New leads indicate that key operatives under the Obama administration’s State Department, FBI and CIA set up “Russian espionage traps” in order to try and catch low-level campaign aides for the 2016 Trump campaign in order to sabotage the Republican nominee’s White House run.

Paul Sperry – an investigative journalist for RealClearPolitics and the New York Post who also authored Infiltration – followed up on a media report on the matter with an announcement that former President Barack Obama’s spy scandal continues to unfold. The reporter revealed that former Secretary of State John Kerry, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and senior Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Peter Strzok used federal resources to incriminate now-President Donald Trump and sway voters just a few months before the 2016 Presidential Election.

“DEVELOPING: A major new front is opening in the political espionage scandal,” Sperry tweeted Friday. “In summer 2016, Brennan with his FBI liaison Strzok, along with help from Kerry @ State, were trying to set Russian espionage traps for minor players in the Trump campaign through cultivated intel assets.”

Unwrapping another huge Obama scandal?

For months, Sperry has reported on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) underhanded dealing of the Christopher Stelle dossier, and his latest revelation comes in the wake of a Thursday media report indicating that the FBI engaged in “outright spying” against the 2016 Trump campaign.

“The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it agreed to brief House Intelligence Committee members about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign,” the Wall Street Journal divulged Thursday night. “Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications … [a]mong them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation.”

The FBI source uncovering the former administration’s conspiracy against Trump is yet to be officially confirmed, but a floodgate of incriminating evidence proving the Obama administration’s covert operations to thwart the Republican presidential nominee appears to be impending.

"I believe I know the name of the informant," the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reported Thursday. "But my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it. It would, therefore, be irresponsible to publish it. But what is clear is that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI’s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible. It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid."

Feeding in to existing evidence that Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI conspired against Trump, more incriminating proof is stacking up against the former president.

“The Justice Department and FBI has long maintained it opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign after it received a tip about drunken rumblings from then-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos,” TheBlaze reported. “That claim was called into question this week after House officials won a battle with the DOJ to review information that is so top-secret that the agency claimed lives would be in danger if more eyes viewed it.”

An outright release of the incriminating information, however, is on hold.

“[The agency] claimed a U.S. citizen – who has provided intelligence for the FBI and CIA – would be put at risk,” TheBlaze’s Chris Enloe divulged. “However, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) were eventually granted a classified briefing. This development alone holds ‘stunning implications.’”

"Remember all of the excuses: this could harm national security, this could undermine our relationship with intelligence partners. What we have seen so far shows that none of that's the case. What they were actually hiding were revelations that were hugely embarrassing to the FBI." "... Somebody ... was interacting with the Trump campaign in some way and reporting back to the FBI, which means the FBI was using human intelligence to spy on a presidential campaign." "This is pretty amazing and outrageous stuff. This is a political environment. Law enforcement is supposed to tread very carefully so that they don't look like they are in any way influencing or getting involved in an election." Kim Strassel

Member of Wall Street Journal editorial board

(in an interview with Fox News)

Excusing a cover-up?

Strassel noted another excuse Obama’s DOJ officials are giving to keep its incriminating evidence – against itself – under wraps.

"We also know that among the Justice Department’s stated reasons for not complying with the Nunes subpoena was its worry that to do so might damage international relationships," Strassel pointed out. "This suggests the ‘source’ may be overseas, have ties to foreign intelligence, or both. That’s notable, given the highly suspicious role foreigners have played in this escapade. It was an Australian diplomat who reported the Papadopoulos conversation."

The underhandedness of the nature of the FBI and CIA operation could spill a floodgate of trouble for Obama and his cronies in the two federal agencies and the DOJ.

“Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a ‘top secret intelligence source’ of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe,” Strassel continued. “When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens, but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency.”

It was pointed out how the Obama administration staged a covert FBI spy operation under the guise of a private citizen looking to dig up incriminating information on Trump.

“Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign,” Strassel explained. “This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting.”

Limbaugh’s take

Vocal conservative pundit and personality, Rush Limbaugh, shared his take on the recent developments and the specifics behind the case.

“When [Papadopoulos] was liquored up, he made some comment about Trump having dirt on Hillary and the Russians and so forth,” Limbaugh stressed, according to a RealClearPolitics report. “It was a Clinton-donating Australian diplomat who ratted out Papadopoulos … So, they have a plant, they had a spy, they had an informant in the Trump campaign.”

Even though Limbaugh concedes that he is not sure who the actual informant is – with many speculating it is Papadoupoulos or George Nader – he argues that the main focus should be on holding Obama and his White House operatives accountable for their abuse of power to manipulate the results of a presidential election in their party’s favor.

“For our purposes, the important thing is that the Obama administration infiltrated the Trump campaign with a spy – that's the important thing,” Limbaugh stressed. “Who it is, we will eventually learn, but we don't need to know who it is to know what the FBI did, and when I say the FBI, I mean the Obama administration – they infiltrated the Trump campaign with a spy, and while they have that spy implanted, they were unmasking and leaking and obtaining FISA spying warrants and conducting criminal investigations of Trump advisers.”

He says many do not realize the huge implications behind unearthing the Obama administration scandal.

“This is a big deal – it is a gigantic big deal!” Limbaugh interjected. “Who the informant was will eventually be learned – as will some other details – [and] I think, if you dig deeper, you would have to conclude that it's an American, that the CIA, the FBI, no doubt M-I5 ran in Britain, and I think it's probably somebody that Christopher Steele knows.”

He then went into the specifics, and what he believes will be revealed as the case unfolds.

“I don't think it is Papadopoulos – I think they ran the spy on Papadopoulos,” the conservative radio host offered. “And I think they've deployed their spy on some of the sources that Christopher Steele worked in prepping his dossier. Remember, Steele did all of his work in Britain; he hasn't set foot in Russia for 20 years. He was outed in Russia as a British operative in the late 90s. He has not been able to go back, and all of his sources are – the vast majority of them – are Russian, so, he's apparently talking on the phone.”

He then sorted out his own analysis of the situation based on the information he has.

“I think the supply that the FBI had the Trump campaign was run on Papadopoulos and some of the sources that Steele worked...” Limbaugh ventured. “Everybody now that has been studying this is convinced that the FBI did have an informant, and they planted the informants... They had somebody in there actually looking for collusion, and they still don't have any. What does it say … that after they even have the audacity to plant an informant in the presidential campaign of one candidate – not Hillary, but Trump. It tells you they really believe this nonsense that the Russians and Trump were buddies, and are colluding to steal the election – and that just boggles my mind.”

A brief final recap of what he thinks will eventually go down was then given.

“This is going to be one of the most embarrassing periods in the FBI's history – when all of this is finally revealed and history is written,” Limbaugh concluded.