For several years the U.S. justice department has maintained an attitude of non-accountability within its ranks. The Obama years elevated that attitude and provided multiple examples of a DOJ gone rogue.
A complicit media enables that attitude by engineering a false narrative the U.S. Justice Department was/is an independent fourth branch of government; unaccountable to congress and entirely separate from the executive branch.
The House Intelligence Memo is simply using the example of currently known FISA abuse to open the door and show the U.S. electorate how corrupt this unaccountable institution has become. Behind that door are very uncomfortable realities for all of those who constructed the weaponized agency; and also those who have benefited from it.
Unfortunately the corruption appears systemic within the entire justice system. This is the problem currently being confronted. This is also a system being defended by a political media apparatus who have benefited from seeing their opposition targeted. The American people became the threat to their system. The American people became their enemy. This outlook sounds stark, but this is exactly the way the DOJ has behaved.
We The People are in an abusive relationship with the Department of Justice.
Republican Representative Mark Meadows puts it thusly:
Because through all the “memo” news and headlines, it’s critical to remember why this issue is important and why it should matter to everyday Americans.
What this issue is all about: whether the Department of Justice and FBI, under President Obama, abused their surveillance authority against American citizens and political opponents. Put another way: was the Obama DOJ weaponized to spy on the Trump campaign?
Remember, in general, the DOJ and FBI spying on American citizens should automatically be met with MAJOR skepticism. That’s what the Fourth Amendment is designed to protect against. When those American citizens are ALSO political opponents? It should raise even more red flags.
So, take that principle, and look at what happened in this case. The DOJ spied on Carter Page, an American citizen. Red flag. Carter Page was also part of the Trump campaign. Double red flag. It should automatically raise questions.
Now, pause: we know about the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page texts, the “missing” texts, the McCabe concerns, etc. But this is about more. Focus on the dossier here–the political opposition research project put together by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the DNC by extension.
Quite simply: This infamous “Russian Dossier” was unverified political opposition research paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. If the Department of Justice used information like that as a key part of getting a surveillance warrant, it would be a HUGE problem.
Now, from what we’ve already known for months, it sure looks like that’s exactly what happened: that the FBI used that very dossier to get a warrant. @Jim Jordan asked the FBI about it 2 months ago. I asked too. We asked for the FISA application, and the FBI wouldn’t show us.
WATCH:
We’ve asked repeatedly for information from the FBI, both privately and publicly. We’ve openly told FBI and DOJ officials–if we’re wrong, tell us! Tell us what was in the FISA application. Let us see the document. But we’ve been stonewalled for almost a year.
So the bottom line is this: if, in 2016, the DOJ and FBI used an unverified, Clinton/DNC paid-for dossier to spy on American citizens (and political opponents) in the Trump campaign, that is as wrong as it gets. If that happened, Americans deserve to know about it. Period.
Last point: If you remember anything from this news cycle, remember: your right as an American to privacy from your government spying on you is critical. It is foundational to who we are as a Republic. Never take that right for granted, no matter the political party you belong to.
The release of the House Intelligence Memo is only the tip of the iceberg; the crack in the door to see just how corrupt the unaccountable Justice System became.
(Via: TLR)
Blog Author's Comments: From what I have seen for the past few months, I already knew or assumed almost everything that I saw contained within the four page memo. Anyone not paying attention will continue sticking their heads in the sand, and it is highly debatable whether the mainstream media will even mention any of the truth within the release of this document of long known facts regarding the corruption in Obama's regime.
The bizarre reaction by the Democrats to the memo is revealing. They are dirty and tone deaf. The FISA applications were based on the dossier. We knew that. What we didn’t know was that the DOJ/FBI used the media as a source to render credibility to the dossier in the FISA applications. And the DOJ/FBI didn’t bother to notice or report that the same guy that wrote the dossier was the source for the media article they used to assign the credibility. Who is in charge of the FISA judges? Will Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts do anything with this knowledge? The DOJ/FBI has made the FISA judges look like easily duped fools.
The Devin Nunes memo offered more information to many and was even worse than they thought. The FBI knew that Democrats and Hillary Clinton were behind the Dossier, the FBI did not tell the court in getting the warrants. Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates, Boente all implicated. And this is why they didn’t want anyone to see it. They should all go to jail, especially Comey. And Democrats can’t argue any of this away. This is why Andrew McCabe was removed.
The bias and spin that the Democrats and their counterparts within the mainstream media will put on this information will make all of this more intertwined and difficult for those who are not that interested, to understand the full extent of what has happened, to the DOJ and FBI. Two organizations that most of the people thought they could trust. Perhaps this memo will make Special Counsel Robert Mueller stop and take notice with what he is and has currently been doing. I have known and now many others know, that Mueller is targeting the wrong person. The special counsel needs to be focused on the Hillary Clinton campaign, not the Trump campaign. All in all, we have the biggest abuse of power and corruption to influence a presidential election in the history of our country.
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