FISA TREATS - No. 2: FBI SPIED ON TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN FROM BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED STRAIGHT THROUGH INTO HIS PRESIDENCY.

Courtesy of Inspector General (IG), Michael Horowitz...

So I decided to break down the Deep State fiasco outlined in the IG’s FISA Scandal report into bite sized pieces that I am calling “FISA Treats”. Here’s the second one (all quotes from actual report):

(2) “We determined that the Crossfire Hurricane team TASKED SEVERAL CHSS AND UNDERCOVER EMPLOYEES (UCEs) during the 2016 presidential campaign, which RESULTED IN INTERACTIONS WITH Carter Page, Papadopoulos, and A HIGH-LEVEL TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL WHO WAS NOT A SUBJECT OF THE INVESTIGATION… We also learned that in August 2016, A SUPERVISOR OF THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE INVESTIGATION participated on behalf of the FBI in a strategic intelligence briefing given by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to candidate Trump and his national security advisors, including investigative subject Flynn, and also participated in a separate strategic intelligence briefing given to candidate Clinton and her national security advisors. THE FBI VIEWED THE BRIEFING OF CANDIDATE TRUMP AND HIS ADVISORS AS A POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLECT INFORMATION POTENTIALLY RELEVANT TO THE CROSSFIRE HURRICANE and Flynn investigations. THE SUPERVISOR MEMORIALIZED THE RESULTS OF THE BRIEFING in an official FBI document, INCLUDING INSTANCES WHERE HE WAS ENGAGED BY TRUMP and Flynn, as well as anything he considered related to the FBI or pertinent to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The supervisor did not memorialize the results of the briefing of candidate Clinton and her advisors… The FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane as an umbrella counterintelligence investigation, WITHOUT IDENTIFYING ANY SPECIFIC SUBJECTS OR TARGETS.”

So prior to the issuance of Horowitz’ condemning FISA Scandal Report, and even after it came out, we’ve been consistently hearing denials of any “spying” going on with regard to President Trump and his campaign, an ALLEGED FACT PUSHED ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC by the media. Horowitz’ investigation settled any question in this regard. THERE DEFINITELY WAS SPYING ON TRUMP AND HIS CAMPAIGN before and after he got into office.

Additionally, by opening the investigation without identifying any specific subjects or targets, it impliedly included President Trump himself as a target of the investigation, which of course exposes James Comey for the liar that he is, having expressly told the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, 2017 the following regarding a conversation that he had with President Trump (his boss under Article 2), “I thought it was fair to say [to the President of the United States] what was literally true. There was not a counterintelligence investigation of Mr. Trump, and I decided in the moment to say it, given the nature of our conversation.” Notice his reference to the President as “Mr. Trump”. No one was given a pass, except for Hillary of course, even though it was known that the Steele dossier which formed the basis of the initial investigation was paid for by individuals connected with the Hillary campaign and the DNC. Here’s a direct quote from the IG Report, “We asked Steele when he learned who had retained Fusion GPS to obtain information concerning Trump and the Trump campaign. He told us he could not recall when he first learned that it was the LAW FIRM PERKINS COIE and the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (DNC)…” The Report ESTABLISHES WITHOUT ANY DOUBT that the DNC hired a foreign national to spy on President Trump and the Trump campaign. In terms of the veracity of the report which needed to be “SCRUPULOUSLY ACCURATE” in order to be submitted to the FISA Court as support for what would be essentially an intrusive spying warrant, we read the following from the IG Report, “Steele told us that the reports he generated were not designed to be "finished products" and instead were "to be briefed off of orally versus consumed as a written product." He said that the reports were "mostly single source reporting" and were uncorroborated intelligence "up to a point"…” The DNC and Hillary’s campaign orchestrated the mother of all foreign government collusion scenarios.