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The podcast is a revealing and in-depth exposé of the work Solomon has conducted into the FBI and Justice Department’s use of FISA warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and other alleged politically-motivated abuses regularly reported by “Hannity.” The discussion about the federal agents begins at the 44:00 mark.
Solomon told the co-hosts that on that night in March 2017, he had spoken on “Hannity” about “a whole bunch of FISA abuses” and the fact that in the waning days of the Obama regime, certain of its officials informed the FISA court of what the court termed in an opinion the following April “Significant non-compliance with the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data acquired under Section 702 using U.S. person identifiers.”
When he arrived home that evening, Solomon said, there was a “blue sedan sitting there with government plates” outside his home, from which two individuals emerged, asking him if he were “John Solomon.”
“Please just hear us out for two minutes,” Solomon recalled they said after he confirmed his identity. They did not say from what agency they were dispatched, Solomon recalled, and described them as resembling “G-Men” or “military.” He said the agents told him they believed he was “at the precipice of a much larger scandal.”
“We can’t tell you much,” Solomon said the men told him of that “much larger” issue. “The United States intelligence community, for a very short period of time, was used as a political-opposition research agency, and that is wrong. That’s not what we’re given these powers for…” Solomon said were their words, advising him to continue to “peel this onion back.” He added that they expressed concern that “the tools” made available to the U.S. intelligence community to identify “real terrorists and real spies” could be revoked if “the court finds out how they were misused.”
At the time, Solomon was collaborating at Circa News with Sara A. Carter, who is now working independently and as a Fox News contributor. After the encounter, which Solomon said was not unpleasant, he “wrote everything down” and sent the notes to Carter.
As of June 28, 2017, Solomon was Chief Operating Officer at Circa, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Less than two weeks later, he made the move to The Hill.
When Lewandowski asked if “government officials” normally contact him after he issues a report, he said, “Never,” although he said he receives “lots of calls all the time.”
