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Former Intel Officer Tony Shaffer on How the FBI Became a Political Tool Under Obama — American Thought Leaders

BY JAN JEKIELEK, EPOCH TIMES

February 16, 2019 Updated: February 16, 2019 Share

Events in the 2016 elections were unprecedented. Top FBI officials knowingly used information paid for by the campaign of Hillary Clinton to obtain a FISA spy warrant on a member of the Trump campaign. Meanwhile, top Obama administration officials also spied on the campaign, using so-called unmasking requests.

Those same FBI agents, however, chose to look the other way when it came to the risks posed by Clinton’s use of a private email server. We now know that emails she send as Secretary of State through that server were automatically copied to an unknown foreign entity.

Looking ahead of the 2020 elections, the question is whether the FBI has been reformed enough to make sure political bias don’t influence investigations.

Today we sit down with Tony Shaffer, acting president of the London Center for Policy Research. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in U.S. Army, where he was a senior intelligence officer. Today he’s also an advising producer for National Geographic and a member of the Trump 2020 advisory board.

Jan Jekielek: So let’s talk about what has been known as the Spygate scandal or also known as the Russia collusion scandal in some circles. In short, the FBI used politicized and flawed information to investigate the Trump campaign. They were fed information by a series of people who were actually paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign including MI6 Agent Christopher Steele, Fusion G.P.S. co-founder Glenn Simpson, Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussman. The FBI then used this unverified information to obtain a series of FISA warrants on the Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page [and others]. This seems like a terrible thing to happen and it’s very—we were discussing earlier this has really tarnished the reputation of certain agencies, especially the FBI in this case. What do you think can be done to fix that?

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