Dangerous Spygate Denials Show Intelligence Now Controls Media
We’re still not privy to everything the Obama Administration did. But we know enough based on publicly available information to fact-check the fact-checkers.
By Adam Mill
October 26, 2020
Did the Obama Administration spy on the Trump campaign? Close followers of the Russia collusion hoax consider this a settled question: Yes, of course they did. The evidence is abundant. Yet when Trump makes this claim to the public, the “fact checkers†pounce to rewrite history.
In May 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr commented on the definition of spying: “I think spying is a good English word that in fact doesn’t have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection.†But are we really doing this? Do we have to go back over the list to re-educate “journalists†in the post journalism environment? Apparently we do.
Bear in mind that we’re still not privy to everything the Obama Administration did. But we know enough based on publicly-available information to fact-check the fact checkers. Below is a partial list of clearly-established examples of Trump being spied upon by our own government.
1) On August 17, 2016, the FBI used a “defensive briefing†as cover to question members of the Trump campaign. Supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka used a briefing to then-candidate Trump to prompt him to make statements that could be used in the counterintelligence operation against his campaign. Pientka recorded statements by both Trump and General Michael Flynn. The FBI captured statements from Trump expressing skepticism that Russia posed a greater intelligence threat than China.
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