Graham revealed that in February 2018, FBI briefers had intentionally lied to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) when they claimed former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s main source still vouched for the allegations used to obtain a surveillance warrant on the Donald Trump presidential campaign through former adviser Carter Page.
That Steele’s top source had repudiated the Page allegations was first revealed last December when Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his stunning FISA abuse report.
How Far Were Spygate Plotters Willing to Go?
Let the truth fully sink in: The numerous Spygate plotters who were spread out among the Obama White House, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Congress, the State Department, and perhaps even foreign governments were so determined to advance what is now known to be a massive hoax that several top FBI officials deliberately deceived the Senate Intelligence Committee.It's certainly enough of a scandal by itself that the FBI obtained its three renewals of the Page warrant by hiding from the FISA court the very relevant disavowal of the information by the person who supposedly gave it to Steele. But now the scandal has only grown worse because of the disclosure that the agency also made deliberately false claims about Steele’s source to the U.S. Congress.
At every crucial juncture where it could have been stopped by the normal checks and balances of the regular oversight process, the hoax—and the "legal spying" it engendered—was advanced and maintained only through acts of deliberate fraud and suppression of evidence.
In their recent testimony before congressional committees, former Deputy Attorneys General Rod Rosenstein and Sally Yates both insisted they were kept out of the loop by their subordinates. Both also admitted that if they had known then what they know now, neither would have signed the Page surveillance warrant.
Steele’s Most Amazing Magic Trick
Looking back to the early days of the Spygate scandal and all the patently absurd hype that surrounded supposed “James Bond Super Spy” Christopher Steele, it all now strikes me as comical.There is no Russian consulate in Miami, an anecdote that has come to pretty much summarize the quality of the work that Steele was doing for both the FBI and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
That’s nice work if you can get it, being paid big money by both the U.S. government political campaigns for opposition research nobody seems to bother to really check before running with it.
Of all the deceptive magic tricks Steele performed to help launch the Russiagate hoax, it appears his biggest was taking a low-level research assistant at the Brookings Institution and transforming him into a highly connected Kremlin source, supposedly deep in Putin’s confidence.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stated under oath that the warrant to spy on Page wouldn't have been granted without the information supplied to the FBI by Steele, which he claimed came from Danchenko. There appears to have been no discernible effort made by the FBI to verify Danchenko’s allegations before the warrant was submitted to the court in late October 2016.
It wasn't until three months later, in January 2017, that FBI agents tracked him down for an interview and learned that, at best, Steele had grossly exaggerated idle speculative gossip over drinks in a bar.
At worst, Steele had made it all up.
The mainstream media is still determined to pretend that Spygate is just a wild right-wing conspiracy theory. In fact, as the emerging documentary evidence continues to show, it's the biggest political scandal in world history.
Their attempts to ignore it only calls their own journalistic credibility into serious question.
