Sen. Ted Cruz: What Obama Admin. Did Makes Everything Nixon Did Pale in Comparison By Melanie Arter for CNS News
Former Deputy Assistant General Rod Rosenstein was either complicit in wrongdoing in signing off on the FISA applications that led to the surveillance and eventual unmasking of former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn or Rosenstein’s performance of his duties “was grossly negligent,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday.
During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, Cruz said that what the Obama administration did to the incoming Trump administration pales in comparison to everything former President Richard Nixon “even contemplated.”
Prior to 2016 and 2017, the worst known instance of abuse of power by an administration was Richard Nixon’s abuse of his administration to target his political enemies. By any measure, what the Obama-Biden administration did in 2016 and 2017 makes everything Richard Nixon even contemplated pale in comparison, and Richard Nixon rightfully faced impeachment and ultimately resigned as a consequence of his misconduct.
The evidence that has been made public has made clear that the Obama administration targeted his political opponents, targeted President Trump and his campaign, unleashed, weaponized, and politicized the Department of Justice, the FBI and the intelligence community and that the decision-making to do so went right up to the very top.
We know that on January 4th, 2017, the FBI concluded in the document that has just been released that General Michael Flynn was ‘No longer a viable candidate to be part of this larger case.’ Their investigation did not yield any information on which to predicate further investigative efforts. The FBI is closing this investigation.
That was January 4th, 2017. The next day James Comey, the director of the FBI, is sitting in the Oval Office with Barack Obama, with Joe Biden, and James Comey – according to a memo from Susan Rice, one of the most remarkable CYA memos written in Washington, written on her last day in office and emailed to herself, saying by the way, this investigation into the national security adviser coming in to the new office, the president has said, do it ‘by the book.’ She says by the book three times.James Comey tells the president we’re investigating Michael Flynn by the book. Well unless the book is Richard Nixon’s ‘Watergate,’ the day before the FBI said they were closing the investigation, and there’s James Comey telling Barack Obama, we’re going after General Flynn, a decorated three-star general, the incoming national security adviser to the president with Joe Biden sitting right there nodding along. Joe Biden himself personally unmasks Michael Flynn’s name.
That’s the world you came into, Mr. Rosenstein. That’s the Department of Justice you came into, where it had been corrupted and politicized. You’ve read the inspector general report, Mr. Rosenstein?
Rosenstein admitted that he’d read most of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, but he didn’t know when he read the FISA application that the primary source behind the Steele dossier had disavowed it and said it’s not true.
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