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Memo: Democrats Made Up Evidence Enabled Eavesdropping On Trump Campaign

2-2-2018 < Blacklisted News 37 529 words
 

Over the last month political enemies of U.S. President Trump and the FBI and Justice Department have desperately tried to prevent the publishing of a memo written by the Republican controlled House Intelligence Committee.


The memo describes parts of the process that let to court sanctioned spying on the Trump campaign. The key points of the memo that was just published:



* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.


* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.


* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.


* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele's bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.



If the above memo proves to be correct one can conclude that a Democratic front organization created "evidence" that was then used by the FBI and the Obama Justice Department to get FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. The Democrats as well as the FBI have done their utmost to keep the above secret.


Carter Page was a relative low ranking member of the Trump campaign with some business contacts to Russia.


Andrew McCabe was an FBI assistant director. A few month earlier his wife ran for a Virginia State Senate seat with the help of $700,000 she had received from Clinton allies.


The former British spy Steele had been hired by the Democratic Party to dig up dirt about Donald Trump. He came back with a package of "reports" which alleged that Trump was "colluding" with Russia or even a puppet of Putin. The content of the reports is hilarious and so obviously made up that one wonders how anyone could have treated it seriously.


Getting a FISA warrant on Carter Page meant that all his communication with the Trump campaign was effectively under surveillance of the Obama administration. All internal campaign papers that Page had access to were also accessible for at least some people who tried to prevent a Trump election victory.


One may (like me) dislike Trump and the Republican party and all they stand for. But this extremely dirty play by the Democrats and by the Obama administration was far outside of any decency and fairness. It was against the most basic rules of a democratic system. It is likely that it broke several laws.


There are still many questions: What was, exactly, the result of the surveillance of Carter Page and the Trump campaign. Who was getting these results - officially and unofficially?  How were they used?


I am pretty sure now that more heads of those involved will role. Some of the people who arranged the scheme, and some of those who tried to cover it up, will go to jail.


If Trump and the Republicans play this right they have practically won the next elections.


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