The Interlaced Probes and Players in the Hillary Email Scandal, the Uranium One Deal, and the Russia Dossier/Trump Collusion Mueller Investigation

THE REAL NEWS TODAY is that it's becoming difficult to keep the probes -- and the probers -- of the Clinton-FBI-DOJ-Mueller separated. Let's try to clear the air. • • • FIRST --KEEP IN MIND THAT HILLARY & HACKS TRIED TO HIDE AND/OR DESTROY ALL THE EVIDENCE. In mid-December, government watchdog group Judicial Watch released documents from the US State Department showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin were allowed to "remove electronic and physical records under a claim they were 'personal' materials and 'unclassified, non-record materials," including files on Clinton's telephone calls and schedules that were not to be made public. In addition, the documents show that Abedin took five boxes of "physical files" from the State Department that included records marked "Moslem Engagement Documents." All of these documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by Judicial Watch. JW president Tom Fitton said : "We already know the Obama State Department let Hillary Clinton steal and then delete her government emails, which included classified information. But these new records show that was only part of the scandal. These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws. When are the American people going to get an honest investigation of the Clinton crimes?" The JW FOIA request had asked for "any and all DS-1904 (authorization for the Removal of Personal Papers and Non-Record Materials) forms completed by, or on behalf of" former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, and former Deputy chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan. The documents included, according to Judicial Watch, "a list of official and personal calls and schedules that Clinton removed, which carry a special notation that the doucments were not to be made public records." A note for those records, signed by State Department official Clarnece N. Finney Jr., states : "The Secretary's call log, grid and schedules are not classified, however, they would not be released to the general public under FOIA. They are being released to the Secretary with this understanding." Other records taken by Hillary and Huma included an electronic copy of "daily files," an electronic copy of a log of calls the Secretary made since 2004, an electronic copy of the Secretary's "call grid," and 45 boxes of Clinton's personal and public schedules. According to Judicial Watch, "the documents [also] indicate that Clinton removed a physical file of "the log of the Secretary's gifts with pictures of gifts." • Crooked Hillary certainly tried to cover her trail, and it seems she had help at the highest levels ofthe Obama administration -- did that help reach as high as President Obama? We need to see all the documents removed, stolen, bleached or otherwise made inaccessible to Congress and the American electorate in order to answer this question. • • • SESSIONS RE-OPENS URANIUM ONE INVESTIGATION. We should think of the Uranium One deal as the precursor to the Russia Dossier and collusion allebgations against candidate-and-President Trump. Uranium One, as we have discussed at length in prior blogs, was the shady uranium deal involving Russia and the Clintons. Attornezy General Jeff Sessions has ordered prosecutors at the Justice Department to begin interviewing agents at the FBI about evidence they uncovered during a criminal investigation of the Uranium One deal. At the heart of the 2010 deal was the fact that Hillary Clinton signed off on the Uranium One project while she was Secretary of State. The 2010 deal allowed Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy agency, to acquire a controlling stake in Uranium One, a Canadian-based company with mining operations in the Western United States that encompassed some 20% of the US uranium strategic material reserves. • During the campaign, Trump and others accused Hillary of giving away these US uranium rights to the Russians in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation -- in the form of direct "contributions" of as much as $125 million, and a $500,000 fee to Bill Clinton for a speech in Russia. NBC News has reported the allegations of corruption surrounding the process under which the US government approved the uranium sale, stating that the FBI gathered evidence beginning in 2009 showing the Russians engaging in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering in relation to the deal. But no charges were filed. • The initial investigation -- from 2009 to 2015 -- began while current special counsel Robert Mueller was acting FBI Director. The investigation ended under FBI Director James Comey, fired by President Trump in early 2017 for mishandling the Hillary email investigation. The investigation was supervised by then-US Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy Attorney General, and by then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI Director under Trump. • The KEY point is that both Mueller and McCabe now play a key role in the current investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election cycle. McCabe is under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation about money his wife’s Virginia state Senate campaign accepted in 2015 from now-Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe at a time when McAuliffe was reportedly under investigation by the FBI. Hillary Clinton has denied playing any role in the decision by the State Department to approve the sale, and the official who approved it has said Clinton did not intervene in his work. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general for the DOJ, is reviewing whether McCabe should have taken himself out of the Clinton email investigation. McCabe’s wife received more than $700,000 in campaign donations from two PACs, including one controlled by a Hillary Clinton ally. The report confirmed Horowitz has expanded his review to include whether or not the FBI investigation into claims of Trump campaign collusion with Russia is politically biased. • AG Sessions has now called for a new review of all the prior investigations of, and the facts relating to, the Uranium One deal. The Sessions investigation comes after Representative Bob Goodlatte received a letter from Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd saying that Justice Department lawyers would make recommendations to Sessions about whether an investigation should be opened or expanded, or whether a special counsel should be appointed to probe a number of issues of concern. • In November, Hillary made the outlandish statement that she didn’t think Trump should investigate her because it would constitute an : “abuse of power. If they send a signal that we’re going to be like some dictatorship, like some authoritarian regime, where political opponents are going to be unfairly, fraudulently investigated, that rips at the fabric of the contract we have, that we can trust our justice system.” • Hillary Clinton ought to know about "unfair" and "fraudulent' investigations of "political opponents" -- because that is exactly what has become the focus of the renewed probes into the FBI's handling of all issues related to Hillary's emails, as well as the origin and use of the highly questionable Christopher Steele "Russia Dossier" -- ordered and paid for by Hillary's campaign committee and the Democratic National Committee -- that was used a the basis for FISA survellance of Candidate Trump and then President Trump an his team, and appointent of special counsel Mueller to investigate Trump-Russia collusion ot win the 2016 election. • It is absolutely critical to keep those underlying facts clear in order to understand what is now happening. • • • LOOP 1 -- HILLARY'S EMAIL "SPECIAL" PROBE. Fox News reported last Saturday that GOP Representative Matt Gaetz told Fox's America’s Newsroom that a congressional committee has email evidence that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe indicated Hillary Clinton was going to get an “HQ special” regarding the investigation of her unauthorized email server and ties to the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State. Gaetz, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, described the circumstances at the FBI regarding the investigation as : “extreme pro-Hillary Clinton bias. The Judiciary Committee is engaged in an investigation, particularly as it relates to the handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandal and any potential investigations of the Clinton Foundation and the handling of bribes or other types of improper payments. I can certainly say that my impression after these interviews is that there was extreme pro-Hillary Clinton bias that benefitted her in this investigation and that she received special treatment as a consequence of her candidacy for President. That shouldn’t happen. The law should apply equally to all Americans whether they’re political candidates or not. And so, we need to institute reforms through the Judiciary Committee for more oversight, for more transparency so that this never happens again.” Gaetz explained to Fox News that it was the committee’s intention to find out if there was a departure from standard “procedures" : "Our view is we need to find out if whether or not the procedures were departed from. And we have email evidence from Andrew McCabe indicating that Hillary Clinton was going to get an ‘HQ Special,’ a headquarters special. That meant that the normal processes of the Washington field office weren’t followed and....he had a very small group of people that had a pro-Hillary Clinton bias who had a direct role in changing that investigation from one that likely should have been criminal to one where she was able to walk. And so I think that we’ve got to ensure that that never happens again, that the same processes that would apply to any American would also apply to people who were running for president of the United States.” • We can easily agree with all of Gaetz' conclusions about process -- but it is also vital to re-open the email investigation to lay out the picture of Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information and her attempts to cover up the mishandling, and then to bring criminal charges if that is in order based on the evidence. • We already know that recently released documents show that Comey edits watered down the seriousness of the FBI findings in the Hillary Clinton email probe. Fox's Jake Gibson and Judson Berger reported this on December 14, stating : "Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, released copies of the edits to Comey’s highly scrutinized statement. The original statement said it was 'reasonably likely' that 'hostile actors' gained access to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account...changed later to say the scenario was merely 'possible.' Another edit showed language was changed to describe the actions of Clinton and her colleagues as 'extremely careless' as opposed to 'grossly negligent.' " Gibson and Berger call the latter "a key legal distinction," but many legal experts say that the two phrases are interchangeable and describe the same criminally negligent action. • Senator Johnson, writing about his concerns in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, said the final Comey statement also removed a reference to the “sheer volume” of classified information discussed on email : “While the precise dates of the edits and identities of the editors are not apparent from the documents, the edits appear to change the tone and substance of Director Comey’s statement in at least three respects.” Senator Johnson concluded : "In summary, the edits to Director Comey’s public statement, made months prior to the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s conduct, had a significant impact on the FBI’s public evaluation of the implications of her actions. This effort, seen in light of the personal animus toward then-candidate Trump by senior FBI agents leading the Clinton investigation and their apparent desire to create an ‘insurance policy’ against Mr. Trump’s election, raise profound questions about the FBI’s role and possible interference in the 2016 presidential election and the role of the same agents in Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation by President Trump.” • Senator Jonnson is referring to newly revealed anti-Trump text messages exchanged between FBI officials who at one point worked on the Robert Mueller Russia probe. Fox News confirmed that one of those officials, Peter Strzok, a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, was the person who changed the language of the Comey statement exonerating Hillary Clinton from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless.” Strzok's wife worked for Fusion GPS, the company that oversaw the preparation and circulation of the Steele Russia Dossier, during the 2016 presidential election. • Thus, we have closed Loop 1 -- that same FBI officials who exonerated Hillary Clinton's probable criminal mishandling of her email classified material while Secretary of State are the same FBI officials who despised Trump and participated in the use of the Russia Dossier to build the case that Trump and Russia were in collusion to influence the 2016 election. • • • LOOP 2 -- THE STEELE DOSSIER IS THE WORK OF FUSION GPS, PAID FOR BY HILLARY & HACKS AND THE DNC. Zero Hedge wrote on Christmas Day : "The Russiagate story concocted by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, who coincidently funded Fusion GPS (the firm behind the ‘Trump dossier’ that the entire Russia election meddling is based upon), is unraveling at record speed. Mary Jacoby, the wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who is the man in the middle of the entire Russiagate scandal, boasted on Facebook about how ‘Russiagate,’ would not exist if it weren’t for her husband." Zero Hedge quotes Tablet Magazine : "A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government -- which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian government control -- but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The Wall Street Journal well before Fusion GPS existed....Understanding the origins of the 'Steele dossier' is especially important because of what it tells us about the nature and the workings of what its supporters would hopefully describe as an ongoing campaign to remove the elected President of the United States....In a Facebook post from June 24, 2017, that Tablet has seen in screenshots, Jacoby claimed that her husband deserves the lion’s share of credit for Russiagate. (She has not replied to repeated requests for comment.) 'It’s come to my attention that some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,' Jacoby wrote. 'Let’s be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for Glenn.' " • This goes directly to the nature of what became known as the "Steele dossier," or more commonly "the Russia Dossier," on which the Russiagate narrative is founded. Zero Hedge says : "The Gateway Pundit reports that the news of the Facebook post comes amid heightened scrutiny for the opposition research firm. According to Fox News reporter Jake Gibson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called on a senior Justice Department attorney to look into appointing a special counsel to investigate recently demoted official Bruce Ohr’s contacts with Fusion GPS. 'Sessions on calls for a special counsel to look into Sr DOJ Official Bruce Ohr, and wife Nellie’s contacts with Fusion GPS during the summer and fall of 2016 : I’ve put a Senior Attorney, with the resources he may need, to review cases in our office and make a recommendation to me, if things aren’t being pursued that need to be pursued, if cases may need more resources to complete in a proper manner, and to recommend to me if the standards for a special counsel are met, and the recommended one should be established,' tweeted Fox News reporter Jake Gibson on Tuesday. Fox News reports : 'Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr’s duties -- including whether she worked on the dossier -- remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.” • • • CONGRESS FOCUSES ON McCABE OVER TEXT "INSURANCE" AGAINST TRUMP. Fix This Nation asked in a December 21 article, "What Was the “Insurance Policy” FBI Agent Spoke Of in Text Message?" • The text messages of FBI Agent Peter Strzok -- already knee-deep in the cover-up of Hillary's mishandling of classified materials -- "sent off alarm bells in the halls of Congress, but there was one in particular that investigators found disturbing....this one could not be mistaken for innocent chatter." This Strzok email said : "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office -- that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected, but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” • House Republicans have come to the conclusion that Strzok was talking about FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe when he mentioned “Andy,” but those commenting on the email phrase "insurance policy" say it is not clear what Strzok's phrase meant. According to new Wall Street Journal reporting, Strzok’s secret plot was nowhere near as nefarious as he made it sound in the message : “The agent didn’t intend to suggest a secret plan to harm the candidate but rather address a colleague who believed the Federal Bureau of Investigation could take its time because Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was certain to win the election, the people said,” WSJ reported, citing sources inside the FBI. The WSJ continued : “His text was meant to convey his belief that the investigation couldn’t afford to take a more measured approach because Mr. Trump could very well win the election. It would be better to be aggressive and gather evidence quickly, he believed, because some of Mr. Trump’s associates could land administration jobs and it was important to know if they had colluded with Russia.” • That is a reach too far. The Progressive media that still supports Hillary 100% and despises President Trump and his conservative agenda is bending over backwards to spread “innocent” explanations for Strzok’s damning texts. Don't be fooled. As Fix This Nation put it : "If the FBI really believed that the Trump campaign was colluding with Moscow to hijack the presidential election, is there any chance they would just...casually investigate? 'Oh, treason? Hmm, well, we’ll get around to it at some point'...That doesn’t make any sense. What did Strzok mean? • • • STRZOK WAS SAYING RUSSIA PROBE ‘INSURANCE POLICY’ TO DERAIL TRUMP WAS A SHAM. InfoWars suggested in mid-December that the Russia collusion investigation is a "sham." If we accept the analysis most favorable to special counsel Mueller, he fired Strzok immediately after reading the emails, including viciously anti-Trump statements, that revealed a discussion about starting the probe into Russian collusion as an “insurance policy” should Donald Trump win the presidency. Mueller fired Strzok in August without explanation. But reports surfaced in December showing that Strzok was dismissed after text exchanges with FBI lawyer Lisa Page revealed a deep anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton bias. • After learning that this information had been withheld from Congress by Mueller or his staff despite multiple subpoenas, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes threatened FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with contempt-of-Congress citations : "We now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make [FBI] Deputy Director [Andrew] McCabe available to the Committee for an interview,” Nunes said in a statement. • Nunes was undoubtedly referring to the fact that Strzok played a significant role not only in Mueller’s Russia Dossier probe, but also in Hillary Clinton’s email investigation when he changed the words from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless.” And, he also conducted the interview with Clinton and her top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, who it was later revealed lied to the FBI about when they learned about Clinton’s secret server. In addition, he also conducted the interview with former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn -- in a series of contacts that could be seen as illegal entrapment -- which subsequently led to his recent indictment for lying to the FBI. President Trump has commented that the damning reports explain why Hillary was not prosecuted : "Report : 'ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE.' Now it all starts to make sense!" That tweet alone got 52,742 Replies; 38,221 Retweets and 127,113 Likes. • Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel -- after Attorney General Sessions recused himself from all Russia-related matters in a fit of legal sensitivity that was encouraged by the #NeverTrump GOP in Congress and all the ProgDem leadership. Rosenstein was grilled recently by the House Judiciary Committee in light of the damning evidence of conflict of interest surrounding both the Russian collusion investigation and Clinton’s email investigation, and insisted that he’s “not aware of any impropriety,” adding that Mueller would allow “no bias” in the any of the investigations. “It’s our responsibility to make sure those opinions do not influence their actions,” Rosenstein said. “I believe Director Mueller understands that, and recognizes people have political views but that they don’t let it [affect their work.]” • Rosenstein has never publicly explained if or when he knew about the Strzok "insurance policy" email, and he has never criticized Mueller for waiting until the Washington Post was going to break the story in December before informing congressional oversight committees. • Much more importantly, we have no indication of how direct the Strzok input into the special counsel's Russia Dossier collusion investigation was, and whether he was fired only after his input had been so great that it would have tainted -- made unusable -- any and all results of the Mueller investigation. Just what did Robert Mueller -- a former FBI Director and highly respected lawyer -- think when he read the following Strzok words : “I want to believe the path you [his paramour] threw out for consideration in Andy’s office -- that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected. But I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.” Did Mueller say -- 'gee, that could be a problem down the road so I just won't mention it to Congress.' Or did he show the damning email to his supervisor Rosenstein and say -- 'here, you handle this hot potato.' If that was the case, Rosenstein reached the same conclusion -- 'I just won't tell Congress about this email.' • Really !!! Just how dumb do the WP and WSJ think we are that we would believe that Strzok was merely telling his extra-marital grlfriend that they better get cracking to gather evidence before Trump was elected. NOT LIKELY, because they both believed Trump would not be elected. AND, they wanted to be sure that he would lose the election by smearing him with the Fake Russia Dossier allegations that they took at almost face value in the hope that it would be their "insurance policy" -- their sealing of Trump's fate by using unverified smut in the Hillary/DNC paid-for political campaign rag used to get FISA surveillance warrants and go after Trump and everyone they could catch in that highly questionable surveillance net. • Did the Deep State FBI say, 'What the Heck...go for it !' It would be easy -- but only IF THEY BELIEVED that Hillary would win and prevent their illegal use of the FBI for political purposes from being found out. • That string of reasoning and cover-up throws the Trump-Russia investigation’s integrity into terminal doubt. And, that is what House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is surely talking with other Republicans. He is reportedly going to write a report in 2018 alleging “corruption” at the FBI, says the Washington Post. Citing people familiar with the plan, the WP reports the Nunes project "would focus on information about the conduct of FBI officials in the course of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in last year’s election." • President Trump’s latest attacks on the FBI came on the morning of Christmas Eve, when he ripped into Deputy Director Andrew McCabe -- the then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe who investigated the Uranium One deal and whitewashed Hillary and who is now, now the deputy FBI Director -- over reports that he is to retire soon. McCabe has been a top Trump target because he worked under former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired in May. Trump, along with Nunes and other congressional Republicans such as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, suggest the FBI was not aggressive enough in its investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. McCabe’s wife, a candidate for Virginia’s state Senate at the time, accepted campaign donations from a Terry McAuliffe political action committee tied to Hillary and Bill Clinton. This has led some Republicans, led by Trump, to say McCabe should be investigated for a pervasive bias that would taint any FBI investigation of Hillary or Uranium One that he has touched. • Thus, we have closed Loop 2 -- the same FBI officials who have demonstrated through emails a hatred for Trump and a support for Hillary Clinton that makes it impossible for them to conduct any impartial special counsel investigation into Trump's alleged "collusion" with the Russians, and who used the fallacious Steele Russia Dossier to go after Trump through FISA surveillance and then use questionable legal tactics based on their FISA collection of tainted information to drive the inference that Trump "colluded" -- whatever that means, because it has no legal significance -- with somebody in Russia -- who has never been named, for a criminal purpose that has never been explained, and by means that have never been explained. These same FBI officials who exonerated Hillary Clinton's probable criminal mishandling of her email classified material while Secretary of State are the same FBI officials who despised Trump and participated in the use of the Russia Dossier to build the Fake case that Trump and Russia were in collusion to influence the 2016 election. • • • THE NOOSE TIGHTENS. TheHill reported last week that House GOP chairmen are asking the DOJ to make FBI officials available for interviews : "The House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees are seeking to interview FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and two other agents as part of a joint investigation into the bureau's actions during the 2016 election. In particular, the investigation is looking into the FBI and the Justice Department's handling of two investigations : the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State and the investigation into possible ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia. In a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, Represnetative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Representative Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, ask the Justice Department to make McCabe, FBI chief of staff Jim Rybicki and FBI counsel Lisa Page available for transcribed interviews. Republican lawmakers have grown frustrated with what they have said is an unwillingness by the FBI to share details about its handling of both investigations. The letter to Sessions and Rosenstein could be a possible precursor to a subpoena. McCabe, in particular, has been the target of Republican scrutiny because of his wife's bid for the Virginia state Senate and her ties to Virginia's Democratic governor, Terry McAuliffe. The letter came as McCabe spent hours testifying before the House Intelligence Committee...amid Republican concerns that the FBI is biased against President Trump." • • • DEAR READERS, National Review's Andrew C. McCarthy published last Friday a truly excellent article on the timeline of events in the FBI investigations of Trump. It is titled "Was the Steele Dossier the FBI’s ‘Insurance Policy’?" You can access the article at < http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454909/trump-russia-collusion-fbi-investigation-steele-dossier-hillary-clinton-campaign?htm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202017-12-25&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives >. I urge you to read it. • McCarthy wrote in another article on December 4 : "Before the next aftershock, it might be helpful to make three points about where things stand. In ascending order of importance, they are: 1.) There is a great deal of misinformation in the commentariat about how prosecutors build cases. 2.) For all practical purposes, the collusion probe is over. While the “counterintelligence” cover will continue to be exploited so that no jurisdictional limits are placed on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this is now an obstruction investigation. 3.) That means it is, as it has always been, an impeachment investigation. No sensible person thinks the Trump campaign colluded in Russian espionage. If there were such evidence, I’d be first on line demanding the President’s impeachment and removal. Nor did Trump obstruct the investigation of this non-crime by firing the FBI director....Rather, Mueller’s investigation is a semblance of law-enforcement disguising the brute reality that Trump is being punished for winning the election and defying Obama policy. If that is the way the game is going to be played, if the purpose of a special-counsel “collusion” investigation is to humiliate the opposition party by exposing its wayward foreign-policy objectives and unsavory horse-trading, then let’s investigate Obama and Iran." And, in the McCarthy article I encourage you to read, he writes : "In conclusion, while there is a dearth of evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded in Russia’s cyberespionage attack on the 2016 election, there is abundant evidence that the Obama administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to use the Steele [Russia] Dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized monitoring of the Trump campaign -- and to fuel a pre-election media narrative that US intelligence agencies believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions if he were elected President. Congress should continue pressing for answers, and President Trump should order the Justice Department and FBI to cooperate rather than -- what’s the word? -- resist." • Finally, in a frank interview with Fox News in mid-December, Representative Peter King of the House Intelligence Committee said that Donald Trump Jr.’s official congressional interview cleared up nearly all doubt about the possibility of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia : “Nobody listening to that interview could come out of that thinking there was any collusion at all. This is totally phony.” Fox News then noted the comments of Representative Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on Nunes' House Intelligence Committee, who told CNN’s “State of the Union" that anyone with half a brain would conclude that the Trump campaign was guilty of collusion. Schiff said that the campaign’s association with WikiLeaks, the unreported meetings between Trump officials and Russian diplomats, and the Russian influence campaign all point in one direction. Fox News' response to Schiff was : "Wow, so we’re down to this now, eh? Russia offered to help the Trump campaign...the Trump campaign shrugged and said, “OK,”...and Russia then published the hacked emails on WikiLeaks? That’s the story the top House Democrat on the Intelligence Committee is going with? This is preposterous and we’re not even sure -- even if Mueller COULD prove this to be the case -- that anything described there rises to the level of a crime. At best, we’re talking about a political talking point the Democrats can use for the next three years. And even that...it’s weak, to say the least." • Mueller needs to show, at least, that some of the Russia Dossier is actually correct, and that, by all accounts and analysis, won’t happen. The Dossier was Democrat propaganda that the FBI decided to take seriously because the Obama administration and the Deep State intelligence community were determined to make sure that Trump never got anywhere near the White House. On Monday, a report from Tablet Magazine said : “To date the investigation into the Fusion GPS-manufactured collusion scandal has focused largely on the firm itself, its allies in the press, as well as contacts in the Department of Justice and FBI. However, if a sitting President used the instruments of state, including the intelligence community, to disseminate and legitimize a piece of paid opposition research in order to first obtain warrants to spy on the other party’s campaign, and then to de-legitimize the results of an election once the other party’s candidate won, we’re looking at a scandal that dwarfs Watergate -- a story not about a bad man in the White House, but about the subversion of key security institutions that are charged with protecting core elements of our democratic process while operating largely in the shadows.”