{"id":54776,"date":"2020-05-12T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54776"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:26:55","slug":"54776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54776","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that Obama&#8217;s tour in office has been called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gangster-Government-Barack-Washington-Thugocracy\/dp\/1596986484\">Gangster Government<\/a>, remember, he&#8217;s from Chicago.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/11\/looks-like-president-obama-ordered-up-phony-russiagate-scandal\/\">It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter \u2014 but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the \u201ccounterintelligence\u201d investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration\u2019s first months in office \u2014 followed by the Bob Mueller-led special-counsel investigation that proved nearly the \u201ctotal witch hunt\u201d that President Trump dubbed it.<\/p>\n<p>Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who\u2019d be staying on in the new administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/10\/flynns-lawyer-accuses-obama-of-framing-ex-national-security-adviser\/\">to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at an Oval Office meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, intel chiefs John Brennan and Jim Clapper and national security adviser Susan Rice, as well as FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a national-security perspective,\u201d Rice\u2019s memo afterward put it, \u201cPresident Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This even as then-President Obama also directed that as many people as possible across his administration be briefed on the (utterly unsubstantiated) allegations against Team Trump \u2014 and as Rice and others took unprecedented steps to \u201cunmask\u201d US citizens like Flynn whose conversations had been caught on federal wiretaps of foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Obama administration went on a full-scale leak offensive \u2014 handing the Washington Post, New York Times and others a nonstop torrent of \u201canonymous\u201d allegations of Trumpite ties to Moscow. It suggested that the investigations were finding a ton of treasonous dirt on Team Trump \u2014 when in fact the investigators had come up dry.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Comey\u2019s FBI played along \u2014 sandbagging Flynn with the \u201cfriendly\u201d interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he\u2019d done nothing like collude with the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn\u2019t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that Obama&#8217;s tour in office has been called Gangster Government, remember, he&#8217;s from Chicago. It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal. RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter \u2014 but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor? 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