DOJ/FBI Officials plotted to overthrow President Trump

One of the swampiest places in the federal government since 2009 has been the Department of

Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The upper echelons of these and other intelligence agencies were packed with multiple layers of politically driven appointees. Nevertheless, the house of cards that President Obama built is beginning to quiver.

Several news sources have reported that in May 2017 after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Deputy FBI Director Andrew Mccabe became acting director and met with other senior law enforcement officers to discuss how to remove Trump from office. In these meetings officials discussed how many cabinet members might vote to declare the president unfit for office under the 25th Amendment. Mccabe has said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who attended these meetings repeatedly offered to record secretly his meetings with President Trump. Rosenstein has continually denied he ever seriously considered wearing a wire, but has said any related comments he may have made were merely jokes.

Nevertheless, isn't it astonishing that a group of DOJ and FBI officials at the highest levels would hold multiple meetings to conspire to overthrow a newly elected President of the United States? At least, Mccabe has said as much and written as much respectively in his interview with Scott Pelley on CBS'S “60 Minutes” and in his new book, “The Threat.”

Mccabe has admitted that he pressured Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel to continue the investigation into whether Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government in order to win the 2016 election. Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller nearly two years ago and we're still waiting on his findings. Since then the original charge to Mueller has been amended with other secret charges presumably regarding activities of Trump and those associated with his campaign.

President Trump fired Comey for leaking classified information and lying. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Mccabe for lying to authorities, and the inspector general referred Mccabe for criminal prosecution. In all, nearly 30 high level officials in the DOJ/FBI swamp have been fired, demoted, or have retired since May 2017.

How dependent is Mueller's investigation on all these former officials who have been fired or demoted for cause? Will Mueller's findings document any of the shenanigans inside the DOJ/FBI that targeted President Trump? If Mueller finds no collusion with Russia, will his final report document the history of the FBI'S initial investigation including the Steele dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee? Will the report document details of the FISA warrants that approved spying on some associated with Trump's campaign?

Coincidentally, as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Judicial Watch, an independent government watchdog organization, has received the first of many pages of email traffic within the FBI just weeks before the 2016 election documenting concerns about classification status of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails regarding Benghazi. When did Clinton, Obama, et al know Benghazi was a planned Islamic terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous reaction to a Youtube video? What role did the FBI play in covering up Benghazi in 2012 and 2016?

Why didn't the FBI investigate the hundreds of millions of dollars Russians poured into the Clinton Foundation while Clinton was Secretary of State? Why was the FBI'S investigation into the Clinton campaign dropped? Will anyone investigate those who plotted to overthrow the President of the United States?

Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS.YOU may contact him at Pjandme2@gmail.com, or interact with him on the Clarion-ledger website http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion