Too many people are calling for everyone to move on. They are saying: we should use this exoneration as a way to just go back to “business as usual” for the country.

That’s absurd!

If there was ever a time to look behind the Deep State’s curtain, it’s now because it is clear  that top federal law enforcement officials including former FBI head James Comey leaking classified notes about Mr. Trump to the press, James Clapper, John Brennan, former CIA director and National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden, former deputy attorney general Sally Yates, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, and Bruce Ohr, a current Justice Department official.

Mark Levin: The real ‘collusion’ story involves media, Democrats and Obama-era officials

They conspired to overturn a U.S. presidential election.

Not only were Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee up to their necks in criminal collusion with Russians to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump, but President Obama was in on the action, too. Is this where collusion becomes conspiracy?

See if this sounds familiar: Democratic presidential campaign pays international law firm Perkins Coie, which then turns around and pays left-wing opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on the campaign’s political opponent and gives it to Senator John McCain.

Sounds just like what Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee did in 2016, right?

In fact, Hillary was a Janey-come-lately to that ploy. Obama did it first in 2012. Using his Obama for America campaign front, Obama paid Perkins Coie close to a million dollars, which was reportedly used to pay — who else — Fusion GPS to find salacious stuff about Obama’s foe in the 2012 election, the ultra-square Mitt Romney.

“According to a new book by progressive journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn, “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and Donald Trump’s Election,” not only did Fusion do opposition research, something every campaign does, it also did aggressively hostile opposition donor research.

“In 2012, then-President Obama had an ‘enemies list’ on his campaign website with the names of Mitt Romney’s biggest donors,” noted PJ Media’s Debra Heine.

That enemies list was placed on the Obama campaign’s Orwellian “Truth Team” web site. The site called them a “group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the expense of so many Americans…”

“That kind of vilification of decent, law-abiding, successful Americans is bad enough. But to drive home the intimidation, each of the names on the list was subsequently tweeted out from the @TruthTeam2012 twitter feed, along with their supposed misdeeds, most of which really amounted merely to tough or unpopular business decisions they had to make.

“Obama “relied on a vast grassroots network to coerce, bully, boycott and vilify individuals lawfully taking part in the political process, just as his own donors and supporter are freely allowed to engage,” wrote the Daily Signal back in 2012.

“Imagine for a moment the chilling effect that would have on a political foe’s campaign — calling those who fund another campaign’s candidate “enemies,” with all that entails. The IRS, the SEC, the FBI, the Justice Department, all with active prosecution arms, all headed by Obama loyalists. To say it’s an act of political and personal intimidation is an understatement.

“Obama’s fingerprints go beyond that, however.

“The Isikoff-Corn book suggests the infamous relationship between former British spy Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and the FBI  was forged by Obama officials at the State Department — in particular former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, who gave permission to the FBI to talk to Steele in London, and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jonathan Winer, who “worked as a middleman to bring Mr. Steele together with Sidney Blumenthal, a fierce Hillary Clinton defender. Mr. Winer spoke with Ms. Nuland, who gave a heads up to Secretary of State John Kerry.”

How much do you want to bet that Kerry, a cabinet member, reported all this to former President Obama?

By the way, both Nuland and Winer worked for Clinton at the State Department, and both have since left. And the notorious Trump dossier that resulted from putting Steele together with the FBI, Fusion and the Clinton campaign led to a wiretap of the Trump campaign and also now serves as the centerpiece of a year-and-a-half long Mueller investigation into Trump — one that has now spilled over its boundaries, looking into things that have nothing to do with Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The genius of it all is that, at the same time they were using spurious Russian contacts to smear Trump’s name, they were also launching the FBI investigation into phony allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in 2016. The only collusion, in short, was between the Clinton campaign, Steele and the Russians.

But what we now see clearly is this entire scheme wasn’t just cooked up by a Nixonian Hillary Clinton, trying her best to destroy her political foe. No, it was part of a pattern set by President Obama and copied by his able student, Hillary. The Obama-adoring media knew what Obama had done in 2012, but barely bothered to report at the time.

This goes beyond mere creepy political collusion, or dirty campaign capers. It suggests a broader Democratic scheme to use government resources to hamstring opposition political campaigns and, now, to destroy a presidency.

And this conspiracy spans two presidential campaign cycles and two separate opposition presidential candidates, using remarkably similar tactics and even the same law firm and research operation. With a number of government officials knowingly involved, this, in short, reeks of conspiracy to subvert the election process

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Mr. Strzok and so many others had imagined and organized to take down president Trump. Mr. Rosenstein’s was  willing to wear a wire into the oval office to ensnare the president in their charade. The Mueller investigation was not a witch hunt, it was a Trump hunt. Imagine if there was no push to inquire about the FBI’s behavior during the Clinton email investigation. Imagine what the Mueller report would have looked like if Mr. Strzok remained involved, the same man who promised his lover that he would not allow Mr. Trump to become president and assured her they had an “insurance policy” to keep that from happening.

Mr. Mueller elevated him to a position where he could act on that promise. Only the focus and demands of the American people resulted in an investigation revealing this corruption.

But Mr. Strzok wasn’t the only one. Dozens have been fired, demoted or resigned from the FBI largely because the Trumps and their supporters have refused to go quietly into that dark night that the establishment had prepared for them. As a reminder of just eight now out of the FBI:

Fired: James B. Comey, director.

Andrew McCabe, acting director.

Peter Strzok, counterintelligence expert.

Resigned: Lisa Page, attorney.

James Rybicki, chief of staff.

James Baker, general counsel.

Mike Kortan, assistant director for public affairs.

Josh Campbell, special assistant to Mr. Comey.

In the aftermath of the Mueller report, for those crowing about how “the system worked,” think again. This is about how the system broke down the moment some in the American federal law enforcement infrastructure decided to target a duly elected president because they didn’t get the electoral result they expected and wanted.

WSJ: Time for Obama Admin to Account for ‘Historic Abuse of Government Surveillance Powers’

Wall Street Journal assistant editor James Freeman and Sen. Rand Paul are on the same page: the Mueller report confirms it is now time for the Obama administration to account for its flagrant abuse of the surveillance powers of the federal government.

The system would have been working only had none of this happened in the first place. We don’t get to pretend that everything’s fine because, in the end, the people attempting and facilitating a coup didn’t succeed. They don’t get to walk away because we exposed them and stopped them from prevailing.

The only way to make sure that this does not happen again is to hold those who perpetrated this accountable and to be honest about the nature of what has occurred throughout this shameful event, no matter to whom this leads us.

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