You knew it would go this way, didn't you? The media didn't have a problem with Susan Rice lying to them about Benghazi, so why should they care about her illegally unmasking Trump campaign officials for blatantly political purposes that had nothing legitimate to do with national security?
They wouldn't, and they don't. What they care about is making sure their worst nightmare doesn't come true - that Trump allegations of improper surveillance by the Obama Administration turn out to be true after all.
First, we'll go to Obama's lead defense attorney, Washington Post columnist Chris Cillizza, who continues to argue that nothing improper matters as long as it was not an exact literal match for the words in Trump's now-famous tweet on the subject:
