By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--June 3, 2018
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"I am that guy. Yes, I am the individual who put together the Trump Campaign national advisory committee on national security and foreign policy," Clovis wrote in his first column for Canada Free Press on Memorial Day.
"Yes, I am the one who recruited Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Yes, I have given countless hours of testimony to a four-pack of investigations. And most important of all--not a single shred of evidence has presented itself that would indicate that anyone in the Trump campaign had anything to do with colluding with the Russians. Not one scintilla of credible information, testimony or documentation points in that direction--zero, zip, nada. "What has been revealed, however, is that there was a deliberate attempt to spy on the campaign, that their likely efforts to create probable cause for further FISA warrants and the clear indication of gathering--and then leaking of--information that has underpinned classic progressive politics of personal destruction."Having served 25 years on active duty as a fighter pilot, retiring as a Colonel and the Inspector General of NORAD and the United States Space Command, in this era of Fake News, Sam Clovis is a paragon of credibility. Imagine someone of that stature knowing where all the skeletons are buried, and daring to talk to Fox News' Sean Hannity about it.
"The spy effort, known as "Operation Crossfire Hurricane," began July 31, 2016--just 10 days after Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination. "The revelation turned Washington's political establishment upside down--and threatens to put some of its members in the slammer. "You can bet [Obama] was briefed on this operation against the campaign, especially given its sensitive nature," Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch told Fox Business this week. "President Obama should disclose what he knew." "Trump has demanded an investigation into whether the feds infiltrated his campaign for political purposes--and if Obama was behind it. "Obama knew all about this and the notion that he didn't is ludicrous," said former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova. "The smoking gun came during a meeting on January 5, 2017, he said.
"Barack Obama, Joe Biden, NSA advisor Susan Rice, and acting Attorney General Sally Yates huddled together "to figure out a way to explain" the investigation and spy embed, diGenova said. "They knew since Hillary didn't win, now it was going to come out and they needed a story." "He called former administration officials' denials nothing more than "gaslighting." Andrew McCarthy, a former terror prosecutor, agrees. "But what if Obama abused that constitutional authority in order to carry out his own top priority: Keeping Democrats in power? "It's not like Obama hasn't been guilty of this before: the IRS harassment of the Tea Party, covering up Hillary Clinton's homebrew e-mail server, prosecuting Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the flimsiest pretexts--and the list goes on and on. "Former Trump campaign advisor Sam Clovis said the spying scandal looked like one huge phishing effort. "The FBI's spy--Stefan Halper of Cambridge University--struck up a relationship with Carter Page after Page visited Moscow. Page referred him to Clovis, who said Halper was mild-mannered in their meeting and made a boring lecture about China. "But when Clovis introduced Halper to George Papadopoulos, a low-level Trump campaign official with questionable ties to Russia, Halper bared his fangs. "Halper "used Carter Page to get to me and he used me to get to George. George was the target," Clovis told the Washington Examiner. "His goal was to drag George into this to say the Trump campaign tried to get access to those emails from Russia." "Halper aggressively pressed George over whether he knew about Russia's hacking of the Clinton campaign's e-mail server.
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