{"id":1512884,"date":"2022-06-13T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512884"},"modified":"2022-06-13T06:50:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:50:55","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-the-fbi-knew-russiagate-was-a-lie-but-hid-that-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-the-fbi-knew-russiagate-was-a-lie-but-hid-that-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: The FBI Knew Russiagate Was a Lie \u2014 But Hid That Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-the-fbi-knew-russiagate-was-a-lie-but-hid-that-truth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512884&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The FBI <em>knew <\/em>the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was utter bunk even as it suggested otherwise to Congress, the courts and the public early in 2017.\u00a0Evidence revealed by special counsel John Durham proves it beyond dispute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2022\/06\/09\/fbi_chief_comey_misled_congresss_gang_of_8_over_russiagate_lisa_page_memo_reveals_836434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At RealClearInvestigations<\/a>, Paul Sperry lays out the case. <\/p>\n<p>Declassified for Durham\u2019s probe, a March 2017 memo prepared by Lisa Page<strong> <\/strong>for FBI head James Comey\u2019s meeting with Congress\u2019 \u201cGang of Eight\u201d \u2014 the bipartisan House and Senate leaders who oversee the most classified stuff \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/24\/fbi-brass-were-fired-up-about-now-debunked-trump-russia-ties-texts-testimony\/\">was a total cook-up job<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It advised Comey to present accusations that Trump\u2019s campaign chair Paul Manafort and foreign policy adviser Carter Page were working with the Russian government as coming from a confidential Russia-based source with real intel-community chops. In fact, the FBI had already established that the root source was US-based former Brookings flunky Igor Danchenko\u2019s utterly speculative gossip with an ex-girlfriend and a Democratic Party hack. <\/p>\n<p>That, plus publicly reported info, was all Christopher Steele (a retired British spy who doesn\u2019t even speak Russian) <em>ever <\/em>had to back up his \u201cdossier.\u201d And the FBI knew it since at least January 2017, when it interviewed Danchenko.<\/p>\n<p>Comey hid all this during his meetings, and after. Yet the public only learned it years later, once the Durham probe began. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Comey meeting where he served up these nonsense stories prompted both House and Senate Intelligence committees to open probes. But that was hardly the only  poisoned fruit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/SPL5315730_009.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Special counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation brought the flimsy beginnings of the FBI\u2019s Trump-Russia probe to light.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ron Sachs\/CNP \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence officer Peter Strzok, analyst Brian Auten and Justice attorney Kevin Clinesmith pretended the Danchenko \u201cintel\u201d was credible to get the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court\u2019s OK for wiretaps on Carter Page and dupe the Justice Department to keep granting approval for Trump campaign surveillance (which did not corroborate the wild claims). Again, all while they <em>knew<\/em> Danchenko had admitted it was baseless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For years, the media lionized these people as saviors of the Republic, even after special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s probe turned up zero evidence in support of their claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a purely political hit job from the start, by top members of the highest law- enforcement agency in the land, against a candidate-and-then-president they opposed. For all the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/09\/trump-said-pence-deserves-hanging-at-capitol-riot-liz-cheney\/\">justified anger at Trump over the Jan. 6 riot<\/a>, this methodical and <em>effective<\/em> deception plot looks far more like an attempted coup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, other than losing their jobs, none of the plotters has paid any real price. Comey and Strzok both wrote best-sellers; McCabe even had his retirement benefits restored (after being fired for lying under oath) under the Biden administration. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, most media have no interest in sharing the truth. They won Pulitzers and endless clicks from hyping Russiagate, using it to kneecap a president they despised. <\/p>\n<p>At this point, it\u2019s up to Durham to keep exposing this unprecedented abuse of power for  nakedly personal partisan ends, though Congress may help out once Democrats no longer run it.<\/p>\n<p>Until the plotters are held accountable, there actually<em> is<\/em> good reason to worry about the future of democracy in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was utter bunk even as it suggested otherwise to Congress, the courts and the public early in 2017.\u00a0Evidence revealed by special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}