U.S. under Trump Series: Major deep-state scandal unravelling in Washington

A major scandal is erupting in Washington which involved what is popularly called as the ‘Deep State’ involving senior officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Justice (DoJ), in which senior officials tried their best to prevent then-candidate Trump from being elected to the White House.

It is slowly coming to the knowledge that the so-called ‘Deep State’ abused the United States’ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to get warrants on Trump campaign officials and created a setup that triggered the Russia collusion theory. Here are the key points,

• Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign hired opposition research group Fusion GPS, which hired a former British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, who prepared the infamous ‘Trump dossier’, which was then used by FBI and DoJ officials to obtain surveillance approval from FISA court.
• But that is not it. From the former FBI director James Comey’s own testimony, we know that he released a memo of his conversation with the President in order to get a special counsel to look into Russia collusion theory, which suggests that Trump’s campaign officials colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.
• Interestingly, it is turning out that it was actually Obama administration’s FBI and the DoJ, which colluded with the Clinton campaign to make sure that Trump doesn’t get elected.

But, it doesn’t end here.

• A series of chats between senior FBI official Peter Strzok and her lover at the DoJ Lisa Page have revealed extreme bias in favor of Clinton. Peter Strzok was in charge of Clinton email investigation, in which Hillary Clinton deleted scores of emails (approx. 33,000) and bleached it so those can’t be obtained. It was found when investigating Benghazi incident, where a U.S. ambassador was killed.
• Mr. Strzok was involved in interviewing Clinton (which was not recorded), interviewing Trump campaign official Michel Flynn  with regard to Russia collusion and he was the one changed the language in former FBI director James Comey's statement describing Clinton's private email server use from "grossly negligent", which could have carried criminal penalties - to "extremely careless."
• He was in special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, which is investigating the Russia collusion theory until he was ousted last year after his bias was revealed in the above-mentioned texts.

The scandal has already taken down the deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe who was reportedly part of a ‘Secret Society’(a term coined in Peter’s text with Lisa), over his alleged involvement. Now, Democrats are trying to prevent a four-page memo that was authored by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. The memo is based on underlying classified documents and is expected to get released soon.

There could be more heads rolling at the FBI and DoJ, including the current deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, once the memo is released.

If carefully looked, one can find that mainstream media houses have been working for the past couple of months and still so to keep this story from reaching to the public. Even reputed news organizations like Reuters and Financial Times have ignored this story even though the editors promised to set aside their exposed biases after the 2016 election.

This article is only a brief summary of this out of proportion scandal, we advise to find out more from alternative media houses and blogs.