The left of American politics have invested so much, politically and emotionally, in their fabricated narrative about ?Russian collusion? that they simply cannot and will not, let it go, even as it’s comprehensively debunked by the very witch-hunt they established. After all, conceding that their epic, two-year temper-tantrum was based on lies and fantasies might mean having to develop actual policies in place of screaming ?impeach!? helplessly at the sky.
Even worse would be admitting that they co-opted nearly every arm of the state in order to thwart the democratic will of the American people. Quote:
Prominent Democrats lined up to hammer Attorney General Bill Barr for testifying Wednesday that federal authorities had spied on the Trump campaign in 2016, with one top House Democrat charging that Barr is not acting “in the best interest of the DOJ or the country.” End of quote.
Swamp creatures will do anything to avoid sunlight. Quote:
“I think spying did occur,” Barr said during the explosive hearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. “The question is whether it was adequately predicated. ?Spying on a political campaign is a big deal.”
Barr later clarified in the hearing: “I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred; I?m saying that I am concerned about it and looking into it, that?s all.?
Despite mounting evidence that the FBI pursued an array of efforts to gather intelligence from within the Trump campaign — and the fact that the FBI successfully pursued warrants to surveil a former Trump aide in 2016 — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told Fox News that Barr’s loyalties were compromised. End of quote.
This is nothing but shooting the messenger. Quote:
Barr’s comments, and the ensuing semantic hullabaloo, followed a new report that the Justice Department?s internal watchdog is scrutinizing the role of an FBI informant who contacted members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election?The New York Times reported that Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz is looking into informant Stefan Halper?s work during the Russia probe, as well as his work with the FBI prior to the start of that probe.
Trump, for his part, has vowed to release surveillance warrant applications used to monitor his former aide, Carter Page?Page was never charged with any wrongdoing. End of quote.
A disturbing maze of smoke and mirrors is being exposed. It?s becoming more and more apparent that the only collusion was between the Democratic party, the Deep State and the legacy media.
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A separate DOJ IG investigation into potential FISA abuses by the FBI, which is expected to look at whether the bureau improperly presented misleading sources or withheld exculpatory information in its presentations to the FISA court, is ongoing?
In particular, the FBI assured the FISA court on numerous occasions — in the October 2016 warrant application and in subsequent renewals — that other sources, including a Yahoo News article, independently corroborated Steele’s claims, without evidence to back it up. It later emerged that Steele was also the source of the Yahoo News article, written by reporter Michael Isikoff.
?The FBI also quoted directly from a disputed Washington Post opinion piece to argue that Trump’s views on providing lethal arms to Ukraine, and working toward better relations with Russia, was a possible indicator that the campaign had been compromised.
Trump’s policy on Ukraine weapons at the time mirrored then-President Obama’s policy. End of quote.
The Obama administration notoriously oversaw the largest, most Orwellian regime of domestic spying in American history, and weaponised nearly every arm of the state, from the DOJ to the IRS, in order to take down its political opponents. Desperate to control the fake narrative of the Obama ?legacy?, the Deep State resorted to Watergate-style spying on a presidential candidate. Quote:
“It was an illegal investigation. ? Everything about it was crooked,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday, describing it as an attempted “coup” and reiterating his interest in digging into the probe’s origins. “There is a hunger for that to happen.”
Also on Tuesday, Fox News reported that a source said Barr had assembled a ?team? to investigate the origins of the bureau?s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. End of quote.
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