,
15 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
Solomon Recounts Tip-Off from Federal Agents on Intel Community "Spying" - The Post & Email thepostemail.com/2019/05/09/sol…
John Solomon, who has been breaking new ground in the Russia “collusion” narrative and its aftermath for more than two years, recounted an evening in March 2017 when he said he was approached unsolicited by two federal agents outside of his Washington, DC-area home.
Solomon said that his “Russia” investigation, which has recently broadened to include alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Democrats,.....
....stemmed from a scathing report, formally titled a “Memorandum Opinion and Order,” issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) addressing admissions of improper unmasking of Americans’ names by the Obama regime.
Solomon told Schlessman that at the time, the unmaskings appeared to him, at least in part, to have a connection to the 2016 presidential election.
The NSA and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during Obama's term by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos
The memos were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union. They detail specific violations that the NSA or FBI disclosed to the FISA Court or DOJ's national security division between 2009 and 2016.
The intelligence community isn’t due to report on compliance issues for 2017, the first year under the Trump administration, until next spring.
In February, Solomon related the story, perhaps for the first time, to former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and “Citizens United” President David Bossie, an informal Trump advisor, on their “Rough Rider” radio show.
“You’re on the cusp of something much bigger…” Solomon quoted the agents as telling him that night. “What we can tell you is that if you dig far enough, you will find that the US IC, the FBI, NSA, carried out out a political-opposition research project during the 2016 election.
"We’re deeply troubled by that; it’s inappropriate; there are violations yet to be discovered, and more importantly, the reason we want to come and tell you and hope you can report this out is that...
...if we lose these tools because we’re caught using them for politics, we might not catch the next terrorist; we might not catch the next big spy; it deeply concerns us to see what happened…”
Solomon told Schlessman that after the agents departed, he immediately went inside and documented what he recalled of the conversation and sent it to Carter. Both were then working at Circa News.
From there, Solomon said, he and Carter began asking questions as to who the perpetrators and targets might have been, and the Russia “collusion” narrative began to unfold.
Of the two unnamed agents, Solomon said, “I look back at their words that I memorialized that night, and they were very, very accurate. They understood what was going on.”
