Opinion| Mark Sidney| While the dinosaur media was busy working overtime to get out in front of Inspector General Horowitz’s report, Attorney Genera Barr and his right hand man, Durham, are preparing their own disclosure.
While Horowitz seemed to whitewash conclusion of the results of his investigation into the predicate for the (hopefully, yet doubtfully unprecidented) spying on a Presidential campaign. However, the meat and potatoes of his report, the details about Comey and Obama for instance, seem to suggest otherwise.
The day after the IG report was released to the public, AG Barr sat down for an interview with NBC News. During the interview Barr held little back, at times crushing the FBI and their actions in the FISA scandal.
Attorney General William Barr, refused to back down, stating that the Trump camp was “clearly spied upon” going on to say that this was the “first time in history” that this kind of thing ever happened to a presidential candidate … somehow I doubt that.
NBC News’ interviewer, Pete Williams, asked Barr: “Based on what you know so far, do you still stand by your statement that the campaign was spied upon?”
“Oh, it was clearly spied upon. I mean, that’s what electronic surveillance is. I think wiring people up to go in and talk to people and make recordings of their conversations is spying,” Barr continued. “I think going through people’s emails which they did as a result of the FISA warrant. They went through everything, you know, from Page’s life.”
The Daily Wire reported: ‘Earlier in the interview, Barr said that this was “the first time in history that this has been done to a presidential campaign, the use of these counterintelligence techniques against a presidential campaign.”
Williams pressed, “Well, he wasn’t in the campaign at that point where they began the surveillance—”
“No, but — yes, his emails go back. The main reason they were going for the FISA warrant initially was to go back historically and seize all of his emails and texts, all of that stuff, from back — months and even years,” Barr responded. “So, they were coverage the period that he was in the campaign and that’s exactly the reason they went for the FISA, to get that stuff.”
Barr continued by highlighting what U.S. Attorney John Durham is looking at in his criminal investigation of the origins of the Russia investigation, noting that FBI officials falsified evidence to surveil the Trump campaign and that they continued to investigate Trump after their case collapsed and the investigation was over.
“Well, Durham is looking at the whole water front. He’s looking at the issue of how it got started. He’s looking at whether or not the narrative of Trump being involved in the Russian interference actually preceded July and was in fact the precipitating trigger for the investigation? He’s also looking at the conduct of the investigation,” Barr said. “There are some things that were done in the investigation that are not included in Horowitz’s report and he’s looking at those things. But also a few weeks ago, I told him he should spend just as much attention on the post-election period and I did that because of some of the stuff that Horowitz has uncovered which to me is inexplicable.”
“Well, what I said is, their case collapsed after the election and they never told the court and they kept getting renewals on the applications. There were documents falsified in order to get these renewals,” Barr continued. “There was all kinds of withholding of information from the court and the question really is, what was the agenda after the election that kept them pressing ahead, after their case collapsed? He’s the President of the United States.”’
WATCH:
AG Bill Bar maintains the Trump campaign was very "clearly spied upon…" as a result of the sham FISA warrant, which Barr says was used to get emails, texts from the campaign. pic.twitter.com/POzKxQCmlv
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) December 10, 2019
Do not lose faith just yet. It appears that the man who is in the position to hold the perpetrators of Spygate accountable (The Attorney General of The United States of America) is one of the few people with the guts to actually do it.
Buckle up, the storm is coming …
