Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Time To Admit The Russia Investigation Was Illegitimate From The Start

In the last week, as revelation upon revelation hit that Obama administration officials and career employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Department of Justice spied on the Donald Trump campaign in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the mainstream media, the Left, and Never Trump Republicans have fallen back on three ready responses.

A second-and more extreme group-believes Trump conspired with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.

With Russian-leaning Paul Manafort and Carter Page involved in the campaign, and Trump trolling Hillary with praise for Vladimir Putin, the government could not just ignore the risk, they posit.

Trump's criticism of the Russia collusion investigation no longer sounded staged, and he no longer seemed paranoid.

Then the revelations kept coming, as did leaks intended to harm Trump, change the narrative, or soften soon-to-be released news of other misconduct.

So while claims that the FBI properly inquired of connections between the Trump campaign and Russia were valid to a point, that point has long since passed.

We have former acting attorney general Sally Yates, whose disregard for President Trump rose to such heights she chose insubordination rather than resignation.

Yates informed Trump that then-national security advisor Michael Flynn had not been honest in discussing his conversations with the Russian ambassador, leaving Flynn open to blackmail.

Then we have James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, who instructed then-FBI director James Comey to brief Trump on the Steele dossier, with Clapper leaking the briefing to CNN's Jake Tapper to legitimize the media's coverage of the salacious details.

Of course, would later leak at least one classified document to a buddy to prompt the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Trump.

There's more: We now have an admission that the FBI used an informant to spy on the Trump campaign beginning before the official launch of the Russia collusion investigation.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/23/time-admit-russia-investigation-illegitimate-start/

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