We’ve reached Final Jeopardy.
Good luck.
Answer: This man had his reputation and civil rights defecated on by the Trump-Hating Deep State, and should sue the ass off of the Justice Department.
Annoying Jeopardy music playing……………..OK, pencils down.
Question: Who is Carter Page?
So glad you asked.
Carter Page was a fringe foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign back in 2016. And the corrupt upper echelon of the DOJ and FBI falsely accused poor old Carter of being a Russian asset as justification to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on him AND the Trump campaign.
It was at THAT very moment…the water broke…and the Trump/Russian collusion hoax was born.
To be fair though…and we here at The Drunken Republican are slaves to fairness…
Page actually DID talk to some Russians…they DID find a half-full bottle of Stoli in his booze cabinet…AND some expired Russian dressing in the fridge…and…well, you might need a stiff belt for this one…
RUSSIAN NESTING DOLLS IN THE CHINA CABINET!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I mean, c’mon…Helen Keller blindfolded could see this dude was a Russian Asset.
A veritable Dolly Parton-like mountain of evidence.
Or mountains, as it were.
Except…darn the luck…in January of 2017…ALMOST THREE EFFING YEARS AGO…the CIA told the FBI…”You guys got it ALL wrong! HE’S WORKING FOR US! AND HAS FOR YEARS!”
That’s called “exculpatory evidence” for you non-legal eagles out there, and should have put the kibosh on the whole thing.
POST HASTE.
But, a crooked FBI lawyer…who tweeted “Viva le Resistance” in response to Trump’s victory…altered and falsified this exculpatory evidence and perpetrated the lie to the FISA court.
BTW…he’s been referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
A case of lube via Amazon Prime on the way, dude…courtesy of yours truly!
YOU’RE WELCOME!!!
Time for the dreaded “Plan B.”
So the top-echelon bottom-feeders in the DOJ and FBI then used the so-called “Steele Dossier” to obtain THREE MORE ILLIGITIMATE FISA WARRANTS, continuing the illegal and corrupt spy-fest.
You remember the Steele dossier, don’t ya? Written by ex-British spy Christopher Steele…sourced in RUSSIA…all bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
Russian collusion. By the Democrats. Got it.
And according to IG Horowitz, it became painfully clear via testimony from the sub-source for the dossier that it was COMPLETE FICTION.
Yet, despite Horowitz confirming that the dossier was a bigger pile of shit than what’s mounded up on every street in Nancy Pelosi’s smelly San Francisco district…they YET AGAIN knowingly concealed exculpatory evidence and LIED TO THE FISA COURT.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for any apologies or mea culpas, though, lest your rosy little cheeks will turn as deep blue as The People’s Republic of California.
The IG said ALL of this malfeasance was either gross incompetence or intentional. He punted on stating the obvious…but the “wink, wink, nod, nod” as to the prima facia political bias that existed permeated his testimony.
It’s completely implausible that repeated concealment of exculpatory evidence and manufacturing of evidence are simply “mistakes.”
SORRY HONEY BUNCH…I KNOW YOU CAUGHT ME DOING THE HORIZONTAL HOKEY POKEY WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND SIX TIMES. BUT IT’S OK BECAUSE IT’S ALL JUST A HORRIBLE MISTAKE!
Besides, for the “mistakes” described by the IG…17 of them…to ALL go in a single direction, against Trump, is…according to the immutable laws of statistics…as impossible as Michael Moore running a 4-minute mile.
Or maybe just running.
Yet breathtakingly, many on the Left, the media, lying scumbags like Jim Comey…stunningly spun IG Horowitz’s report as some sort of warped vindication.
Never mind that Horowitz declared unequivocally…NOBODY THAT TOUCHED THE FISA PROCESS IS VINDICATED.
OK, time for plan “C.” That’s “C”…for “CAUGHT.”
They bogusly TRIED to seize on the IG saying that the PREDICATION OF THE START OF THE INVESTIGATION was adequate and without political bias…and project that to the ENTIRE investigation.
Masters of conflation.
Then we all found out the legal standards upon which such counterintelligence investigations can simply be opened are virtually non-existent…illusory, if you will…and can be based on nothing more than press articles or “reasonable articulation.”
A bar so low an ant couldn’t even limbo underneath it.
So, yeah…I’ll concede that meaningless point.
Here’s some critical perspective…and why this thing is going to get EXPONENTIALLY worse for these crooks…
The scope and focus of IG Horowitz’s investigation was narrower than Jerry Nadler’s arteries.
Under laws governing IG investigations, Horowitz could ONLY compel people who are current employees of the Justice Department to participate in the investigation.
Let’s put it this way…Horowitz’s findings…AS DAMNING AS THEY WERE…were like peeling a single layer of the onion. If that.
Conversely…U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation, like Michael Moore’s appetite, is near limitless. He can compel, via subpoena, virtually anyone to talk…can convene grand juries…can go anywhere on the friggin’ planet.
Carte F*cking Blanche, one might crudely say.
Remember that comedian Gallagher back in the day? How he used to smash watermelons with a sledge hammer?
That’ll be John Durham annihilating the rest of that onion.
And in an unprecedented move just this week, the FISA COURT itself stunningly came out from behind the curtain to express their heartburn, and in their best Ricky Ricardo voice, screamed…
YOU CORRUPT, LYING SCOUNDRELS GOT SOME ‘SPLAININ TO DO!!!
And to think…if Hillary won in 2016…we wouldn’t know any of this.
Which was CLEARLY “Plan A” all along.