Over the last several years we’ve detailed how the FBI used faulty information to get secret warrants to spy on the Trump Campaign. We’ve all known that for years. We’ve also suspected that the entire thing was an illegal political witch hunt. Slowly, more and more proof comes out to confirm this idea, and up to this point, we have corroborated suspicions, but not necessarily a smoking gun.
The FBI has defended their decisions by claiming there was a breakdown in communication. The court that approved the warrant was unaware of faulty information at the time. Despite that flimsy excuse, we know that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for the research that was the entire basis of the warrant. We also know that the guy who did the research (Christopher Steele) was discredited by the FBI prior to this fiasco. By FBI standards, he was not a credible witness.
We also have leaked emails and documents that show that Obama and his administration were in on this whole thing. Still, the plausible deniability card hasn’t been overtly destroyed. We all know better, but what you know and what you can prove aren’t always the same thing.
President Trump’s early claims of an unethical FBI and a shady Obama administration has been verified by a diligent Inspector General. John Durham’s deep investigation has been looking all aspects of this nightmare. That investigation has slowly revealed important details, but we’ve all been waiting for the big bombshell to drop. It just did.
New revelations tell us that the FBI submitted a report to the IG during the FISA application process (meaning it was submitted to Obama’s IG). That report made notes of how much the FISA warrant application relied on Steele and why he couldn’t be trusted. In fact, they noted that it “raised concerns in the FBI Transnational Organized Crime Intelligence Unit.” The conclusion by the FBI, at the time that all of this happened, was that Steele was either in bed with Russian intelligence, or he was being deceived by them. With this official report on the books, the FISA warrant was approved and the country illegally spied on the Trump Campaign.
This is easy to undersell. It’s not just that back-channel communication is showing that everyone knew they were doing something shady and looked the other way. The FBI officially and formally discredited their own information. That same information was used to green light an illegal surveillance operation. That operation then committed entrapment to put a man in prison. And, it was used by the left to slow progress and delegitimize the President for years.
This was a deliberate, organized, deep-state operation that was perpetrated by members of our government from the top to the bottom. The swamp was not a partial problem in D.C. It infested the entire government, and we’ve only begun to clean the swamp monsters out of the capital.
