FBI Spies in Trump Campaign

BREAKING: The FBI had spies working from within the Trump campaign as part of their effort to dig up dirt on President Trump - @SaraCarterDC

— Wired Sources (@WiredSources) May 11, 2018

HOLY BLEEPING BLEEP: About That FBI ‘Source,’ by @KimStrassel https://t.co/T81ZXuAGOt via @WSJOpinion

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 11, 2018

BREAKING: There is serious concern there was an FBI spy within the Trump 2016 campaign - @SaraCarterDC

So Obama likely interfered with the election. 🧐

— Oliver McGee PhD MBA (@OliverMcGee) May 11, 2018

Kimberley Strassel writes:

The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications.

Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation. In a Thursday press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan bluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’s request for details on this secret source was “wholly appropriate,” “completely within the scope” of the committee’s long-running FBI investigation, and “something that probably should have been answered a while ago.” Translation: The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.

...The bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe. When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.

This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.

Remember, Obama said, "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us."

That, of course, was ridiculous.

From RealClearPolitics:

At an MIT event where attendees were directed not to record, stream, photograph or share anything on social media about former President Barack Obama's speech, Reason was able to obtain an audio recording of his address.

According to Reason, the former president spoke about Google and Facebook, climate change, a junior NBA league and how diversity prevented his administration from having any scandals.

"There were mistakes," Obama acknowledged. "We'd screw up, but there wasn't anything venal during eight years. I know that seems like a low bar, but you look at the presidency. That's no small thing."

Obama and the Democrats thought they could do anything during the 2016 campaign. They believed they were untouchable because Hillary was sure to be elected. Trump had no chance.

It's great the way things worked out.

We're learning more and more about the venality of Obama's administration.