By John Ubaldi, —

Thomas Jefferson once wrote “While the laws shall be obeyed, all will be safe. He alone is your enemy who disobeys them,” but as we witness the spectacle of re-hearing Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress, lost in the charade is the alleged abuse of power by the Department of Justice and the FBI.

Last month we learned that former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe in an interview on “60 Minutes” confirmed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had mentioned in a conversation to wear a wire while around the president hoping to catch him saying something that they could then invoke the 25th amendment and have him removed from office.

This had been revealed last fall, with Rosenstein flatly denying it as only a joke, but former lead Counsel for the FBI testified that McCabe had come to him and believed it wasn’t a joke.  The question who is telling the truth?

McCabe Opens Counter Intelligence Investigation on President   

Now in the same interview McCabe stated he had opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump after he had fired then FBI Director James Comey. It has also been revealed through text messages and congressional testimony that after the Comey firing, McCabe’s “Russia team” had re-established liaison with former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele the author of the now infamous Russian dossier that still to this day has never been verified or substantiated in building a case for espionage and obstruction of justice on President Trump.

This was the same dossier DOJ and FBI officials presented to a FISA court judge without revealing the source, who funded it or the animus of the author toward Trump, we later learned the FISA judge never asked to verify any of the information present before the court by federal law enforcement officials on each of the renewal of the application warrant; they just accepted there word.

Former Federal Prosecutors and Investigators Question FBI Motives

Former federal prosecutors and investigators described the move to RealClearInvestigations as “desperate.” They also said the FBI’s decision to suddenly re-engage with a discredited confidential source raises fresh questions about the evidentiary grounds on which the FBI opened an unprecedented probe targeting the president.

“It suggests that McCabe lacked evidence to make an espionage case against Trump and was desperate to find it — even if that meant going back to the same unreliable source of still-unverified dossier dirt,” former federal prosecutor Solomon L. Wisenberg said.

McCabe Testifies Without Dossier Couldn’t Get FISA Warrant

Incidentally enough McCabe testified before the House Intelligence meeting during a closed door meeting and admitted that without the dossier no warrant would have been able to be obtained; even Comey stated the “dossier” was “salacious and unverified.”

While noting that there are not only Justice Department rules but also federal laws against opening groundless investigations, they warned that if the nation’s top police force can investigate and spy on a president without hard evidence of criminal behavior, they can do it to anyone. “It’s pretty clear that Comey’s firing is what prompted McCabe’s fury,” Wisenberg said.

As McCabe assembled his “Russia team” with the led investigator being Peter Strzok, who was later fired for alleged anti-Trump bias in various text messages between himself and top FBI official Lisa Page.

After the Comey firing the FBI reached out to Steele who also incidentally had been fired by the bureau for lying and releasing information to the media.

DOJ Contacts Fusion GPS

The DOJ utilized senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, because his wife Nellie Ohr worked for Fusion GPS, which was being paid stimulatingly by both the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to provide opposition research on Trump.

Currently, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) hasn’t ruled if both the Clinton campaign and the DNC violated campaign finance laws in its payment to Fusion GPS during the  During the 2016 election cycle, Hillary for America reported $5,631,421 in payments to Perkins Coie. These were described as “Legal Services.”

Further, the DNC reported paying Perkins Coie $6,466,711 for “Legal and Compliance Consulting.”

You are only legally allowed to make payments up to $250,000 for legal services anything after that it has to be fully disclosed, this wasn’t done in this case.

Throughout the presidential campaign and into the first year of the Trump presidency, Ohr acted as conduit between Fusion GPS and the FBI, with Republican Rep. Mark Meadows asking Ohr about this relationship during a closed-door session, which the transcripts have only just been released, from which he admitted to assisting in this relationship.

Why Did the DOJ and FBI Still rely on Steele?

The question which has never been asked is why the FBI and the DOJ still rely on Steele for information when he had been fired by the bureau, and continue to work with Fusion GPS utilizing a dossier that they knew could not be verified and substantiate?

Michael Biasello, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who spent 10 years in counterintelligence, agreed that McCabe lacked a case against Trump. “What McCabe did is outrageous,” he said, “and McCabe as a lawyer should have known better.”

The interesting aspect is that McCabe was fired for precisely the same reason as Steele for lying and leaking, we also have learned that additional dozen FBI and DOJ officials now have been resigned, retired, been fired, or reassigned for unethical and likely illegal behavior.

Democrats Subpoena Access to Trump Records

Now currently, Democratic House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Jerrold Nadler, announced on Sunday that the Comey firing will be part of any obstruction-of-justice and corruption inquiry, even though prosecutors and investigators who were interviewed by Real Clear Investigations have state none of the information now available would have been enough to launch an FBI investigation.

In fact on Monday, the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee served document requests on 81 government agencies, entities and individuals looking into obstruction of justice by Trump and others.

Will the same committee look into alleged maleficence by the DOJ and FBI in how they conducted investigations into the same investigations now being handled by the House Judiciary Committee?

It’s time we have an honest assessment of alleged abuse of power by the DOJ and the FBI, because if we don’t then we will pay a high price as Jefferson noted.