Atty. Gen. William Barr, 69. reminded the press that his probe into the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into 73-year-old President and his 2016 presidential campaign goes on. Democrats and the mainstream press dismissed any concern about 59-year-old former FBI Director James Comey and his FBI management team. In the heat of the Russian hysteria, the anti-Trump press had him tried, convicted and sentenced for conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. Daily stories from the New York Times and Washington Post, without proper attritbution, used unnamed sources to confirm Democrat talking points that Trump colluded with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential election against 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. It’s most ironic Hillary started the Russian hoax, calling Trump a “Putin Puppet” at their final 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas.
Barr has the unenviable task of connecting all the dots at a time when the nation’s consumed by the coronvirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 when so much camfouflage and cover-up happened at Comey’s FBI. Comey said under oath that he had sufficient “probable cause” or “predicate” to launch a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign, never admitting, that he used Hillary’s paid opposition research against Trump AKA “The Steele Dossier” to dupe the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] court to obtain warrants to wiretap the Trump campaign. No one in the Democrat Party or mainstream press found anything wrong with the FBI’s conduct. Barr expressed grave concerns that the FBI violated Department of Justice rules and the rule of law, to investigate a presidential campaign. Press complicity is a threat to the First Amendment.
Barr’s already been subjected to press attacks, publishing articles that he’s Trump’s puppet, not an independent attorney general concerned that the FBI violated DOJ policy, possibly breaking the law. Barr appointed 70-year-old U.S. Atty. in Connecticut John Durham May 15, 2019 to investigate possible FBI lawbreaking. When 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller competed his investigation March 23, 2019 finding Trump and his campaign did not conspire with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign, it opened up a can of worms. Reports of FBI improprieties were pouring in with texts-and-emails exchanged during the campaign by former FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his lover, FBI Atty. Lisa Page. Both Strzok and Pane acted like conspired to prevent Trump from becoming president. Both denied wrongdoing, saying they only expressed personal opinions.
When Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz completed his report of FBI conduct Dec. 9, 2019 he did not find the FBI broke the law when it came to its FISA applications, finding instead “sloppiness and mistakes.” Barr disagreed with Horowitz’s findings, prompting him to appoint Durham to investigate FBI conduct with respect to FISA abuse. “My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes and sloppiness,” Barr said, refuting Horowitz’s Dec. 9, 2019 report. “There was something far more troubling here. We’re going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law and we can establish that with evidence, they will be prosecuted,” Barr said, referring to Comey, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Strzok, Page and others who participated in the FBI’s attempt to sabotage Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Comey denied April 11, 2019 that he spied on the Trump campaign. “I don’t know what the heck they’re talking about,” insisting he had all the probable cause needed to launch a counterintelligence investigation. But mounting evidence suggests otherwise. Former FISA Court Chief Judge Rosemary Collyer said Dec. 17, 2019 the FBI deceived her court to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. “The frequency with which representations made by the FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in the FBI application is reliable,” Collyer wrote. Barr and Durham have that admission by the former FISA Court Chief Judge to refute Comey’s statements that he did nothing wrong seeking warrants to wiretap the Trump campaign.
While the world grapples with the coronavirus nightmare, Barr puts one-foot-in-front-of –the-other on a long, windy trail to determine whether or not the FBI broke the law investigating the Trump campaign. If you ask Democrats or the mainstream press, they already tried, convicted and sentenced Trump to Russian collusion. Mueller rained on their parade when he concluded March 23, 2019 in his Final Report that no collusion took place. “Spying on a campaign is a big deal,” Barr told lawmakers last year. “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated,” a question that was already answered by Judge Collyer. Comey never produced a shred of evidence to justify his counterintelligence investigation other that the discredited Steele Dossier. As the clock ticks, Durham has turned up the heat on Comey and his former FBI management team.
