President Trump Should Shake the Rafters at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, DOD, and State, to Find and Prosecute the Slithering Obama-era Political Spies

MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DAMAGED AND WRONGED, BUT WILL THE SOON-TO-BE-RELEASED REPORTS MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE? Here is what's at stake. • • • THE HOROWITZ FISA REPORT. Newsmax says the upcoming report from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz concerning potential abuse of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act to investigate Carter Page, a former aide to President Donald Trump, will be "very, very hard-hitting." That's the opinion of ex-Whitewater independent counsel Sol Wisenberg, who told Fox News : ""Michael Horowitz is a person of impeccable integrity. You can expect him to be very ethical, very hard hitting. He will not seek to expand his charter." • However, Wisenberg told Fox News he is "skeptical about the prospect of the people who signed off on the FISA application, including former FBI Director James Comey, ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, or former Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente facing any kind of criminal prosecution." Wisenberg said : "I will believe it when I see it, and I certainly would be very surprised if Dana Boente or Rod Rosenstein were seriously implicated in this. It's something quite different when you are talking about something that happened with the people in the Obama administration, who authorized surveillance of the political campaign of the opposition party of their main candidate. That is very shocking and something that should concern it all...if there were abuses, I think Horowitz will not hesitate to spell them out." • Newsmax explained : "Horowitz has been examining the FBI for almost a year to determine if the agency violated the FISA warrant system based on information from British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who claims that sources told him Page and other Trump associates had been working with Russia to help Trump win the 2016 election." Carter Page was the person whose name was on the line for the FBI when a FISA surveillance warrant was requested based on the Hillary-paid for Steele Dossier. But, other people were more seriously hurt by the chain of events unleashed by the FISA warrant permitting the FBI to surveil Carter Page. • GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN. American Thinker's Ed Timperlake wrote on April 1 that : "General Flynn has been grievously wronged, and Defense Department archives may have the evidence. It has now become clear that General Michael Flynn was set up and sandbagged by rogue FBI agents while the national security director, Susan Rice, an agent for President Obama, was orchestrating a domestic political intelligence operation of historic magnitude....The evidence presented to date in public makes the case that the Obama White House was using intelligence / counterintelligence practices and procedures against innocent Americans for political purposes. In undertaking such an effort, one of the most import aspects of any intelligence collection effort is to build out the 'social network' of your targets and then send out that 'work in progress' of social network analysis to others to continue to expand one's knowledge base of 'who is connected to whom.' Content analysis is the parallel part of that equation, and NSC director Susan Rice's engagement accomplishes both those objectives." • In what Timperlake calls "the growth of the Surveillance State," he warms : "It is evident that the former administration was creating a target list of political opponents under the false flag of national security....Of those early supporters who did make it into administration no one suffered more than General Flynn." Former President Barack Obama's national security advisor, Susan Rice, says Timperlake : "...ordered US spy agencies to produce 'detailed spreadsheets' of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for President, early warriors for Trump Nation, according to former US attorney Joseph diGenova....American citizens have seen damning comments on abusing the trust and confidence of having access to highly classified information being made by a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, who...has said : 'I was urging my former colleagues (she left in 2015) and frankly speaking the people on the Hill -- it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people -- get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration.' Consequently, a perfect starting point to get to the bottom of the unauthorized use of the awesome power of the Surveillance State would be to focus on Dr. Farkas's performance while serving in the DOD. Before evidence of the Deep State violations of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights using the power of the state grow ice-cold, law enforcement action should be taken. In getting to the bottom of what happened to General Flynn by the malicious attacks from the FBI and Special Counsel Mueller, there may be significant connection to collusion in helping to destroy him by political operatives at DOD." • Ed Timperlake has several questions he thinks DrM Farkas should answer under oath : "When was the DOD first made aware of the surveillance of the Trump campaign, Donald Trump, and especially Lieutenant General Mike Flynn? Who in the DOD was made aware of the NSC director's efforts, and what did anyone do with the information? Was there any reporting at the highest levels in the Department of Defense about any possible illegal actions involved with such an effort, and was any investigation asked for? Did any individuals in the DOD distribute classified information in any way to open additional continuous surveillance of American citizens beyond just General Flynn? Were any individuals in the Legislative Branch in receipt of classified DOD message traffic with unmasked names? Finally, what was the DOD's role in protecting any information-gathering activities that had retroactively focused on General Flynn while he was on active duty?" Timperlake also says that : "...since General Flynn had been director of DIA and his name was 'unmasked( in public from code word–protected intelligence collection efforts, did Secretary Carter -- or, after he left, Deputy Secretary Work, initiate any action to stop the felony violations of an American citizen's name being made public using highly classified collection efforts?" • Timperlake's conclusion : "If any evidence surfaces that the DOD helped violate General Flynn's Fourth Amendment rights, he is a greatly wronged individual and should finally be made whole. Enough is enough! After serving his country honorably in uniform in combat, he has huge debts from hiring lawyers and that is just not right in America today." • American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson followed up on Ed Timperlake's article in an article posted on April 5, in which Lifson says that General Flynn "may be the key to uncovering and prosecuting the Deep State attempted coup." Thomas Lifson reminds us that : "the Russia Hoax attempted coup involved senior figures in the 'intelligence community'....Even as obsessive Trump-hating promoters of the hoax like Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler continue to troll for evidence in the Mueller Report to use for impeachment, it is important to uncover the secret maneuvers that led to spying on the Trump campaign and the appointment of Mueller....It seems that people with very dirty hands had to take out [Trump and also General Flynn] when Trump made him national security advisor : 'Flynn's Defense Intelligence Agency produced a now-notorious 2012 report warning that CIA backing for Sunni rebels fighting Assad would lead to the rise of a new Caliphate movement, namely ISIS. The Obama administration threw its support behind the 'Arab Spring' rebellion in Syria, ignoring the fact that Islamist terrorists led the opposition to Assad. This was reported exhaustively in specialist media, for example, Brad Hoff's July 2016 essay in Foreign Policy Journal : Flynn humiliated the bungling CIA and exposed the incompetence and deception of the Obama administration, and got fired for it. If the proper authorities turn over the CIA's rock and examine its underside, the result will be the exposure of an intelligence failure of galactic proportions. The CIA channeled Saudi money into al-Qaeda fronts in Syria and helped move a large part of the late Colonel Qaddafi's massive arsenal to Syria. The jihadists backed by the CIA eventually formed a good deal of ISIS. Heads would roll at CIA. And when I say 'proper authorities,' I mean General Flynn in his capacity as National Security Advisor, a job in which he lasted a month before the Deep State set him up and persuaded President Trump to fire him." For Thomas Lifson, and for all Americans, "The attempt by intelligence agencies to unseat a President they disagreed with over policy is about as serious as it gets when it comes to scandal. If properly uncovered and prosecuted, it has the potential to alter the course of American politics. That's a big if. It will require toughness and knowledgeable investigators. Fortunately, we have a President who believes in hitting back twice as hard." • • • JUDICIAL WATCH FOIA DISCOVERIES ARE GETTING CLOSE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA. American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson wrote on Wednesday : "The truth of violations of law by the Obama White House, long buried, is being excavated by two private groups. Judicial Watch has obtained testimony from a top FBI official that Hillary Clinton's home-brew server emails were found in the White House. This means that Barack Obama's illegal handling of classified information contained in those emails is closer to being exposed. This implicates him in the same felonies committed by Hillary Clinton that James Comey falsely claimed 'no reasonable prosecutor' would pursue. Judicial Watch announces : 'Judicial Watch announced today that a senior FBI official admitted, in writing and under oath, that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President....the FBI also admitted nearly 49,000 Clinton server emails were reviewed as result of a search warrant for her material on the laptop of Anthony Weiner : "E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, made the disclosure to Judicial Watch as part of court-ordered discovery into the Clinton email issue. US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides, as well as Priestap, to be deposed or answer writer questions under oath. The court ruled that the Clinton email system was 'one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency.' Priestap was asked by Judicial Watch to identify representatives of Hillary Clinton, her former staff, and government agencies from which 'email repositories were obtained.' Priestap responded with the following non-exhaustive list : 'Bryan Pagliano /// Cheryl Mills /// Executive Office of the President /// Heather Samuelson /// Jacob Sullivan /// Justin Cooper /// United States Department of State /// United States Secret Service /// Williams & Connolly LLP.' " • Lifson reported that Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said Priestap testified in a separate lawsuit that Clinton was the subject of a grand jury investigation related to her BlackBerry email accounts : “This astonishing confirmation, made under oath by the FBI, shows that the Obama FBI had to go to President Obama’s White House office to find emails that Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or hide from the American people. No wonder Hillary Clinton has thus far skated -- Barack Obama is implicated in her email scheme.” • Lifson also noted that : "A second scandal threat for the Obama administration is also slowly being excavated. Proof is piling up that White House operatives exploited the NSA's surveillance of all electronic communications in the United States to monitor political opponents. This very long and detailed post by Sundance of Conservative Tree House defies any possibility of concise summary [but we will try, Dear Readers -- see below]. But by putting together information from the Mueller Report with a ruling by FISA Court Judge Rosemary Collyer, Sundance teases out the clear implications. This requires time and focus to follow but is rewarded by a deeper understanding of how the Obama administration actually did spy on its opponents, not just on the Trump campaign. The Conservative Tree House article is available at < https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/23/the-obama-use-of-fisa-702-as-a-domestic-political-surveillance-program/ >. • • • JOE DiGENOVA'S ANALYSIS. BizPac Review reported on Thursday that : "On Wednesday retired US Attorney Joe diGenova reiterated his call for certain members of the Obama administration, namely disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan, to 'lawyer up' immediately for their own sake. 'John Brennan isn’t going to need one lawyer. He’s going to need five,' he said specifically of Brennan while speaking on The Ingraham Angle with guest host Mike Huckabee. Why? Because of the role he’d allegedly played in crafting the viral Russian collusion narrative. In January of 2017, Brennan and Comey briefed President Donald Trump about the Steele Dossier. This briefing was then used as a pretext by the media to publish the Dossier in full." Di Genova told Huckabee : "It has been evident from day one that there was a brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton illegally, and then if she lost the election, to frame Donald Trump. This Dossier was a knowing part of that. It was created by Hillary Clinton. It was created knowingly by John Brennan as part of a scheme to do everything they could to harm Donald Trump. The problem for Brennan and Clapper and Comey and Baker and all of them now is that the FISA court has already communicated with the Justice Department about its findings, and their findings are that for more than four years before the election of Donald Trump, there was an illegal spying operation going on by FBI contractors, four of them, to steal personal information, electronic information about Americans, and to use it against the Republican Party....There is the Horowitz report coming out in May or possibly early June. There is another report that everybody has forgotten about involving James Comey alone. That will be out in two weeks. That report is going to be a bombshell. It’s going to open up the investigation on a very high note." • The investigation by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz is nearly completed and DiGenova says "his report will shed light on the possible abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the Obama DOJ, focusing on the entire scandal....There will be criminal referrals in it....The FISA court abuse is the center of this entire abuse of governmental power. The chief judge of that court has already ruled that the FBI broke the law and that the people at the head of the Justice Department, Sally Yates, John Carlin, the assistant attorney general all knew about it and lied to the FISA court about it....it is imperative that Attorney General William Barr follow through on his threat to launch a full-scale criminal investigation into the Obama admin’s abuses." DiGenova told Bill O'Reilly on Monday : "Barr knows that the only way to have accountability and therefore to restore the credibility of the FBI and the Department of Justice and the CIA and the intelligence community is to have a full-scale, criminal investigation. When O'Reilly asked how certain he is that this will happen, DeGenova replied, “100%.” • • • THE CONSERVATIVE TREE HOUSE REPORT. It was published on April 23, and written by Sundance. The entire article is at < https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/23/the-obama-use-of-fisa-702-as-a-domestic-political-surveillance-program/ >. Sundance says : "Now that we have significant research files on the 2015 and 2016 political surveillance program; which includes the trail evident within the Weissmann/Mueller report; in combination with the Obama-era DOJ 'secret research project' (their words, not mine); we are able to overlay the entire objective and gain a full understanding of how political surveillance was conducted over a period of approximately four to six years....This explains an evolution from The IRS Files in 2010 to the FISA Files in 2016." • Sundance explains : "The FISA-702 database extraction process, and utilization of the protections within the smaller intelligence community, was the primary process. We start by reviewing the established record from the 99-page FISC opinion rendered by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer on April 26th, 2017; and explain the details within the FISC opinion. I would strongly urge everyone to read the FISC report [the Scribd version is available in the CTH article] because Judge Collyer outlines how the DOJ, which includes the FBI, had an 'institutional lack of candor' in responses to the FISA court. In essence, they were continually lying to the court about their activity, and the rate of fourth amendment violations for illegal searches and seizures of US persons’ private information for multiple years." • Sundance notes : "For the sake of brevity and common understanding CTH will highlight the most pertinent segments showing just how systemic and troublesome the unlawful electronic surveillance was. Early in 2016 NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was alerted of a significant uptick in FISA-702(17) 'About' queries using the FBI/NSA database that holds all metadata records on every form of electronic communication. The NSA compliance officer alerted Admiral Mike Rogers who then initiated a full compliance audit on/around March 9th, 2016, for the period of November 1st, 2015, through May 1st, 2016. While the audit was ongoing, due to the severity of the results that were identified, Admiral Mike Rogers stopped anyone from using the 702 (17) 'about query' option, and went to the extraordinary step of blocking all FBI contractor access to the database on April 18, 2016 (keep these dates in mind). Here are some significant segments : The key takeaway from these first paragraphs is how the search query results were exported from the NSA database to users who were not authorized to see the material. The FBI contractors were conducting searches and then removing, or ‘exporting’, the results. Later on, the FBI said all of the exported material was deleted." • Sundance tell us that : "Searching the highly classified NSA database is essentially a function of filling out search boxes to identify the user-initiated search parameter and get a return on the search result. FISA-702(16) is a search of the system returning a US person (“702”); and the '16' is a check box to initiate a search based on 'To and From.' Example, if you put in a date and a phone number and check '16' as the search parameter, the user will get the returns on everything 'To and From' that identified phone number for the specific date. Calls, texts, contacts etc. Including results for the inbound and outbound contacts. FISA-702(17) is a search of the system returning a US person (702); and the '17' is a check box to initiate a search based on everything 'About' the search qualifier. Example, if you put a date and a phone number and check '17' as the search parameter the user will get the returns of everything about that phone. Calls, texts, contacts, geolocation (or gps results), account information, user, service provider etc. As a result, 702(17) can actually be used to locate where the phone (and user) was located on a specific date or sequentially over a specific period of time which is simply a matter of changing the date parameters." • Sundance says these two types of searches are "just from a phone number. Search an ip address 'about' and read all data into that server; put in an email address and gain everything about that account. Or use the electronic address of a GPS enabled vehicle (about) and you can withdraw more electronic data and monitor in real time. Search a credit card number and get everything about the account including what was purchased, where, when, etc. Search a bank account number, get everything about transactions and electronic records etc. Just about anything and everything can be electronically searched; everything has an electronic ‘identifier.' The search parameter is only limited by the originating field filled out. Names, places, numbers, addresses, etc. By using the 'About' parameter there may be thousands or millions of returns. Imagine if you put '@realdonaldtrump' into the search parameter? You could extract all following accounts who interacted on Twitter, or Facebook etc. You are only limited by your imagination and the scale of the electronic connectivity." • Sundance then explains what the Obama FBI was doing : "As you can see below, on March 9th, 2016, internal auditors noted the FBI was sharing 'raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information.' In plain English the raw search returns were being shared with unknown entities without any attempt to 'minimize' or redact the results. The person(s) attached to the results were named and obvious. There was no effort to hide their identity or protect their 4th Amendment rights of privacy....The review of November 1, 2015, to May 1, 2016, showed 'eighty-five percent of those queries' were unlawful or 'non compliant.' 85% !! 'representing [redacted number].' We can tell from the space of the redaction the number of searches were between 1,000 and 9,999 [five digits]. If we take the middle number of 5,000 – that means 4,250 unlawful searches out of 5,000. The [five digit] amount (more than 1,000, less than 10,000), and 85% error rate, was captured in a six month period. Also notice this very important quote : 'many of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over different date ranges.' So they were searching the same phone number, email address, electronic 'identifier,' or people, repeatedly over different dates. Specific people were being tracked/monitored. Additionally, notice the last quote : 'while the government reports it is unable to provide a reliable estimate of' these non lawful searches 'since 2012, there is no apparent reason to believe the November 2015 [to] April 2016 coincided with an unusually high error rate.' " • As Sundance points out : "That means the 85% unlawful FISA-702(16)(17) database abuse has likely been happening since 2012. (Again, remember that date, 2012) Who was FBI Director? [Mueller] Who was his chief-of-staff? [John Carlin who left to become head of DOJ national security division] Who was CIA Director? [Brennan] ODNI? [Clapper] etc. Remember, the NSA is inside the Pentagon (Defense Dept) command structure. Who was Defense Secretary? [Carter] And finally, who wrote and signed-off-on the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment? [Clapper] Tens of thousands of searches over four years (since 2012), and 85% of them are illegal." • Sundance answers the WHO : "Private contractors with access to 'raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to FBI’s requests' : And as noted, the contractor access was finally halted on April 18th, 2016. [Coincidentally (or not), the wife of Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, goes to the White House the next day on April 19th, 2016.] None of this is conspiracy theory. All of this is laid out inside this 99-page opinion from FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer who also noted that none of this FISA abuse was accidental in a footnote on page 87 : 'deliberate decisionmaking' : Summary of this aspect : The FISA court identified and quantified tens-of-thousands of search queries of the NSA/FBI database using the FISA-702(16)(17) system. The database was repeatedly used by persons with contractor access who unlawfully searched and extracted the raw results without redacting the information and shared it with an unknown number of entities." • The WHY? Sundance says : "The outlined process certainly points toward a political spying and surveillance operation; and we are not the only one to think that’s what this system is being used for. Back in 2017 when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was working to reauthorize the FISA legislation, Nunes wrote a letter to ODNI Dan Coats about this specific issue...NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers eventually took away the 'About' query option permanently in 2017. NSA Director Rogers said the abuse was so inherent there was no way to stop it except to remove the process completely. Additionally, the NSA database operates as a function of the Pentagon, so the Trump administration went one step further. On his last day as NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers -- together with ODNI Dan Coats -- put US cyber-command, the database steward, fully into the US military as a full combatant command. There is little doubt the FISA-702(16)(17) database system was used by Obama-era officials, from 2012 through April 2016, as a way to spy on their political opposition. Quite simply there is no other intellectually honest explanation for the scale and volume of database abuse that was taking place." • These facts lead to the following Sundance conclusions : "When we reconcile what was taking place and who was involved, then the actions of the exact same principle participants take on a jaw-dropping amount of clarity. All of the action taken by CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, ODNI Clapper and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter make sense. Including their effort to get NSA Director Mike Rogers fired. Everything after March 9th, 2016, was done to cover up the weaponization of the FISA database. Spygate, Russia-Gate, the Steele Dossier, and even the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (drawn from the Dossier and signed by the above) were needed to create a cover-story and protect themselves from discovery of this four year weaponization, political surveillance and unlawful spying. Even the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel makes sense; he was FBI Director when this began." • Sundance says it all started in 2012 : "The beginning decision to use FISA(702) as a domestic surveillance and political spy mechanism appears to have started in/around 2012. Perhaps sometime shortly before the 2012 presidential election and before John Brennan left the White House and moved to CIA. However, there was an earlier version of data assembly that preceded this effort. Political spying 1.0 was actually the weaponization of the IRS. This is where the term 'Secret Research Project' originated as a description from the Obama team. It involved the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder and the FBI under Robert Mueller. It never made sense why Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD ROM, until overlaying the timeline of the FISA abuse : The IRS sent the FBI '21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.' The transaction occurred in October 2010. Why disks? Why send a stack of DISKS to the DOJ and FBI when there’s a pre-existing financial crimes unit within the IRS. All of the evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012. The IRS scandal was never really about the IRS, it was always about the DOJ asking the IRS for the database of information. That is why it was transparently a conflict when the same DOJ was tasked with investigating the DOJ/IRS scandal. Additionally, Obama sent his chief-of-staff Jack Lew to become Treasury Secretary; effectively placing an ally to oversee/cover-up any issues. As Treasury Secretary Lew did just that." • Sundance says that it seems the Obama administration "learned a lesson from attempting to gather a large opposition research database operation inside a functioning organization large enough to have some good people that might blow the whistle." that is why, says Sundance, that a few months after realizing the 'Secret Research Project' was now worthless (June 2012), they focused more deliberately on a smaller network within the intelligence apparatus and began weaponizing the FBI/NSA database." • AND, it all came together in 2019. Sundance states that : "Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump. As shown in the evidence provided by the FISC, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The Obama administration already knew everything about the Trump campaign, and were monitoring everything by exploiting the FISA database. HOWEVER, after the NSA alerts in/around March 9th, 2016, and particularly after the April 18th shutdown of contractor access, the Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to create a legal albeit ex post facto justification for the pre-existing surveillance and spy operations. Fusion GPS gave them that justification in the Steele Dossier. THAT is why the FBI small group, which later transitioned into the Mueller team, are so strongly committed to and defending the formation of the Steele Dossier and its dubious content. The Steele Dossier contains the cover-story and justification for the surveillance operation.....During a rather innocuous podcast discussion panel April 12th, 2019, one of President Trump’s personal lawyers Jay Sekulow mentioned the FBI had three FISA applications denied by the FISA court in 2016....If Sekulow is accurate, this adds additional context to the actions of the FBI in the aftermath of Admiral Mike Rogers and an increased urgency in gaining legal justification for surveillance and spy operation unlawfully taking place. A valid FISA warrant would help the FBI cover-up the surveillance. The likely targets were Manafort, Flynn and Papadopoulos....but it appears the DOJ/FBI were rebuked. These FISC denials would then initiate institutional panic dependent on the election outcome. An INSURANCE POLICY would be needed. The Steele Dossier becomes the investigative virus the FBI wanted inside the system. To get the virus into official status, they used the FISA application as the delivery method and injected it into Carter Page. The FBI already knew Carter Page; essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the FISA warrant and the Dossier in the system. Fusion GPS was not hired to research Trump, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a plausible justification for already existing surveillance and spy operations. Fusion-GPS gave them the justification they needed for a FISA warrant with the Steele Dossier. Ultimately that’s why the Steele Dossier is so important; without it, the DOJ and FBI are naked with their FISA-702 abuse as outlined by John Ratcliffe." • Sundance makes recommendations that focus on declassifying series of actions to show the intent of the Obama intelligence community. President Trump has already said all the FISA-related documents will be released, but with investigations ongoing, this will take some time. • I urge you to go to the Sundance article and read it as well as the Scribd Judge Collyer opinion. It is -- as American Thinker's Thomas Lifson pointed out on Thursday -- “BIG!” • In his Thursday article, Lifson also adds new detail to this horror story : "In an exclusive report based on anonymous sources, Dustin Voltz and Warren P. Strobel of the Wall Street Journal write : 'The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a surveillance program that collects information about US phone calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it outweigh its intelligence benefits, according to people familiar with the matter. The recommendation against seeking the renewal of the once-secret spying program amounts to an about-face by the agency, which had long argued in public and to congressional overseers that the program was vital to the task of finding and disrupting terrorism plots against the US. The latest view is rooted in a growing belief among senior intelligence officials that the spying program provides limited value to national security and has become a logistical headache. Frustrations about legal-compliance issues forced the NSA to halt use of the program earlier this year, the people said. Its legal authority will expire in December unless Congress reauthorizes it. It is up to the White House, not the NSA, to decide whether to push for legislation to renew the phone-records program. The White House hasn’t yet reached a policy decision about the surveillance program, according to the people familiar with the matter. The White House National Security Council and the NSA declined to comment." Oddly, says Lifson : "no mention at all is made of the unfolding scandal of the use of NSA data to spy on the Trump campaign...I take this proposal being mooted as a sign that the scandal is going to continue to unfold, and the public will learn more about it. A lot of posteriors are being guarded. And, not so incidentally, the ability of a present or future President to employ this tool would be curtailed. Stay tuned." • • • DEAR READERS, on Thursday, the New York Sun published another "Special to the Sun" by Conrad Black, titled "Day of Reckoning Is Now Dawning For Democrats." The always erudite Black's article is available in full at < htps://www.nysun.com/national/day-of-reckoning-is-now-dawning-for-democrats/90662 >. • Conrad Black says it is "not now clear whether the Democrats’ pathological attachment to the fantasy that they have some chance of destroying the Trump presidency legally is based on continuing hysteria and frenzy, or addiction to continued harassment of the President,...or is an attempt to forestall the investigation and exposure of the malfeasance of the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign in producing the fraud of Trump-Russia collusion....investigations already taking place by the inspector general of the Justice Department, a special counsel, and the attorney general of the United States, about to be joined by the Senate Judiciary Committee, will call upon the chief intelligence and law officers of the Obama administration, along with Hillary Clinton and members of her campaign staff, to account for their conduct. These include lies under oath to congressional committees, lies to federal officials, and misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court....It will not be long before we hear the still familiar words, in reference to President Obama : 'What did the president know and when did he know it?'....the machinery of dispassionate justice is already turning towards the identification and eventual punishment of the Democrats for subverting the justice and intelligence apparatus of the former administration in order to influence the results of the election of the succeeding President and Vice President of the United States....The country recognizes that the attempt to unseat the President has failed, and that it deserved to fail. If he is to be removed from his office, it will be by the electors, and not by a Democratic lynch mob cheered on by the now largely disgraced national political media. Their day of reckoning is about to begin. They will gag and balk at the evidence as it emerges that the Clinton campaign and the Obama Justice Department, the FBI, and the intelligence services were up to their eyeballs in an unprecedented unconstitutional attempt to manipulate and then undo the result of a presidential election....The Democrats will pay for their dishonesty at the polls in 2020. And the national political media will require a very long time to recover the confidence of the American people that they have so energetically squandered." • These long details are necessary to understand why President Trump is so angry. He should be shaking the rafters at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, DOD, and State, to find and prosecute all the crouched slithering political spies, Obama-freaks waiting for a Democrat to return to the White House so they can finish their unholy task of turning America into a socialist-marxist police state run by the elites for the elites.