Monday, October 29, 2018

The Stench Still Lingers

Addressing a Missouri rally last month, President Trump praised the people of the FBI and Justice Department, saying many of the bad ones - inferentially James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others - had been fired.

Trump said, "But we had some real bad ones - you see what's happened at the FBI, they're all gone, they're all gone, they're all gone. But there's a lingering stench and we're going to get rid of that, too."

The stench of that political corruption still lingers over the FBI and the Justice Department, but neither Trump nor anyone in his administration is willing or able to deal with it.

Among the documents included in Trump's September declassification order were the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act search warrants against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page and the thousands of text messages and the fully unredacted version of text messages exchanged between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

The Friday after Trump's order to declassify the documents, Trump withdrew his order at Rosenstein's urging and at the urging of "Key allies," unidentified by the president.

The "James Madison Project," had asked for all orders of the FISA court authorizing surveillance or information gathering on the Trump campaign, the Trump business organization, people associated with Trump and Trump himself.

The stench of political corruption will still linger over the Justice Department and FBI..

https://spectator.org/the-stench-still-lingers/

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