Democrats' Spying on Trump Campaign Boomerangs on Them
May 27 (EIRNS)--House Republican Lee Zeldin (NY) introduced a
resolution May 22 calling for the appointment of a second special
counsel to investigate possible misconduct by the Department of
Justice and the FBI during the 2016 Presidential race, {The Hill}
reported May 22.
Representative Zeldin held a press conference with 11 other
Republican congressmen, stating, "The Justice Department cannot
be expected to investigate itself."
In March, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said he
would investigate whether the FBI and DOJ abused their
surveillance powers by using information from Christopher Steele,
a former British spy, and paid by Democrats, to monitor Carter
Page. Democrats attacked such an investigation.
On May 22, Zeldin and 11 other Republicans, including
Freedom Caucus head Rep. Mark Meadows (NC), Jim Jordan (OH), and
Ron DeSantis (FL), unveiled a 12-page House resolution calling
for another prosecutor to look into why the FBI concluded its
probe into Hillary Clinton's emails, and how the investigation
into President Trump began.
Zeldin pinned this new call on the latest development: "In
just the past few days we learned that the DOJ, FBI or both
appeared to have planted at least one person into Donald Trump's
presidential campaign to infiltrate and surveil the campaign," he
said.
On May 22, {Boston Herald} columnist Adriana Cohen, in
reporting the Zeldin press conference, said that former CIA head
Brennan and Director of National Intelligence Clapper may wind up
criminally investigated and the CIA and FBI exposed just as they
were in the 1960s: "If it is confirmed that the Obama
Administration used the U.S. intelligence agencies and the Justice Department to go after political oppoennts -- to keep
Democrats in power through a Presidential election cycle --
Attorney General Jeff Sessions should immediately un-recuse
himself from the Russia 'collusion' witchhunt; shut it down, and
open a criminal investigation into all parties involved....
"It would be the height of irony if it is established that
Democrats, who have been screaming Russia, Russia, Russia, for
the the past two years, making Putin out to be the bogeyman,
themselves used police state tactics, including spying, waging a
massive disinformation campaign against Trump and his associates,
and other scurrilous actions eeerily similar to Communist
regimes."
She takes aim at Mueller: "Special Counsel Robert Mueller
would be wise to wrap up his investigation before he's accused of
being the last act in a chain of conspiracy that would implicate
Obama, Brennan, James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and others. The
truth is coming out....
"Trump should also declassify information the DOJ has been
withholding from Congress, so lawmakers entrusted with oversight
can obtain pertinent documents and information without excessive
redactions and further stonewalling.
"The Democrats have overplayed their hand and karma is now
nipping at their heels."