President Barack Obama receives an update, in the Oval Office, April 16, 2013. Seated, from left, are: DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano; Tony Blinken, DNSA; Jake Sullivan, AG Eric Holder; Lisa Monaco, Counterterrorism; Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; and FBI Director Robert Mueller. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative asks, whose fault is it for diminishing confidence in the FBI? With the Mueller investigation basing its existence on a foundation built with the Steele dossier, it’s easy to be suspicious of any charges arising. Pat writes (abridged):
That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound of the secondary explosions, this torpedo was no dud.
The critical charge:
To persuade a FISA court to issue a warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page, the FBI relied on a dossier produced by a Trump-hating British spy, who was using old Kremlin contacts, while being paid to dig up dirt on Donald Trump by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Not only were the Clinton campaign and DNC paying the spy, Christopher Steele, for his dirt-diving, the FBI put Steele on its own payroll, until they caught him lying about leaking to the media.
Now virtually all of this went down before Robert Mueller was named special counsel. But the poisoned roots of the Russiagate investigation and the bristling hostility of the investigators to Trump must cast a cloud of suspicion over whatever charges Mueller will bring.
If Americans are losing confidence in the FBI, whose fault is that?
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Pat Buchanan: DC is determined to break Trump
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