“The Swamp.” That is how Donald Trump identifies the
Washington bureaucratic morass. The Swamp, or however one identifies it, is the
stuff of legend.
It has a life and a mind of its own, with bureaucrats who
have made a career of federal employment sometimes indulging in activities
other than serving the needs of the citizenry, which is their duty.
Sometimes that extraneous work involves merely not doing
what should be done, and sometimes it involves doing what should not be done.
Not every federal employee has the integrity, honesty and the devotion to duty
that is expected of those serving the American people.
The misbehavior may be merely shirking one’s duty, such as
sloppy work habits, or doing things other than what the job entails. Or it may
be using the powers of the IRS improperly against certain types of
organizations, as we saw with Lois Learner at the helm of the department
responsible for granting non-profit status that purposefully denied approval or
delayed action on legitimate applications of conservative organizations.
Or it may be a coordinated effort to affect the outcome of a
presidential election, and following that failure, trying to sabotage that
darned business guy outsider who beat the odds and won despite The Swamp’s
substantial meddling.
That is what was long suspected, but was well covered up by
Swamp-creatures, and ignored by the liberal media, but is now emerging for all
to see. In contrast to the left’s preferred narrative, Donald Trump’s
allegations of “spying” and “wire-tapping” have been proven correct, with the
evidence of our government listening in on the calls of a Trump associate who
lived in Trump Tower in 2016, and other things of a similar nature.
Let’s shift our attention to London, weeks before the
election, when Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos sat with a comely
young lady going by the name of Azra Turk in a bar. Using her womanly wiles to
best advantage for a while, she then asked Papadopoulos if the campaign was
working with Russia.
The New York Times, no
supporter of Donald Trump, reported last week, “The woman had set up the meeting
to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government
investigator posing as a research assistant, according to people familiar with
the operation. The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence
inquiry opened that summer to better understand the Trump campaign’s links to
Russia.”
“The decision to use Ms. Turk in the operation aimed at a
presidential campaign official shows the level of alarm inside the F.B.I.,” The Times
story continued, “during a frantic period when the bureau was trying to
determine the scope of Russia’s attempts to disrupt the 2016 election, but
could also give ammunition to Mr. Trump and his allies for their spying claims.”
The question that jumps immediately out is, was the “level
of alarm inside the F.B.I.” a legitimate criminal or counterintelligence concern,
or was it just politics? Where was the concern about Russian involvement in
Hillary Clinton’s campaign?
We know the Russians meddled in the election, but years and
millions of dollars of investigations produced no evidence of Trump/Russian
campaign involvement. Russian meddling appears to have been a convenient excuse
for FBI and Department of Justice meddling in the Trump campaign.
Further evidence of government malfeasance involves the email
correspondence by high officials at the FBI clearly leading to the belief that
political considerations were, indeed, the motivation.
FBI Agent Peter Strozk and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa
Page, exchanged a series of emails that had nothing to do with legitimate
agency business, but were focused on their dislike for Donald Trump, and
efforts to stop him from winning the election. Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe and then-FBI Director James Comey are other names associated with the
monkeyshines of the FBI.
The questionable Carter Steele dossier, financed indirectly
by the Clinton campaign, and used to trick the FISA Court into issuing warrants
to spy on various elements and persons associated with the Trump campaign, is a
major element in this sordid story.
The FBI agents, who signed off on and presented the dossier
to the FISA Court as a legitimate document supporting the permissions they were
seeking, knew the dossier was, at best, questionable, and at worst, fraudulent.
Nevertheless, it successfully won warrants that were used against American
citizens.
The United States is often referred to as “a nation of
laws,” and for the most part that is true. But there is another comment that is
not so positive, that also applies: laws are not applied evenly; we have a
two-tiered system, where people in positions of power often escape
accountability that the rest of us are held to.
Donald Trump did not benefit from that second tier, but so
far Hillary Clinton has.
While Congressional Democrats are busy cooking up new
investigations of Trump, members of his family and his administration, looking
for “anything,” Congressional Republicans are preparing to investigate the
investigators.
They will work to get to the bottom of the now well-known
malfeasance that took place in the upper echelons of the FBI, DOJ and in FISA
Court proceedings.
