It’s impossible to deny the existence of “the deep state” at this point.
There has clearly been a concerted effort to bring down Donald Trump by delegitimizing his presidency at every turn.
Now a former FBI agent has given further credence to the “deep state” claim with chilling analysis.
Former agent John Ligato detailed an extensive list of actions against Trump and his administration. Below are some of the highlights.
From Lifezette:
Fifteen years ago, I would have suggested a tinfoil hat for anyone who believed in the deep state. But recent events have made me rethink my diagnosis. The term “deep state” intimates a conspiracy somewhere in the woodshed. But it’s basically two or more people who get together and agree on something bad.
In the case of a shadow government, that something is to impede or overthrow the legitimate government. The current political environment offers convincing evidence that individuals are attempting to do just that. They utilize legal and illegal means in an effort to annul the will of the people. Their ultimate goal is to end the presidency of Donald Trump
As an FBI agent, I was careful to separate facts from fiction when investigating cases. The public can make wild conjectures and cite gossip as gospel, but law enforcement officers must deal in facts. So, does a deep state currently exist in American today?
Fact/Known: James Comey reduced his alleged obstruction of justice meeting with President Trump to a memo. James Comey intentionally leaked that memo with the stated intent to trigger the special counsel statute. James Comey met with his friend, special counsel Robert Mueller, prior to Comey’s testifying before a congressional committee.
As an investigator, I would not consider the leaked memo to be direct evidence since it is basically written hearsay and depends on Comey’s memory and veracity. The memo is no different from two drivers providing contradicting observations of the same traffic accident.
Victim — The Trump presidency.
Analysis: In my experience, if someone admits to a specific wrongdoing once, leaking, it’s a good bet that it wasn’t his first time. A burglar never strikes once. There are dozens of unsolved leaks, and Director Comey was in the position to have access to the information contained in those leaks.
Fact: Susan Rice admitted on MSNBC that she sometimes sought the identities of Trump associates who communicated with foreigners, a request known as “unmasking” in the intelligence community.
Victim — The Trump presidency.
Rice’s admission came after she initially told PBS’ Judy Woodruff that she “knew nothing” about the unmasking of Trump associates. Inconsistent statements are called clues in law enforcement. The fact that Rice has furnished other inconsistencies is called a pattern, or MO. There was the Benghazi video and the Bowe Bergdahl fib.
So if unmasking was relevant to the Russia investigation, the FBI, CIA or NSA would have done it. There would have been no need for Susan Rice to ask for identities to be unmasked. The national security adviser is not an investigator. The president’s staff is a consumer of intelligence, not a generator or collector of it.
Analysis: If Susan Rice was unmasking Americans, it was not to fulfill an intelligence need based on American interests: It was to fulfill a political desire based on Democratic Party interests. If it was critical to know the identities of Americans caught up in other foreign intelligence efforts, the agencies that collect the information and conduct investigations would have unmasked them.
Victim: The Trump Presidency.
The key points here are the fact Comey leaked a document with the admitted intent of triggering an investigation (unlikely his first time leaking), and Susan Rice unmasked the identities of Trump associates, seemingly for political purposes.
These actions are indefensible.
The article continued:
Fact: Our media have become part of the deep state. Some are active players, and others are unwitting surrogates based on their ideology. In the not too distant past both the FBI and the media were fact-finders. We shared the standard of burden of proof by relying on multiple and reliable sources. My actions as a law enforcement officer could have a profound effect on citizens ranging from destroying their reputation to taking their freedom. I could not sit on the witness stand and cite gossip, rumors or anonymous sources to convict someone.
Fact: Conflict of interest charges are routinely ignored and downplayed when perpetrated by Democrats.
A few examples include John Podesta’s financial interest in the Joule Company, a Russia-based energy company partially owned by the Russian government. The allegation is that the Clinton family and Russia both benefited from an alleged “pay-for-play” scheme while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, involving the transfer of U.S. uranium reserves to the Russian owners of a mining operation in exchange for $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
The $500,000 for a speech by Bill Clinton, paid for by a Russian investment bank, bolsters the circumstantial evidence of an inappropriate relationship between Russia and the Clintons. The specific charges of extortion, public corruption, and bribery are difficult to prove. The investigation is tedious, but there seems to be an abundance of facts and circumstantial evidence.
The FBI would certainly conduct a preliminary inquiry into these allegations and forward the results to the Justice Department. Due to the amount of public interest in the case, one would surmise that Justice would pronounce the matter either closed or indict someone. But that would require the highly political office of the attorney general under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch to admit a “scintilla” of Democratic wrongdoing.
Speaking of Lynch and conflicts of interest, we have the attorney general’s tarmac meeting with our former president while his wife was under investigation. These facts and circumstances would be considered probable cause to believe that a crime had occurred, yet we are left with unsubstantiated rumors that the FBI has yet to open an investigation.
Victim — The Trump presidency.
If Trump had just a fraction of the connections to Russia that Clinton and her campaign had, the Democrats would be planning a coup d’etat.
Instead, all the Democrats have are incidental meetings with Russian diplomats andfake dossiers that linked Trump to Russian hookers.
And the appearance of impropriety alone regarding Lynch and Bill Clinton should be alarming. Instead, it was underplayed by a complicit media.
Ligato continued:
Fact: Selective non-prosecution of Democrats, or — “Nobody goes to jail anymore!”
As a retired law enforcement officer, I am astonished by the continuing criminal activities by members of the Democratic Party. Examples include: perjury under oath by Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, James Clapper, and Huma Abedin; refusal to answer questions under oath by Lois Lerner, Loretta Lynch, and a significant memory lapse by Cheryl Mills; and obstruction of justice by Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton, and several tech guys who destroyed evidence.
A flagrant example of selective prosecution is Eric Holder. He testified under oath that he had no knowledge of the James Rosen affidavit. Our attorney general was permitted a perjury reboot and allowed to admit to a memory lapse — only after the committee produced a copy of the affidavit with his signature. Any other individual would be eating off metal trays. Just ask Martha Stewart, who went to prison for lying to FBI agents.
Victim: The Republicans/All Americans.
Further proof of the bureau’s politicization is Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
The wife of the No. 2 man in the FBI received $943,000 in campaign contributions from democratic PACs, $650,500 of which came from the former chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and now Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McCabe failed to report the contribution because technically, he wasn’t required to do so under IRS regulations.
The campaign contributions came during the period McCabe was investigating Hillary Clinton. If we connect the dots in this Greek tragedy, we see Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Lynch, the Clintons — and another round of Comey and Mueller, which culminated in the special counsel.
Victim — The Trump presidency.
Obama’s administration and Hillary’s campaign were rife with scandal that went nowhere legally.
Yet Trump’s six months in office have produced countless irrational calls for impeachment and prosecution, and he hasn’t done anything nearly as scandalous as “fast and furious” or the IRS targeting.
The Deep State is real. George W. Bush had a similar– in comparative minor–problem with leaks in his administration, but he was vigilant about finding leakers and filling positions with people loyal to him, not the previous administration.
Trump needs to shed a lot of the ideologues held over from the Obama administration that look to bring him down at all costs.
The Deep State shouldn’t get to decide who is in the White House. The American people already did that.
This garbage about starting in a woodshed, should be more like in a Gulag in Pelosi’s winery.
We all know that we have some very sorry Democrats in our politics and they need to get the hell out. They work for us. we do not work for them and they need to be stopped!!!!!
CLEAN HOUSE NOW, Donald! If you don’t, this BS will continue giving you heartburn!
Phil in TX
When subordinates see their leaders doing this, they think it’s okay for them to do it. The media commentators tried to tell us the special counsel would HELP Trump, because it would shut down all reporting regarding the investigation and the daily drip. How’s that working out?
DRAIN THAT SWAMP NOW
Leave the monstrosity of self denying regards half said for you cannot deny the appeal of modern methods to compensate for boredom.
it’s time to get rid of all the Obummer people in Washington. If not these left wing communist are going to kill the country. wipe the slate clean, get rid of all of them .
Since the legal system isn’t going to do squat about crooked democraps, isn’t it about time for President Trump to announce his amnesty https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/14972ecb8ef81096f88443df1c1336e71a8fc50db04a6a48637ba4cde0a81862.jpg program wherein any Conservative that acts like a fruitcake liberal and shoots a democrap will be pardoned….
That will fix the country in a hurry and drain the swamp….
way i see it until obama is arrested for his hundreds of 8 yrs crimes against america, then hillary on down the line this violence,confusion in america will continue gay muslim obama is the anti-christ i have o doubt of this fact, satan is a hard enemy to fight but with prayers and God on our side we will win https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/209f7a02e1e8ff97b2dbc1f82ed115f9eabc3f20d965474afb0c1367c6567711.jpg
That and a case of ammo for each an every conservative….. just insurance…..
Yes and many of those millions are stashed in secret accounts.
your bank account that is . no ours ,Kenyan fraud,dope smoker and seller and we elected that fraud ,Democrats don’t even run for office DON’T run for dog catcher ??
Extremely well written summation, Bravo! Most of know this and that is why we are so damned mad and it is even more infuriating that Republicans are not howling like skinned cats. Shut the Democrat Crime machine down, charge as many of them as possible under the RICO statutes and confiscate every thing they have and let them be saddled with Public Defenders from Bumbutt Nebraska somewhere.
The Hillary Gang MUST face prosecution along with all of her co-conspirators and collaborators and we will all be amused by how many commit suicide by two gunshots to the back of the head before they can testify. Seth Rich was murdered for a flash drive that he used to download the files from the DNC computer system. The file transfer rate proves it was not done by any foreign entity overseas, it could only be achieved via a USB flash Drive device, no LAN, DSL or even satellite hookup could transfer the files at the rate that was found.
last week hillary had another sucide, the man was to be a witness in court against her, this makes 160 bodybags https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bce01b509baede2b5292de158b99f48651a6a58e91c117f30ca016584d0ffc07.jpg
Jeff Sessions! Do your job! ARREST the murderers, war mongers, TRAITORS, liars, thieves, pedophiles, con artists, sex traffickers, drug pushers, HILLARY & OBAMA and their Satanic Globalist DEEP STATE ORGANIZED CRIME CRONIES. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DEPENDING ON YOU FOR JUSTICE & PROTECTION FROM THESE EVIL CRIMINALS!
The heart of this group is the State Department. Tillerman MUST clean house there.
The Justice department is pretty screwed up too!
i can not comprehend why so much crime has went on in washington, yet no one had been arrested ,indicted, put in jail for one murder one crime..seems one rule applies for washington government and another for the american people until we stand up demands justice against these criminals they will get away with it all https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1612e25a8de86b707eaa48a66d2c42089e65ff496a1345af616a38797abb4f3a.jpg
Sessions is Hillary’s worst nightmare? How and when? She’s laughing at him.
When will we witness our first political criminal hung? Hung by the neck until dead!
we won’t because of lib scum democrat judges.do nothing but let them off with a hand smacking. This has to stop murders i don’t care who they are hang them then no more , sorry in a way but no
President Trump. Fire Mueller, McCabe and any body else. Hire this guy,John Ligato, to be the head of the FBI.
Nothing will be done. Trump’s hands will be tied by the RINOs who are closet Democrats, and who are hip-deep in the corrupt swamp that Trump is trying to drain. The corrupt Democrat media will continue its attacks on Trump and his folks who are trying to save this country. There’s little hope left for our few remaining freedoms and our once-great Constitution. More people need to speak out against the corruption, while they still have a voice.
problem to many republicans are in bed with democrats false republicans like MCcain and others dam it you are a republican not and ass hole third grader any more support your President . remember you have to run again we won’t forget you be sure of that . we will vote in a trash collecter over you even a scum bag muslem rather then you
ITS TIME WE THE REPUBLICANS FIGHT BACK BUT DO SO THE RIGHT AND HONEST WAY. WE WILL WIN CAUSE THE DEMOCRATS HAVE SHOWN JUST HOW LOW THEY CAN STOOP.
Beyond Excellent article ! Now if there were one or more decent patriot’s working inside the agencies that would come clean ( even like deep throat for suicide purposes) and expose the COMMUNIST TRAITORS Running this country into her grave. And my RSAL HOPE IS, President Trump will dismantled ALL the agencies and rebuild only a few with laws and overstep to rein in treasonous criminals who begin to get a God complex.
When we talk about draining the swamp we have to include some republicans . First on the list is McCain , he’s nuts. He has signs of Alzheimer’s. Paul is next and there are about 10 that need to go. Democrats all need to go except for a few. The count is less then the fingers on your hands.
Actually, the first victim was Comey who was fired directly by Trump for doing his job investigating the Russian situation to start this whole mess. Of course this made Trump the victim of his own direct actions as President.
This former FBI agent has pointed out all these crimes and is appalled that the present FBI director has do nothing. I believe he should be fired and prosecuted along with the others. All found guilty of treason should be executed and the others give appropriate punishment for the crime committed. What will it take to get prosecution of these criminals–It is treason and punishable by death. People riot in Ferguson for change in police matters involving a criminal. We hunt down the Boston bomber and shoot him hiding in a boat but for treason that will destroy our country we do nothing. Where is our justice for America. Do we sit idle and watch her destroyed from with in????
get rid of democrat lib judges and maybe the system will work but not now ,Obozo put theses people in there for a reason and see it’s working dam
The secret portion of the permanent bureaucracy certainly needs restructuring.
In addition to President Trump’s advice to let Obamacare fail till they come begging for a solution, it is time for Congress to have their healthcare repealed and replaced by Obamacare. Why should we taxpayers subsidize Congress’ superior plan, when we have to get stuck with Obamacare?
I agree that the Democrats, gravy train must be taken from them ” NOW. “, Obama needs to be banned from politics. He had the golden opportunity to improve things while he was in office, however his devious ways ways were only hurting our most wonderful NATION, almost to the point of destruction. He and Hillary soled us out. President is doing all he can to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, yet the evil doers of the Democrat Party are hell bent on destroying him. WE CAN’T LET THIS HAPPEN. WE WON’T LET THIS HAPPEN. Father God Please Help Us, to rid all of the corruption from our GOVERNMENT. IN JESUS HOLY NAME I PRAY.
How did S. Rice make 50 million $$$ when she didn’t work for it 174000 a year tell me how i want to know tell
Well if this report doesn’t spell it out for the leadership in office now, I don’t know what will, he not only connected dots, hell he got rid of the dots and drew straight lines to all the conspirators and co-conspirators, I’m so sick of the republicans in office, who have the majority and have held it for a little over 6 months, they should have done something by now, how much brighter can one shine a (flood) light on the evidence, these are no longer just question of guilt they are facts of guilt! If it were a regular citizen we would have been buried under the jail, his example of Martha Stewart’s lieing and consequently being jailed was classic and so true, and she had a little bit of money and was somewhat famous, and yet she goes to jail for a lie, what these folks are doing and continue to do, is so harmful to our democracy it’s unreal, we need to stand up folks and say enough is enough, don’t elect another democrat into office until we see heads roll and the atmosphere torwards our President change! This was never excepted under Obamanut so why should we excuse it now, because we’re independents and conservatives, I say take the gloves off and get in the trenches and take all those lieing cheating and unlawful individuals down.
It is likely that there has been extensive skullduggery .
All left over from O and those who used to work for Hillary should be investigated, prosecuted and imprisoned if found guilty. Andrew.
Fire McCabe, Mueller, Priebus, McMasters. They are globalist Satanic TRAITORS & your ENEMIES!!!!