"If the DOJ, FBI, and CIA have to repeatedly lie about when and why this investigation started, that's proof that even they know that what they did was illegal from the start."

In Real Clear Politics, Charles Lipson summarizes the issues raised by the Mueller report.

Ace highly recommends we read the Lipson article and adds his own views:

This last bit is the most important, I think: If the DOJ, FBI, and CIA have to repeatedly lie about when and why this investigation started, that's proof that even they know that what they did was illegal from the start.

They want to claim the investigation only began when Papadopolous mentioned the rumor that Russia had Hillary's emails. But of course that's a lie, and already proven to be one; Josef Misfud, acting as a US agent, mentioned this rumor to Papadopolous, and then Alexander Downer, also acting as a US agent, catfished the rumor out of him and then reported it to his buddies in US intelligence.

But that means, of course, that Papadopolous was already the target of a spying/entrapment effort -- and that means the investigation began before the DOJ, CIA, and FBI will admit it did.

Why?

Well, here's one simple theory: They started the investigation based on the unverified, and often provably false, claims contained in a "dossier" based on Kremlin sources paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC. I would wager real money that never before in the history of the US has an investigation into a rival presidential campaign ever been predicated on such a vaporous foundation, and the DOJ, FBI, and CIA know damn well that this was unprecedented and very much Third World in practice, and so they're pretending the investigation began after they got some extraordinarily weak "confirmation" of the "dossier's" claims.

But, in fact, they began the investigation -- the spying, the framing, the inviting-Russians-to-a-dinner-which-Michael-Flynn-was-attending-to-claim-"Michael-Flynn-was-seen-dining-with-Russians" -- before the "confirmation." They began the investigation to get confirmation.

They began hiring spies and calling upon foreign intelligence services to infiltrate/frame the Trump investigation so then they'd have the pretext to investigate.

But that means, again, that investigation preceded "confirmation," and did not follow it, as they continue lying that it did.

At some point, this will become obvious, and the people pushing this lie are going to be exposed to perjury and jail time.

But they won't be charged and won't go to jail -- establishing beyond doubt that we live in a country in which government officials put citizens in jails for crimes that they themselves may blatantly commit and know they have full immunity for any prosecution for those crimes.

So long as those officials are acting in accordance with the Deep State's preferred liberal/Democrat politics, of course.

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