The FBI has reportedly opened an investigation into the origins of an alleged off-the-books operation launched a decade ago by former FBI Director James Comey to use undercover “honeypot” agents to infiltrate President Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign.
The alleged scheme was disclosed by an FBI whistleblower last year in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee, The Washington Times reported.
A “honeypot” refers to an undercover operative, usually an attractive woman, who uses sexual allure to entice targets and gain information from them.
The newspaper reported that the whistleblower alleged that two women who worked at the FBI went undercover and infiltrated Trump’s campaign.
The Washington Times said that the FBI, now under the leadership of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, “is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.”
The whistleblower alleged that Comey “personally knew” and “personally directed” the operation targeting the Trump campaign in an apparent attempt to find incriminating evidence of any kind of a crime that could be used to open an official investigation.
“The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system,” the whistleblower said in their disclosure. “The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number.”
Radio host Hugh Hewitt responded to the report by posting on X: “If —a very big IF— this is true or even truth-adjacent, the scandal should shake everybody of standing in the mainstream in either party and any reporter w/a passing understanding of American history and the the rule of law.”
“We would all know what such an operation would mean: an actual example of an attempt to manipulate the political process via the secret abuse [of] federal authority,” he wrote. “It would be worse than the lawfare we know about. By a lot. I hesitate, not to believe that an allegation was made, but that anything so wildly irresponsible would have been ok’d or even dreamt up by Director Comey.”
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The FBI has reportedly opened an investigation into the origins of an alleged off-the-books operation launched a decade ago by former FBI Director James Comey to use undercover “honeypot” agents to infiltrate President Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign.
The alleged scheme was disclosed by an FBI whistleblower last year in a protected disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee, The Washington Times reported.
A “honeypot” refers to an undercover operative, usually an attractive woman, who uses sexual allure to entice targets and gain information from them.
The newspaper reported that the whistleblower alleged that two women who worked at the FBI went undercover and infiltrated Trump’s campaign.
The Washington Times said that the FBI, now under the leadership of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, “is looking for those once-undercover employees under Mr. Comey’s direction.”
The whistleblower alleged that Comey “personally knew” and “personally directed” the operation targeting the Trump campaign in an apparent attempt to find incriminating evidence of any kind of a crime that could be used to open an official investigation.
“The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file in Sentinel or any other FBI system,” the whistleblower said in their disclosure. “The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number.”
Radio host Hugh Hewitt responded to the report by posting on X: “If —a very big IF— this is true or even truth-adjacent, the scandal should shake everybody of standing in the mainstream in either party and any reporter w/a passing understanding of American history and the the rule of law.”
“We would all know what such an operation would mean: an actual example of an attempt to manipulate the political process via the secret abuse [of] federal authority,” he wrote. “It would be worse than the lawfare we know about. By a lot. I hesitate, not to believe that an allegation was made, but that anything so wildly irresponsible would have been ok’d or even dreamt up by Director Comey.”
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