Welcome to the 23rd edition of Probable Cause. This is our second episode on the case of Dennis Hastert. In our first segment I briefly explained the case and why it is likely to be dropped or lost-on-purpose, and provided you with the broad picture of involved interests and those with much at stake if the case were to proceed as a ‘real’ case.
In this episode we are going back twenty years to when the new FBI covert and illegal operations targeting high-profile US officials, elected and appointed, began. I will go on-record with the White House classified directive issued in 1996 directing the DOJ-FBI to begin conducting a new COINTELPRO operation using its counterintelligence divisions and bypassing FISA regulations in response to two sexual scandals and the likely risk of impeachment.
I’ll talk about the FBI’s illegal surveillance of government officials and misuse of FISA, how the information was used by the US government, the cases of three FBI insiders who spoke up and reported these operations, how and why those cases were classified and gagged by the US government and censored by the US media, and finally, how all this will come into play in the coming trial of Dennis Hastert.
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Two FBI Whistleblowers Confirm Illegal Wiretapping of Government Officials and Misuse of FISA
Gilbert Graham Case Filed with DOJ-IG
Sibel Edmonds: An Inconvenient Patriot
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
Sibel Edmonds Testimony & Dennis Hastert
Louis Freeh (FBI Director, 1993-2001)
FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ACT)