Though it does not describe an investigation motivated by political bias, it is a textbook account of confirmation bias that should raise disturbing questions about the adequacy of the FISA process—and not just in this investigation.
Glaser and Preble argue that threat inflation is pervasive in U.S. foreign policy, explore some historical examples from the early Cold War to today, and explain why it drives so much military activism.
Never underestimate the temptation to feed the narrative. It seems these days as if even peer-reviewed academic journals are succumbing to the tabloid journalist dictum: “If it bleeds it leads.”
