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    • And then there is this: James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Sally Yates, aided by others in the "intelligence community" more recently including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, obtained multiple FISA warrants to spy on members of the Trump team. All those applications were based primarily on the Clinton-bought-and-paid-for Steele dossier of lies.

    • We can't forget Susan Rice. Susan Rice, Obama's national security advisor, who tripled the unmaskings of Americans during 2016 - grossly abusing the government's surveillance apparatus to target the political opposition.

    • Sally Yates, of course, used those unmaskings to set up General Michael Flynn who was simply doing his job. She got him fired from his new position as President Trump's national security advisor, had FBI Agent Strzok ambush Flynn in an interview, and McCabe may have helped tee him up with false allegations for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

    • And there's more. As the chief judge of the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found in an opinion heavily redacted but unclassified last year, the Obama/Comey/FBI's rank abuses of raw surveillance data of Americans extend back to 2015 (when Trump announced-if not further). The court found egregious Fourth Amendment violations by the FBI and that it had given private contractors (probably Fusion GPS-Steele dossier creators-and Clinton-connected CrowdStrike) wrongful unlimited and unsupervised access to that data. The court so distrusted the FBI itself that it took access away from it, and NSA Director Admiral Rogers proceeded to eliminate the use of "about queries" completely.

    Again, consider the position President Trump found himself, when asked by journalists whether he has complete confidence in our intelligence agencies. And in that reflection, ask yourselves if his response was worthy of the rebuke he got from Congress and worthy of the treacherous comments from potentially true traitors like John Brennan.


    References:

    Alexander Bolton, "Pompeo Faces GOP Grilling on Russia, North Korea ," The Hill, July 24, 2018. Referenced at: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/398703-pompeo-faces-gop-grilling-on-russia-north-korea

    VIDEO: Obama open mic slip: "After my election I have more flexibility." Referenced at: https://youtu.be/XsFR8DbSRQE

    Tim Harris, "MSNBC Host Can't Remember When Obama Promised Putin Flexibility," Real Clear Politics, February 20, 2017. Referenced at: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/20/msnbc_host_cant_remember_when_obama_promised_putin_flexibility.html

    Greg Re, "Pompeo Fights Back After GOP Sen. Corker Hits Trump for 'Purposeful' sowing of 'Doubt and Distrust'," FOX News, July 25, 2018. Referenced at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/25/pompeo-says-us-wont-recognize-russias-crimea-annexation.html

    Sidney Powell, "Trump Has Been Set Up-Framed and Relentlessly Persecuted by the American Intelligence Community," The Daily Caller, July 19, 2018. Referenced at: http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/19/trump-has-been-set-up-framed-and-relentlessly-persecuted-by-the-american-intelligence-community/ [Sidney Powell is a former federal prosecutor]

    Liz Peeks, "Outrage over Trump, Putin Helsinki meeting - Did We Expect President to Call Putin a Liar on Global TV?," FOX News, July 17, 2018. Referenced at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/17/liz-peek-trump-critics-predictably-melt-down-over-helsinki-summit.html

    Staff, "What Trump and Putin Actually Said in Helsinki (TRANSCRIPT)," Foreign Policy News (FP News), July 16, 2018. Referenced at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/18/heres-what-trump-and-putin-actually-said-in-helsinki/

    Jennie Neufeld, "Read the Full Transcript of the Helsinki Press Conference," Vox, July 17, 2018. Referenced at: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17576956/transcript-putin-trump-russia-helsinki-press-conference

    Kenneth Rapoza, "What Reporters in Helsinki Asked Trump and Putin," Forbes, July 16, 2018. Referenced at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2018/07/16/what-reporters-in-helsinki-asked-trump-and-putin/#65ce0d093e25

    Jeremey Diamond, "Trump Sides with Putin Over US Intelligence," CNN, July 16, 2018. Referenced at: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit/index.html

    Constance Hanna, "Trump Report Card," The Daily Compass, July 24, 2018. [Connie Hanna does a weekly update on President Trump in The Daily Compass]