IG Report Reveals FBI Could Still Be Spying On Congress And Leaking To Help Democrats

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Posted on 12/19/2024 6:33:55 AM PST by CFW

Can you imagine the danger to our republic if the Executive Branch could secretly, for months on end, and without any clear and compelling justification, surveil the very people in Congress conducting oversight of those agencies?

That chilling constitutional nightmare transpired. And we’re only getting the details about the separation-of-powers-eviscerating, civil liberties-undermining, and transparency-imperiling activity seven years after it started.

The revelations come in a recently released Justice Department Inspector General report. Like much of this corrupt activity, the story begins with Russiagate. In the spring and summer of 2017, the first year of the Trump presidency, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post published articles containing classified information concerning Trump and Russia.

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So why couldn’t this exact episode play out again?

The IG concluded that though it could not find evidence of “retaliatory or political motivation” for the issuance of the subpoenas, efforts like these risk “chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch,” and at minimum create “the appearance of inappropriate interference” by that branch “in legitimate oversight activity.”

One need not think hard about how a dishonest or corrupt national security apparatus could use the predicate of an illegal leak to spy on political foes for nefarious ends. The mere possibility that could happen, as the IG suggests, is corrosive to our system. And it’s worth noting that in the case at hand, no leaker was ever charged.

The IG report provides yet another disturbing example of an FBI and DOJ that have abused their powers in chilling ways.

Kash Patel, a man who has exposed that ab

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Wrap should have been removed from office as FBI director long ago. Actually he should have been arrested for illegal spying. The deep-state is too corrupt and needs to be ripped from our nation's Capitol but I'm not sure it can be done.

1 posted on 12/19/2024 6:33:55 AM PST by CFW

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