The breathless back-and-forth news reporting from the nation’s capital last week focused on the four-page memo — long classified and unreleased — written by GOP members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). That memo and three major congressional investigations, according to University of Chicago professor Charles Lipson, “center on credible allegations that the FBI and DOJ fixed the investigation of Hillary Clinton to clear her and her top associates, and then launched an investigation of Donald Trump for partisan political reasons.”
Among the possible constellation of federal crimes: high-level corruption and obstruction of justice; using a fraudulent “Russian dossier” to obtain FISA warrants to wiretap incoming Trump administration personalities; the equally illegal unmasking and leaking of their identities; and the free-swinging use of “sources and methods” by the nation’s intelligence agencies to go after political opponents of the deep state.
All of these are, at best, unproven allegations to this point. Former CIA director and defense secretary Robert Gates appeared on NBC News last weekend to dismiss lurid allegations of cabals and secret societies as the inventions of “rogue politicians.” To no one’s surprise, CNN dismissed all such speculation as ...Read More HERE
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So true! But we are just learning that Robert Mueller has found the 'smoking gun' that confirms Russia-Trump collusion.
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