Federal authorities are still Lies and obscurations about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release of documents on the origins of the FBI investigation, years delayed and heavily redacted.
This came to light thanks to the persistent efforts of the folks at RealClearInvestigations.
The biggest thing the agency is still hiding is the “clear factual basis” that justified its 2017 investigation into President Trump's role as a Russian intelligence agent.
Yes, it's been obvious for years It was The investigation has no factual basis.
But to see why exactly that's a problem, and why the bureau needs to come clean, take a look at its entire sordid history. . . .
In 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign, then desperate to deflect attention from her illegal use of a private email server to illegally share classified documents, paid former spy Christopher Steele. , fabricated false allegations that his presidential rival Donald Trump was working. Together with Russia.
He in turn pays his “assistant”. imagine Some dirt. These lies, matched with the now infamous Steele dossier, are being used to justify an investigation into the Trump campaign.
Clinton was spared legal pain over the email breach after FBI Director James Comey recommended against prosecution. Trump won the 2016 election under a cloud of unfounded suspicion, but left-wing media amplified the suspicions.
In November 2016, the FBI gave Steele a source. In January 2017, Steele's lead author, Igor Danchenko, told the FBI that there was “zero” support for the claims in the dossier and that the Russia-Trump rumors he relayed to Steele came from “word of mouth and hearsay.” He said that it was something that
In May 2017, President Trump fired Comey. Just a few days later, the F.B.I. resume Contacted Steele (we now know that Steele's credibility has been 100% destroyed), new This was the subject of a FOIA request by the RCI team.
The investigation was initiated by then-Acting Director Andrew McCabe and approved by FBI General Counsel Jim Baker and McCabe's number two, Bill Priestap.
With the arrival of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, two years of endless noise and outrage from Democrats and their dogs in the media, broadcast TV coverage, and signs of frothy insanity from the schizophrenic members of the resistance across the country. comes into view.
Of course, Muller will continue to show up. . . There is absolutely no evidence that Trump was a Russian asset in any way.
period.
So you don't have to be Picasso (or Wassily Kandinsky) to connect the dots about what the FBI is still hiding and why.
No one will know for sure until the bureau tells the truth, but it is highly unlikely that the redacted “clear factual basis” of the 2017 investigation is untrue and unworkable.
So it's a toxic combination of Steele dossier fraud and FBI vendetta against Comey.
Remember what McCabe, the initiator of the study, suggested? publicly In a 2019 interview with CBS News, he said the latter was the case.
And that investigative co-signer, Mr. Baker, played a key role in laundering the claims in the dossier (when the app killed our 100% accurate Hunter Biden coverage in a blatant election interference case) (He also served as deputy general manager of Twitter, Inc.)
The FBI's attempted coup d'état (whatever you want to call it) against a sitting American president remains one of the most shameful chapters in the FBI's shameful history.
The American people have full responsibility.
That the agency's leadership still feels they have the right to lie, cover up, delay and deny justifies President-elect Donald Trump's plan to undermine the agency. This is proven beyond doubt.
