Democrats corrupted DOJ, FBI with political spying

Bill Gertz:
Democrats and their media allies seeking to advance a liberal political agenda corrupted the FBI and Justice Department in improperly spying on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said this week.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the intelligence panel head who has spearheaded an investigation into corruption at the FBI, also warned in a speech that China has emerged as the most serious strategic threat facing the United States.

Nunes said President Trump is close to declassifying new information he believes will show the FBI and Justice Department misused their counterintelligence power to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

The House committee, as part of a probe into Russian collision, uncovered corruption involving the misuse of a Democrat-funded, anti-Trump dossier produced by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

The panel also discovered thousands of text messages revealing the anti-Trump bias of key FBI counterintelligence investigator, Peter Strzok, who led the Hillary Clinton email probe and was part of the Russian collusion investigation.

Strzok was fired by the FBI last month. He was among several FBI and Justice Department officials fired or demoted for their role in questionable spying on the Trump campaign. Among those fired was FBI Director James Comey and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

Nunes said the House intelligence committee has been conducting its investigation under a little-used oversight authority aimed at executive and judicial branch malfeasance.
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Democrats and their media colleagues have been angry with Nunes for exposing their corrupt scheme. He has been viciously attacked by both for should have been hailed as a profile in courage.  The plot would probably never have been uncovered if the Democrats controlled Congress.

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