No. of Recommendations: 7
Doe1: You mean besides using intel they knew was bogus, repeatedly violating Carter Page's (and others') civil rights, doctoring evidence and lying to the FISA court? ... So the good folks in the CIA, the DOJ, the FBI, State and who knows where else took it upon themselves to Stop the Orange Man.
Delusional.
The IC said the disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden's son "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.
At the time they wrote their letter, they were exactly right.
The OIG and the Mueller Report established that Russia was working to elect Donald Trump president.
OIG: "The OSC's March 2019 report stated that Russia interfered in the 2016 election principally through 'a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,' and through 'computer-intrusion operations' conducted by the Russian intelligence service against individuals and entities associated with the Clinton campaign and subsequent release of stolen documents."
MUELLER: Russia carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. And, second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer intrusion operations against entities, employees and volunteers working on the Clinton campaign.
The Mueller Report described Carter Page's testimony about his role in the 2016 Trump campaign and connections to individuals in Russia as contradictory and confusing, and his contacts with Russians before and during the campaign as tangential and eccentric.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified to Congress that the FBI showed no political bias at the initiation of the investigation into Trump and possible connections with Russia and that he had no evidence the FISA warrant problems were caused by intentional malfeasance or political bias rather than "gross incompetence and negligence". In a subsequent analysis of 29 unrelated FISA warrant requests, Horowitz found numerous typographical errors but just two material errors, which were determined not to impact the justifications for the resulting surveillance.
Dope1: Trouble is...that's not their jobs. Their jobs are to uphold the Constitution and Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Failed. At. It.
Well, I gotta' admit that's pretty ballsy and, as usual, completely wrong.
Trump tried to overthrow the government on Jan 6 and later called "for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution".
And seriously, has there ever been a president other than Trump who disparaged every branch of government for four straight years, constantly casting doubt on the "trustworthiness and perception of what were once considered to be agencies with sterling reputations for integrity"?
HINT: No.
