Closer to the release of the GOP’s “secret memo” on serious breaches of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] at the FBI, the agency has “grave concerns” about the memo now in Trump’s hands. What’s at stake is colossal embarrassment to FBI’s top brass, including former FBI Director James Comey and his Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who used former Hillary Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the dossier” to justify to FISA Court wiretaps on Trump campaign officials. Testifying June 9, 2017 before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey refused to answer, citing classified material, whether he sought and obtained warrants from the FISA Court to wiretap Trump campaign officials. GOP’s memo, prepared by House Intelligence Committee Co-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), fingers Comey in using the fabricated “dossier” as probable cause.
Using the national security apparatus to discredit Trump’s presidential campaign exposes the worst abuse of the intel community for political purposes in the nation’s history. FBI Director Christopher Wray knows the hit to FBI credibility, if the GOP memo turns out to be true. But the wider implications show a coordinated attempt with the Obama Justice Department led former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and National Security Adviser Susan Rice to wiretap Trump campaign officials to give Hillary an unfair advantage to sabotage Trump’s campaign. When you consider all the shenanigans at the Democratic National Committee with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.), it should come as no surprise that Hillary backers in the FBI, Justice Department and National Security Agency would do anything to sabotage Trump. Yes, FBI officials have “grave concerns” about the memo.
Democratic operatives and their backers in the media don’t want Nunes’s memo released to the public because it shows an unprecedented level of corruption at the nation’s most coveted agencies, the FBI, Justice Department and National Security Agency. House Intelligence Committee Co-Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of Trump’s biggest critics, accuses his GOP colleagues of obstructing the Special Cousel’s investigation into Russian meddling and Trump collusion in the 2016 campaign. Yes, if the GOP’s memo proves true, then of course it would impact the Russian investigation. But not because it’s a deliberate attempt to sabotage the investigation but because FBI, Justice Department and National Security agency broke the law with respect to appropriate FISA Court procedures. Spying on former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page broke the FISA Court rules.
Comey refused to answer June 9 whether or not the FBI met or communicated with Michael Steele the former MI6 agent who assembled Hillary’s dossier to discredit the Trump campaign. Pleading with House Intelligence Committee Republicans to withhold the memo from public view, the FBI looks to spare itself more embarrassment but, more importantly, possible criminal charges against Comey, Lynch, Rice, and possibly former President Barack Obama. There’s no reason to assume that Lynch ran a rogue Justice Department, having the full approval of Obama to seek warrants from the FISA court to wiretap Trump campaign officials. There’s absolutely nothing the FBI can do or say to stop Trump from exposing what looks like the biggest government scandal since Watergate. Exposing corruption at the FBI, Justice Department and National Security Agency is needed to clean house.
Calling the memo “a completely separate matter” from the Mueller probe, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) hasn’t come up to speed with the implications. You can’t have a Special Counsel probe when the entire premise of the investigation was illegal or at least ethically tainted. By the time Hillary called Trump a “Putin puppet” in the last presidential debate in Las Vegas Oct. 19, 2016, the FBI has already sought wiretaps on Carter Page and “unmasking” Trump campaign officials from wiretapped conversations with former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak. FBI officials refuse to admit they sought warrants in FISA Court by using Hillary’s paid opposition research as probable cause. FBI officials responded saying, “The FBI takes is obligated to the FISA Court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI,” read the FBI statement.
How seriously could the FBI take the FISA court by presenting Hillary’s fake dossier to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials? “We are committed to working with appropriate oversight entities to ensure the continuing integrity of the FISA process,” said the FBI. If the FBI used the dossier, or worse yet, paid Steele for fake intel about Trump and associates, then the entire Russian investigation has to be questioned. Recently discovered texts between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his FBI attorney mistress about how they must keep Trump out of office raises disturbing questions about political bias at the FBI. Exposing inappropriate or illegal behavior at the FBI during the 2016 campaign has direct bearing on the Special Counsel’s probe. There’s no legitimacy to the Russian probe if the FBI used Hillary’s “dossier” to seek warrants in FISA court to wiretap Trump campaign officials.
