let me give you an example of why this is important. In the The King's Considerable Ignorance of Combat topic, FredHayak made this statement:

You are acting very partisan HA. Did you condemn President Obama's drone war that was waged without congressional approval of each and every strike?

The first thing I did as soon as I read that was a search for "drone" here on MMT and the wealth of topics and comments came up was invaluable (and also, the conversations back then were a lot more toxic and nasty, and I'm thankful they are much improved - thank you all for helping make that happen). They show that there were liberals here (I didn't see a comment from homeagain at that time, nor from me, fwiw) who both approved and condemned the policy, articles cited that we could go back and read (NY Times and WashPo even), and even conservative members of Congress who approved of the program (and those who didn't). The point being that you can't put people in a box and having the articles helps provide additional information and provides historical perspective if we go back to search years later.
Drones
These are the criminals that caused 4 people to die
Secrecy defines Obama's drone war
Fury at Obama Erupts as Occupy Wall Street Rallies in NYC
Obama has killed more US citizens than foreigners
Breaking old school filibuster

Also, when I did a Google search for Obama and drone strikes, I noticed that right-wing leaning and conspiracy sites kept using the number 2,800 for the number of drone strikes the Obama administration supposedly conducted. However, that's nowhere close to the actual number, and having those citations makes a difference. There were also a number of good journalism and opinion articles that would be great to read and debate, which I'll bring up in the other thread later.

So yes, state your opinion as you wish, but if you want a true debate, you have to consider what the other side presents, the strengths and weaknesses in their arguments, plus your own.

Rick, in your first post you said:

The top people at the FBI abused their power in an attempt to take out Trump.

I disagree because Comey, the FBI Director at the time, is, in my opinion, the person who put the nail in the coffin of Hillary's campaign by announcing shortly before the election date that she was under investigation for her emails (yet again). And he did so because he felt pressure from the threat that agents in the Southern District of NY were going to leak that information because they hated her and preferred Trump win.

Once-Heroic Agents Have Helped Trump’s Effort to Divide and Conquer the FBI

Considering that as a possibility, does that change your position and how? Do you have evidence to rebut my contention that while our law enforcement on the whole is non-partisan and acts with integrity to keep our country safe, there are a few bad actors and they exist in both political flavors.

Rod Rosenstein, who authorized the release of Lisa Page and Peter Strzock's texts, is now under fire for doing so as it was gave Trump ammunition to use against the FBI to hype conspiracy theories that the FBI was "out to get him," and both Page and Strzock were cleared of wrong-doing so all of the negative consequences they've suffered since were unfair and damaging?

ramage wrote: TM,
You beat me to the punch. Yes, I also assumed that the DOJ report was common knowledge. I guess not if you rely on CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, etc.

It is, and instead of making what seems to be a snarky, implied insult that a.) those outlets haven't covered it or b.) that no liberals have bothered to read it, you could simply do a google search and post them yourself and ask for others to weigh in. We'd all have better conversations if we'd discuss the issues rather than simply assuming what others have or haven't done and taking the opportunity to slam those with whom we don't agree. Personally, I have seen the headlines, but I haven't had time to read the report itself so I can weigh in with an informed opinion. Last week was sort of an insane week for political goings-on.