Warning 72-year-old President Donald Trump about declassifying documents related to the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation against his campaign, 76-year-old Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats urged Atty. Gen William Barr to exercise caution. Coats expressed concerns about compromising the FBI’s Top Secret methods-and-practices, not getting to the bottom of the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation. Former FBI Director James Comey opened up an investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 based on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research against Trump AKA “the dossier.” Coats wants Barr to follow “standards,” warning that “highly sensitive classified information would put our national security at risk.” Coats worries that abuses at Comey’s FBI could leave the public skeptical of the nation’s most coveted institutions.
Democrats and the media don’t want Trump to declassify files related to the counter-intelligence operation against his campaign. Trump thinks that former President Barack Obama ordered his Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch to approve the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation into Trump’s campaign. Democrats and the press fear that Trump’s declassification will lead to embarrassing corruption at the Obama White House, Justice Department and FBI trying to help Hillary become president. “I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the [Intelligence Community] in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly sensitive classified information, that, if publicly release, would put our national security at risk,” Coats said. Coats can’t explain what would be contained in the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation that could harm U.S. national security.
Atty. Gen. Barr appointed former U.S. Atty. John H. Durham (R-Conn.) to conduct and investigation into the origins of the FBI’s counter-intelligence operation. Coats and other members of the intelligence fear that Durham will find that Obama abused the intel community to sabotage Trump’s campaign. Several FBI officials have already been fired, including Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page and others, all of whom were engaged in a conspiracy to prevent Trump from becoming president. Comey has been especially defensive about his counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. Comey acted incredulous when asked whether he “spied” on the Trump campaign, insisting he conducted a legitimate counter-intelligence probe. Intel officials are sweating over Durham exposing the ugly details.
Barr and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, want to find out who authorized Comey’s counter-intelligence investigation of Trump, when it began and what intel was used for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. Not one Trump Campaign official, including foreign policy aid Carter Page, was ever charged from Comey’s counter-intelligence investigation. If Comey really had credible probable cause to investigate the Trump campaign, surely Comey would charge someone. Barr and Graham suspect that the so-called dossier was filled with unverified lies about Trump and his campaign. Barr and Graham want to know if Comey deceived the FISA Court about the FBI’s probable cause.
Declassifying files related to the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation doesn’t compromise U.S. national security, it exposes intolerable abuses at the Obama White House, Justice Department, FBI and National Security Agency. Now that the Mueller’s Report is over, Barr and Graham believe its time to take inventory at the nation’s most coveted institutions. If Durham finds that Comey’s investigation was motivated politically to sabotage Trump’s campaign to help Hillary, then heads must roll, especially Comey’s. Anyone letting politics infiltrate the White House, Justice Department, FBI and National Security agency must pay the price. U.S. intel officials must stop warning about damage to U.S. national security and recognize to getting to the bottom of what happened protects U.S. national security. U.S. National Security is threatened when rogue bureaucrats commit egregious crimes.
Democrats and the intelligence community have a vested interest in keeping Durham’s investigation from seeing the light of day. Democrats want to continue the Mueller probe in Congress, watching House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) say Trump was engaged in a “cover up.” Trump’s refusal to honor House subpoena’s stems from the fact that the Mueller Report was the final say on Russian collusion. When Pelosi accuses the president of a cover up, she won’t say what he’s covering up. When there’s no underlying crime, like Russian collusion, then where’s the cover up? “This is yet another destruction of norms that weakens our intelligence community,” said former CIA Director Mike Morell. House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called Trump’s declassification a “corrupt escalation.” Schiff would do anything to prevent the real facts from coming about the FBI’s probe.
