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The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress thehill.com/opinion/white-…
Though it didn’t happen on his watch, Barr told Congress he will investigate how the FBI came to conduct a counterintelligence investigation against Donald Trump, then the Republican nominee for president, starting in the summer of 2016.
We have known for more than a year now that DOJ IG Horowitz has been investigating whether the FBI or DOJ abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to secure a warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page less than three weeks from Election Day 2016.
But Barr made clear Tuesday that his review is distinct and more far-ranging than IG Horowitz’s investigation. It goes back to the moment when a probe code-named Crossfire Hurricane was opened on July 31, 2016, by Trump-hating FBI counterintelligence agent @PeteStrzok.
For most of the last year, @Comey and McCabe have controlled the public narrative while cashing in with books.
But Mueller’s no-collusion conclusion was the first pinprick in their narrative of there being good reason to believe Trump colluded with Russia.
But Mueller’s no-collusion conclusion was the first pinprick in their narrative of there being good reason to believe Trump colluded with Russia.
And Barr’s and Graham’s deeper investigations could find answers to many troubling questions, such as:
🚨 Were the FBI and the intel community essentially used to carry out a political dirty trick to try to stop Trump from winning and then to delegitimize his election victory afterward?
🚨 Did the FBI mislead the FISA court by withholding evidence of innocence and failing to tell the judges that their main evidence was bought and paid for by Trump’s Democratic rival and written by a Trump-hating British operative?
🚨 Did Strzok, Page and Steele’s overt anti-Trump bias impact the investigation?
🚨Did the FBI use strategic leaks to the news media to create evidence or a narrative to sustain a probe with weak underpinnings?
🚨Did the FBI use strategic leaks to the news media to create evidence or a narrative to sustain a probe with weak underpinnings?
🚨 Did the FBI abuse intelligence tools or unnecessarily use invasive tactics that targeted just one candidate and impinged on a fair and free election?
