WAR OF ELECTED REPUBLICANS ON APPOINTED REPUBLICANS

There are two main groups of Republicans attacking appointed Republicans, both in the House of Representatives.  One is headed by Rep. Devin Nunes (Chr. Permanent Select Committee on House Intelligence) where Republican members of the Committee (13) tend to follow his lead, and the other is called the Freedom Caucus headed by Rep. Mark Meadows with more than 30 members.

I find it curious that elected Republicans are going after appointed Republicans so fiercely.  Consider appointed Republicans Jeff Sessions, Rob Rosenstein, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Robert Muller, among others such as the four FISA judges,* are constantly under attack, particularly by the President but also by two groups of the House of Representatives.

 I think one of the smartest things Sessions did was recuse himself from what happened during the election as he is attacked mainly by the President.  James Comey shared his notes with three other top people in the FBI.  Andrew McCabe was actually fired two days before he was to retire on his 50th birthday.  James Rybicki (Comey's chief of Staff) reportedly voluntarily resigned.  FBI General Counsel James Baker was first reassigned and subsequently resigned.  

The latest Republican to come under attack by elected Republicans (NEWSER) – The FBI informant President Trump accuses of "infiltrating" his 2016 campaign was Stefan Halper, an American professor who taught at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2015, according to multiple reports—and this is far from his first rodeo. The 73-year-old served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations and was accused of "political spying" on Jimmy Carter's campaign in 1980, the Washington Post reports. He has had Defense Department contracts since 2012. Sources say Halper, described as a moderate Republican with longstanding ties to the intelligence community, met three Trump advisers for foreign policy discussions in 2016, the same year he became a secret FBI informant. The professor and the FBI have declined to comment. In other developments:**

* And it is not only appointed Republicans who can be attacked by elected Republicans but other Republican congressmen as well for instance John McCain.  I even saw a sign at a Trump rally saying that McCain is treasonous.
** http://www.newser.com/story/259582/justice-dept-white-house-reach-deal-on-fbi-informant.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top