Do foreign nations meddle with the American election process? Sure. Should there be an effort made to stop or neutralize such efforts? America’s been doing that for years.

There are federal agencies in place and tasked with that effort on an ongoing basis.

Where a ‘witch-hunt’ is in play, however, is when a political Party…

1. conspires to entrap an opposition campaign;
2. activates ‘lures’ to set up suggestive meetings;
3. employs a lawyer-cutout network to organize and fabricate an opposition research dossier built on lies and lurid innuendo;
4. creates the illusion of multiple-source stories that are actually single-sourced from that one fabricated dossier;
5. uses efforts 1, 2, 3, & 4 to get a FISA warrant to covertly surveille
   1. an opposition campaign, and, then,
   2. a presidential transition team…
   3. without satisfying necessary legal criteria for such warrants;
6. lies, misleads, and obscures on 3 subsequent FISA warrant renewals;
7. deliberately leaks fabricated information to FakeNews media;
8. then demands an investigation of the campaign/administration being targeted.

THAT, my friends, is a WITCH-HUNT…defined.

To allow FakeNews to conflate ‘witch-hunt’ with ‘meddler-hunt’ does disservice to all.