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Deep State Has Faced Zero Accountability For A Decade Of Spying On Team Trump

Across a decade, not a single senior official has faced criminal accountability, or in many cases any accountability at all.

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The latest chapter in the long saga of government surveillance surrounding President Donald Trump may also be the most brazen.

According to recent reporting, in 2022 and 2023 the FBI under the Biden administration obtained the phone records of Kash Patel, who is now director of the FBI, and Susie Wiles, who serves as White House chief of staff. At the time, Patel was acting as Trump’s representative in dealings with the National Archives and Records Administration, while Wiles was managing Trump’s presidential campaign.

In one instance, the FBI secretly recorded a conversation between Wiles and her attorney. That category of communication sits at the very core of legal protection in the American system. Attorney-client privilege exists so that individuals can seek legal advice without fear that the government is listening.

In any previous era of American journalism, a story like that would have dominated front pages for months. Instead it barely registered.

I noted in late February that the episode would likely disappear from the news cycle within a week. That prediction turned out to be too optimistic. Most of legacy media did not cover the story at all.

That indifference is disturbing on its own. What makes it worse is that there is now nearly a decade of precedent for it. The reported surveillance of Wiles and Patel is simply the newest entry in a pattern that stretches back to the beginning of Trump’s political rise.

Nine years ago this week, President Trump posted his now infamous tweet claiming that the Obama administration had spied on his campaign. The response from the political establishment was immediate and dismissive, with intelligence officials, the media, and Democrats all mocking the claim as paranoid fantasy.At the time, the public knew little about the emerging Russiagate narrative, and the same institutions that mocked Trump were already laying the groundwork for the appointment of a special counsel whose investigation would hang over his presidency for years.

As events would later show, Trump was correct.

His campaign had indeed been infiltrated and surveilled by elements of the federal government. Inspector general reports, court filings, and reporting by independent media outlets such as The Federalist eventually confirmed that the surveillance had been carried out using false statements, withheld evidence, and unlawful investigative tactics.

Even more remarkable is that the spying never truly stopped. The fundamental problem is that it has been known for nearly a decade that these abuses occurred, yet no one has paid a price.

Shortly after Carter Page was publicly identified as a foreign policy adviser........

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