The Federalist: Late last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham announced a webpage dedicated to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s probe into the Crossfire Hurricane illicit investigation into the Donald Trump campaign. Graham’s staff uploaded the four Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications, which were recently further declassified.
These declassifications reveal more devastating details in the SpyGate saga. Here are seven new revelations.
1. The FBI Always Intended to Spy on the Trump Campaign
When news first broke that the Obama administration had obtained a FISA order to surveil Page, Democrats and the left-leaning press argued the FBI’s surveillance of the former Trump foreign policy advisor didn’t constitute spying on the Trump campaign because the court-ordered surveillance didn’t begin until after Page had left the campaign.
“Conservatives tried to correct the record, noting that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) order gave the government access to Page’s past emails and other electronic communications with members of the Trump campaign, but the mainstream media ignored this reality.”
However, Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse later confirmed that, yes, “the FBI gathered substantial evidence of Page’s past electronic communications,” including multiple “emails between Page and members of the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign concerning campaign related matters.”
The recent declassifications of the FISA applications now expose a further reality: The FBI didn’t just seek access to past electronic communications with campaign members, the FBI believed Page would continue to communicate with the Trump campaign and sought the FISA court order to intercept those conversations.
While Page had announced he was “taking a leave of absence from his work with the campaign,” the first FISA application read, “because Page was one of the first identified foreign policy advisors for [Trump’s] campaign, the FBI believes that Page likely established close relationships with other members of [Trump’s campaign.]”
Accordingly, the FBI maintained in its initial FISA application that it “believes that Page likely established close relationships with other members of [Trump’s] campaign and likely would have continued to have access to members of [Trump’s] campaign, which he could exploit to attempt to exert influence on foreign policy matters, regardless of whatever formal role he played in the campaign.”
This is all old news and water under the bridge. For Pete’s sake we have a serious pandemic to deal with! And an economic shutdown to enforce!
1. The FBI Always Intended to Spy on the Trump Campaign
Everyone involved should be hanged by the neck until dead. That is the Alpha and the Omega of this story.
Nothing else needs to be said or can be said. I would say the exact same thing if they were spying on Democrats
Everybody’s doin a lot of choppin’, but no chips are flyin’. Let’s get somebody, anybody in cuffs and in prison.
@ Larry
And therefor we should sweep under the rug
and totally ignore past election cycle
rampant criminal conduct by hundreds of
democrat party operatives and at least dozens
in the CIA and FBI including many
at the highest levels ?!
Richard Nixon was up for impeachment for
FAR LESS !
But we have a crisis and we’re supposed to ignore
crimes of the democrat party and the extremist left.
Larry, if you were really enlightened, you’d have an entry and exit wound in your skull. Only fix for a simp like you.
27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
28 They have become fat and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
29 Should I not punish them for these things? (this is the Lord’s declaration) Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah ch. 5
Soinds familiar, doesn’t it.
Gordon Liddy served 52 months in Federal prison for far, far less than what these assholes did.
These seditious traitors were directed in their illegal activities at the highest levels of the Osmidgen Administration, including the Very Former President and Vice President. Where are all those investigative journalists? This is the biggest political scandal since this country was formed, and all they can do is ignore Dementia Joe’s mental incontinence and blame President Trump for mismanaging the Wuhan Pandemic. They are Co-conspirators in this attempted coup. Confederates in the assassination attempt.
And that seditious disease has spread to the State Houses, Marco.
Our government saga reads like a Dickens novel and the interchangeable characters of his rogues’ gallery.
“And therefor we should sweep under the rug
and totally ignore past election cycle
rampant criminal conduct by hundreds of
democrat party operatives and at least dozens
in the CIA and FBI including many
at the highest levels ?!”
File charges as yourself. Show harm done. Otherwise, this is going exactly nowhere. Our rules do not apply to these people.
You can get used to that. You can do yourself harm in frustration. You can go shoot the guilty in the head.
You have more freedom than you grasp.
But, it all comes with a price.
“Devastating”?
Telling us what we already know? That the Party… the One Party… the True Party… the Eternal Party… to which ALL Party members swear allegiance… is corrupt. But that is a GOOD thing. Because the corrupt Party members… as they MUST be corrupt, to swear, to be ALLOWED to swear, their allegiance, to the corrupt Party… will… eventually… tell us that the Party is good. Enough.
“Devastating”? I KNOW that word does not mean, what you think it means.
@ Lowell
I agree BUT
If that’s the only way the deep state criminality
can be changed or even dented
We’re all in big trouble
To think that the deep state is that deep
means our only way out
our only rectification
our only way re-installing the constitution
the only way to stop political criminality
Is Civil War II or
Anarchistic public insurrection
Wanted: Dead and Alive @ BFH make it an old poster sepia style.
Hey larry.
@JayPee: “@ Lowell
I agree BUT
If that’s the only way the deep state criminality
can be changed or even dented
We’re all in big trouble
To think that the deep state is that deep
means our only way out
our only rectification
our only way re-installing the constitution
the only way to stop political criminality
Is Civil War II or
Anarchistic public insurrection”
You actually thought about this. I’m impressed.
If there is a transition back to a Constitutional Republic, violence on some scale is inevitable. And that horrifies me and breaks my heart. Using the long lens of hundreds of years of human history, backed up by even longer looks back, I see no alternative for a positive, eventual outcome.
Most likely, we are in for many years of increasing servitude to the state that most will endure. They will be supplied with reasons they should. Just like they are being supplied today.
I get the funny feeling that ‘Larry; is a parody by a regular on this site … I have a couple of ideas about whom
embrace the ‘diversity’ & have a laugh … 😉
It’s great mccain is dead.
It’s a shame his rotten corpse is buried in Arlington. Dig him up and burn his remains.
He’s buried at the Naval Academy. ^^^
Should be in a dump somewhere.