{"id":32224,"date":"2017-12-23T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T02:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32224"},"modified":"2017-12-23T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T02:16:34","slug":"the-insurance-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32224","title":{"rendered":"The Insurance Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew McCarthy<\/a> posted an article at The National Review<\/a> today titled, “Was the Steele Dossier the FBI<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Insurance Policy\u2019?” It is a rather lengthy article, and I strongly suggest that you follow the link and read the entire article. However, there are two sections of the article that I think tell the whole story.<\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

The Obama-era FBI and Justice Department<\/a> had great faith in Steele because he had previously collaborated with the bureau on a big case. Plus, Steele was working on the Trump-Russia<\/a> project with the wife of a top Obama Justice Department official, who was personally briefed by Steele. The upper ranks of the FBI and DOJ strongly preferred Trump\u2019s opponent, Hillary Clinton<\/a>, to the point of overlooking significant evidence of her felony misconduct, even as they turned up the heat on Trump. In sum, the FBI and DOJ were predisposed to believe the allegations in Steele\u2019s dossier. Because of their confidence in Steele, because they were predisposed to believe his scandalous claims about Donald Trump<\/a>, they made grossly inadequate efforts to verify his claims. Contrary to what I hoped would be the case, I\u2019ve come to believe Steele\u2019s claims were used to obtain FISA<\/a> surveillance authority for an investigation of Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were layers of insulation between the Clinton campaign<\/a> and Steele \u2014 the campaign and the Democratic party<\/a> retained a law firm, which contracted with Fusion GPS, which in turn hired the former spy. At some point, though, perhaps early on, the FBI and DOJ learned that the dossier was actually a partisan opposition-research product. By then, they were dug in. No one, after all, would be any the wiser: Hillary would coast to victory, so Democrats would continue running the government; FISA materials are highly classified, so they\u2019d be kept under wraps. Just as it had been with the Obama-era\u2019s Fast and Furious and IRS scandals, any malfeasance would remain hidden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The best laid schemes . . . gang aft agley.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I honestly don’t know if President Trump is going to be able to drain the swamp, but the above statement makes it obvious that had Hillary Clinton become President, the swamp would only have gotten bigger.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In conclusion, while there is a dearth of evidence to date that the Trump campaign<\/a> colluded in Russia\u2019s cyberespionage attack on the 2016 election, there is abundant evidence that the Obama administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to use the Steele dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized monitoring of the Trump campaign \u2014 and to fuel a pre-election media narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions if he were elected president. Congress should continue pressing for answers, and President Trump should order the Justice Department and FBI to cooperate rather than \u2014 what\u2019s the word? \u2014 resist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves.<\/p>\n

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