President Trump's executive order today should concern every American who doesn't want to see our country slip into authoritarianism. This is a stark escalation in President Trump's authoritarian tactics. The "Spygate" conspiracy theory Barr is investigating has already been thoroughly debunked. It is also well-known that the Russia investigation began because George Papadopoulos bragged about Russia's dirt on Hillary Clinton to an Australian diplomat.David Laufman, former Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section at the Department of Justice, told MSNBC Trump's order is "a grotesque abuse of the intelligence community to further his goal of political retribution, made worse by the spectacle of the Justice Department as his handmaiden."