Obama hasn’t been in office for almost eight years now. But he’s been pulling strings all along.
And now this new report implicates Obama in crazy Deep State plots to take out Donald Trump.
When a new President comes into office, they don’t get to completely replace everyone in the federal government. There’s so many unelected officials who get to keep their jobs and potentially even work against the new President’s agenda. This has only gotten worse over the past few decades as the federal government has grown fatter and fatter in its federal bureaucracy. It’s a bureaucratic machine now that can be used to thwart the agenda of a sitting President.
Presidents like Barack Obama who served two consecutive terms can even abuse the system to install a sea of federal Deep State actors who will do their bidding long after they have packed up and left the White House. In fact, that’s exactly what many have believed to be true of the Barack Obama tenure, and now there’s evidence this is the case.
According to reports, Department of Justice officials who remained in their posts after Barack Obama left office and Donald Trump rolled into town were intentionally scheming in lies to the court systems in order to spy on Congress-members during the peak of the Russiagate fiasco. A new report indicates that the DOJ likely intentionally engaged in noncompliance in order to reach a political end. That political end is up to anyone to imply, but let’s just say it certainly wasn’t to Donald Trump’s benefit.
DOJ Implicated In Non-Compliance And Misleading Courts To Spy On Legislators
In a disturbing revelation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been accused of employing deep state tactics to undermine Donald Trump by secretly surveilling elected officials, their staffers, and even journalists involved in the Trump-Russia investigation. According to a report from the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), DOJ personnel misled courts when applying for gag orders that effectively prevented dozens of lawmakers and Congressional staffers from knowing they were being spied on during the height of the Russiagate scandal.
Between 2017 and 2018, the DOJ conducted a sweeping surveillance operation targeting two members of Congress, 43 congressional staffers, and several reporters, all in an effort to trace the source of leaks about the Trump-Russia investigation. These efforts, which were more extensive than previously known, sought to monitor communications related to the investigation. In the process, the DOJ applied for and obtained 40 gag orders, officially called “non-disclosure orders” (NDOs), which prohibited third-party companies from notifying the targets that their information had been seized. Shockingly, the DOJ did not disclose to the courts that these orders were directed at lawmakers or their staffers, nor did they present any specific justification for these gag orders, relying instead on generic “boilerplate statements.”
The report reveals that some of the NDOs remained in effect for as long as four years. This blatant overreach by the DOJ not only infringed on the constitutional rights of lawmakers and their staff but also undermined the legitimacy of the legislative branch’s oversight of the executive. The OIG’s findings indicate that the DOJ’s actions created the “appearance of inappropriate interference by the executive branch” in the legislature’s constitutionally authorized duties.
Most troubling of all, the DOJ’s surveillance efforts appear to have been politically motivated. Both of the members of Congress surveilled were Democrats, and the staffers targeted were almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with a small number holding non-partisan roles. One of the staffers, Kash Patel, who at the time worked for Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, was notably involved in exposing the abuse of surveillance courts used against the Trump campaign, a scandal that later played a key role in discrediting the Russiagate allegations.
Matt Taibbi on How Kash Patel Unraveled the Russiagate Hoax When No One Else Would
"[Kash] Patel had two teams investigating how Russiagate got started … and nobody was interested in that … The report that he put together about Russiagate with the help of Devin Nunes turned… pic.twitter.com/EomX6EU1SY
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) December 9, 2024
Despite this revelation, the DOJ has taken minimal action to address the breach of trust. The OIG report notes that the DOJ has since modified its policies to require prior approval from its Public Integrity Section and the U.S. Attorney’s office before obtaining records of lawmakers or their staff. However, critics like Jason Foster, a former investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, argue that this reform is inadequate.
“The notion that DOJ reformed its process since getting caught is laughable,” Foster remarked in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “So now DOJ has to ask a bureaucrat in the Public Integrity Section for permission to secretly collect congressional comms records? Big deal. Who will be held accountable for misleading the court?”
This new information casts a chilling light on how corrupt DOJ officials may have used deep state tactics to sideline Trump and his allies during one of the most controversial political investigations in American history. While the DOJ has made some adjustments to its procedures, the damage done to the integrity of the investigation remains significant, with no clear accountability for those who misled the courts and violated the rights of American citizens in the name of political warfare.
The notion that DOJ reformed its process since getting caught is laughable.
So now DOJ has to ask a bureaucrat in the Public Integrity Section for permission to secretly collect congressional comms records?
Big deal.
Who will be held accountable for misleading the court?
— Jason Foster (@JsnFostr) December 10, 2024
Donald Trump’s Cabinet Picks Threaten To Take An Axe To Bureaucratic Machine
Donald Trump has said he’s learned his lesson about picking weak candidates to head up important positions in his cabinet, like the roles of Attorney General, head of the FBI, and more. This time around, he’s made picks who are much more aligned with him on the idea of gutting the federal bureaucratic machine.
His pick for the head of the FBI, Kash Patel, truly scares the Washington, D.C. political class and they’ve been working overtime, hand-in-hand with the corrupt mainstream media to nuke his nomination. So far it hasn’t been successful and right now it’s likely he will be confirmed based on how the Republicans in the Senate have been signaling support for Mr. Patel.
Donald Trump will need the likes of Kash Patel and his new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to work with him rather than against him to affect real change throughout the brutalist federal government.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
