CNN's Wajahat Ali: FBI Now Considers Theory Of A "Deep State" A Domestic Terror Threat | Video | RealClearPolitics

CNN's Wajahat Ali: FBI Now Considers Theory Of A "Deep State" A Domestic Terror Threat | Video | RealClearPolitics: On Monday's edition of 'CNN Tonight' with host Don Lemon, CNN contributor Wajahat Ali reported the FBI now considers conspiracies theories such as a deep state to be a domestic terror threat.

DON LEMON, CNN HOST: Yes. Wajahat, I want you to listen too -- this is Republican Senator Ron Johnson citing conspiracy theories to defend the president's request for foreign powers to investigate his political rivals. Here it is.

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SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): And so what President Trump said to a doer -- a false accusation. By the way, you've got John Brennan on. You ought to ask Director Brennan, what did Peter Strzok mean when he texted Lisa Page on December 15, 2016. So, I'm here to report today that unlike the narrative of the press that President Trump wants to dig up dirt on his 2020 opponent, what he wants is he wants to an accounting of what happened in 2016. Who set him up? Did things spring from Ukraine?

TODD: You don't trust the FBI. You don't trust the CIA?

JOHNSON: No, I don't.

TODD: I'm a little confuse here.

JOHNSON: Absolutely not.

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LEMON: Wajahat, listen, first he is mentioning people who are no longer at those agencies. He is parroting