The FBI Goes Full Nixon with FISA Report

Remember the "limited hangout" from Watergate days, that attempt to reveal as little as possible during the crisis in the hopes the public might be satisfied, start to get bored. and go away? In case it's all gone down the memory hole or you're a millennial whose education has been a bit attenuated, here's the provenance:

PRESIDENT [NIXON]: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the — let it hang out, so to speak? DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that — HALDEMAN: It's a limited hangout. DEAN: It's a limited hangout. EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hangout. PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

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