Wall Street Journal Reporter Explains the
Dirty Secret Behind the FBI Spying on Trump
The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel
has uncovered a bombshell of a story that
is still unfolding and may only get uglier
and more disturbing as it goes.
Last week Strassel weaved together various
strains of intelligence, previous reporting,
and new information to uncover the fact that
the FBI had been spying on Donald Trump long
before he was ever elected President.
However, that isn’t actually the most disturbing
news.
What is truly unsettling is that once the
government began to do an internal audit of
what was happening in the FBI and the Department
of Justice, those agencies began acting to
hide their malfeasance.
As Strassel points out, the agencies first
argue that revealing the information in question
“could harm national security,” but then
as the information begins to be exposed we’ve
realized that it does nothing of the sort.
In fact, much of the information that was
redacted and is now being declassified had
NOTHING to do with national security and instead
seems to have been redacted only to keep from
embarrassing the leaders of the FBI and DOJ!
Now into this mess, we learn that the FBI
had positioned an operative inside the Trump
team that was actively spying on Trump and
feeding the FBI information!
It is very important to listen to Speaker
Paul Ryan, who in his press conference [Wednesday]
pointed out that this request by Chairman
Nunes and Rep. Gowdy was completely appropriate
and within the scope of their ongoing investigation,
and frankly should have been answered a long
time ago.
That is another way of saying that whatever
this is is entirely relevant to the longstanding
probe hat the House Intelligence Committee
has been conducting into the Russian collusion
investigation.
That means the Justice Dept. knows full well
that they should have handed over whatever
it is that these two men are seeking, since
all the way back in last August when they
requested the documents…
For months now, look how they handled that
original subpoena.
They simply ignored it, and then delayed.
And remember all the excuses: ‘This could
harm national security.
This could undermine our relationship with
intelligence partners.’
What we have seen so far show that none of
that is the case, what they were actually
hiding are revelations that are extremely
embarrassing to the FBI, for instance, the
fact that they didn’t fully inform the FISA
court that they were basing their surveillance
warrant on information that came from the
rival presidential campaign…
[We know the FBI had a human source] at least
interacting with the Trump campaign.
We know from a leak that appears to have come
from law enforcement, they are requesting
information from a source.
And that term is important, when the FBI talks
about a source, the talk about someone who
is an average citizen who uses their credentials,
their job as a way of spying for the agency.
We can take that to mean that there was somebody
interacting with the Trump campaign and reporting
back to the FBI, which means the FBI was using
human intelligence to spy on a presidential
campaign.
Finally, can I just point out something that
should be concerning every reporter in Washington,
D.C.?
After two years of investigating, and even
with this informant inside the inner circle
of the campaign… the FBI still hasn’t
find any evidence that Trump was doing anything
wrong!
