FBI Agents Allegedly Texted About ‘Secret Society’ The Day After Trump’s Election

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the two FBI officials involved in a scandal over anti-Trump text messages referred to a “secret society” on the day after President Trump’s 2016 election win, two Republican lawmakers who have reviewed the exchanges said on Monday.

Appearing on Fox News, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy and Texas Rep. John Ratclilffe said that the text message, which was exchanged between former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, is evidence of anti-Trump bias at the top levels of the FBI.

“We learned today about information that after — in the immediate aftermath of [Trump’s] election that there may have been a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI to include Page and Strzok that would be working against him,” Ratcliffe told Fox’s Martha MacCallum.

You have this insurance policy in the spring of 2016 and then the day after the election, the day after what they really, really didn’t want to have happen, there’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric FBI agents saying perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society,” he said.

The “insurance policy” reference is to an Aug. 15, 2016 text message that Strzok sent to Page in which he said that he was “afraid that we can’t take that risk” — the risk being Trump’s election win.

“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok wrote.

[dukkha]

#releasethememo

[Phantasmal]

Why they’re at it, get Nunes to release his, too.

[dukkha]

Why they’re at it, get Nunes to release his, too.

release his ..what?

[Phantasmal]

release his ..what?

https://lawfareblog.com/devin-nuness...le-distraction

[dukkha]

https://lawfareblog.com/devin-nuness...le-distraction

absolutely..It's being de-classified.. I'm not making any predictions.. but we all need to see it

[dukkha]

Andrew Weissmann, a veteran prosecutor assigned to Mueller’s legal team, praised Sally Yates, an Obama-administration holdover at the Trump Justice Department, for refusing to carry out President Trump’s immigration order.

It’s now been learned that Weissmann attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party in New York – a clear sign of his political leanings.

There’s more.

Another Mueller deputy is Jeannie Rhee, the former personal attorney of Ben Rhodes, the Obama deputy national security adviser. She also provided legal counsel to the Clinton Foundation and was also a generous donor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

In yet another disturbing case, another person on Mueller’s legal team, Aaron Zebley, turns out to have been until 2015 the lawyer for Justin Cooper. Who is Cooper? Oh, just the IT staffer who set up Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized server at her home.

After Hillary Clinton’s email scandal broke out, Zebley was identified as the person who smashed Clinton’s BlackBerries with a hammer in fear they would be subpoenaed. Zebley, who was Mueller’s chief of staff when both served in the FBI, is now on Mueller’s team probing the Trump administration and campaign.

But the most disturbing case yet is that of Bruce Ohr, who was until recently the fourth-ranking Justice Department official. Ohr has been demoted, now that’s its been learned he had unauthorized contacts with Fusion GPS, the dirt-digging outfit responsible for the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump “dossier.”

The dossier could have been one source of the decision to launch the original FBI investigation of possible “Trump collusion” with Russia. And it might be part of the evidence a federal court considered in granting power to wiretap Trump associates during the 2016 campaign.

Ohr was not a disinterested party in his unauthorized contacts with Fusion GPS. His wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 campaign, when portions of the firm’s discredited anti-Trump dossier was leaked just before Election Day.

President Trump shouldn’t fire Robert Mueller, nor should he refuse to cooperate with the Mueller probe. There are legitimate questions about Trump and Russian interference with the 2016 election that deserve answers.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...democracy.html

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Andrew Weissmann, a veteran prosecutor assigned to Mueller’s legal team, praised Sally Yates, an Obama-administration holdover at the Trump Justice Department, for refusing to carry out President Trump’s immigration order.

It’s now been learned that Weissmann attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party in New York – a clear sign of his political leanings.

There’s more.

Another Mueller deputy is Jeannie Rhee, the former personal attorney of Ben Rhodes, the Obama deputy national security adviser. She also provided legal counsel to the Clinton Foundation and was also a generous donor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

In yet another disturbing case, another person on Mueller’s legal team, Aaron Zebley, turns out to have been until 2015 the lawyer for Justin Cooper. Who is Cooper? Oh, just the IT staffer who set up Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized server at her home.

After Hillary Clinton’s email scandal broke out, Zebley was identified as the person who smashed Clinton’s BlackBerries with a hammer in fear they would be subpoenaed. Zebley, who was Mueller’s chief of staff when both served in the FBI, is now on Mueller’s team probing the Trump administration and campaign.

But the most disturbing case yet is that of Bruce Ohr, who was until recently the fourth-ranking Justice Department official. Ohr has been demoted, now that’s its been learned he had unauthorized contacts with Fusion GPS, the dirt-digging outfit responsible for the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump “dossier.”

The dossier could have been one source of the decision to launch the original FBI investigation of possible “Trump collusion” with Russia. And it might be part of the evidence a federal court considered in granting power to wiretap Trump associates during the 2016 campaign.

Ohr was not a disinterested party in his unauthorized contacts with Fusion GPS. His wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 campaign, when portions of the firm’s discredited anti-Trump dossier was leaked just before Election Day.

President Trump shouldn’t fire Robert Mueller, nor should he refuse to cooperate with the Mueller probe. There are legitimate questions about Trump and Russian interference with the 2016 election that deserve answers.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...democracy.html

Fox News lol Trump’s Pravda!

[Bigdog]

#releasethememo

A Palace Coup

This could rock our nation.

[SmarterthanYou]

I would say isn't it about time we denounce the entire DOJ, but i'm pretty sure i'll hear things like i'm a cop hater and that it's only a few bad apples, that 99% of the others are doing a great job at protecting and serving

[Bigdog]

I would say isn't it about time we denounce the entire DOJ, but i'm pretty sure i'll hear things like i'm a cop hater and that it's only a few bad apples, that 99% of the others are doing a great job at protecting and serving

There have always been controversial cases. We still need a doj.

[SmarterthanYou]

There have always been controversial cases. We still need a doj.

that very DOJ you say you need.......filled with corrupt prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement agents.........why do we still need that? do they make you feel safe?

[dukkha]

Fox News lol Trump’s Pravda!

it's factual background you reactive birdbrian..read before you react.

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it's factual background you reactive birdbrian..read before you react.

I don’t read Fox because I have a well functioning brain. You waste your two brain cells by believing anything they print.

[SmarterthanYou]

I don’t read Fox because I have a well functioning brain. You waste your two brain cells by believing anything they print.

what primary news source do you believe in?