Liars, Leakers, and Liberals_The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy

by Jeanine Pirro

  And all of it was to build a stockpile of innocent Americans who could be cast as part of the phony Russian conspiracy.

  Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty not to making the phone call, or to anything he said on the call, but to lying to the FBI. However, there are those within the FBI who believe Flynn did not intend to lie. This becomes even more troublesome when Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director, arranged for and was present at the interview.

  Michael Flynn’s unmasking, however, brought no consequences to Susan Rice or any other co-conspirator, and was such a successful tactic for the anti-Trump plot that unmasking became the Deep State’s signature move.

  If I had Susan Rice on the stand, I would instruct the jury to take her testimony with less than a grain of salt. However, I imagine a jury could figure that out for themselves after listening to her.

  Which brings us back to another conspirator I’d love to get on the stand—the former director of National Intelligence, LIAR James R. Clapper, Jr. Brennan may be pond scum, but Clapper lies for a living. Talk about being part of the Deep State! Clapper’s father, his wife, and her father all had careers in the National Security Agency. I guess going into this line of work for Clapper was a little like taking over the family pub—one where they’ve got little microphones under all the bar stools and copies of everyone’s credit card information in the back.

  By 2001, he was head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a little-known branch of the intelligence community that operates under the umbrella of the military. As the head of that organization, Clapper got pretty comfortable operating far outside the realm of public opinion. He wasn’t being watched by the media or Congress, and he probably became accustomed to doing things his own way. How else can you explain the widespread collection of data on American citizens he oversaw as Barack Obama’s director of National Intelligence? Did he not think he was going to get caught?

  When President Trump named General Michael Flynn his national security advisor, the appointment couldn’t have thrilled Obama or Clapper. The appointment was akin to kicking sand in their faces. Obama had Clapper fire Flynn from his post as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2014, and then went to great lengths to try to talk our current president out of hiring him, but to no avail.

  President Trump undoubtedly knew why Obama had Clapper fire Flynn as director of the DIA: it was because Flynn had already started to upend the Deep State. One of General Flynn’s coworkers from that period told the Washington Post the reason Flynn was fired was because he wanted to move intelligence analysts “up and out of their cubicles into the field to support war fighters of high-intensity operations.” In other words, he wanted to set a fire under the ass of the administrative state.

  Obama couldn’t have that.

  Neither could Clapper.

  So, when President Trump made General Flynn his NSA head, the Deep State had a conniption. Flynn was a direct threat to the status quo.

  So, what did the Deep State do?

  They unmasked him, leaked it, destroyed his reputation, and prosecuted him.

  So, let me get this straight. Lying to the FBI is a chargeable offense, but Swamp Monsters like Cardinal Comey, Susan Rice, and Clapper can lie at will to Congress and the American people with impunity? By the way, it is not a crime for the FBI to lie to the American people, but it is a crime to lie to Congress whether under oath or not. Why is it everybody else gets prosecuted, but not them?

  There is something very wrong here. But not for Comey; he gets to write a book on his falsehoods. Clapper gets to be a paid political pundit for the same network where he leaked information!

  Since he retired from his position of Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper has been a constant presence on political television. James Clapper lied when he told CNN’s Don Lemon in March 2017 that he did not interact with the media prior to leaving the Obama administration in January 2017. His reputation as a LIAR is bolstered by his testifying before a House panel that he LEAKED the made up dossier to CNN’s Jake Tapper while he was still serving as the Director of National Intelligence. The man is a classic LIAR who cannot keep his lies straight.

  This is the man who in 2015 barred all intelligence workers from providing the press any information, to guard against leaks! Makes you wonder what happened to that little directive? So, when Obama was president, Clapper was all about plugging the leaks, but as soon as Trump is elected, it’s Open the flood gates!

  From his new perch as “news” commentator, he’s belched a steady stream of misinformation designed to undermine President Trump, including the outrageous claim that our president is somehow unfit for office.

  Clapper even predicted Muammar Gaddafi would prevail in Hillary’s war—the rebel uprising in Libya—before the rebels dragged Gaddafi’s body through the streets. He called the Islamic extremists’ Muslim Brotherhood, “largely secular.” The comment came despite his own CIA labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a “religious-based” organization.

  LIAR Clapper also lied to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence when he said the NSA did not spy on Americans.

  Clapper told us that very few Americans are unmasked. He later had to admit in front of the Senate committee that, in fact, nearly two thousand Americans were unmasked in Obama’s last year in office alone.16 This was an increase of 350 percent during the Obama administration.

  And he has the nerve to say on national TV that President Trump is unfit for office?

  Which brings us to the last of our little Deep State threesome, LIAR Samantha Power.

  President Obama had a thing about hiring fiction writers like Power and Ben Rhodes, probably because he needed them to weave a believable narrative out of the web of falsehoods that characterized his presidency. The House Intelligence Committee has identified Rhodes—whose only postgraduate qualification is an MFA in fiction writing from NYU—as a “person of interest” in their investigation into the unmasking of Americans. As for Power, when it came out that she had unmasked more than one American per working day for the last year of the Obama presidency, the cleverest excuse she could come up with was someone else did it.17

  I’m not kidding.

  In testimony in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Power had the unmitigated gall to say that most of the 260 unmasking requests that had her name on them were made by someone else. “I did not make those requests,” Power told the committee, according to Chairman Trey Gowdy.18

  What the hell does that mean?

  Power’s explanation can mean only one of two things: either she’s lying, or she’s a pawn whose stupidity or naiveté was exploited by members of the Deep State. If the second explanation is true, it begs a very big question.

  Who used her name?

  The Samantha Power cover-up is one of the most intriguing and possibly explosive elements of the anti-Trump conspiracy.

  In October 2017, Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US State Department asking for information on Power’s “unusual unmasking request.” That information included, “all requests for information submitted to any intelligence community member agency by former United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power concerning, regarding, or relating to the following:

  “Any actual or suspected effort by the Russian government or any individual acting on behalf of the Russian government to influence or otherwise interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The alleged hacking of computer systems utilized by the Democratic National Committee and/or the Clinton presidential campaign.

  Any actual or suspected communication between any member of the Trump presidential campaign or transition team and any official or employee of the Russian government or any individual acting on behalf of the Russian government.

  The identities of US citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team who were identified pursuant to intelligence collec
tion activities.”

  The State Department stonewalled the request, giving only a vague, boilerplate denial. Then in February 2018, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the State Department. Why would the State Department go to court to keep this information secret? I can’t imagine they’d go through all that trouble—hiring lawyers, paying legal fees, arguing their flimsy case in front of a judge—if they didn’t have something very important to hide.

  The State Department came up with an ingenious excuse. In a letter dated May 23, 2017, the National Security Council informed Judicial Watch that all records pertaining to unmasking by Susan Rice had been “removed to the Obama Library.”19

  Under the Presidential Records Act, that means they’re closed to the public until 2021—or until the Obamas manage to suck enough tax dollars out of the citizens of Illinois to get their library built. If we do have to wait that long, I’d at least like to be kept up to date on the library planning. For example, will they be keeping the Susan Rice records in the fiction section, or the nonfiction section? Maybe by the time they’re done filling the pages with black lines and cross-outs, they can just hang them up on the walls like pieces of modern art, since nobody’s going to be able to read the damn things anyway.

  It isn’t the total lack of transparency that gets to me. We’ve all come to expect that from people at the highest levels of government. What bothers me about this are the lies.

  George W. Bush went to great lengths to make sure as few people as possible could find out what he was up to in the years immediately after 9/11. He signed an executive order that essentially gutted the Presidential Records Act, locking up who knows how many documents and conversations. And he took his share of beatings in the media for that.

  But that was a time of war. America had just been attacked, and desperate measures needed to be taken—measures, like torture, that most of the American public couldn’t stomach. Barack Obama took office during a time of peace. He whipped up an executive order that made it seem like he’d be letting the press and the American people in on every decision he was going to make in the White House, and every conversation he’d be having. Executive Order 13489 said that only living former presidents could invoke executive privilege to keep documents hidden, and made most documents of his predecessors even more accessible to the public than they’d ever been before.20 Obama reestablished the post of archivist of the United States, a government job whose occupant would be able to decide which records were in and which were out,and vowed to bring the records of his predecessors to light.

  The press ate it up. Suddenly, we were dealing with the “most transparent administration in history.”

  Yeah, right.

  Little did they know that while Obama was flashing EO 13489 around the Oval Office, his cronies in the Deep State were fudging the rules and creating loopholes so fast none of us could keep up. They knew that when it came time to answer for their high crimes and misdemeanors, the records would be long gone—some bound for a dusty library in Illinois, where they’d be chopped up and redacted beyond recognition, others deleted “accidentally” or spread among so many private servers that even the best prosecutor couldn’t put all the pieces together—and the conspirators would all get off scot free.

  Any documents that would indict them are long gone. Team Obama spent the years they were in power making sure of that—years when they should have been governing and working to keep our citizens safe from harm.

  The Swamp King

  Out of all the creatures in the Swamp, maybe the most slippery is our former president Barack Obama. Did you ever wonder to what lengths LIBERAL Obama went to get his co-conspirator, his handpicked successor, LIAR Hillary, elected to protect his legacy? Did you ever wonder what connection his administration had with the Deep State? I have news for you; his administration was the Deep State.

  Right from the start of his political career, there were questions about Obama. I knew nothing about him when he appeared on the political stage. With other presidents, it wasn’t that way, right? You knew where they came from. If you’re old enough, you knew Reagan was a movie star and then governor of California. You knew H. W. Bush was a navy pilot, a war hero, and former Director of the CIA. You even knew, with his bellbottoms, flag-burning wife, and girlfriend Gennifer Flowers, what you were getting with Bill Clinton. But Obama? Right out of nowhere. A first-term senator from Illinois, he appears in a puff of smoke, right out of a magic act. He then takes on the biggest political machine of our time, the Clintons, and blows them right out of the water! I don’t know about you, but by the time I finished scratching my head, he was sitting in the Oval Office.

  Things didn’t get any clearer for me throughout his eight years as president.

  Who was this guy? And what was he up to?

  Only in looking back can we put the pieces of the puzzle together. Clue number one came during his first presidential campaign. It was then he hired the high priest of the Deep State, John O. Brennan, as a national security advisor. In the Senate, he had played his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington act to perfection, railing from the Senate floor about the Patriot Act “violating our fundamental notions of privacy.” But once in the Oval, Jimmy Stewart turned into Joe Pesci from Goodfellas. He supported a law that legalized the NSA’s warrantless eavesdropping and let telecom companies who aided the NSA in intruding in the lives of private citizens off the hook. By the end of his second term, he’d expanded warrantless eavesdropping on innocent Americans to the point that individual privacy no longer existed.

  By LIAR Obama’s second term, any pretense of adherence to the Fourth Amendment—the principle of probable cause and the judicial sanctioning of search warrants—had all but disappeared. Even the supposed sanctum sanctorum of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) had been violated. In fact, the Obama administration had so little respect for the supersecret court, his NSA was reprimanded several times for lying to FISA judges.21 Sound familiar? If you know anything about the Steele dossier, it certainly does.

  And how did Obama react to the fact that his NSA was lying to FISA judges?

  He gave the agency’s director, three-star general Keith Alexander, another star and as much money as he needed to erect an American spying operation that a comic book writer would have trouble imagining.

  So much for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

  Oh, and by the way, Former President Obama’s director of National Intelligence, LIAR James R. Clapper goes to Congress and tells them that the NSA doesn’t spy on Americans. Here’s how that came down:

  Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.): “So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question, does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”

  Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: “No, sir.”

  Senator Wyden: “It does not?”

  Director Clapper: “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly.”

  Then came Mr. Snowden. Oops! Turns out the NSA not only spies on Americans, it spies on practically every American. They even used Xboxes to spy on people! Clapper simply said he’d “forgotten” that small fact. LIAR!

  After Edward Snowden exposed the breath of spying under his administration, LIAR Obama excused his violators saying, “I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.”

  During his last few months in the White House, during the 2016 presidential campaign and Donald Trump’s transition, President Obama was engaged in some very secretive stuff. I don’t mean the $200 million he sent to the PLO or the Taliban Five he let waltz out of Gitmo in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl, or the $104 million in cash, euros, and, Swiss francs he sent to Iran. No, I’m talking about something much closer to home.

  After Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, an event that shocked the Deep State
to its core, Obama issued an executive order that allowed all sixteen intelligence agencies to unmask Americans at will and without regard to any previously instituted privacy protections.22

  Why was that Mr. Former President?

  I’ll tell you why: so he could unmask the names of Americans to the press. He sacrificed the privacy of countless Americans so that the names of a couple of people loosely connected to the Trump campaign who had contacts with Russians would slip through the intelligence agency sieve into the hands of the Fake Press.

  The idea that LIAR Obama, as a pawn of the Deep State didn’t use his weaponized intelligence-gathering capabilities against the threat of a Donald Trump presidency is ludicrous.

  Donald Trump knew this right from the beginning. They were spying on him! They were listening in on Trump Tower. They had Paul Manafort, who was Donald Trump’s campaign chairmen for all of three months, and who lived on the forty-third floor of Trump Tower, under constant surveillance. And if they “accidentally” happened to pick up conversations of people working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, or Donald Trump himself, well that was purely coincidental, and they certainly wouldn’t listen to them!

  Give me a break.

  And oh, how indignant the Obama administration was at even the suggestion they’d bugged candidate Trump. Cardinal Comey and his sanctimonious, “Aw shucks” act in front of Congress; John Brennan and James Clapper doing all the Sunday morning news shows, lying to us yet again.

  The Obama mob was toeing the line.

  “Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false,” said Kevin Lewis, former president Obama’s spokesperson.