Atty. Gen. William Barr announced today new rules when it comes to government surveillance of presidential candidates or their campaigns. Based on former FBI Director James Comey’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, Barr said that no future candidate for federal office should be under FBI surveillance without meeting some steep hurdles. Comey had no bar at all when he opened up Crossfire Hurricane using 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele Dossier.” Comey received Hillary’s dossier from the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) who had a personal vendetta with Trump, would do anything to prevent him from becoming president. Evidently, there were others as the FBI that felt the same way, gladly using Hillary’s rubbish to investigate Trump’s campaign.
After Hillary lost the election, Democrats spread wild speculation, attributing Hillary’s loss to Trump’s ties to the Kremlin, something claimed in “the Steele Dossier.” Only one problem, none of the fabrications in the dossier were verified, something Comey and McCain knew in the summer of 2016. That didn’t stop Comey from opening up a counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s campaign, with primary focus on ties to Kremlin. Hillary had already accused Trump of Russian help hacking emails of the Democratic National Committee [DNC] and former campaign chairman John D. Podesta. Hillary used defamatory fabrications in the Steele Dossier to discourage voters from voting for Trump. Hillary’s strategy all backfired on Election Day, Nov. 4, with Trump pulling out an Electoral College victory. Yet Comey’s FBI did everything possible to sabotage Trump’s campaign.
Barr’s new memos designed to make the Attorney General or the FBI Director sign off on any surveillance before going to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to obtain warrants to wiretap federal officials is the least he could do. Drawing gasps from Democrats and partisans on Capitol Hill, Barr’s trying to correct an egregious abuse of the national security apparatus for the purpose of sabotaging a presidential campaign. Democrats and their media friends have no problem using the FISA Court or any other means to sabotage an opponent, in this case Trump. Barr recommended that the FBI before starting any investigation would notify the intended suspect before anything takes place. Barr wants to tighten applications to the FISA Court, something Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz urged in his Dec. 19, 2019 report in FISA abuse.
FBI officials need to preserve covert surveillance activities when it comes to U.S. national security, something that Comey argued based on Hillary’s dossier. What Comey didn’t admit to the FISA Court was the evidence was not verified, nor would it have cut the muster in any judicial proceeding. When you consider that Comey and McCain knew on Day One that Hillary’s dossier was pure rubbish, it makes you wonder about the how 55-year-old former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein would appoint 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel May 17, 2017. Mueller wasted 22-months and $40 million investigating Trump’s campaign based on bogus probable cause. Rosenstein’s decision to appoint a Special Counsel was politically motivated from the start, backed by 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 60-year-old House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Pelosi and Schiff had a grand scheme to impeach Trump from Inauguration Day, figuring they could frame Trump with wild speculation from Hillary’s paid opposition research. When Pelosi and Schiff were told by Mueller March 23, 2029 that there was not Russian collusion to impeach Trump, they spent months fishing for something else impeachable. Eventually they settled on a specious “whistleblower” complaint about a conversation Trump July 25, 2019 had with 41-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Well that didn’t work out too well for Pelosi and Schumer when the Senate acquitted Trump Feb. 5, 2020. Barr’s new restrictions on surveillance for federal candidates or campaigns has already been vilified by Democrats, accusing the attorney general of doing Trump’s bidding. Democrats and the press despise Barr because he could embarrass them before the election.
Democrats think that Barr is trying to pull a fast one only two months out from the election. Barr contracted with U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) to investigate the origin of Comey’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign. When IG Horowitz said the investigation was justified, he was referring to intel agencies saying July 21, 2017 that Russian meddled in the 2016 election. Democrats and the press conflate that finding with Trump meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Rosenstein got it wrong when he appointed Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump’s alleged ties with Moscow, because there weren’t any. With Barr already getting former FBI Atty. Kevin Clinesmith to plead guilty to tampering an FBI document, Democrats and the press want to discredit everything Barr does. To Democrats and the press they did nothing wrong investigating Trump.
