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For Hillary Clinton, inventing the lie was easy. Spreading the lie was even easier. For President Trump, uncovering the truth has been hard. The truth always has its enemies.
This is the maxim – and chilling lesson – of the Russia hoax.
Newly declassified handwritten notes authored by former CIA Director John Brennan show that on July 28, 2016, he briefed President Barack Obama on intelligence evidence that Clinton had approved a plan to vilify Trump with false accusations that he was colluding with Russia. She did it, the intel concluded, to distract from her own damaging email scandal.
It was an audacious plot put in motion by one of Clinton’s foreign policy advisers and then sanctioned by the then-Democrat presidential candidate on July 26. But the genesis of the smear came from Clinton herself.
For months, she had peppered her campaign speeches with increasingly venomous accusations that her opponent was a Kremlin asset and a “puppet of Putin.” There was not a shred of plausible evidence. It was a shameless lie drawn from the insidious depths of Clinton’s fictive imagination. It was magnificently devious and classic Clinton.
But the lie didn’t stop there. Through a conduit, her campaign commissioned an ex-British spy who composed an anti-Trump dossier of rumors and disinformation derived from a suspected Russian spy.
These fabricated stories were then secretly and sedulously fed to James Comey’s FBI and the gullible media, both of whom went after Trump with a vengeance.
The result was the greatest mass delusion in American history and one of the dirtiest political tricks ever perpetrated.
In short, it was Clinton who invented, financed and disseminated the collusion hoax.
The intelligence community caught on to Clinton’s machinations. The evidence of what she had done was so credible and persuasive that Brennan determined Obama must be informed immediately. That briefing is memorialized in Brennan’s top-secret notes that have been buried for four long years in the bowels of the vast intelligence apparatus. Until now.
John Ratcliffe, the new director of National Intelligence, deserves credit for having the courage to dig up and make public the shocking proof. But it should have happened long ago.
On May 23, 2019, President Trump granted Attorney General William Barr “full and complete authority” to declassify and unveil the carefully guarded government secrets in the Russia investigation. Trump directed that it be done quickly to “ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the actions that were taken and to restore confidence in our public institutions.”
So, why did it take more than 16 months? The answer is an indictment of the nefarious elements working destructively within our nation’s clandestine intelligence operations. Their desire is power; their methods are often corrupt. The term “cover-up” is their mantra. Without conscience, they weaponize their authority for political gain.
It is truly reprehensible that the CIA, FBI and Obama concealed this vital information over the last four tumultuous years. The truth would have dramatically altered Trump’s presidency, spared Americans from a rancorous national nightmare, and saved taxpayers $30 million in a phony investigation.
It was Clinton who should have been investigated for promulgating a lie, not Trump.
And yet, Obama remained silent. Did he do so to protect Clinton, his chosen successor, and to destroy Trump? The question answers itself.
The former president sat idly by and watched as the country devolved into convulsive turmoil. He uttered not a word about the incriminating evidence he had seen. He could have blown the whistle on Clinton, Comey, Brennan and others. Obama’s failure to do so is an ugly stain on his legacy.
Brennan shares equal blame. As a paid commentator for MSNBC, he repeatedly stoked the odious narrative that Trump was a Russian asset, knowing full well that it was untrue. He even accused Trump of treason. Brennan’s conduct and conspicuous silence are, by any reasonable standard, despicable.
In reaction to the recently declassified disclosures, Brennan now claims that Clinton didn’t do anything wrong or illegal. Really?
Then why did he send a referral to Comey in September of 2016 calling for the FBI to investigate Clinton for conjuring up the false allegations against Trump and feeding it to the FBI and Department of Justice? Giving federal law enforcement agencies knowingly false information might well constitute crimes and Brennan obviously knew that. His revisionist deflection is transparently vacuous.
It should surprise no one that Comey’s dirty fingerprints are all over the collusion lie. When confronted last week during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with the evidence of Brennan’s referral against Clinton, Comey feigned no memory of receiving it or acting on it. “It doesn’t ring a bell,” he muttered. In Comey’s mind, the whole episode had vanished. Poof!
Comey’s sudden onset of acute amnesia was laughably preposterous. When the CIA tells you that a presidential candidate has concocted and propagated false evidence against her opponent and demands an investigation, it’s not something any FBI director would forget. Ever.
If nothing else, the newly disclosed evidence confirms just how immoral, conniving, deceitful and unscrupulous Hillary Clinton is. Her malevolence knows no bounds. But the evidence also shows that Trump was the victim of a contemptible hoax. He became the innocent target of a baseless and exhaustive witch hunt.
In the wake of these revelations, President Trump has renewed his demand/order that all relevant documents pertaining to the Russia investigation be declassified and released, including all redactions.
How much other damning evidence of government corruption is still hidden? If the most recent disclosure is any indication, there are mountains of it.
Americans deserve the full and unadulterated truth. Anything less would only compound the collusion lie with even more cover-ups.
A lot of us knew instinctively that Clinton was at the root of all that evil. I hope she makes history by becoming the first former First Lady to land in prison. What she did with the assistance of the FBI, the media and Obama, among others, was an attempted coup,. Can you say TREASON? Not holding my breath for justice.
Actually it’s called Sedition and there is a Federal law in place for it.
DNC helped pay for the Dossier.
A dirty trick that became the biggest scam in US history when Obama took it upon himself with Biden and top fbi & cia cronies to insure a coup for the Democrats
Yep & Donna Brazil got her reward…a fantastic job at Fox news after accomplishing her mission
Earth to William Barr, Earth to John Durham; where are you????
The media and its political partners have manipulated the public for decades without ANY pushback or exposure. That in and of itself is a scandal. J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed Kennedy and LBJ for years with information gleaned from his spy network.
Wars were started and thousands of young men died as a result of the military industrial complex and its’ handmaidens in Congress’ lies and deceptions. America needs a huge purge and indictments against a large number of gov’t officials both elected and appointed.
Adam Schiff should be the first in a long line of treasonous elected officials who choose to lie on a daily basis to taxpaying Americans. If. nothing is done then no one can blame any political violence that may ensue because it would appear that the gov’t itself is a corrupt enterprise. All this criminality was enabled by the media who are just as guilty of betrayal as any Quisling ever was. They should be target number one for exposure.
the documents should All be Released to the public. Equality of Justice must be ensured! Lock them Up.
kil LIARy, obama, biden and their entire Admin should be held responsible, not only legally, but held responsible for ALL dollars that it cost the USA And liable for All court costs. They went after Flynn and broke him. The same should happen to them.
Barr and Durham found only a B cathegory scape goat, in over one year of inquiry on the hoax origins. Yet in only 24 hours they are served with a list of VIP culprits from ex first lady, to ex president, to ex CIA and ex FBI directors… Could someone believe the ex VP and actual democrat candidate didn’t know? So, Barr, get ready the guillotine… or for the DeepStater you are is not elegant to chop heads 1 month before the elections?
Obama showed his true colors in his Senate campaign when he utilized stolen documents from his opponents divorce to smear him. Obama was a sure loser in that campaign until this illegal dirty trick was utilized. His opponent had to drop out and the rest is history.
His entire career in politics was began with a criminal act. It appears to have ended the same way. Tthis guy was always a phony hiding behind his many secrets and lies. The ultimate shape changer who was all things to all people. But never an honest individual nor an honorable one.
The only way that WE, the people,can make this right is to VOTE FOR TRUMP, and ALL REPUBLICANS on our ballots. Nothing else will work. All the culprits have made $MILLIONS off book deals, TV, etc. SHAME ON US IF WE ALLOW THEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT.
There are a lot of Republicans that need to be voted out too.
Your headline was this was one of the dirtiest political tricks ever. Did you mean to say one of the dirtiest political CRIMES ever?
Mike, YES, agree. I’m in Texas & we will be pulling 1 lever at a time this cycle. I cannot do anything about other states except support the right candidate. VOTE
This is not the year to do it. We need a Majority in both Houses to keep the Democrats form blocking policy that benefits the people. This is the year that will decide if we become a Socialist Country.
If you don’t want the USA to become a Socialist Country you will vote for all Republicans. We need a majority in both Houses to get Conservative Policy done.
So you would vote for Mitt Romney? Not me. I did not say we need to not vote Republican but vote for the other Republican running against the incumbents like Romney. .
there will never ever be any indictments, trials or convictions, and even if there are, no one will be punished … give it up – move on …