Investigative Journalist Projects 10 Declassified Revelations That Could Blow Apart Democrats' Collusion Lie
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Former FBI Director James Comey is surrounded by reporters in a file photo from December 2018, when Comey testified before the House Judiciary Committee in a closed hearing. (Alex Edelman / AFP / Getty Images)
By Joe Saunders
Published August 22, 2019 at 11:27am
When it comes to uncovering the “deep state” efforts to undermine President Donald Trump, The Hill’s John Solomon has stood out.
Since Trump’s inauguration, he’s been one of the few Washington journalists devoted to chronicling the false statements and false impressions that were used to feed the Russia “collusion” story that plagued the Trump administration for its first two years.
And in a column published this week, he outlined 10 sources of still-classified information that could, if declassified, blow apart the lie once and for all.
Solomon began by describing how “foot-dragging” in the American intelligence community had hindered the full story of misbehavior in the Justice Department, the FBI and intelligence agencies regarding the Russian probe.
In that probe, how the FBI under then-Director James Comey obtained surveillance warrants for Trump campaign associate Carter Page from the secret court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to oversee government spying on American citizens is particularly crucial.
Then Solomon listed sources of information that are still being kept under wraps, “that, when declassified, would show more completely how a routine counterintelligence probe was hijacked to turn the most awesome spy powers in America against a presidential nominee in what was essentially a political dirty trick orchestrated by Democrats.”
That’s a heavy charge, but Americans won’t be able to know the full truth of it, Solomon wrote, until they can see the following: