The sober realities of World War II, particularly in reference to The Holocaust, are quite possibly the most sensitive subjects on the planet today.

The systemic execution of nearly 6 million Jewish people by the Nazis has forever shaped the way we interact with the world at large.  Antisemitism holds a unique distinction in the ranks of bigotry as being wholly unacceptable, under any context, and is punishable by law in much of the world.

Being accused of antisemitism is, for reasons likely stemming from The Holocaust itself, a far more damning charge than being accused of racism, sexism, classism, or other -ism’s.  There’s no judgment from me on that assertion; I’m merely relaying the facts surrounding our culture today.

In the eyes of some, this has allowed Israel to operate with a greater degree of impunity on the world’s stage, with some of these actions offending entire nationalities in the process.

Poland isn’t going to lie down and take it, however.

Poland’s prime minister canceled plans for his country to send a delegation to meeting in Jerusalem on Monday after the acting Israeli foreign minister said that Poles “collaborated with the Nazis” and “sucked anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.”

The Polish pullout triggered the collapse of a planned summit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu with leaders of four Central European nations known as the Visegrad group.

Israel claims that the comments have been misrepresented, but the record states such:

“Poles collaborated with the Nazis, definitely. Collaborated with the Nazis. As (former Israeli Prime Minister) Yitzhak Shamir said — his father was murdered by Poles — he said that from his point of view they sucked anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk. You can’t sugarcoat this history,” he said.

The European Union is already on the brink of catastrophe thanks to Brexit, open borders, and the dissent of Hungary and Poland to the ethos of the EU.

Now, with this semantic scuffle, we’re adding the potent and powerful emotions of The Holocaust and World War II to stir the pot of this already dangerous stew.

When it comes to the inner workings of our government, particularly our intelligence agencies, the American people have given quite a bit of leeway.

We’ve allowed the leash to go slack on these three-letter establishments, believing that whatever sins they commit will always be in the best interest of the American people.

In other words:  Do what you have to, but we don’t have to know about it.

Unfortunately, in this, the fledgling years of the Trump Era, we are learning that perhaps we’ve allowed far too much freedom, particularly in the case of the FBI.

And as the story of Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein’s planned coup against President Trump becomes clearer, we find ourselves both gasping in horror and wondering how we can now wrangle the out-of-control FBI.  In ultimately disheartening news, we have now learned that McCabe and Rosenstein had some seriously shady plans cooking that they hoped to use to oust the President of the United States.

One of those plans included Rosenstein wearing a wire to the White House.

McCabe said the offer came in the context of a conversation about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and if the Russian investigation was impacting Trump’s decision.

Here is what he told 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley:

 I can’t describe to you accurately enough the pressure and the chaos that Rod and I were trying to operate under at that time. It was incredibly turbulent, incredibly stressful. And it was clear to me that that stress was— was impacting the deputy attorney general. We talked about why the president had insisted on firing the director and whether or not he was thinking about the Russia investigation and did that impact his decision. And in the context of that conversation, the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the White House. He said, “I never get searched when I go into the White House. I could easily wear a recording device. They wouldn’t know it was there.” Now, he was not joking.  He was absolutely serious. And in fact, he brought it up in the next meeting we had. I never actually considered taking him up on the offer. I did discuss it with my general counsel and my leadership team back at the FBI after he brought it up the first time.

It may very well be time for We The People to give the FBI’s leash a good, hard tug.