The More Powerful The Perpetrator, The Greater Her Prerogative
To Define Reality
On January 4th of this
year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), senior member of the Committee, delivered a
letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher
Wray referring Trump dossier author Christopher Steele for criminal
investigation for lying to federal authorities. To support the referral, they
attached documentation showing direct communications between the British spy
and “multiple U.S. news outlets”.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),
ranking member of the Committee, slammed
the referral claiming it contains “numerous flaws and omits facts.” She also contends the Grassley/Graham letter
attempts to “undermine the FBI and cast aspersions on Special Counsel Mueller’s
investigation.”
One name recently
linked to the dossier is Daniel Jones, a former investigator for Sen. Feinstein
when she chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Soon after reports of
the Grassley/Graham letter emerged, Joe DiGenova began warning the public about
“the weaponization of the FBI for political purposes by all the people at the
upper echelon of the Bureau.”
DiGenova is not a
nobody. In 1992, he was appointed
Independent Counsel in the Clinton Passport File Search matter. As United States Attorney, District of
Columbia, he supervised federal criminal and civil matters including public
corruption, espionage, fraud and international terrorism. He led the
prosecution of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. He was the Principal
Assistant U.S. Attorney during the prosecution of attempted Reagan assassin,
John Hinckley. He has also served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the
Senate Rules Committee and Counsel to the Senate Judiciary, Governmental
Affairs and Select Intelligence Committees.
About the
“weaponization” of the FBI; it’s important to keep in mind the following
tick-tock:
Obama’s Attorney
General, Eric Holder left the Department of Justice on September 25, 2014. The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer
appointed former President Bill Clinton’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of New York, Loretta Lynch, to replace Holder as AG. Lynch was confirmed on April 23, 2015. A month-and-a-half later, Donald Trump
announced his candidacy for president on June 16, 2015.
During Lynch’s
confirmation hearings she generally defended the president’s policies but did
say she viewed the role of the Justice Department as being an independent
constitutional authority whose clients are the American people, not the
president or Congress. I needn’t remind you she scandalously met with Bill
Clinton on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport on June 30, 2016.
Lynch, at the time,
painted an innocent portrait of their curious conversation. “Our conversation
was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels
and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix.”
Back to DiGenova. He ominously began
speaking out about the shenanigans at the FBI after the release of the
Grassley/Graham letter.
"This is the worst
period in the history of the bureau─much worse than the late [J. Edgar] Hoover
period when they were spying on domestic groups. This was the weaponization of
the FBI for political purposes by all the people at the upper echelon of the
bureau."
"There is enough
evidence on the public record with the information from the Inspector General
and from The Hill with the legal release of documents, that it is clear Mr. McCabe
and others engaged in highly improper, probably illegal activity in the FISA
court stuff along with the dossier from Christopher Steele."
"This is a dark
moment for the FBI," DiGenova declared. "It's gonna to take a lot for
them to recover from this. Comey was a dirty cop and unfortunately he dirtied
up everybody else around him," DiGenova concluded.
In his May 2017
testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, former CIA Director John
Brennan emphatically denied the dossier factored into the Intelligence Community’s
publicly released conclusion last year that Russia meddled in the 2016 election
"to help Trump’s chances of victory.”
He also swore he did not know who commissioned the dossier even though
officials at the DOJ and FBI knew it had been paid for by Hillary Clinton’s
campaign.
House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes plans
to release a separate report detailing the Obama State Department’s role in
creating and disseminating the dossier─which has emerged as the foundation of
the Obama Administration's Russia “collusion” investigation. Among other
things, the report will identify diplomats who worked with partisan operatives
close to Hillary to help ex-British spy Christopher Steele compile the
dossier.
Nunes will focus on
Brennan as well as Obama’s first CIA director, Leon Panetta, along with
the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and National
Security Adviser Susan Rice as well as UN Ambassador Samantha Power.
According to Real
Clear Investigations, several Capitol Hill sources say “Brennan was a
fiercely loyal Obama appointee who talked up the dossier to Democratic leaders,
as well as the press during the campaign. They say he also fed allegations
about Trump-Russia contacts directly to the FBI, while pressuring the Bureau to
conduct an investigation of several Trump campaign figures starting in the
summer of 2016.”
Just weeks before Trump
was inaugurated, investigators say Brennan made certain the contents of the
dossier were attached to Obama’s Presidential Daily Briefing. The contents of
the PDB were then leaked to the media.
Brennan later swore the
dossier did not “in any way” factor into the CIA's assessment that Russia
interfered in the election to help Trump. However, congressional investigators
suggest a still-classified version of the January 2017 intelligence report
contradicts his claim.
"I'm pretty troubled
by what I read in the documents with respect to the role the State Department
played in the fall of 2016, including information that was used in a court
proceeding. I am troubled by it," said Rep. Trey Gowdy, a member of the
House Intelligence Committee.
Last week, perhaps not
coincidentally, Brennan signed a
contract with NBC News and MSNBC to be their “senior national security and
intelligence analyst.”
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