The Trump 'Russian collusion' operation looks like it was directed by Hillary Clinton

IBD:
While America argued last month over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, something momentous was happening all but off the media's radar: The Trump-Russia collusion investigation narrative continued to collapse in spectacular fashion, as Hillary Clinton's leading role in the scandal came into sharper focus.

Last week, while Washington Democrats and their far-left allies shrieked in rage at the prospect of Kavanaugh taking a seat on the high court, former FBI General Counsel James Baker — who reported directly to former FBI Director James Comey — told congressional investigators that an attorney from the Perkin Coies law firm gave him materials about Russian election meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign.

This is a stunning revelation, since it directly contradicts Justice Department and FBI official sworn testimony.

As we've noted before, Perkin Coies, a firm with deep ties to the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, paid the Fusion GPS opposition research firm to dig into Donald Trump's past. The infamous Trump dossier it produced was compiled by former British spy and paid FBI informant Christopher Steele.
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"Numerous officials at the DOJ and the FBI have told us under oath...nobody at FBI or DOJ knew anything about the Democratic Party being behind the Clinton dirt," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Sunday. "Now you have one of the top lawyers for the Democrats and the Clinton campaign who was feeding information directly to the top lawyer at the FBI."

Collusion, anyone? It appears that both the FBI and Justice Department were doing the Clinton campaign's bidding in applying for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court permission to snoop on the Trump campaign's communications. They did so by getting a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump campaign official Carter Page, who had some ties to Russian officials.

And the Clinton campaign contact with the FBI happened "before even the FISA warrant," Nunes said. "Now you have absolute proof that that wasn't told to the FISA court. So you want the evidence of FISA abuse? There it is right there."
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It will probably take a special counsel to bring a case against the DOJ and FBI people who gave false testimony to Congress.

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