BREAKING: Comey FBI Had Trump-Linked FISA Wiretaps Renewed Based On Fake News From Washington Post

Under former Director James Comey, the FBI launched its investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign based in part on allegations contained in a Washington Post story that was later retracted for inaccuracies, according to a new report by Real Clear Investigations.

The nation’s top domestic surveillance agency began wiretapping Trump associate Carter Page after telling a secret FISA court that it had uncovered a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors. In fact, this connection was established in a front-page report by the Washington Post which was later retracted after determining it was false.

Court documents released as part of special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the Trump-Russia FBI investigation were heavily redacted and in some cases the references to relying on the Post story as evidence were concealed under the guise of “sensitive” information which could not be disclosed. Two former U.S. intelligence officials who had seen the unredacted versions of the documents confirmed to Real Clear Investigation that the redactions contained nothing more than the flimsy evidence within the Post story which was used as a pretext to illegally spy on Page, according to the report on Real Clear Investigations.

Earlier this year, Durham released a long-awaited report vindicating President Trump who has long maintained that his campaign was illegally spied on by the Obama FBI at the request of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. During the run-up to the 2016 election, advisors to the Clinton campaign including now Secretary of State Anthony Blinken coordinated an open letter from former intelligence officials claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was a product of “Russian disinformation” by Vladimir Putin intended to help elect Trump. Blinken has since denied his involvement in coordinating the signers to that letter.

In another instance of using fake news, the FBI relied on a Yahoo News story that cited a “well-placed Western intelligence source” who claimed that Page met with Kremlin officials at the behest of the Trump campaign. The source was later revealed to be former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele who had concocted the false allegation about Page in a series of now-debunked memos financed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Last month FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that he has implemented new guidelines at the Bureau for obtaining wiretap authorizations, though that didn’t stop House Republicans from attacking the director over “protecting the Bidens” as claimed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).