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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 9/5/22 1:46 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   > https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/19/think-the-fbi-deserves-the-benefit-   
   > of-the-doubt-this-laundry-list-of-corruption-should-make-you-think-again/   
   >   
   > A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable   
   > corruption.   
   >   
   > Can the FBI be trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last   
   > decade is an unequivocal no.   
   >   
   > FISA Warrants   
   > In the summer of 2016, FBI bureaucrats launched a deep-state operation,   
   > known as Crossfire Hurricane, to thwart then-candidate Trump’s   
   > presidential ambitions. It began by targeting Trump campaign foreign   
   > policy adviser George Papadopoulos and quickly branched out as bureaucrats   
   > expanded their surveillance. The spy agency used the Foreign Agents   
   > Registration Act (FARA) as a legal pretext to investigate and spy on   
   > Papadopoulos, in addition to former White House national security adviser   
   > Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and former   
   > Trump adviser Carter Page. Several were interviewed by undercover FBI   
   > informant Stefan Halper, whose own investigation would prove a bust.   
   >   
   > According to a declassified transcript between Papadopoulos and a   
   > Crossfire Hurricane confidential human source (CHS), Papadopoulos   
   > repeatedly denied the Trump campaign was working with Russian-backed   
   > entities to capture the 2016 election. The FBI, however, wrote off   
   > Papadopoulos’s recorded answers as rehearsed and omitted his denials of   
   > campaign collusion with overseas actors in FISA court warrant applications   
   > and renewals. These were two of the 17 “significant inaccuracies and   
   > omissions” identified in the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector   
   > general’s blockbuster report on the investigation in December 2019.   
   >   
   > Papadopoulos, who pled guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in a   
   > perjury trap, was far from the only individual to face political   
   > persecution from the federal government’s dystopian investigation.   
   >   
   > Not one of the four FISA warrants obtained by the FBI was legally   
   > justified, according to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report.   
   > In fact, at least two of the warrant applications to spy on Page were   
   > declared illegal by a federal judge. Following Horowitz’s blistering   
   > report outlining FBI misconduct throughout the entire operation, another   
   > federal judge declared that agency malfeasance “calls into question   
   > whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.”   
   >   
   > Subsequent reporting revealed gross abuses of power within the FBI to   
   > prosecute political opponents. According to Horowitz, the FBI’s FISA   
   > warrants “relied entirely” on DNC-funded opposition research compiled by   
   > former British intelligence official Christopher Steele known as the   
   > “Steele dossier.” The dossier, which outlined supposed Trump-Russia   
   > collusion and has since been thoroughly debunked, included salacious   
   > allegations such as supposed “pee tapes” featuring Trump engaging in   
   > golden showers with Russian prostitutes at a Moscow hotel.   
   >   
   > The FBI knew the dossier lacked credibility as early as January 2017 and   
   > knew Steele’s material itself contained Russian disinformation. Desperate   
   > to continue their deep-state operation, however, officials lied to the   
   > FISA court about Steele’s credibility and hid incriminating info related   
   > to the former British intelligence official who was later fired over leaks   
   > to the press. An 18th omission, overlooked by the inspector general’s   
   > report but documented by Federalist Senior Legal Correspondent Margot   
   > Cleveland, was that Steele’s sources did not include the ones he developed   
   > as a British official.   
   >   
   > Even after Steele’s termination as a reliable source, DOJ attorney Bruce   
   > Ohr continued to feed information from Steele to the FBI over the course   
   > of its investigation. Steele met with Ohr 12 times after the former’s   
   > tenure ended as a confidential human source for the bureau, according to   
   > the inspector general. Ohr also promoted his wife’s opposition research to   
   > FBI investigators and did not disclose she was paid by Fusion GPS, the   
   > DNC-contracted firm that commissioned the Steele dossier.   
   >   
   > The FBI never told the FISA court that the Trump dossier written by a   
   > source who was fired for lying, did not undergo independent verification,   
   > and was funded by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.   
   >   
   > Despite the overt abuse of the nation’s surveillance apparatus to spy on   
   > political opponents, only one FBI official has faced criminal conviction   
   > for his role in the probe. In January last year, former FBI attorney Kevin   
   > Clinesmith was sentenced to just 12 months probation after pleading guilty   
   > to fabricating evidence to obtain a FISA warrant. By December, Clinesmith   
   > was re-admitted to the D.C. Bar Association in good standing.   
   >   
   > Steele’s primary sub-source, Igor Danchenko, was indicted in November on   
   > five counts of making false statements to the FBI. In May, a D.C. jury   
   > acquitted former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann on charges of   
   > lying to the FBI when submitting supposed evidence of Trump-Russian   
   > collusion to federal investigators.   
   >   
   > Misleading Congress   
   > Following the collapse of the grand Russia-collusion hoax, lawmakers on   
   > Capitol Hill began demanding answers about FBI misconduct. Former FBI   
   > Director James Comey lied to Congress, claiming the bureau was just   
   > investigating four individuals, not the Trump campaign, in a dubious spin.   
   >   
   > “Late July of 2016, the FBI did, in fact, open a counterintelligence   
   > investigation into, is it fair to say the Trump campaign or Donald Trump   
   > himself?” asked then-Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., in a 2018 hearing.   
   >   
   > “It’s not fair to say either of those things, in my recollection,”   
   Comey   
   > said. “We opened investigations on four Americans to see if there was any   
   > connection between those four Americans and the Russian interference   
   > efforts. And those four Americans did not include the candidate.”   
   >   
      
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