This week’s title doesn’t refer to the news programs that are aired in the late evening, but rather to the alarming trend among segments of the media to ignore the obvious for years, and much later announce as “breaking news” events that they had helped to suppress.  I’m referring to the supposed bombshell reporting by Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag, that the US Intelligence Community asked foreign spy agencies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to surveil 26 associates of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, which fueled allegations that the former president’s campaign had been colluding with Russia. Warrantless surveillance of US persons is specifically prohibited by US law.  You, no doubt, will recall that much of the impetus for what became the Trump/Russia Collusion investigation was gleaned from the phony dossier that Hillary Clinton bought from former British MI5 spy Christopher Steele, but that came later.  The wheels of the conspiracy were set in motion by the CIA early in 2016, and once again let me say, this is not new information.  I reported all of this stuff years ago.  On March 17, 2017 in Journalism Rest in Peace, and on March 24, 2017 in Who Were Those Unmasked Men? I discussed the report that investigators wiretapped Trump Towers.  The media denied it.  It turned out to be true.  On June 1, 2018 in Spy vs. Spy, and on June 8, 2018 in The Deep State Lives, I reported that Donald Trump and his campaign were the targets of a multi-agency investigation which included the use of government informants who planted the information that the government used to start the Russian Collusion investigation.  The Democrats and the media denied the allegation as “outrageous.”  Five years and eight months ago, I wrote, “CIA Director John Brennan sprang into action.  The American Spectator has pieced together the sordid timeline.  We were led to believe that the investigation began in May 2016, when George Papadopolous told Australian envoy Alexander Downer Russia “had dirt” on Hillary Clinton, including her emails.  Now we know the truth. In March 2016, the CIA arranged for one of their informants, British academic, Joseph Mifsud, to meet with Papadopolous.  In April 2016, Mifsud fed Papadopolous information that Russia had dirt on Hillary and her emails.”  “Brennan shared the information with James Comey, and the FBI launched Operation Crossfire/Hurricane, which was controlled by “the Langley Working Group,” a government task force including CIA, FBI, Treasury, Justice, the DNI (James Clapper) and the NSA.”  “Papadopolous later was introduced to a second CIA spy, Stefan Halper, who also passed on the “Russian dirt on Hillary” information to Papadopolous.  The CIA also sent an informant to meet with Carter Page in London, perhaps the same professor Halper” who worked in London.  Then, FBI agent Peter Strozk, the FBI’s conduit to CIA Director Brennan, the same agent who interviewed General Flynn, and Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton … was tasked to go to London to interview Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, to whom a drunken Papadopolous repeated what he had been told by Mifsud.  So the CIA and FBI planted the story it used to begin the Trump investigation with people working for Trump.  Hillary then bought the Steele dossier from a group called Fusion GPS.  Steele got what he put in the dossier from Russian intelligence agents.  Get that?  The phony dossier that alleges Trump colluded with Russia, came from Hillary, who bought it from a guy (Steele) who got it from the the Russian FSB.  You can’t make this shit up.  Steele later testified under oath that the allegations in the dossier about Trump weren’t true.  In 2020, declassified documents proved that the FBI misled both the Congress and the FISA Court by using the dossier, which they knew was false, to get wiretap authorizations.  Nobody has gone to prison for that.  They should.  The intelligence agencies then sent a Russian woman linked to Fusion GPS to see Donald Trump, Jr.  He threw her out, but the meeting provided a pretext for more wiretapping of Trump employees after the election.  Last March, Special Counsel John Durham wrapped up a four year investigation which concluded that the FBI investigation of Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia was “seriously flawed” and had no basis in evidence.  I guess “seriously flawed” means “blatantly illegal” because that’s what it was.  Add to this the stonewalling by the FBI to slow-walk document releases to the Congress, the suppression of all dissent by social media outlets in 2020, which prevented most people from considering the evidence on the Hunter Biden laptop, which proves Biden Family corruption, and the utter contempt exhibited by the Media for all things Trump, and is it any wonder that we’re saddled with President Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden?  I truly like Matt Taibbi, and I respect his work, but I have to ask, “Matt, what kept you?”  Me and plenty of other people had this travesty figured out seven years ago.  I make no claims of clairvoyance or superior intelligence, far from it.  It may be that my professional background gave me an advantage.  I spent most of my life investigating crimes, and much of it involved electronic surveillance.  The difference was that we liked to have real evidence of wrongdoing before invading someone’s privacy.  Here, the CIA and FBI made use of “evidence” they knew was either false or seriously suspect.  Just for example, no honest prosecutor would touch supposed evidence from a political candidate about his or her political opponent with a ten foot pole in the lead up to an election.  What was done here was 100 times worse than that.  This disgraceful episode had the greasy fingerprints of Il Duce Obama all over it.  Our government, you know, the same lying assholes who keep lecturing us on “threats to our democracy,” used fabricated evidence from one candidate to spy on employees of the opposing candidate.  Then, when the target of their phony investigations won, they tried to run him out of office using the same phony crap.  The Deep State lied, and the Media swore it all was true.  And even now, years after they finally admitted that the Trump/Russia Collusion allegations were all a hoax, lying She-Wolf, Crooked Hillary Clinton, is still calling Donald Trump a Russian stooge.  Heads should have rolled long ago.  The other day Trump hit the right tone.  Asked if he sought revenge, he said no, “my success will be the revenge.”  That sounds good, but it’s really not enough.