Changes

When James Comey asked for a private meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017 to present Trump with Hillary Clinton's fictional opposition research as a US intelligence product, Comey briefed Trump only on the sexual allegations and not a word about [[Carter Page]], [[Michael Flynn]], Paul Manafort, and [[Michael Cohen]] being targeted under the [[FISA]] Act. According to Comey, he acted on the instructions of [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]].<ref>"the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about because we knew it and thought it was about to become public." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cg.01.html</ref> Clapper dutifully [[leak]]ed the fact that Trump had been briefed on allegations that he consorted with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel in 2013 in an unsavory way to Jake Tapper of CNN.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> CNN reported the made-up news from the supposed "intelligence report" and linked to the opposition research report on [[BuzzFeed]], claiming it was some sort of official document in the hands of the US intelligence community that the government was acting on.  The [[intelligence community]] had implemented the "insurance policy". Russiagate was no longer just [[Hillary Clinton]]'s political campaign directed against Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at [[liberal deceit|deceiving]] the American people.

When James Comey asked for a private meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017 to present Trump with Hillary Clinton's fictional opposition research as a US intelligence product, Comey briefed Trump only on the sexual allegations and not a word about [[Carter Page]], [[Michael Flynn]], Paul Manafort, and [[Michael Cohen]] being targeted under the [[FISA]] Act. According to Comey, he acted on the instructions of [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]].<ref>"the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about because we knew it and thought it was about to become public." http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cg.01.html</ref> Clapper dutifully [[leak]]ed the fact that Trump had been briefed on allegations that he consorted with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel in 2013 in an unsavory way to Jake Tapper of CNN.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/</ref> CNN reported the made-up news from the supposed "intelligence report" and linked to the opposition research report on [[BuzzFeed]], claiming it was some sort of official document in the hands of the US intelligence community that the government was acting on.  The [[intelligence community]] had implemented the "insurance policy". Russiagate was no longer just [[Hillary Clinton]]'s political campaign directed against Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at [[liberal deceit|deceiving]] the American people.

In early March 2017, [https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602701/ Evelyn Farkas], Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia from the Obama Administration, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo</ref> and shared efforts to get information about Trump staff to The Hill in hopes to get information out. To many people this proved President Trump's claim that Obama had "his wires tapped" at Trump Tower.<ref>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106</ref> Later in that same month she tries to backtrack and change the meaning of what she was saying.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-nDGSzQg4</ref>

In early March 2017, [https://dod.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/602701/ Evelyn Farkas], Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia from the Obama Administration, appeared on MSNBC's ''[[Morning Joe]]''<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapRNpEjXUo</ref> and shared efforts to get information about Trump staff to The Hill in hopes to get information out. To many people this proved President Trump's claim that Obama had "his wires tapped" at Trump Tower.<ref>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106</ref> Later in that same month she tries to backtrack and change the meaning of what she was saying.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-nDGSzQg4</ref>

==2018 reckoning==

==2018 reckoning==