When 60-year-old FBI James Comey was fired by 74-year-old President Donald Trump May 9, 2017, no one, certainly not partisan Democrats, imagined the breadth of his criminal activities. Instead of breathing a sigh of relief, Democrats screamed about “obstruction of justice,” pressuring former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel May 17, 2017. Trump fired Comey as he said then for being a “dirty cop,” wiretapping his campaign based on 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele Dossier.” Comey opened an illegal counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign when given the Dossier by the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) in July of 2016. Both Comey and McCain knew that the contents of the Steele Dossier were utter rubbish and used it anyway.
Four years later, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chairman of the Senate Judidciary Committee, has been horrified by Comey’s criminal behavior, using the Steele Dossier to dupe the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court with phony probable cause to wiretap Trump’s campaign. Comey operated under orders from former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, to do anything possible to sabotage Trump’s 2016, helping Hillary become president. Graham’s been releasing declassified documents related to Operation Crossfire Hurricane, Comey’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. A document released today proves that Steele’s “sub-source” was American, not Russian.
Armed with her Steele Dossier, Hillary accused Trump in the Oct. 19, 2016 in the final presidential debate in Las Vegas of being a “Putin puppet.” Steele’s Dossier, among other things, accused Trump of being a Russian asset, controlled by the Kremlin due to nefarious business dealings. Turns out that Steele actually had no contacts inside the Kremlin but pretended he had inside Russian contacts. “The Russian sub-source who was American-based—not Russian based—told Christopher Steele, ‘here’s what I got, it’s bar talk, it’s rumor, it’s innuendo, it’s not really reliable,’ and what did Christopher Steele do with that? He turned into a Tom Clancy novel, he sold it to the FBI, the sold it to the FISA Court, to get a warrant against Carter Page,” Graham said. Graham’s new documents prove that the Steele Dossier was entirely fake, something Comey, McCain and others knew at the time.
Partisan Democrats in the House and Senate and their friend at the New York Times and Washington Post ran with the Russian hoax story out of pure politics to get back at Trump for running against Hillary and winning the White House. While Graham’s trying to connect the dots, he’s still mired in the minutia related to the Steele Dossier. “Not only did the FBI lie to the court about the reliability of the Steele Dossier, they also lied to Congress, and that’s a separate crime,” Graham said. Department of Justice Inspector General [IG] Michael Horowitz found 17 instances of misrepresentations to the FISA Court. Horowitz could not say in his Dec. 9, 2019 report that politics played the primary motive in spying on the Trump campaign. Comey was so drunk with his own power as FBI Director, he thought he could break the FISA Court law and get away with it.
Democrats, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC and others, spent over three years writing stories about Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. New revelations about the content to the Steele Dossier, the main probable cause for Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the 22-month, $40 million Mueller investigation has now been upended. Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller investigation proves that politics, not facts or evidence, determined how U.S. laws were broken to advance political agendas. “I find it impossible to believe that McCabe [former Deputy FBI Director] and Comey were not made aware of this 40-page memo,” Graham said. “Anybody that knew that the Russian dossier was unreliable and continued to get a warrant against Carter Page on that document should go to jail for defrauding the court,” Graham said.
When Graham adds up all the real evidence on the Steele Dossier, it shows a monstrous conspiracy in the FBI led by Comey to sabotage the Trump campaign before Nov. 8, 2016 victory and during his first term. Mueller spent nearly two hears and $40 million to find out there was no Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. But far more egregious, Democrats, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets continued the Russian hoax, even after they were told there was nothing there. Inside Comey’s FBI, he ran the nation’s premier law enforcement agency as his private political consulting firm to get rid of Trump. “The FBI continues to lie to the court, getting new warrants based on the dossier in April and June in 2017. After they knew it was a bunch of garbage, the continued to use it anyway,” Graham said. “Somebody needs to go to jail.”
