Durham Is Being Briefed on a Four-Year Criminal Spy Conspiracy against Obama’s Opponents
Dec. 24, 2019 (EIRNS)—In an interview on Washington, D.C. radio station WMAL-FM on Dec. 23, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joe diGenova commented on The Intercept article of Dec. 20 which said that U.S. Attorney John Durham has had multiple meetings with former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers. Durham is investigating the Russiagate activities of the intelligence community against candidate and then President Donald Trump, following Durham’s appointment by Attorney General William Barr. DiGenova’s take is truly explosive.
He says that Mike Rogers has the goods on a spying operation—using both Section 702, or the FISA process, and Executive Order 12333 to target Americans—which was conducted for the four years between 2012-2016 at the request of then-CIA Director John Brennan and then-FBI Director James Comey for the Obama Administration. The unmasking logs which then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes discovered at the National Security Council at the White House in March 2017 were simply the latest fruits of that process as applied to Donald Trump. DiGenova says that Rogers has both the proof from the NSA andyears of contemporaneous notes concerning a massive criminal conspiracy of spying against Obama’s political opponents.
It will be recalled that Mike Rogers went to the FISA Court on Oct. 24, 2016 to report significant abuses by the NSA of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and his investigation broadened to document ongoing abuses by the FBI and the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Here is what Judge Rosemary Collyer, the chief Judge of the FISA Court said about what Rogers initially reported: “[T]he government orally apprised the Court of significant non-compliance with the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data acquired under 702 using U.S. person identifiers.” This was three days after the first Carter Page FISA warrant was obtained.
Judge Collyer’s 99-page account of the abuses was issued in a FISA Court decision of April 26, 2017, which was declassified in May of 2017. Among the most significant abuses noted was unlimited access by private contractors of the FBI to the FISA database, access which these contractors maintained even when their contract with the FBI had concluded. According to diGenova, when Attorney General Barr says that John Durham is investigating intelligence agencies and private individuals, he is referring, in part, to these contractors.
The reward Mike Rogers got for his report to the FISA Court was a recommendation from then-DNI James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter that President Barack Obama fire him. Obama did not follow through with the proposal, according to diGenova, because he knew what cards Rogers held. Nunes, of course, was vilified as a conspiracy nut for his famous findings of the logs of this activity in March 2017 in the White House. DiGenova maintains that both Nunes and Rogers deserve the highest national honors.
Rogers personally briefed Donald Trump, according to news accounts, about the spying that was occurring on his transition at Trump Tower, prompting Trump to move his transition activities to his Bedminster resort location in New Jersey. Rogers also expressed only “moderate” confidence in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Russia had hacked the DNC and John Podesta in order to further the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
DiGenova also blasted Judge Collyer and all the FISA judges for their mild rebukes in the face of the Horowitz report. He points out that Collyer and others knew full well that FISA was being abused and that they were being consistently lied to, and that Collyer and others are now engaged in “grandstanding CYA activities.”
