Senator McCain, the FBI / DOJ Deep State, the Steele Dossier, and Nunes' Call for President Trump to Let in the Light

REST IN PEACE, SENATOR McCAIN. We all pray for his peaceful entry into eternity. He was a complex person. Tormented, it often seemed, and perhaps surrounded by ghosts of a horrific past. But, we remember also his seemingly spiteful alliance with Progressive Democrats that sometimes denied the GOP its rightful control of the Senate and encouraged the ProgDems in their second civil war to change America into a socialist-marxist elite-led regime. I disagreed with John McCain when he was alive. I will not falsely lament his passing, for he gave the Progressives a place in the sun and frustrated efforts of normal Americans to break their chokehold on power. Historians of the second civil war may well regard him as they did supposedly "normal" German politicians who gave Hitler room to proceed. John McCain had all that anyone could want in his effort to become President. Instead, I will always believe that he chose Governor Sarah Palin in the hope that she, a solidly conservative Republican, would prove to the rest of us GOPers and to America just how wrong we are and how right leftism is. Sarah Palin has left Senator McCain in the dust so many times since his disastrous 2008 campaign that nothing need be said here. For his military service, I look to his peers for judgment. For his political service, I think the Republican Party and conservatives have already made their judgment clear. That said, I wish no ill for the dead. I trust in God to receive and cleanse John McCain and take him into the company of the saints. Let us pray for him and for his family, but without the hypocrisy of political correctness. • • • THERE IS NO END TO THE PROGDEM ATTACKS. As long as Donald Trump is President, the effort to destroy him and his presidency will continue. • • • THE STEELE RUSSIA DOSSIER MEETS LANNY DAVIS. The Daily Caller reported last Thursday that BuzzFeed News, which published the infamous Dossier, is refusing to comment on recent comments from Lanny Davis, the Clinton-connected lawyer representing Michael Cohen. Davis is emphatically stating that the Dossier’s allegations about Cohen are “100 percent” false. Davis claims that Cohen “never, never, ever” went to Prague, as the Dossier alleges. This is a key statement. • For almost two years, says Daily Caller : "the allegations made in the infamous Steele Dossier have hung like a cloud over the Trump administration and several of his former advisors. The salacious 35-page document has become Exhibit A in President Donald Trump critics’ conspiracy theory that the campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. Numerous news outlets, pundits and lawmakers have also pushed the theory. But the Dossier arguably suffered its heaviest blow on Wednesday after Clinton-connected lawyer Lanny Davis emphatically denied one of the document’s most intriguing allegations. Davis said the Dossier’s claims that his client, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, traveled to Prague in August 2016 as part of a conspiracy with the Kremlin are “100 percent” false." • It comes as no surprise that Davis’s comments have received little or no attention from the both the mainstream press and those who have pushed the Dossier. Daily Caller lists those who are AWOL. Matt Mittenhal, a spokesman for BuzzFeed News, which published the Dossier on January 10, 2017, said “We have no comment on Mr. Davis’s statements." Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the Dossier on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, has also not commented. The Daily Caller also says that Joshua Levy, a lawyer for Fusion GPS, did not respond to a request for a response to Lanny Davis’ comments. Neither did the DNC. Nor did Marc Elias, the attorney who hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC. McClatchy News, which in April reported that special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that Cohen did travel to Prague, says that it is sticking by its report. The article, written by reporters Greg Gordon and Peter Stone, breathed new life into the Dossier’s claims about Cohen, but it has never been corroborated. Jeanne Segal, a spokeswoman for McClatchy, said : “We stand by our reporting.” CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major outlets have still not picked up the story • Then President-elect Trump called the Dossier “crap” during a press conference a day after BuzzFeed published the report. Cohen vehemently denied the allegations, as did former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, who was alleged in the Dossier to have been the Trump campaign’s conduit to the Kremlin. Though the allegations remain unverified, the FBI relied heavily on the Dossier to obtain four FISA surveillance warrants against Page. • The Daily Caller says : "Davis’ statements would seem to add substantial weight to Cohen’s denials, largely because he is far from a Trump supporter. Davis is close friends with former President Bill and Hillary Clinton. He held an unofficial role as a surrogate for the Clinton campaign, which partnered with the DNC to pay Fusion GPS $1 million for the Dossier. Davis has also made it his mission over the past couple of months to discredit Trump regarding hush money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with the former real estate mogul....Cohen last publicly disputed the Dossier on June 28, when he wrote on Twitter that the 'Dossier misreports 15 allegations about me. My entire statement must be quoted -- I had nothing to do with Russian collusion or meddling!' he said. It had been unclear if Cohen planned to maintain those denials in the wake of guilty plea earlier this week. But Davis answered the question in a series of interviews on Wednesday. 'Thirteen references to Mr. Cohen are false in the Dossier, but he has never been to Prague in his life,' Davis said Wednesday in an interview on Bloomberg. 'Never, never in Prague. Did I make that? Never, never, ever. Ever,' Davis told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. 'And the reason, just to let your viewers know, what we’re talking about is that the Dossier, so-called, mentions his name 14 times, one of which is a meeting with Russians in Prague. Fourteen times false,' he continued. Davis was even more emphatic in an interview with BBC Newsnight. 'The answer is 100 percent ‘no.’ Never has he ever been in Prague. And the 13 other references to my client in the so-called Dossier are false,' Davis said in the interview, pounding the table to underscore each specific denial." • And, in another Lanny Davis moment, Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, confirmed to TheHill that Cohen told Committee staff behind closed doors that he did not know whether Trump had advance knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting. CNN reported in July that Cohen had told associates that Trump had prior knowledge of the meeting -- a detail he was willing to pass along to Mueller. BUT, Lanny Davis, Cohen’s lawyer, rejected that report in an appearance on CNN last Wednesday. When asked by Anderson Cooper if Cohen has information that Trump knew about the meeting before it occurred, Davis replied, “No, he does not.” He added that Cohen's testimony to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees was “accurate.” Senator Burr told TheHill that Cohen confirmed to him that what he told the Committee under oath was the truth. NOTE: There is No Evidence. • While the mainstream ProgDem lapdog media is ignoring Davis's onslaught of denials about allegations in the Dossier, an attorney for another Dossier target is weighing in. Evan Fray-Witzer, a lawyer for Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian tech executive suing BuzzFeed over the Dossier, told the Daily Caller : “The one thing that we’ve always known for certain is that the allegations concerning Gubarev, Webzilla, and XBT are completely false, and to the extent that those allegations overlap with allegations concerning Mr. Cohen we knew those had to be false as well." Cohen and Gubarev are both mentioned in the final Dossier memo, dated December 13, 2016, which alleges that Cohen traveled to Prague to pay hackers for cyber attacks against the DNC. The Dossier then claims that Gubarev’s companies infiltrated the DNC’s computer networks using viruses, bots and malware. “The special counsel indicted the people involved in the hacking and those people aren’t our clients. We may never know precisely how Gubarev, Webzilla, and XBT ended up in the Dossier, but we do know that after more than a year of trying, Buzzfeed has no evidence to support the allegations that they published about them,” Fray-Witzer told the Daily Caller. • • • MORE REVELATIONS ABOUT THE DOSSIER, OHR, AND COMEY. The Epoch Times reported on August 17 that "Dossier Author Worried Comey Firing Would Expose Operation, New Messages Reveal." Reporter Ivan Pentchoukov wrote : "The former British spy who composed the infamous Dossier of unverified claims about the presidential campaign of Donald Trump was 'very concerned' that the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey in May last year would expose a clandestine operation. According to notes handwritten by senior Justice Department (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr on May 10, 2017, Christopher Steele, the Dossier’s author, was 'very concerned about Comey’s firing, afraid they will be exposed.' The content of the notes was first published by investigative journalist Sara Carter. Although Epoch Times says it is unclear what covert operation Steele is referring to, less than two weeks prior to the message, the FBI filed a report on a meeting with Daniel Jones, who heads Penn Quarter Group, a 'research and investigative advisory' firm. The report stated that Jones had retained the services of Steele as part of a project to gather dirt on President Donald Trump. The project, run by Penn Quarter Group, was funded by 7-10 wealthy donors 'who provided approximately $50 million.' " • Steele’s message raises questions about Comey’s role in clandestine activities against the President, the exposure of which Steele was "very concerned" about. Steele was growing nervous about the covert operation being exposed even before Comey was fired. Two days prior to Comey’s March 20 testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Steele wrote to Ohr...."Hi! Just wondering if you had any news? Obviously, we’re a bit apprehensive given scheduled appearance at Congress on Monday. Hoping that important firewalls will hold. Many thanks," Steele texted to Ohr on March 18, 2017. "Sorry, no new news. I believe my earlier information is still accurate. I will let you know immediately if there is any change," Ohr replied the same day. • Lawmakers investigating FBI and DOJ actions surrounding the 2016 election have scheduled a closed-door hearing to question Ohr on August 28. President Trump said on August 16 that he plans to remove Ohr’s security clearance : “I think Bruce Ohr is a disgrace, I suspect I’ll be taking it [clearance] away very quickly....I think that Bruce Ohr is a disgrace with his wife, Nellie. For him to be in the Justice Department and to be doing what he did, that is a disgrace, that is disqualifying for [special counsel Robert] Mueller.” • At the time of the messages between Steele and Ohr, Steele had already been officially terminated by the FBI and was prohibited from gathering intelligence on the FBI’s behalf. Epoch Times states that "Ohr became Steele’s back channel to the FBI after the termination" and Ohr continued to help Steele as late as November 2017, despite having no official role in the Russia investigation. Ohr was demoted twice for concealing that his wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS in 2016 on the same dirt-digging operation against the Trump campaign as Steele. Ohr would go on to hand all of his wife’s research to the FBI, according to Devin Nunes's House Intelligence Committee report. • The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Fusion GPS $160,000 for Steele’s Dossier. A counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane” would go on to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump-campaign volunteer Carter Page. The officials who signed off on the FISA application failed to disclose that the Clinton campaign and the DNC funded the Dossier, that the FBI knew of Steele’s bias against Trump, and that there was a connection between the Ohrs, Steele, and Fusion GPS. Comey signed the initial FISA application in October 2016, and two renewal applications in January and April 2017. • • • DID THE FBI USE OHR DELIBERATELY TO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM STEELE? Epoch Times states that : "Information contained in FD-302s could be key to understanding how Steele’s information was transmitted to the FBI." Epoch Times reporter Jeff Carlson wrote on August 17 and 19 : "Bruce Ohr, the fourth-highest-ranking official at the Department of Justice (DOJ), actively shared information he received from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele with the FBI, after the agency had terminated Steele as a source. Interactions between Ohr and Steele stretched for months into the first year of Trump’s presidency and were documented in a number of FD-302s, memos that summarize interviews with him by the FBI. The existence of the FD-302s that detail Ohr’s interactions with Steele calls into question who at the FBI -- and possibly the DOJ -- was aware of his activities. As associate deputy attorney general, Ohr reported directly to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates." • Ohr first became a public figure on December 7, 2017, when Fox News revealed that he had been in repeated contact with Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign, while Steele was constructing his Dossier that contains unverified claims about Trump. Fox News also disclosed that Ohr met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson after the election. • In additon, on December 11, 2017, Epoch Times states that Bruce Ohr never publicly disclosed his wife’s employment by Fusion GPS, despite a requirement to file financial disclosure forms regarding his wife’s work. Ohr was demoted following the initial Fox News report, losing his title of associate deputy attorney general. But ,it appears the DOJ only took action after they learned of the Fox News investigation into Ohr’s role." • NOW, newly released texts, emails, and handwritten notes have provided further insight into Ohr’s interactions with Steele and Simpson. Epoch Times reports : "It appears that Ohr became the conduit between Steele, Fusion GPS, and the FBI after Steele was formally terminated by the FBI in late October or early November 2016." • The interactions between Ohr and Steele are highlighted in a February 28, 2018, letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz from Senator Chuck Grassley that refers to documents the DOJ provided to Grassley. Grassley wrote to Horowitz : “These documents have raised several serious questions about the propriety of the FBI’s relationship with former British Intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The documents also raise questions about the role of Bruce Ohr, a senior Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, in continuing to pass allegations from Steele and Fusion GPS to the FBI after the FBI had terminated Mr. Steele as a source.” Grassley then provided specific evidence detailing his claims : "Numerous FD-302s demonstrating that Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Mr. Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Mr. Steele for unauthorized contact with the media, and demonstrating that Mr. Ohr otherwise funneled allegations from Fusion GPS and Mr. Steele to the FBI." Grassley wasn’t just insinuating that Ohr might have been the conduit between Steele and the FBI. He was stating it as fact. Grassley had seen the underlying 302s and listed them in his letter to Horowitz along with actual FBI interview dates." • There are 12 FD-302s that document interviews of Ohr with Steele listed in Senator Grassley's letter to Horowitz, beginning on November 22, 2016, and ending on May 15, 2017, that is, 6 months after the election. We already know that Steele and Fusion GPS continued their work following the 2016 election, because sometime in early 2017, Steele and Fusion GPS were hired by Daniel Jones, who just happened to be a former intelligence committee staffer for Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, and who now runs the Penn Quarter Group. The stated purpose behind hiring Steele and Fusion was to “continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election,” according to Epoch Times. • Ohr’s role in this process is currently being investigated by Congress. In addition to Ohr's scheduled August 28 interview before the House Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, chaired by Representatives Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy, the two chairman are requesting additional information regarding Ohr in the form of any and all FD-302s -- including any generated from previously undisclosed FBI interviews of Ohr. Their letter to the DOJ reads : "In anticipation of this interview, we request DOJ provide the Committee access to all FD-302’s written as a result of any interviews conducted by the FBI of Mr. Ohr. These should include, but not be limited to, any 302’s previously made available to other congressional committees." Epoch Times reminds us that the existence of additional FD-302s could reveal that "contact between Ohr, Steele, and Simpson was more prevalent than previously thought." • BUT, there is another key aspect to the Ohr-Steele contacts. Epoch Times says the existence of 302s detailing meetings between Ohr and Steele, in which Steele funneled information into the FBI through Ohr raises the question of who in the FBI / DOJ chain of command was aware of the interactions. Steele's unverified information played a crucial role in the FBI obtaining a FISA warrant on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, and possibly into subsequent FISA renewals. Yates signed the original FISA warrant on Page in October 2016 along with the first FISA renewal in January 2017. Ohr reported directly to Yates, who was present at a January 5, 2017, meeting with then-President Barack Obama, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and then-national security advisor Susan Rice in the Oval Office. That meeting was documented in an email sent by Rice to herself and was disclosed in another Grassley letter. According to Grassley, the January 2017 meeting reportedly included a discussion of the Steele Dossier and the FBI’s investigation of its claims. The 302s that detail the FBI interviews of Ohr might also shed more light on the role that senior Obama officials played in the creation of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign based on Steele’s information." • • • HILLARY WAS PARTY TO THE COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP. That is what revelations increasingly point to. The collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians was a lie concocted by the Hillary campaign, the DNC, and the Obama FBI / DOJ to destory Trump and his presidency. • Freedom News Report published an article on August 15 about House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes being adamant that the evidence of Hillary Clinton’s campaign being in collusion with “nearly every top official” in the Justice Department and the FBI is overwhelming. During an interview with Fox News, Nunes turned his attention to the matter of Trump Dossier author Christopher Steele -- the ex-British spy commissioned by the DNC and Clinton’s campaign with documented ties to Bruce Ohr, the DOJ official who funneled information from the Dossier to the FBI. That relationship continued even after Steele was cut off as a source by the FBI for providing confidential information to the media. • President Trump continued to keep the spotlight on the only “collusion” that has been documented, tweeting in early August : “The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC....Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ‘JUSTICE.’ I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed -- not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!” • Nunes tweeted soon after the President : “Don’t forget that Bruce Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, who also will have to be interviewed soon -- she also was working for Fusion GPS, working for the Clinton campaign.” • Freedom News Report states that : "Unlike Mueller’s Russia Gate fiasco, the role of Fusion GPS and the Clinton campaign is far from a matter of conjecture. A high ranking official of the DOJ was working with a discredited informant while his wife worked for the small company hired by the Clinton campaign to dig up supposed dirt on Trump. Nunes said : 'So here you have information flowing from the Clinton campaign from the Russians, likely I believe was handed directly from Russian propaganda arms to the Clinton campaign, fed into the top levels of the FBI and Department of Justice to open up a counterintelligence investigation into a political campaign that has now colluded [with] nearly every top official at the DOJ and FBI over the course of the last couple years. Absolutely amazing.' ” Republican legislators like Nunes believe the FBI deceived a FISA court when it used information from the Steele Dossier without disclosing it was paid for by the Clinton campaign. That court ruling gave the FBI the authority to spy on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Nunes and fellow GOP chairman Trey Gowdy have been pressuring the DOJ for months to release unredacted documents related to the Russia and Hillary Clinton emails investigations. Though their efforts have seen some success, Nunes complained to Sean Hannity that the DOJ has been slow to comply. Congressional Republicans say all they want is “full sunlight on as many of the documents that don’t endanger national security.” Nune’s committee members have sent a letter to President Trump asking him to order the release of unredacted testimony concerning the chain of events that led to the FBI’s targeting of Carter Page and the Clinton Campaigns part in setting that in motion with the Steele Dossier. Nunes said : “I think people -- I have said many times -- are going to be shocked as to what went into a FISA warrant against Carter Page and even more importantly, what did not go into the FISA application, that was not presented to the court involving the information that they had on Carter Page." Nunes said the media has mostly ignored revelations surrounding the origins of the federal investigation that prompted the appointment of special counsel Robert Muller. He said the American people “need to know it” and called for the declassification of “an unprecedented amount of information.” • • • McCAIN AND THE STEELE DOSSIER. Lest we forget -- it was Senator John McCain who took delivery of the Steele Dossier and gave it to the FBI. McCain, Clinton’s delivery agent, tried to justify why he took on the requested mission, said Business Insider : “McCain wrote that it all seemed 'too strange a scenario to believe' at first, but felt 'even a remote risk that the President of the United States might be vulnerable to Russian extortion had to be investigated.' " • Senator McCain provided details of how he obtained the infamous so-called Steele Dossier in his recent book, “The Restless Wave” -- Senator McCain was attending an annual security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia shortly after the presidential election in November 2016 when a retired British diplomat approached him. McCain wrote that he didn’t recall ever having a previous conversation with Sir Andrew Wood, but may have met him before in passing. Chris Brose, a staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and David Kramer, a former assistant secretary of state with Russian expertise, joined McCain and Wood in a room off the main conference hall. After discussing Russian election interference for a few minutes, Wood explained why he’d approached McCain in the first place. McCain wrote : "He told me he knew a former MI6 officer by the name of Christopher Steele, who had been commissioned to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russian agents as well as potentially compromising information about the President-elect that Putin allegedly possessed.” Business Insider states : “Wood told McCain that Steele had compiled a report, while careful to note the information was unverified, which the former British spy 'strongly believed merited a thorough examination by counterintelligence experts.' ” According to the McCain book : “Our impromptu meeting felt charged with a strange intensity. No one wise-cracked to lighten the mood. We spoke in lowered voices. The room was dimly lit, and the atmosphere was eerie.” • The "eerie" meeting led Senator McCain to send “former assistant secretary of state with Russian expertise” David Kramer to London to meet Steele. The Business Insider says : “When Kramer returned from the meeting and told McCain that Steele seemed to be a reputable source, the Republican Senator agreed to receive a copy of the Dossier." McCain wrote : “The allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if any were true. I could not independently verify any of it, and so I did what any American who cares about our nation’s security should have done. I put the dossier in my office safe, called the office of the director of the FBI, Jim Comey, and asked for a meeting.” Senator John McCain ultimately turned the Dossier over to Comey in a meeting on December 9, 2016, that he said lasted about 10 minutes. “I did what duty demanded I do,” McCain wrote, adding that anyone who disagrees with his decision can “go to hell.” Why would Wood have traveled to Nova Scotia to give the Arizona Senator an inside view on Trump-Russia collusion? McCain wrote that he suspects Wood approached him about the Steele Dossier because he has been such a persistent, staunch critic of Putin over the years, and that he would “take their concerns seriously.” The ProgDems and their lapdog media not only took Wood’s rumors “seriously,” they took them to heart and continue to use them to this day as the best way to take down duly elected President Trump. • • • DEAR READERS, all this gets to be wearying and we would like to ignore it. That isn't possible because the ProgDem project is to destroy President Trump, take down his presidency, sideline Republicans in Congress, and go full-throttle on making the US a socialist state run by Progressive elites. We simply cannot ignore it. • Real Clear Politics' Michael Goodwin wrote an article on August 7 that I find critically important as we consider our future as a constitutional Republic. Goodwin wrote that : "You return from a great vacation and POW -- reality hits like a punch in the nose....The pain begins when you remember that the hapless Jeff Sessions is still the attorney general of the United States. It sharpens with the realization that Rod Rosenstein, officially Sessions’ deputy but really the boss of the Justice Department and FBI, continues to get away with the biggest partisan heist of modern times. Rosenstein is guilty of three main sins. One, he gives his spawn, special counsel Robert Mueller, virtually unlimited time, scope and budget to target anybody who worked for President Trump’s campaign or administration. As the ongoing trial of Paul Manafort illustrates, the tactic involves throwing the kitchen sink of charges with the aim of terrifying defendants so they will be more inclined to spill any possible beans on Trump in exchange for leniency. The zealous approach -- and exorbitant legal fees involved for defendants or witnesses -- serve as deterrents for anyone who might consider public service. And although there is still no indication the President did anything wrong, the search for a crime to pin on him creates a cloud over everything he does and could influence the midterm elections. Rosenstein’s second sin is his arrogant stiff-arming of congressional attempts to ferret out the facts about how the Trump probe actually started. It is a national disgrace that, 19 months after the President took the oath, the public is kept in the dark about the most basic things, including whether the FBI had any credible allegations about collusion, or whether it relied exclusively on the Hillary Clinton-financed Russian Dossier to get a surveillance warrant against Trump associate Carter Page. We also don’t know how much money the FBI itself paid Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Dossier, and why the agency continued to use Steele as a source after it fired him for leaking to the media. Nor do we know why the FBI sent at least one spy -- and maybe two -- to snoop on the Trump campaign. Then there is the tsunami of leaks coming from law enforcement and intelligence agencies that were clearly designed first to defeat Trump, then to undermine him. All these events are unprecedented, yet Rosenstein continues to thwart all efforts to explain them or hold anyone accountable. His imperious refusal suggests he sees himself and the Justice Department as above the laws it enforces on all other Americans. Which brings us to his third sin -- his complete lack of interest in the suspect handling of the Clinton email investigation. The numerous examples of misconduct and deviations from rules detailed in the inspector general report came and went as if they never happened. That suggests it is the position of the Trump Justice Department that, despite all the agent bias, misconduct and unanswered questions, the decision not to prosecute Clinton is final and the case will not be reopened or even seriously reviewed. The excessive secrecy and hyper-partisan taint have come at a huge cost in credibility, with a broad public perception that the FBI was guilty of bias in both the Clinton and Trump probes. A combined 62% of Americans believe the FBI wasn’t a straight shooter in the Clinton case, with 38% thinking the agency tried to help her, according to a Hill.TV poll, while 24% think the bias hurt Clinton. Similarly, 59% saw FBI bias in the Trump investigation, with 38% believing the bureau worked against Trump, while 21% said it worked in his favor, according to the survey. Leaving aside the polarization, the shared distrust of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency is the legacy of Barack Obama’s presidency and James Comey’s corrupt leadership. Unless Sessions and Rosenstein reverse course promptly, that distrust will keep growing and be their legacy as well. Fortunately, there is one card left to play. It is Trump’s ace in the hole, and now is the time to put it on the table. As I and others have noted, a President has almost unlimited powers to declassify any document within the executive branch. It is a mystery why Trump has hesitated to use that power, especially because he rails so frequently about the unfairness of both probes. He could, in an instant, strike a blow for accountability and transparency by ordering the Justice Department to give Congress everything it wants, subject to very limited restrictions. Embarrassment does not qualify as a reason for withholding information. Almost certainly, the bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton would be glaring if the document troves were exposed to the disinfectant of sunshine. That would make the move a political bonus for Trump. Even more important, it would set a dramatic precedent for a more open government, something Trump promised to deliver. Secrecy is an important part of the Deep State’s permanent power and, when invoked to extremes by law enforcement, veers toward a police state. Trump should make sure he is its last victim. Throw open the doors, Mr. President, and turn history’s page toward openness. Today would be a great day to start." • We can only agree. This ProgDem Deep State cabal must be stopped before it has succeeded to cripple the Trump government, the Republican Party, conservatives, and most importantly, the Constitution and its Republic. • Let in the light, Mr. President. Let in the Light.