The weaponization of the Department of Justice really took off during Donald Trump’s Presidency.
The ruling class was determined to stop him at any cost.
And now this former FBI Director has finally admitted the one thing we all knew about the Trump investigation.
Still doesn’t understand the Fourth Amendment
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has finally admitted to at least some errors in the investigation of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
McCabe admitted the mistakes even as he pushed for renewal of unconstitutional, warrantless surveillance.
In their investigation of Trump, the FBI utilized opposition research compiled against the former President by former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s campaign in order to earn approval from the Deep State’s secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court for the unconstitutional surveillance program.
Through that warrantless surveillance, the FBI secretly monitored Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
And though McCabe is finally admitting the mistakes the FBI made in this case, he is still pushing to renew the unconstitutional surveillance.
Fortunately for the American people, the House of Representatives recently blocked a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA.
Despite this setback, and with the April 19 deadline looming to renewal Section 702, McCabe appeared on CNN Newsroom to continue advocating for the renew while simultaneously openly admitting that it has been repeatedly abused, misused, and weaponized against law-abiding Americans by unelected members of the Deep State.
While McCabe was pushing for the renewal of Section 702, Trump was obviously speaking out against it.
“KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!! DJT,” Trump posted on Truth social.
But McCabe was undeterred.
“Donald Trump is really confusing the issue,” McCabe claimed. “FISA is a big law. It has a lot of different sections. Part of it is used against people here in the United States.”
“You go to the court for a warrant to enable you to do electronic surveillance,” he added. “That’s not what we’re talking about. Section 702 is only used to capture the communications when people meet three criteria. You have to be a foreign person in a foreign place and the purpose of the collection has to be to get foreign intelligence. It is our primary vision into what terrorists, spies and people who use weapons of mass destruction and nation states that use cyber tools against us, what they’re doing overseas.”
Using a phony dossier to spy on Trump
At the time of the investigation, the FBI cited the now-discredited Steele Dossier, which falsely accused Trump of links to Russia, extensively in its FISA applications to spy on his campaign.
And they did so even though they could never verify the allegations against Trump, and knew that the dossier was originally commissioned by the Clinton campaign to sow propaganda narratives against him.
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith even pled guilty in August 2020 to altering a June 2017 email he received from a CIA employee regarding Page in applications for FISA warrants.
Even scarier, the FBI conducted around 5 million warrantless searches of American citizens from 2019 to 2022.
And according to a report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, “there was little justification” for them.
As for McCabe, he was fired from his position as deputy FBI director in 2018 after an Inspector General’s report accused him of lying about media leaks.
Clearly he didn’t learn anything from it.
US Political Daily will keep you updated on any developments to this ongoing story.
