{"id":25302,"date":"2022-05-11T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=25302"},"modified":"2022-05-11T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:52:19","slug":"new-doj-notes-reveal-fbi-panic-after-trump-tweeted-he-knew-he-was-being-spied-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/new-doj-notes-reveal-fbi-panic-after-trump-tweeted-he-knew-he-was-being-spied-on\/","title":{"rendered":"New DOJ Notes Reveal FBI Panic After Trump Tweeted He Knew He Was Being Spied On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Epoch Times<\/a> | By Jeff Carlson<\/a> and Hans Mahnck<\/a>e May 9, 2022 Updated: May 10, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(L\u2013R) Former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI Director James Comey; and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (Getty Images\/Illustration by Epoch Times)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newly released notes<\/a> taken by high-level Department of Justice (DOJ<\/a>) officials during a March 6, 2017, meeting with FBI<\/a> leadership expose some of the lengths the FBI went to, to cover up its spying on the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notes were released on May 8 by lawyers representing former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann<\/a> as part of an effort to clear him on charges of having lied to the FBI. The notes, in reality, appear to do little to exonerate Sussmann but do provide quite a bit of information on the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting at which the notes were taken took place just two days after Trump\u2019s March 4, 2017, tweet<\/a> in which he accused former President Barack Obama of having wiretapped Trump Tower. Trump\u2019s tweet panicked FBI leadership, who were unsure exactly how much Trump knew about their efforts to tie him up with Russia collusion allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the notes reveal is that in response to the tweet, they tried to cover their tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By March 2017, FBI leadership already knew with near-certainty that the Trump\u2013Russia collusion claims were a hoax. They knew that Clinton\u2019s campaign had a plan to vilify Trump by portraying him as a puppet of Putin. The FBI also knew that not a single claim in the so-called Steele dossier\u2014which was the primary source of allegations of Trump\u2013Russia collusion\u2014had checked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FBI agent Peter Strzok during testimony before Congress on July 12, 2018. Strzok oversaw both the FBI\u2019s investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server and the counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump\u2019s campaign. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In fact, at that point, the FBI had already spent three days interviewing Steele\u2019s primary source, Igor Danchenko, who disavowed pretty much every claim in Steele\u2019s dossier. The FBI also knew that the Alfa Bank story, which claimed that a Trump server was communicating with a Russian bank\u2014information that had been brought to them by Sussmann\u2014was bogus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the FBI knew that all the claims of Trump\u2013Russia collusion had proven to be fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But things took a sudden and dramatic turn on March 4, 2017, when Trump wrote on Twitter that he knew that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, a very public claim of spying that set off alarm bells with both FBI and DOJ leadership. Trump\u2019s tweet so alarmed these DOJ and FBI officials that the topic dominated a meeting two days later<\/a> that included FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and the acting U.S. attorney general, Dana Boente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem for the FBI was this: They didn\u2019t know how much Trump actually knew about their actions. Just a day earlier, on March 3, 2017<\/a>, radio host Mark Levin had reported that the Obama administration had obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants that involved Trump and several of his campaign advisers. Levin also reported that Trump\u2019s off-the-cuff joke<\/a> in July 2016\u2014\u201cRussia, if you\u2019re listening, I hope you\u2019re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing\u201d\u2014had become the basis for the Russia collusion accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as we now know, the FISA warrants weren\u2019t the only thing the FBI leadership was involved with. The FBI was actively spying on the Trump campaign and the incoming Trump administration\u2019s transition communications, a fact that was also revealed<\/a> in the new notes. The FBI had not only spied on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, but also on another aide, George Papadopoulos, going so far as to lure him to London, where they tried to set him up in a clumsy but elaborate sting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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