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Deep State Agent Cited Wikipedia In Attempt To Launch Another Get-Trump Probe: Docs

While it may seem a little late in the day to worry about these details, the Deep State is just that — deep.

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Walter Giardina — an FBI agent whistleblowers claim “openly stated his desire to investigate Trump, even if it meant false predication” — cited a Wikipedia article in support of launching yet another investigation of Donald Trump. That detail is but one of the crazier revelations buried in the latest cache of documents Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made public last week in conjunction with FBI Director Kash Patel’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As The Federalist previously reported, last week Patel testified before “the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide-range of topics.” He dropped in the middle of the four-hour-plus hearing news related to the ongoing investigation of the weaponization of the FBI: The FBI had “made up” the Round River “classification,” Patel told Grassley on Tuesday.

For several years, Grassley has led an investigation into the weaponization of the FBI, including the launch of the Round River investigation, which whistleblowers told the Iowa senator sought to “improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.” While Patel’s confirmation that the Round River “classification” was fraudulent and that his team was investigating “the individuals who launched and codified this false and fake [classification],” represented the biggest news of the day, the documents Grassley released in connection with the hearing revealed many more troubling details about the weaponization of the FBI.

Walter Giardina’s Get-Trump Obsession

Featured heavily in last week’s document dump was Walter Giardina. The documents released on Tuesday by Grassley’s office include multiple email threads showing Giardina had repeatedly — seven times in four weeks — attempted to join the Crossfire Hurricane team. Giardina’s efforts contradict claims “by former FBI officials that agents don’t get to pick their cases.”

Not only did Giardina try to force his way onto Crossfire Hurricane, but the emails released show he pushed for the launch of a new case against Trump based on supposed campaign finance violations — even before Trump’s first inauguration. A January 12, 2017 email from fellow anti-Trump FBI agent Tim Thibault revealed Giardina’s plot. In that email to his Washington Field Office supervisor, Joe Pientka, Thibault noted that Giardina “has a[n] open source reporting on info related to questionable fundraising activities by the Trump campaign.”

Additional emails showed Thibault’s efforts to sell Giardina to Supervisory Special Agent Pientka proved successful, with Pientka responding that he would discuss Giardina’s interest in providing assistance “with Jeff Rhue who has taken my CROSSFIRE portfolio at HQ and has started a new Illicit Influence Activities Team.” Pientka then asked Giardina to “link up” with him.

Another email dated January 20, 2017, noted Giardina was pulling “FEC papers, financial disclosures and talking to a source” related to the proposed investigation. Then, on February 27, 2017, Giardina explained that his Washington Field Office’s federal public corruption squad was “in the process of........

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