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Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:32 PM

OUR VIEW: The Clinton Campaign, Democrats Hijacked The Justice System And Need To Pay A Criminal Price

With each passing day it becomes more sickening to find out more facts about how a political candidate in Hillary Clinton with many other cohorts in the Justice and State Departments hijacked

our system to systematically destroy the Constitution of the United States.

Hot on the heels this past week of the House memo exposing deep state corruption, came an equally explosive document from the Senate, that shows the story behind the phony dossier is even worse than first thought.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham released a heavily redacted, yet very revealing copy of their criminal referral against ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dubious dossier we now know was parlayed into a FISA warrant by Trump-hating operatives at the Justice Department and now it seems State Department.

According to this second memo, while working on a second dossier for Clinton opposition research firm Fusion GPS, Steele was being fed information directly from the Obama State Department and from Clinton allies as well as sketchy Russian sources. In laymen's terms, teams Clinton and Obama were working with a foreign spy to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump.

" … Mr. Steele's memorandum states that his company received this report from (redacted), U.S. State Department, and that the report was the second in the series, and that the report was information that came from a foreign sub source who is in touch with a contact of (redacted), a friend of the Clintons who passed it to (redacted).”

The Grassley-Graham memo goes on to say “it's troubling enough that the Clinton campaign funded Mr. Steele's work, but [worse] that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele's allegations. It raises huge additional concerns about his credibility." No offense Senators, Christopher Steele never had any credibility and the only credibility he has ever been given has been by Trump hating swamp rats.

It was confirmed this past week that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid $12 million for a phony, fake-news, Russian propaganda dossier to influence the election. What we have now learned this week is that there was a second anti-Trump dossier in the works during the same time, as the Obama State Department teamed up with Russian sources to funnel allegations to Steele for it.

The senators are also accusing Christopher Steele of lying to the FBI and also to the British courts.

"There is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility," they wrote.

This Grassley-Graham memo also details how Steele was using his first phony dossier to brief several mainstream media outlets, you know, the folks who bring you fake news, in the summer and the fall of 2016. British court records show Steele acknowledged he peddled his memo to The New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo News, The New Yorker, and, of course, CNN.

However, since he was working for the FBI, he would have been barred from leaking to the media. In fact, the FBI later cut ties with him when it learned he had broken the rule. So who did he lie to, the FBI or the British courts?

It’s hard to keep all the memos and dossiers straight. If you’re scoring at home, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a memo over the objections of Democrats and the media that showed how the FBI used Steele’s first dossier to get a federal warrant to spy on people close to Trump.

The dossiers, and there are apparently two of them, were cooked up by Steele and are completely unverified claptrap. Yet, the FBI marched one of them into a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and presented it as evidence. Months later, then FBI Director James Comey admitted it was completely unverified.

The incestuous ties between Fusion, Steele, the Clinton campaign and the Obama Justice Department are alarming. Clinton hired Fusion, which hired Steele. Steele was working with the FBI at the same time. The wife of a top Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, was hired by Fusion to work with Steele.

The goal of the whole, unseemly syndicate? To launder Russian lies about Donald Trump through the U.S. government, so they could weaponize our own intelligence and law enforcement network against the man who now sits in the Oval Office.

There was also more evidence emerging this week regarding the Russian ties to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in the Uranium One Deal.
 

According to reports, an FBI informant told lawmakers Wednesday that Russia paid millions to a U.S. lobbying firm in hopes of influencing the Hillary Clinton-run State Department. In a story first reported by The Hill, Douglas Campbell informed three congressional committees that Moscow hired APCO Worldwide to "provide in-kind support for the Clintons’ Global Initiative." The information came from Russian nuclear officials, Campbell said.

Campbell's attorney, Victoria Toensing, said Thursday during a Fox News interview that APCO is a firm "with all kinds of former Clinton staffers on it" and was paid $3 million." That's a lot of money for a year of lobbying. They were going to do some kind of lobbying on some issues, but they were also expected to do lots of in-kind work for the Clinton Foundation," she said.

In response, Hillary Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill dismissed the new report as a "charade." "Just this week the committee made clear that this secret informant charade was just that, a charade," said Merrill. "Along with the widely debunked text-message-gate and Nunes' embarrassing memo episode, we have a trifecta of GOP-manufactured scandals designed to distract from their own president's problems and the threat to democracy he poses." Would we expect anything else coming from a Clinton spokesperson?

Toensing defended her client's credibility, saying the truth is on his side. "He came out because he thought he was dying from cancer and he wanted his story to be told. ... They can go attack all they want to. He's got the truth, he's got briefings, the FBI has all kinds of videotapes," she said.

Toensing said the Russians believed they had "died and gone to heaven" when Clinton became secretary of state in 2009 and at that point, they began planning the Uranium One purchase.

The question I have today in this editorial is when are we going to see people prosecuted for these deeds, which are clearly not just politically immoral, but criminal in nature?! My second question and bigger one in many ways is, where in the hell again is Jeff Sessions?

Judge Jeanine Pierro said this week "James Comey needs to be the target of an active criminal investigation."  You think?
 

While we are beginning to put the "pieces of the puzzle" together when it comes to misconduct within the FBI and Justice Department toward President Trump and his team, the frustration is growing out here in the real world that these lawbreakers, crooks, and corrupt scumbags may get away with it all.

That also includes former President Obama who lied to the American people (another what's new thing when he said in a Fox interview in 2015 that 'I'm not involved in anything'" relating to the Clinton email investigation.

It gets even more disgusting to see the Democratic Party, led by George Soros relative and California Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) play the games they are doing with our national security and this travesty of an investigation into President Trump.

Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino said Democrats "have forfeited all credibility" in these matters. I'd argue they never had credibility even though the media would have you think otherwise.
These political snakes have not told the truth from day one and just embarrass themselves with the hypocrisy in seeking to "rebuff" the Republican FISA memo produced by Congressman Nunes and the Intel Committee.
 

It was reported this weekend President Trump is withholding some parts of the Democratic memo due to national security concerns in contained methods and practices of law enforcement gathering materials. The Nunes memo did not even though they the Democrats screamed the reason it should not be made public was, wait for it, "it should be examined for possible sensitive redactions regarding methods and practices."

The Democratic Party and their liberal cronies in the mainstream media are covering up what I believe to be the biggest scandal in modern political history. Richard Nixon is somewhere this morning rolling over in his grave wondering how his entire Presidency went down in flames over eight minutes of tape while many of his closest associates wound up in jail for their criminal actions.

We have more than eight minutes of tape to deal with here in this scandal. We have a cause of criminal collusion that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign team, the Clinton team colluded with Russia and then sought to cover the entire matter up by clearing Clinton and framing Trump. Where are the Hollywood writers right now? This would make a great movie if it wasn't so sad and true.

The Democrats can put out all the memos they want. They can put out memos on the weather and the latest sightings of the Easter Bunny. The bottom line is the Democrat memo does NOTHING to undercut or discredit the basic facts and essence of this scandal. 

One quick side before we end this. It's still hilariously funny to me that the Clinton campaign went to these great links to rig an election - both in the primaries and in the general - and still lost! The truth is had Bernie Sanders not had his head up Hillary's ass and been concerned for the country more than his own political party he'd fought against what happened harder and she may not have even made it out of the primary. What a lovely footnote for America about Hillary's political history that after trying so hard to be so crooked she will never be President of this great nation - ever! Can I get an "Amen"

In closing, I ask my two questions again. When are people going to jail for this and where is Jeff Sessions, our Attorney General? Stay tuned for those answers. I pray both questions will be answered in the positive very soon.

Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge

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