Where's the scenario?

The entire law enforcement apparatus may be being used in an attempt to buttress this

president's deep state theories.

And quite frankly, that's the stuff that smacks of banana republics.

Hi and welcome to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the law, the courts, the Supreme Court and the rule of law.

I'm Daly Lathwick.

I cover the law for Slate.

And this is a special bonus edition of the podcast to try to help us understand the

House Intelligence Committee, which is doing work that is kind of adjacent to what we often

talk about on this show, but not always squarely in it.

For two years now, I've been parroting the language of Adam Schiff and saying that the

Mueller report had its genesis as a counterintelligence probe, but the truth is I have no idea

what that really meant.

And so this week as the House of Representatives moves forward with formalizing the impeachment

inquiry with a vote, I wanted to unpack a part of the impeachment parcel we haven't

ever fully unwrapped on this show.

That is the intelligence piece.

The Intelligence Committee deals with some spy stuff with what we know about foreign

countries, what they know about us.

And while that has a thousand point list connections to the Mueller report and the law stuff, the

things we talk about on this show, I am very aware that we aren't always speaking about

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