You wouldn’t know it from reading the headlines, but Special Counsel John Durham has demonstrated in exacting detail what former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and I first uncovered five years ago: the Steele Dossier was not just a Clinton-concocted and Democrat-funded scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election. It was an unlawful effort eagerly coordinated by the top brass of the FBI, culminated in the presentation of known lies to a federal court to illegally surveil President Donald Trump and his campaign. Only now are we learning just how deep the corruption ran, all the way through the intelligence community.
While doomed to failure because of the political rot infesting D.C.-area jury pools, Durham’s prosecutions of Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko were necessary steps toward exposing the FBI’s schemes to abuse its surveillance powers to meddle in domestic politics. We still have a lot to learn, including about the role of the CIA and its former director Gina Haspel in launching the Russia Hoax behind the scenes. While I successfully surmounted obstacles established by “obstruction twins” FBI Director Chris Wray and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to uncover that (for example) high-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr was married to dossier researcher Nellie, acted as an FBI source cutout, just so they can maintain the influx of intel they knew to be false. So much has yet to be revealed to the American public, and it must be with haste.
With the American people poised to sweep the GOP back into power, House Republicans have a rare chance to build on the work Nunes, Durham, and others to learn the full truth and enact fundamental reforms.
The FBI has abused its counterintelligence mission to target the Democrats’ political opponents, including unrelenting attacks on Trump from his candidacy, throughout his presidency, and continuing with the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Holding corrupt government agencies and bureaucrats accountable is a great idea. First, you need a system that will ensure the indictment and prosecution of politicians who break the law and violate the constitution. Forget censure and impeachment. If the crime warrants prison, that’s what should happen. You also need an FBI and DOJ that aren’t politicized and rotten to the core with malfeasance.
Hillary and Bill Clinton, Joe and Hunter Biden, B. Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, James Comey, and James Clapper, are just some of the Dem criminal conglomerate that used their positions to abuse power and break the law.
Any new “Church Committee” will have a lot of catching up to do.
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