“Our Republic is in Jeopardy"

 

By

       M. Richard Maxson

      There is something brewing in the nation's capitol. The House Intelligence Committee is holding back a report that is said to have sent shockwaves through Washington. It is a top secret memo detailing potential criminal conduct inside the DOJ and FBI during the 2016 elections. It appears that we suddenly have documentary proof that key elements of the U.S. intelligence community were trying to short-circuit the U.S. democratic process.

      An investigation published on Jan. 18 showed the web of connections related to the Trump dossier and a conspiracy between the Clinton campaign, the Obama administration, law enforcement, and intelligence community, to prevent Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders from being elected president.

      The document is said to be a review of extensive abuses of the government surveillance program administered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). At least six House members have officially called for a public release of the memo with some saying it will lead to the removal of senior government officials and criminal proceedings. While the contents of the memo remain classified, lawmakers who have seen it have reacted with shock, and have spoken to the disturbing evidence laid out in the memo.


      “I viewed the classified report from House Intel relating to the FBI, FISA abuses, the infamous Russian dossier, and so-called ‘Russian collusion.’ What I saw is absolutely shocking,” Rep. Mark Meadows wrote on Twitter. “This report needs to be released–now. Americans deserve the truth. 
 
     “Our republic is in jeopardy if we allow this type of a palace coup environment to continue to persist,” Congressman Matt Gaetz said in an interview. “I don’t think it’s appropriate for just members of Congress to be horrified by the memo – the American people have to see it. If we get this memo into the public square, heads are going to roll at the FBI and the Justice Department. No way every one keeps their job. I think that this will not end just with firings. I believe there will be people who go to jail.” Gaetz said. “You don’t get to try to undermine our country, undermine our elections, and then simply get fired. I think there will be criminal implications here. I think that there could be people who face criminal consequences as a result of the activities that are laid out in this memo.” 
 
      Lawmakers who have seen the memo, whose content extends beyond the information we already know, have described it as shocking, with one lawmaker invoking the KGB to describe what happened. 
 
      “I have read the memo,” Rep. Steve King wrote on Twitter. “The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate.”


      “The classified report compiled by House Intelligence is deeply troubling and raises serious questions about the upper echelon of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it relates to the so-called collusion investigation.” - Rep. Ron DeSantis 
 

      That puts in a new and dark context the year-long promotion of Russia-gate. It now appears that it was not the Russians trying to rig the outcome of the U.S. election, but leading officials of the U.S. intelligence community, the “Men in the Shadows” as we here at the American Constitutionalist have been refering to them for years. Today they are called the Deep State. There is now real evidentiary evidence of the suspicions that there indeed was a “deep-state coup” to “correct” the outcome of the 2016 election by ileagally using the FISA court to slander and remove a sitting President.

      The memo may answer questions on whether the discredited dossier about Russian meddling from Fusion GPS, which was financed by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was used by the Obama administration to get FISA warrants used to monitor communications of the Trump team. If the memo reveals that the FISA warrants to monitor communications of the Trump team were based on false information and therefore not justified, it could have a ripple effect throughout the government. “Then is our democratic system of a neutral judiciary undermined if prosecutors obtained FISA warrants based on defective affidavits.” stated Marc Ruskin, a former FBI agent and author of The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI.

“Then is our democratic system of a neutral judiciary undermined if prosecutors obtained FISA warrants based on defective affidavits.” Then the question is, “ Are the prosecutors, in conjunction with senior FBI people, knowingly using defective affidavits to wrongfully obtain FISA warrants?”

      The next questions would be who signed off on the requests, who approved the requests, who called for requests, and were there any others tied into the scheme for personal interest? It’s possible that whoever signed the affidavits could be charged with perjury, since they are sworn to by whoever drafts and submits them—meaning those involved could be charged with perjury. Ruskin noted this could go even further if there is evidence of those involved attempting to prevent or cover up evidence.

      The silence from Democrats is telling. Based on past examples, Ruskin noted that had the information in the report been obtained properly, there would usually be outcries from both sides, “but when there’s silence or no defense, that doesn’t speak well to the content of what the affidavit is.” All members of Congress were briefed on the memo after the Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to release it to lawmakers. All of the Democrats on the committee voted against releasing the memo. All of the Republicans voted for the release.
 
      A group of 65 members of Congress are now calling on Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, to hold a vote to release the memo to the public. The memo is currently classified as top secret. Unless there’s information in the affidavit that would compromise national security, then disclosing its contents would be a benefit in terms of bringing into public scrutiny whether or not the system has been abused. Americans have a right to know if they are still living in a free country, or in a twenty-first century USSR wrapped in red. white, and blue.

      “Just read the classified doc re FISA abuse,” Rep. Lee Zeldin “I’m calling for its immediate public release w/relevant sourced material. The public must have access ASAP! While the report is classified as Top Secret, I believe the select committee should, pursuant to House rules, vote to make the report publicly available as soon as possible,” Zeldin added. "We should not hide the truth from them. They’ve waited too long. Do not pull the wool over their eyes. Show them the facts. They deserve nothing less.” This is a matter of national significance and the American people deserve the truth.”