Remember all the left wing media laughter when Trump revealed that he had been spied on? The usual suspects said this was evidence Trump was crazy and supported the idea that he should be removed from office. There were direct and repeated denials that any spying had taken place. (1,2)
But as Winston Churchill famously said: "a lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." Finally, the truth has its pants on. There was spying on the Trump campaign.
Attorney General William Barr testified Wednesday before a Senate committee. Watch this:
We've known for months now that the FBI bent over backwards to exonerate Hillary Clinton in her classified email scandal. Newly released documents show discussion of the "the Hillary coverup operation" that assured Hillary would not be charged even though the violations of law in the handling of classified information were clear. Anyone else would have gone to jail.ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR: As I said in my confirmation hearing, I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016. And a lot of this has already been investigated, and a substantial portion of it has been investigated and is being investigated by the office of the Inspector General, but one of the things I want to do is pull everything together from the various investigations that have gone on, including on the Hill and in the [Justice] Department, and see if there are any remaining questions to be addressed."I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016… I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal… I think spying did occur.” -Attorney General Bill Barrpic.twitter.com/9aaUS1dhVt— GOP (@GOP) April 10, 2019
SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN: And can you share with us why you feel a need to do that?
BARR: Well, you know, for the same reason we're worried about foreign influence in elections, we want to make sure that during elections -- I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It's a big deal.
The generation I grew up in, which is the Vietnam War period, people were all concerned about spying on anti-war people and so forth by the government, and there were a lot of rules put in place to make sure that there's an adequate basis before our law enforcement agencies get involved in political surveillance. I'm not suggesting that those rules were violated but I think it's important to look at that. and I'm not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly.
SHAHEEN: So you're not suggesting, though, that spying occurred?
BARR: Well, I guess -- I think spying did occur, yes. I think spying did occur.
SHAHEEN: Well --
BARR: The question was whether it was adequately predicated. And I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated. I need to explore that. I think it's my obligation. Congress is usually very concerned about intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane. I want to make sure that happened. We have a lot of rules about that.
I want to say that I've said I'm reviewing this. I haven't set up a team yet, but I have in mind having some colleagues help me pull all this information together and letting me know whether there are some areas that should be looked at. I also want to make clear. I also want to make clear, this is not launching an investigation of the FBI. Frankly, to the extent there were any issues at the FBI, I do not view it as a problem that's endemic to the FBI.
I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there, at the upper echelon. So I don't like to hear attacks about the FBI because I think the FBI is an outstanding organization and I think Chris Wray is a great partner for me. I'm very pleased he's there as the director. If it becomes necessary to look over some former officials' activities, I expect I'll be relying heavily on Chris and work closely with him in looking at that information. But that's what I'm doing. I feel I have an obligation to make sure that government power is not abused. I think that's one of the principal roles of the attorney general.
Was McCarthyite "Russia, Russia, Russia" tactic part of cover-up?
Now that we are about to launch a REAL investigation into what happened here, we might revisit the left wing media's role in trying to protect Hillary and lie about Trump. Now that the Mueller report exonerated Trump in regard to any Trump-Russia collusion, people may want to know why CNN and MSNBC constantly beat that drum despite the fact there was NO EVIDENCE. CNN mentioned Russia 16,000 times in the past two years. Rachel Maddow at MSNBC might have exceeded that amount all on her own. Look at a recap from just ONE of her shows:
For over two years Democrats and their media allies have engaged in a McCarthyite style campaign to point the false finger of Russian accusations at Trump. Did they do so to protect Hillary and to cover-up the role played by Obama Administration officials in spying on Trump? Will we finally find out what fired FBI lawyer Lisa Page meant when she said Obama "wants to know everything we are doing?
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