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This article is from 3 years ago, so by now action would have been taken on this.Townhall Larry O'Connor | Aug 14, 2020
Today's news that former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty in the Obamagate/Spygate scandal will be tough news for journalists like Jim Acosta.
Just this week, he haughtily intoned on his "network" that President Trump's charge that the Obama campaign spied on his campaign in 2016 was "just not true. That did not happen; it has not been proven."
Well, today's guilty plea from Clinesmith proves it did.
The spying began in early 2016 as a robust opposition research tactic of the Hillary Clinton campaign and transformed into an "insurance policy" to handicap the Trump Administration after his unpredictable victory.
Clinesmith was so intent on spying on Carter Page, an unpaid advisor to the Trump campaign, that he lied to the secret FISA court and doctored an official document to misrepresent that Page had not cooperated with the CIA in past investigations involving Russian espionage.
Page, a retired intelligence officer from the United States Navy and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, had fully cooperated with an earlier investigation involving Russian bad guys. That information surely would have thrown a wrench into the attempts to tap Page's phones, his emails, his text messages, and the phones, emails, and text messages of everyone he corresponded with and everyone they corresponded with.
Now There's No Denying It: Obama's FBI Spied On Trump... Period
If you are conducting surveillance that is not authorized and, in fact, you lied to get the authorization, you are no longer conductingtownhall.com
Comment:
If Trump can be indicted on BS charges, then Obama can be indicted on some real charges.
If this is how the Democrats are going to operate, then make them play by their own rules.
Can you imagine all of the grinding of teeth and caterwauling from the Hollywood/Media hate machine.
And how about Hillary Clinton destroying subpoenaed evidence and her illegal e-mail server?
Why should she be allowed to get away with crimes that other people have gone to prison for?
And how about Col. Yevgeny Vindman who eavesdropped on Trump's phone calls and then reported to Adam Schiff so that Pelosi could have her bogus impeachment.
Make the Dems play by their own rules.
As for Hillary destroying evidence, it was physical destruction of mobile devices by her aids, and the FBI found they didnt intend to destroy evidence.
As for Vindman, he worked for the National Security Council at the time, meaning it was his job to listen to those sorts of calls with foreign leaders.
In order to have indictments, you need a criminal investigation and a grand jury to vote on it. In order to achieve an indictment, a prosecutor needs present "probable cause" to a grand jury. For a trial, evidence needs to reach the higher level of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt".
