In The Plot Against the President, Lee Smith makes the case that the New York Times and the Washington Post have turned themselves into arms of the Resistance to the Trump administration that manifested in the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign undertaken by the FBI. The FISA warrant taken out on Carter Page by the FBI in October 2016 constituted a key element of the investigation. The warrant was based in substantial part on the patently absurd Steele Dossier; that warrant in particular is the subject of the Department of Justice Inspector General report to be released on December 9 by Michael Horowitz.
Leaks emanating from the subjects of the pending report have formed the basis of a few stories offering a preview. This is all preparation of the battlespace by the Comey brigade and its media adjunct. The Timesman Adam Goldman is prominent among the members of this media adjunct. Thus we now have Goldman’s New York Times preview of the IG report in “Russia Inquiry Review Is Expected to Undercut Trump Claim of F.B.I. Spying.” Subhead: “The F.B.I. never tried to place undercover agents or informants inside the Trump campaign, a highly anticipated inspector general’s report is expected to find.”
They think we’re stupid. We shall see whether “they” include Michael Horowitz. Undercover Huber responds concisely to Goldman’s story in the tweets below.
The spin that FBI/DOJ didn’t investigate the “Trump campaign” – just the campaign chairman, it’s highest ranking military advisor and two foreign policy advisors – deserves at least some credit for being audacious
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) November 27, 2019
Ignoring the spin:
—FBI used informants against Trump campaign advisors (obvs)
—FBI failed to include in FISA apps potentially exculpatory statement by PapaD said to Halper
—Mifud is now a “Russian intermediary”, not agent 🤔
—Steele dossier did not match his sources
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) November 27, 2019
This better be NYT spin & not the nature of the report itself, because nobody asked whether FBI “inserted” spies into the campaign, that doesn’t need to be “debunked” – the question is whether FBI spied on the campaign and had a predicate to do so. If not, that’s not a “mistake”
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) November 27, 2019
And claiming “we opened a case against four Trump campaign advisors but we weren’t investigating the *Trump campaign*” is Comey spin that Horowitz has no business giving credence to. The fact CH was an “enterprise” CI investigation means they had to investigate the campaign…
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) November 27, 2019
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