I think we all know who was behind it. Good luck getting the media to admit it. https://www.americanthinker.com/art...in_trump_wiretapping_and_neither_is_good.html The first is that the hand selected team of investigators, attorneys, and Senior Executive Service officials with decades of law enforcement, administrative, and judicial experience were abject failures at a task that they were hired to perform. Speaking from personal experience, in FBI, DEA, and state and local wire tap investigations, the slightest omissions, misstatements, and clerical errors are routinely identified and corrected by the street agents and line prosecutors who do these investigations for a living. To believe that a "varsity level" team, with unlimited time, support, and resources, somehow inadvertently overlooked seventeen major omissions, misstatements, and/or outright falsehoods, is simply not believable. The second possibility is that nearly everyone who significantly participated in obtaining FISA coverage on Page knowingly and deliberately operated outside the law to one degree or another. The reasons behind the decision to do so are irrelevant. The particulars regarding the seventeen I.G. findings are startling, taken individually. It's difficult to see how any of the individual omissions or misstatements could have happened accidentally. Viewed collectively, the apparent intentionality is nearly impossible to reconcile as anything but corruption. In light of the I.G findings, the presiding FISA court judge seems to have come down on the side of intentional abuse. In a recent court order, Judge Rosemary Collyer gave the FBI until January 10 to explain to the court why the FBI should be allowed to continue to utilize FISA. The statement that the FBI "withheld material information" and that "FBI personnel misled NSD" suggests that the judge isn't buying the "series of unfortunate events" excuse peddled by prominent figures in defense of the indefensible. Whichever explanation seems more likely, the end result should be infuriating to every American. Either your nation's premiere law enforcement agency was breathtakingly incompetent when the stakes were the highest, or select officials in that organization made deliberate decisions to break the law, undermine the Constitution, and illegally spy on a fellow American. Either possibility has deeply damaged the reputation of the FBI and DOJ in addition to the reputations of thousands of honest FBI Agents and DOJ attorneys. Despite the legitimate concerns of civil libertarians, the FISA process has indisputably proved an invaluable resource in safeguarding the country from terrorism. If the heinous abuses documented in the I.G.s report result in a weakening or loss of FISA, we will all be the worse for it. If those responsible are not held to account, this will happen again. There is no happy face to put on this episode. Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/art...apping_and_neither_is_good.html#ixzz69VO3BWS9 Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
Yet Trump has not dismissed the Director of the FBI, who continues to stonewall investigations and make excuses. His own DOJ and DoD continue to stonewall congressional investigations and outside groups like Judicial Watch. The CIA sent an agent, the "Whistleblower", into the WH, and he met secretly with Schiff's staffers, yet he hasn't been fired or even disciplined. Fusion GPS conduit Bruce Ohr still works in a senior position at DOJ. Lt. Col. Vindman, the Ukraine's man in the WH, has not been disciplined even though he essentially confessed to working on behalf of a foreign power, one that happened to be at the center of this whole sordid mess. CIA asset Stefan Halper was paid a million bucks through the DoD for some BS "research", right before he went to work trying to infiltrate the Trump campaign. There seems to be zero interest in pursuing Halper or the people who hired him. It seems quite obvious that the CIA used friendly intell services to spy on Trump. Anyone involved should have been fired and prosecuted long ago, but nothing has happened, and we are not even applying pressure on the foreign countries involved, eg UK, Australia, Italy, to hand over some people to make examples of. It's business as usual, and we are eager to hand the UK a big trade deal. pa. Jeffrey Epstein (anyone still even remember him?) did not commit suicide.