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Investigative journalist Lee Smith’s book, “The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History,” is a must-read for a lot of reasons — not least for how it details the role of the press in selling the idea of collusion, using documents such as the now discredited Steele dossier farmed out to them by Fusion GPS and the intelligence community itself, to the American people.

Each section contains nuggets of information that have never been covered in the mainstream press but that Smith writes about as if he’s got the proof. It’s a dense and, frankly, astonishing read.

But in light of some fresh statements from one of the main Crossfire Hurricane players, I’d like to concentrate on one particularly stunning revelation from the book: the assertion, taken directly from House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence then-Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), that the “insurance policy” that FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page referenced in their texts was not simply the collusion investigation itself, but was something specific that remains (as best I can tell) classified.

In the book, on pg. 98 in a chapter called, “The Insurance Policy,” Nunes tells Lee that the policy was a specific thing that was done to ensure that the FISA warrant was granted. And that his committee knows what it is.

"According to Nunes, the “insurance policy” that Strzok and Page texted about, the issue they’d discussed in McCabe’s office, was not simply the operation against Trump that they planned to roll into a coup in the event he was elected.

“It has a deeper meaning, it’s more specific than that,” [Nunes] says. “It’s what else they did to get the FISA, to ensure they got the warrant on Page. It’s as bad or worse as using the dossier. It’s another thing they hid as part of a counterintelligence investigation.”

What did they do? Nunes spreads his arms in the air. “Something we hope to have declassified. Something the American public should know about.”"

Well…that sounds downright corrupt.

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https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/12/29...l-declassified/