Originally Authored at TheFederalist.com
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set off the Russian collusion hoax in 2016 when U.S. intelligence officials recruited foreign governments to spy on Democrats’ American political opponents. On Tuesday, Substack publications Public and Racket revealed new details about the origins of the Spygate hoax the U.S. federal government perpetrated on the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
“Multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016,” the publications reported. “The US [intelligence community] asked the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation.”
The “Five Eyes” alliance refers to the global intelligence apparatus that includes the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
“After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the [intelligence community] had ‘identified [them] as people to “bump,” or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation,’” the Substacks reported. “Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.”
“If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.”
Trump was impeached in 2019 allegedly for requesting a foreign power investigate his own domestic political opponent. House Democrats claim President Trump withheld nearly $400 million in U.S. handouts to Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv establishing facts about Hunter Biden coordinating corruption for his father, Joe Biden. Trump was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020.
The Democrats’ first impeachment crusade against the democratically elected president followed the collapse of the Russia hoax when Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe found not one person on the Trump campaign, let alone Trump himself, had colluded with the Russian government in an effort to win the 2016 election.
A report from Special Counsel John Durham last year concluded the FBI had no legitimate reason to open the investigation. Instead, it was used as a pretext for U.S. intelligence agencies and congressional Democrats to hamstring their political opposition with sham investigations and impeachment, effectively nullifying the 2016 election results.
President Joe Biden continued to engage in global influence peddling schemes while serving in the Senate and White House. He met with his son’s apparent foreign corruption cutouts countless times. Investigators on the House Oversight Committee have discovered more than 20 shell companies that Biden used to funnel upwards of $20 million from foreign oligarchs to the Bidens in exchange for preferential policies. On Tuesday, former Biden family business partner Tony Bobulinski even told lawmakers that President Biden “sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.”
“Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business,” Bobulinski said. “He was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.”
The House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government led by GOP Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan is also investigating the CIA’s interference in the 2020 election. A report from the Weaponization Committee last May revealed the CIA’s central role in soliciting signatures for the infamous letter signed by former intelligence officials who sought to discredit Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop as “Russian disinformation.” In December, Chairman Jordan sent a letter to CIA Director William Burns demanding to know how many of the letter’s signatories were on the agency’s payroll.
“We understand that former intelligence officials often return to the intelligence community under private contract for their previous agencies,” Jordan wrote. “It is vital to the Committees’ oversight to understand whether any of the signatories of the public statement were actively employed by CIA as contractors or consultants at the time they signed the public statement.”