Waiting until next week to vote on getting subpoenas for former Obama administration officials tied to the counterintelligence investigation of 73-year-old Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, Democrats started to squirm. Pounding their chests in the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees while investigating Trump on fake Russian collusion charges, Democrats now see what it’s like to have the shoe on the other foot. Senate Judiciary Chairman’s 64-tear-old Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wants to get to the bottom of FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign, something House and Senate Democrats were gung-ho about with 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele dossier.” When Democrats thought it could undermine Trump’s campaign and help Hillary get elected, they were all in.
Now that Hillary’s dossier was exposed as utter rubbish, former Obama administrations officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates, former Vice President Joe Biden and, yes, former President Barack Obama, all have to stand accountable for illegally investigating the Trump campaign. Democrats say there are more important things to investigate like the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 crisis or recent race riots over George Floyd’s murder. No Democrats want to face what Trump calls the “Russian Hoax” or, more recently, Obamagate, reflecting the illegal counterintelligence investigation into his campaign.
Comey’s long-gone but continues to paint himself now as a victim of vicious political attacks. When all six-feet-eight of him ran the FBI, he had no problem going to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court armed with Hillary’s fake dossier to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump’s campaign. Comey was appalled at 69-year-old Atty. Gen Bill Barr saying April 11, 2019 that he spied on Trump’s campaign. “What the heck is he talking about,” Comey said, pretending that he conducted a legal investigation into the Trump campaign. Comey was given the fake “Steele dossier” by Trump-hating late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) in August 2016, knowing it was all bogus opposition research. Comey, McCain and the FBI’s upper brass did everything possible to undermine Trump’s campaign. While Comey was fired by Trump May 9, 2017, he’s lived with impunity for his crimes.
Graham wants to subpoena 55 former Obama administration officials to ask them some simple questions. Why would they use Hillary’s fake dossier to investigate Trump’s 2016 campaign. That same question must be put to former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein when he appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign. Both Mueller and Rosenstein must answer the question of knowing the dossier was fake, how could they justify wasting 22 months and $40 million to find out March 23, 2019 that there was nothing there? Rosenstein told the Senate Judiciary Committee June 3 that he didn’t even read the FISA application to wiretap former Trump foreign policy aid Carter Page. Yet after Trump fired Comey, Rosenstein appointed Mueller Special Counsel to investigate Trump’s 2016 campaign. Graham agreed to delay subpoenas until talking with ranking member Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Sen Mike Lee (R-Ut.) was outraged that Rosenstein didn’t even read the entire contents of the FISA applications. “That was stunning, the fact that he didn’t read the whole application. The fact that he’s willing to sign off on it, not knowing what else might b e in there,” Lee said June 2, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “This is bad. This going to happen to other people. I guarantee it,” Lee said, regarding the shoddy FISA application process. “It’s happened to others that we don’t know about, but we’ve got to fix this thing.” Graham needs to subpoena former Obama officials to find out how they justified an FBI counterintelligence probe into Trump’s 2016 campaign when they had no probable cause other that Hillary’s spurious dossier. Graham called Comey’s investigation into Trump’s campaign “one of the most corrupt, biased criminal investigation in the history of the FBI . . .”
Serious crimes were committed by former Obama officials, all coordinated to undermine Trump’s 2016 campaign to get Hillary elected. Comey can say, “what the heck is he talking about,” referring to Barr saying he spied the Trump campaign. To Comey, he had every right to open up a counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, alleging ties with Russia. Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Lynch, Yates, Biden and Obama all knew that Hillary’s dossier was utter rubbish, pure campaign nonsense. Graham must get to the bottom of how Obama allowed his the U.S. national security apparatus to investigate a political campaign. Answering questions under oath is the only way Graham will find out what happened. Rosentein admitted June 2 that if he knew then what he knows now about Carter Page, he wouldn’t have signed off on a FISA application.
