Let's make sure we're caught up here: We know that in 2016, the FBI launched an investigation into whether the Trump campaign was in cahoots with the Russian government to influence the election. And we know that as part of this investigation, the FBI convinced a FISA court to wiretap Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Remember when Trump said Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped, and everyone said Trump was making it up? Manafort lives in Trump Tower. Trump was telling the truth.
But the more important question is whether the FBI used bogus information to persuade the FISA court to approve the wiretap. We've been speculating here for some time that the now-infamous Trump dossier prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele - which has been widely discredited - was a part of the FBI's case for the wiretap of another Trump advisor, Carter Page - possibly a significant part.
Is that true?
Last night we told you the Hillary campaign helped pay for the creation of the dossier. Now we have a named source saying on the record that the FBI did indeed connect the dossier to the larger Russian investigation, and that source is Hillary Clinton. Quoting from her awful book What Happened (you lost):
In the summer of 2016, according to the Washington Post, the FBI convinced a special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that there was probably ause to believe that Trump advisor Carter Page was acting as a Russian agent, and they received a warrant to monitor his communications. The FBI also began investigating a dossier prepared by a well-respected British spy that contained explosive and salacious allegations about compromising information the Russians had on Trump.
Note how Hillary makes reference to all this as if she had nothing to do with it. Classic. When she wrote the book, she obviously didn't know it would later become public knowledge that her campaign helped pay for the dossier, so she probably figured she could pretend to be disinterested third party simply making reference to something in the news. Lucky for her not many people will read her vomit-inducing book. Unlucky for her, you now know this part is in there.
You think the Democrats are still happy they insisted on starting this Russia investigation?
So did the FBI uses the dossier to justify the FISA request? If it was part of what they were investigating, why wouldn't they? If they took it as seriously as Hillary claims, it would make no sense to withhold it when you're trying to make the case you've got reasonable cause to wiretap a target.
Better question: At what point did the FBI realize the dossier was crap? Or did they know all along?
Because if they used a fake dossier to justify the wiretaps of Page and Manafort, that means a Democrat administration was wiretapping top officials of a Republican presidential campaign on false pretenses. That's worse than Watergate, because you're not only bugging your opponent, you're also corrupting law enforcement to help you get away with it.
And if that's what happens, it's not only Hillary who's complicit. It's Obama too. His presidency is over, thank God, but he could still be held criminally accountable for this if it's shown he knew about it or, worse yet, directed it on Hillary's behalf.
You think the Democrats are still happy they insisted on starting this Russia investigation?
