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2025-07-28 Government Corruption
Spygate: The Inside Story Behind The Alleged Plot To Take Down Trump
[ZERO] Efforts by high-ranking officials in the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), and State Department to portray President Donald Trump as having colluded with Russia were the culmination of years of bias and politicization under the Obama administration.

The weaponization of the intelligence community and other government agencies created an environment that allowed for obstruction in the investigation into Hillary Clinton and the relentless pursuit of a manufactured collusion narrative against Trump.

A willing and complicit media spread unsubstantiated leaks as facts in an effort to promote the Russia-collusion narrative.

The Spygate scandal also raises a bigger question: Was the 2016 election a one-time aberration, or was it symptomatic of decades of institutional political corruption?

This article builds on dozens of congressional testimonies, court documents, and other research to provide an inside look at the actions of Obama administration officials in the scandal that’s become known as Spygate.

To understand this abuse of power, it helps to go back to July 2011, when DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz was appointed.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-28 01:42|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [251 views ]  Top

#1 A most comprehensive assessment. Numerous pieces of the puzzle coming together rather quickly. I suspect people are accepting gov't immunity and talking.

Unless I missed it, I didn't see anything on Gina Haspel. She was Brennan's pick for rare back-to-back tours as London's Chief of Station. Later, Brennan recommended her for Director. Anything having to do with "former MI6 employee" Steele would have likely crossed her desk.

More digging please.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-28 01:49||   2025-07-28 01:49|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 Then there is this.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-28 05:08||   2025-07-28 05:08|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 Perjury has a 5 year statute of limitations (under Federal law).

Sedition has no statute of limitation (under Federal law) but, I think requires that there be an overall plan and some degree of force or implication of force.

Insurrection implies a revolt against govt authority and I think a degree of force also.

Conspiracy requires that it done toward some other crime. I'm not sure it it can be paired with Sedition.

Any constitutional lawyers want to help out on this?
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-28 08:09||   2025-07-28 08:09|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#4 "Alleged"

If you have the money, take that out, let them sue, and let discovery begin.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-28 10:13||   2025-07-28 10:13|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#5 It's OBAMAGATE.

He approved the whole thing.
Don't call it spygate or russiagate.
Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-07-28 10:14||   2025-07-28 10:14|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#6 RICO statues have no limitations and will be used on these traitors.
Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-07-28 10:14||   2025-07-28 10:14|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#7 Obama and Brennan, unmarked airplanes in the middle of the night. What did they purchase ?

AP (6 Sept 2016)- US payment of $1.7 billion to Iran made entirely in cash

The Obama administration acknowledged late Tuesday that its transfer of $1.7 billion to Iran earlier this year was made entirely in cash, using non-U.S. currency, as Republican critics of the transaction continued to denounce the payments.

Treasury Department spokeswoman Dawn Selak said in a statement the cash payments were necessary because of the “effectiveness of U.S. and international sanctions,” which isolated Iran from the international finance system.

The $1.7 billion was the settlement of a decades-old arbitration claim between the U.S. and Iran. An initial $400 million of euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currency was delivered on pallets Jan. 17, the same day Tehran agreed to release four American prisoners.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-28 10:39||   2025-07-28 10:39|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#8 unmarked airplanes in the middle of the night

RETRO-6/21
Reporter who broke story on Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting found dead

Murder RICO statues have no limitations
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-28 11:47||   2025-07-28 11:47|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#9 ....along with Wiki-leaks Seth Rich, Epstein, and others. THe Deep State plays hardball.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-28 13:29||   2025-07-28 13:29|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#10 My sense is that as the leaks spread, old wounds, career ruination revenge, enemies lists and job protection document copies are bubbling up across the IC and LE agencies. I'm reminded of the video of Navy damage control training with the Team-Obama faces.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kXbto_r_wSQ?feature=share
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-07-28 14:14||   2025-07-28 14:14|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#11 This article reads a lot like the early 1970's WaPo articles about Nixon and Watergate. What did the President know and when did he know it? Too bad Baraq is out of office now so he cannot be forced to resign like Nixon did. Any further punishment is highly unlikely and the MSM will certainly keep a lid on the entire sordid affair. Woodward and Bernstein will have nothing to say about it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-07-28 14:48||   2025-07-28 14:48|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#12 I assume Zero updated the original 2019 Epoch Times article, which was already comprehensive.
Posted by Bobby 2025-07-28 15:54||   2025-07-28 15:54|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#13 Appears to be an unchanged copy of the 2019 article, liked in the Zero article. The last paragraph appears identical -

Virtually every FBI and NSD official with material involvement in the original Carter Page FISA application would later be removed—either through firing or resignation.

So it needs an update!
Posted by Bobby 2025-07-28 16:06||   2025-07-28 16:06|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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