It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the country depends on the outcome of the investigations being conducted by AG Bill Barr and US Attorney John Durham. There have galactically atrocious and egregious abuses of power by the US intelligence services against a nominee, candidate, President-elect and President of the United States. People have been framed. Lines were crossed, in particular by the then Director of the FBI.
Comey lied to the President-elect three times, telling him he wasn’t the target of an investigation.
Comey bragged about how he took advantage of the “chaos” during the transition and in disregard for proper channels sent two agents to interrogate Michael Flynn, who at first would be exonerated and then later framed.
Comey’s FBI never took any notes in meetings with hillary clinton or her campaign. Comey and his agents always took notes when meeting with the President-elect and his campaign. The President-elect never got a defensive briefing- he got an interrogation by the senior agent in the Counter Intelligence investigation opened on the President-elect.
The intelligence briefing the FBI gave to Donald Trump’s team during the 2016 campaign was a “pretext” to gather evidence on the candidate and his foreign policy adviser to help in their counterintelligence investigation, according to the Justice Department watchdog.
The FBI never briefed Trump’s campaign about its fear that Russians might be attempting to infiltrate his campaign, but Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who testified Wednesday about his report on the Russia investigation, said the bureau used an intelligence briefing ostensibly about guarding against foreign interference to gather evidence against Trump and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign got an identical briefing, Horowitz said, but hers was not used by the FBI to collect information on the candidate or her team. Clinton’s campaign was not the subject of a counterintelligence investigation.
“It was a strategic counterintelligence briefing. I mention that because it precisely wasn’t a defensive briefing. It was an intelligence briefing,” Horowitz told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “They were treated differently in that the agent wrote it up to the file and put the information in the file. The briefings were identical, but one was for investigative purposes, and one was purely for the intelligence briefing.”
Horowitz said the goal of a counterintelligence investigation “is to identify potential threats to the nation” and criticized the FBI’s decision to use a defensive briefing in this way.
“They sent a supervisory agent to the briefing from the Crossfire Hurricane team, and that agent prepared a report to the file of the briefing. About what Mr. Trump and Mr. Flynn said,” Horowitz testified, referring to the code name for the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation. “The incident, the event, the meeting was a briefing, and the FBI considered and decided to send that agent there to do the briefing. So the agent was actually doing the briefing but also using it for the purpose of investigation.”
The same agent interviewed Michael Flynn. The FBI would then go on to lie about it.
“Did they ever try to protect Donald Trump from foreign influence?” Graham asked.
“They did not brief him,” Horowitz said.
“As a matter of fact, whenever they went in and gave him a vanilla briefing–‘the Russians are out there, you better beware,’–didn’t they have an FBI agent do a 302 on the defensive briefing itself?” Graham asked.
“They sent one of the supervisory agents from the Crossfire Hurricane team to the briefing and that agent prepared a report to the file of the briefing,” Horowitz said.
17 significant wrongs were found in the FISA applications, all of which went against the President-elect. IG Horowitz said he would not have submitted such a thing.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the committee chair, asked Horowitz if he, as a lawyer, would have submitted the FISA renewal applications the FBI submitted in January, April and June 2017, which did not reflect current information available to the FBI.
“Let me put it this way, I would not have submitted the one they put in,” Horowitz said. “No doubt about it. It had no business going in.”
James Comey and FBI lawyer James Baker refused to have their security clearances reinstated so they would not have answer questions from Michael Horowitz and his team.Despite that, Comey has been prancing around claiming vindication but…
Graham: Comey says he’s vindicated by your report. True?
Horowitz: “The activities we found don’t vindicate anyone who touched this.”
Robert Ray has expressed astonishment that the FBI could have an open investigation into the a Presidential candidate and eventual President-elect without the knowledge of the Attorney General. Four people- count ’em, FOUR- were spied on by the FBI.
Former Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray said he was “aghast to learn how little involved the [Obama administration] attorney general and the deputy attorney general of the United States” were in the FBI investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Ray said that is the most stunning revelation from the Justice Department Inspector General’s review of FBI conduct at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.
“I think Michael Horowitz was surprised to learn,” said Ray on Fox Nation’s “Deep Dive” on Tuesday, “and I cannot believe that there is an investigation that would take you inside a presidential campaign and four people who were targeted within that campaign and that doesn’t require some kind of supervisory review and initiation beyond simply the inner-reaches of the FBI.”
The IG report examined the process by which the Obama administration’s FBI launched investigations into four Trump associates. The FBI targets included former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
An FBI lawyer- Kevin Clinesmith- altered a document denying Carter Page was a CIA/FBI source, but the FBI had been setting up Page for a fall long before that.
Mar 2016 Trump names Carter Page as an adviser to his campaign
April 2016 FBI opens a CI investigation on Page
June 2016 First FISA sought on Trump and Page and campaign
Oct 2016 FISA warrant on Page approved, based on the lie that Page was a foreign agent
Page had previously been an FBI/CIA asset and had helped nab a real Russian spy
FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith alters a document making it appear that Page had not been an IC asset which makes all subsequent FISA warrants illegal. The FBI actually began spying on Donald Trump in March of 2016. Clinesmith also authored an interesting email:
“Is it making you rethink your commitment to the Trump administration?” one FBI lawyer wrote on Nov. 22, 2016.
“Hell no. Viva le resistance,” the future Mueller attorney responded.
Ted Cruz exchange with Horowitz:
Cruz: “A lawyer at the FBI creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email that is in turn used as the basis for a sworn statement to the court that the court relies on. Am I stating that accurately?”
Horowitz: “That’s correct. That’s what occurred”
And bias? Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
Sen. John Kennedy: Does an absence of evidence mean evidence of absence?
Horowitz: No
There was a great question asked by Josh Hawley
“We expect foreign governments to try to meddle, but when our own government does it, how can the American people have confidence, and what can we do?”
Indeed. hillary clinton, the DNC and barack obama effectively bought the FBI via Orbis Business Intelligence.
Ayn Rand wrote
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”
We are at the precipice right now. Grave wrongs have been committed. James Comey has established a two tiered system of justice in the country and Loretta Lynch has aided him. There have been crimes committed- extremely serious crimes. If people are not held accountable, if people are not indicted conspiracy and for lying to the FBI and to Congress (as were Michael Flynn and George Papdopoulos), if people are not imprisoned and exculpatory evidence continues to be buried by government, then the country is finished. None of us could ever again look to the Justice system and believe it to be fair. We would lose all faith.
If they can do this to a President of the United States, they can do it to any of us. The Constitution becomes meaningless. We become Russia and the FBI becomes the KGB.
That’s the scenario to the edge of which we have crept thanks largely to James Comey and his corrupt FBI.
The future of the country depends on Bill Barr and John Durham and that is no exaggeration.
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