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Source: The Hill
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said his office has received death threats regarding the GOP-crafted memo alleging what some Republicans say are "shocking" surveillance abuses at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told Axios his office has gotten obscene calls and death threats regarding what he called the "Republican spin memo."
He also warned that "reckless hyperbole is just so destructive of our democracy."
"They have so hyped this ... that they've led their echo chamber into thinking that this is something extraordinary," he told the news outlet. "It's incredibly misleading. I don't think it in any way impugns the Russia investigation, or provides any basis for firing any of the personnel involved."
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371342-schiff-says-office-has-received-death-threats-over-republican-spin-memo
More from that Axios article The Hill cited, which covered a number of topics (which is why I'm not using it for the LBN headline):
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-389d3c35-ff05-420e-abf2-de0325f04762.html?source=sidebar
Couple that fact with some genuinely troubling text messages between FBI agents, and the Fox News chorus warning of a Deep State coup, and you have the makings of a disorientation machine.
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Be smart: This strategy is working better than you think. Trump portrayed Hillary Clinton as an enemy of the state, and she lost. He turned the media into an enemy of the state, if you looks at polls of Republicans. And, perhaps most alarming of all, he's trying to make the FBI look like an enemy of the state.