For many Americans, agencies such as the FBI and CIA can never be trusted again.
For conservatives, there were already doubts, but the information released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard may have ruined these agencies for decades.
Former Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) recently came to the same conclusion.
I cannot help but laugh at how so many Obama officials are sticking their heads up out of the sand these days to cover their tracks.
Gabbard did not just make up this information. She is releasing actual intelligence documents, though they were never meant to see the light of day.
This has forced people such as former President Barack Obama, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to come out and make public statements about their roles in the alleged scandal.
For instance, they maintained that the Steele dossier was “not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions,” and only a “summary of the dossier was added as a separate annex only to the most highly classified version of the document,” but that is not true at all, as we already know the dossier was the anchor to the FISA warrants that were issued. Over and above that, this was a political hit job paid for by a political campaign, but the agencies used it to go after Trump and create this bogus narrative.
If you are a regular reader, you know I believe that the swamp will always protect its own, which is why I was shocked that during Trump’s first term, he allowed people like Attorney General Bill Barr to serve in his administration.
These people cover for each other… that is what they do.
It is as though once you get a high-ranking government position, you take an oath to protect all the dirty secrets in our government rather than expose the corruption to the American people.
To that point, former FBI Director Christopher Wray had a huge opportunity to correct a lot of wrongs, but he failed to do so. I can safely say the current officials are not taking the same approach, as they are blowing the lid off decades of secrets.
Gowdy just made that exact point, stating, “The one name that does not come up tonight so far is Chris Wray. We did not go from Jim Comey to Kash Patel. We had an FBI director named Chris Wray, and Congress repeatedly asked him for all the information you have on the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Russia investigation, and what Durham put in the annex and what Kash Patel found in those burn bags Chris Wray never bothered to turn over to Congress. So, yes, those reports may be missing something because the FBI aided and abetted the DNC. The fact that Jim Comey wanted Hillary Clinton to win the white House. I’m telling you, Brett, he has done generational damage to the Bureau.”
The former lawmaker added, “And unfortunately for Brennan, the same allergy to the truth that he has now. He is allergic to the truth. He lied in that part of his testimony in a lot about whether or not the dossier was used in court filings, the statute drawn."
He continued, “But to Leslie’s point, handcuffs are not the only way we meet out accountability in this culture. There’s shame, there’s history. It’s not just prison. There are other ways we mete out accountability. The fact that somebody is not wearing handcuffs does not to me think that what they did is okay, because it wasn’t.”
I love what Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard are doing because they are taking ownership for the past actions of agency leadership by admitting what happened and exposing it in an effort to wipe the slate clean. I continue to believe that the FBI, at its heart, is a good agency with amazing agents who want to defend this nation, but leadership went rogue, and they must be held accountable. The biggest challenge, however, is that the media continues to protect this corruption rather than exposing it.
