This suggests the dam is about to break: The New York Times admitted on Thursday that the Obama administration deployed multiple spies against the Trump campaign in 2016, confirming recent comments by Attorney General William Barr that ‘spying did occur’ during the campaign. (Update — old article. I’m surprised it’s the first time I’ve seen it. )
The Justice Department Inspector watchdog referred FBI agent Stephen Somma for disciplinary review after an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the FBI’s New York field office, was identified only as “Case Agent 1″ in Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, released in December. Sources told the New York Times that Somma is that official. The FBI did not comment for the report.
Somma was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions” during the process of obtaining FISA warrants to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016 and 2017, according to Horowitz. Horowitz confirmed the FBI relied heavily upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s salacious and unverified dossier when pursuing the secret surveillance.
The DOJ watchdog found 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI’s applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Page, who was under suspicion of being an agent for Russia. He was never charged with any wrongdoing.
Related: What a difference a new acting Director of National Intelligence makes.
This dam had been “breaking” for the last four stinking years.
It makes NO “difference” until I see doors kicked in at 400am and cuffed people are frog-marched out blinking in the search lights…..you know…..a la Roger Stone……no less than that. Until then, cue up another yawn and wait for yet another bombshell to nowhere.
Exactly what Buzzard said.
At least a thousand times worse than Watergate
And from our holier than thou leftard indoctrinators in the slimestream media…?
…crickets…
We don’t NEED the media’s breathless attention. Start kicking in some doors at 400am instead of them doing it to us for a change!
Actually, this article is dated May 2, 2019. The Thursday in question was last year in April.
That said, the change at DNI seems to have pushed a reluctant AG toward something (something) approaching activity on the file. Long overdue. In this, the 2019 article isn’t dated, it’s ahead of events.
Good grief, yes it is. Thanks for the heads up.
If the New York Times is reporting anything, it’s half a story with most of the pertinent facts omitted or distorted. The purpose is to slant the public perception, prepare them for the excuse for why Trump made them do it or to set up a patsy to take the fall.