COMMENTARY_ Stopping the FBI from doing to anyone else what it did to Trump

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Stopping the FBI from doing to anyone else what it did to Trump

Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act prevents partisan witch hunts

FBI witch hunts and Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Monday, May 20, 2024

OPINION:


The new law that extended warrantless surveillance in some instances also contains language meant to ensure that the FBI never again targets a politician the way the bureau sabotaged candidate and President Donald Trump.

The law places restrictions on how the FBI can persuade judges to give it wiretap authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the law top bureau leaders abused to harass Mr. Trump and his aides.

From 2016 to 2018, the FBI went hog wild over a dossier financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign and written by its paid former British spy, Christopher Steele. His 35 pages of Kremlin gossip came primarily from Russian national and U.S. resident Igor Danchenko, who himself was suspected by the FBI in 2010 of being a Kremlin intelligence source.

The dossier, filled with fantastic claims of Trump-Russian election collusion, was not true. The FBI spent four years trying to confirm it, even offering Mr. Steele $1 million, but never did.

Lack of proof, however, did not stop the FBI. It submitted the dossier claims via four sworn affidavits to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges to win warrants to wiretap for one-year campaign volunteer Carter Page. The affidavits repeated the dossier claim of a Trump-Russia conspiracy, which didn’t exist.

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