CNN’s Deep State Tool: Smith Spy­ing on Con­ser­v­a­tive Orgs ‘Rou­tine’ for ‘Build­ing a Case’

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An hour into Tuesday’s bomb­shell Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee hear­ing with for­mer Spe­cial Coun­sel Jack Smith, CNN’s senior Jus­tice cor­re­spon­dent Evan Perez defend­ed Smith’s sur­veil­lance of con­ser­v­a­tive orga­ni­za­tions through sub­poe­nas and seizures of elec­tron­ic com­mu­ni­ca­tions — which Chair­man Chuck Grass­ley (R‑IA) revealed includ­ed this orga­ni­za­tion, the Media Research Cen­ter— as not any­thing close to “weaponiza­tion” but mere­ly “a rou­tine part of build­ing a case if you’re doing a cri­mi …