BREAKING: Barr thinks spying did occur

[OldLady]

Barr used the word "spying" for a reason.....to satisfy trump. Now he will need to create evidence to justify his assertion....Barr is another trump plant.

No need to be so sensitive about a word. "Collection gathering" and "spying" are the same thing when the intelligence agencies are doing it. They had good reason to do it. No one used any of the information they gathered to disrupt Trump's campaign. They're good to go.[/QUOhas a]

You are right...but Big Butt Barr knew that the word "spying" has a very negative connotation....it was used to amuse the fat orange criminal....trump has his protector in place....

Well, yes, I believe Barr was selected for agreeing to protect the President, as the President has been whining about for two years. It does not mean he will go so far as to make anything up, though.
Which means another firing down the road.

 

[Zorro!]

Barr testifies 'spying did occur' on Trump campaign, amid reported review of informant's role

Heads will roll!

BARR BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITY

Attorney General William Barr is undertaking a review of the surveillance of the Trump presidential campaign conducted by the FBI and intelligence agencies under the Obama administration. At the time they started this, they were deeply confident of Crooked Hillary's victory and that none of this would ever see the light of day.

With the election it became clear that the new Republican president would soon know that the former Democratic administration had surveilled his campaign on the basis of information from his rival. At that point two things happened. Neither was accidental, and both were aimed at forestalling accountability.

First, Mr. Comey and other intelligence officials, including Mr. Crapper, engineered the public release of all the scandalous claims against Mr. Trump, to provide some cover. As liberal commentator Matt Taibbi notes in his new book, “Hate Inc.” Mr. Comey’s Jan. 6, 2017, briefing of the president-elect about the dossier was a classic Washington “trick.” It served as the “pretext” to get the details out, a “news hook” to allow the press to publish the dossier—with its salacious fictions about prostitutes and Moscow hotel rooms—and go wild.

Democrats used the furor in their successful push for a special counsel, which gave greater legitimacy to the FBI’s probe. The appointment of a special counsel also froze other oversight. Congress can’t have access to certain documents or ask witnesses certain questions, since that might interfere with the probe. The White House can’t demand answers, because that too would interfere. Mr. Trump’s adversaries got to hide behind Robert Mueller for nearly two years.

Second, Democrats mobilized against the other big threat, incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had the authority to conduct an internal review. Don’t forget, the dossier wasn’t delivered only to the FBI. Its ultimate owners were the Clinton campaign and the DNC. And one huge outstanding question is just how many Democrats pushing for Mr. Sessions’ recusal in early 2017 did so with full knowledge of the FBI-Clinton tie-up. Certainly no Republicans were aware, and thus they were clueless to the bigger consequences of the unnecessary Sessions recusal.

Namely, that no outsider would take a hard look at the FBI. The Russia question fell to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, an institutionalist who would go on to sign the final application for a surveillance warrant against Mr. Page. Again, no accountability. Meantime, wonder why Democrats tried so hard to mau-mau Mr. Barr into also recusing himself? The goal all along has been to deep-six any discovery until a Democrat returns to the White House.

Mr. Barr didn’t merely refuse to recuse; he’s made clear he plans to plumb the FBI’s actions thoroughly. That makes him Threat No. 1 to everyone who participated in these abuses, and it’s why the liberal media establishment is now disparaging his integrity. They are stunned and scared—that accountability has returned to the Justice Department.

And how is it that Rosenstein — he who signed the third FISA renewal on Carter Page — was able to supervise the Special Counsel without a disqualifying conflict? I hope they’ll get around to addressing that question some time soon as well.

 

[Zorro!]

Barr testifies 'spying did occur' on Trump campaign, amid reported review of informant's role

Heads will roll!

Since when are spies not allowed to spy?

On Americans? Only in extraordinary and tightly restricted circumstance supported by the highest caliber of evidence, is FISA spying allowed on American Persons.

Even Christopher Steele would not vouch for the dossier’s accuracy. And equally damaging, in testimony before Congress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page stated that, contrary to standard FBI procedure in counterintelligence operations, the Trump campaign, purportedly the target of Russian infiltration, had not been warned of the Kremlin’s nefarious efforts because the FBI did not deem the Steele dossier reliable enough to compel such a warning.

Justice Is Coming.

Page’s testimony sets up an irresistible line of inquiry. If the dossier was not reliable enough to justify a warning to Trump’s campaign about the Kremlin’s plot, how could it even remotely serve as the basis for obtaining FISA warrants to spy on the campaign? By her benighted testimony, Page has framed the issue nicely and invited a full vetting of who, what, where, when, why, and how the dossier was used to dupe the FISA court.

This is similar to Watergate. A White House insulated from reality became overconfident and abused power. Susan Rice routinely unmasked political opponents who were surveilled by our national security apparatus.

The power to abuse is like a bag of potato chip; you cannot eat just one. So Rice would unmask just one. And then another. And then another. Pretty soon she knew more about Donald Trump's campaign than he did.

 

[Zorro!]

WELL, THAT’S PRETTY CLEAR:

No Collusion, No Obstruction, AG Barr Confirms in Press Conference.

“‘The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government and its election interference activities,’ Barr quoted from the Mueller report.”