The "conservatives" love to conserve blatant criminality. How could anyone anywhere on the political spectrum accept the kind of monstrous behavior that trump has exhibited in office? Where is their patriotism?
Trump's done a fabulous job, even against the headwinds of illegal spying followed by a witch hunt.
FIX THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT AND PUNISH THE CROOKS WHO ABUSED IT:
FISC was abused Obama Administration operatives.
Hopefully federal prosecutor John Durham will expose crony government at its worst — dirty government officials, bureaucrats and agents who are politically exploiting and criminally manipulating the U.S. national security structure to harm their political opponents.
Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz exposed the profound damage done to a judicial institution vital to successfully defending America in a world of complex threats: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC.
The FISC was created to protect a citizen's constitutional rights while permitting intelligence community surveillance of legitimate suspects. To protect necessary cloak-and-dagger secrets, the FISC meets in secret. A secret court in a free society requires trust in security agency professionalism and integrity, and trust in the judgment of the court judges.
The abuse of the FISC by corrupt members of U.S. security and legal agencies -- specifically within the FBI and DOJ -- squandered that trust. Corrupt actors conducted illegal surveillance.
Horowitz discovered premeditated fraud on the FISC by a DOJ attorney. The attorney "altered" email from the CIA and submitted a fraudulent application for a warrant to the court. Fooled, FISC approved the warrant.
The target: Carter Page, a Naval Academy graduate and a former Trump presidential campaign associate. Spying on Page -- an innocent man -- opened a door to spying on President Donald Trump.
FISC's then-presiding judge, Rosemary Collyer, issued a public order regarding the Page application and the FBI's lack of "candor":
"The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable. The FISC expects the government to provide complete and accurate information in every filing with the Court."
The FBI alleged a Naval Academy grad associated with a presidential campaign in an election year was a Russian asset when actually Page was a CIA asset.
The individuals who abused the court must be investigated, arrested, tried, convicted and sent to prison. They committed an array of crimes -- including criminal mishandling of classified material. The FISC is a classified court.
In the past, the public expected responsible reporters to scrutinize government operations. In the FISC saga, contemporary Fake News media served as a PR tool for crooked cops and spies. The Fake News New York Times and Washington Post touted false intelligence leaks.
These 4 crooked witch hunter persecutors serve an evil agenda