What the Trump impeachment inquiry is really about – Part 1
Bottom Line: The deep state wasn’t built in a day, or even one administration and it’s not going to down without a fight. From February 2nd, 2018 the day the House intelligence investigation into the Steel Dosier, FISA warrant requests and wiring tapping of Trump associates was dropped we’ve been building up to this moment. Think of how desperate numerous people had to be to create a fraudulent narrative of Trump-Russia collusion and to pursue it for two years. Now, imagine after that effort failed how desperate you’d be if you were one of the deep state actors involved?
This isn’t about the Ukraine. This isn’t about $400 million in aid they received from us anyway (which is a whole other issue worth discussing). This is about AG William Barr’s investigation closing in on deep-state actors and the catalyst is the DOJ’s recent indictment recommendation for one of the actors, Andrew McCabe. This will help you understand. This is what I called my 30 Count Indictment which I took national on the Mark Levin Show February 2nd, 2018. Here’s the recap...
- Both the DOJ and the FBI petitioned the FISA court to begin to surveil a Trump campaign adviser (Carter Page) on October 21st, 2016
- The application had to be certified by the FBI's Director or Deputy Director & The AG, Deputy AG, or Assistant AG to the NSA.
- The initial warrant on Carter Page was issued & renewed three times (every 90 days) - which lasted through the campaign, the election, the President-elect period and early days as President
- FBI Director James Comey singed three warrants
- Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe signed one
- Deputy AG, Sally Yates signed at least one
- Deputy AG, Dana Boenta signed at least one
- Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein signed at least one
- Christopher Steele was an FBI source
- Christopher Steele was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign to create it via the law firm Perkins Coie & Fusion GPS
- The purpose was to obtain "derogatory information" on Trump ties to Russia
- The funding of the dossier by the DNC & Clinton Campaign was never disclosed to the FISA court
- The DOJ and FBI officials who signed off on it knew that the DNC & Clinton Campaign paid for it to be created
- The FISA requests left the sourcing of the dossier out of the warrant request, despite knowing it was Fusion GPS...
- The FBI authorized an additional payment to Christopher Steele for the dossier
- On September 23rd of 2016 Yahoo News ran a story linking Carter Page to Moscow that was used in the FISA requests as corroborating evidence
- Christopher Steele leaked the story to Yahoo News
- The FISA request states that Steele wasn't the source of the Yahoo story
- In a British court Christopher Steele cited that he was the source of the Yahoo News story
- Perkins Coie - the DNC & Clinton law firm used for the Dossier funding was aware of the Steele leak
- Perkins Coie held a meeting with Steele and Fusion GPS after the leak to discuss the matter
- Steele was suspended and fired after revealing he was an FBI source to Mother Jones on October 30th
- After being fired by the FBI he maintained contact with the Justice Department - specifically Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and senior officials who were direct reports to Deputy AG's Salley Yates and later Rod Rosenstein
- In September of 2016 Christopher Steele told Deputy AG Bruce Ohr "was desperate that Donald Trump not be elected"
- Deputy AG Bruce Ohr's wife was employed during this time by Fusion GPS to cultivate the dossier
- Deputy AG Bruce Ohr provided his wife's research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign to the FBI
- Deputy AG Bruce Ohr's wife's role was never disclosed to the FISA court
- FBI Counter-intelligence Assistant Director Bill Priestap cited the dossier investigation as only being in its quote "infancy" at the time of the initial FISA warrant request
- FBI Director James Comey offered a summation of the dossier to President-Elect in January of 2017 Trump despite its lack of corroboration
- Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified in December of 2017 that the warrants wouldn't have been issued without the Dossier
Once you realize what’s at risk with Andrew McCabe facing indictment it begins to make sense...I’ll pick that up in the second part of today’s story.
Continue with part 2 here: