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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    The question is WHY were the various Clinton investigations all over the MSM in the run-up to the election, and NOTHING about the Trump-Russia investigation. Does that sound like an anti-Trump conspiracy to you?

    What happened to those Clinton investigations, btw? Eighteen months later we don't hear about them. They served their purpose, I guess. "Feds are 'actively and aggressively pursuing' a case," Fox's Bret Baier said. Lol.
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    Translation; while the whiny left thinks the Trump campaign is the problem, the Obama administration was acting like a Fascist dictatorship thinking it was above the law.

    The irony is that they, including Obama, all thought Hillary would win and this would all be swept under the rug. The chink in their plan was Trump and him winning.

    The Fascists on the left should be appalled; but they wont be. If it is THEIR people, it's okay dontchyaknow. ::wink wink::
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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    So would Peter Strzok, number two in the FBI’s counterintelligence section, and his paramour, Lisa Page.
    Those are the ones to talk to since they are key players in the Secret Society formed by the FBI to oust Trump.

    The “secret society” referenced in a text message between Trump-bashing FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page allegedly involved multiple "high-ranking FBI officials," a top GOP lawmaker said Wednesday.

    Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., revealed this week that his committee met with a whistleblower informant who gave more details on that "society," claiming the group was known to meet "off-site." Johnson elaborated in an interview Wednesday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," indicating others were involved.

    “I have heard from somebody who has talked to our committee that there is a group of individuals in the FBI who were holding secret, off-site meetings,” Johnson said Wednesday. “I think there are indications there were a number of high-level FBI officials that were holding secret meetings off-site.”


    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...t-society.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    The news reports have all focused on the FBI’s second-in-command leaking information to the Wall Street Journal – or authorizing subordinates to do so -- and then lying to investigators about it. This is big news, provided that account is borne out by a subsequent criminal indictment and successful prosecution.

    The news will be even bigger if Andrew McCabe pursues a scorched-earth policy against his FBI superior, James Comey, who started the investigation of his deputy. Even a prosecutor fresh out of law school ought to be able to flip McCabe, who is facing serious jail time and thinks he has been betrayed. Such men are dangerous.

    McCabe’s testimony is the best way to learn why the FBI and Department of Justice seemingly mishandled everything related to Hillary Clinton and how the intelligence agencies routinely funneled classified material on Donald Trump to friendly news agencies. If there was a high-level conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Clinton investigation or to use the so-called “Deep State” to smear Trump, McCabe would know a lot about it.

    He could also respond to the stunning allegation recently leveled by Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. On Sunday, Nunes told Fox News anchorwoman Maria Bartiromo, “We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation” of Trump’s aides. Nunes has read the classified materials, and he is making a deeply troubling allegation: An official investigation was mounted against an American presidential campaign with no official information to support it. If so, then U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies were weaponized for partisan purposes. McCabe would know about that, too, or know if it is untrue.

    So would Peter Strzok, number two in the FBI’s counterintelligence section, and his paramour, Lisa Page. They may be talking to investigators already. That would be the most plausible explanation for why they haven’t been fired. As long as they are still on the government payroll, they are available to Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his team of investigators. There are also credible reports that Strzok’s boss, Bill Priestap, is now a cooperating witness. His name is rarely heard in public, but he would have a goldmine of information.

    Although the public focus has been on McCabe’s reported deceptions, one of his presumably truthful comments about the Department of Justice may be even more significant. He said flatly that during the last months of the Obama administration, high-ranking Justice Department officials tried to kill the FBI’s on-going investigation into the Clinton Foundation. It happened in a phone call from DOJ’s third-highest official. Although unidentified in the report, the reference apparently is to Matthew Axelrod, whose title at the time was principal associate deputy attorney general.

    The 35-page report goes on to say that, by leaking that conversation, McCabe was trying “to make himself look good by making senior department leadership, specifically the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, look bad,” Well, yeah.

    The same logic should apply to the misappropriated, classified memos James Comey leaked through his friend at Columbia Law School. Comey has said they were meant to force the appointment of a special counsel.

    Those leaks do make senior law-enforcement leaders look bad. Actually, they make them look politically corrupt. The Horowitz report does not dispute that the DOJ call to McCabe took place or that it was meant to quash a legitimate FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation. If that is confirmed, it is a perversion of the Justice Department and its core function of unbiased application of the law.

    We need to know if McCabe is telling the truth about direct political pressure to help the Clintons. If he is, we need to know who told the DOJ official to make that call. That explanation needs to be under oath before a grand jury, since it smells a lot like obstruction of justice and may involve his bosses. All of them are high-level political appointees.

    According to a Wall Street Journal article, McCabe says he stood straight and tall and “reiterated past instructions to FBI agents that they were to keep pursuing the work within the authority they had.” But that’s based on McCabe’s self-serving leak. The FBI agents under his command say he was more like a supine munchkin, carrying out the wishes of Loretta Lynch’s people. FBI agents investigating the Clinton Foundation “were given a much starker instruction on the case: ‘Stand down,’” according to the Journal report. “When agents questioned why they weren’t allowed to take more aggressive steps, they said they were told the order had come from the deputy director -- Mr. McCabe.” Again, that looks like possible obstruction of justice, done for explicitly partisan-political reasons.

    Somebody’s lying here, and maybe more than one person. All these players are, or were, high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ. All of them ought to explain themselves before a grand jury. Since those proceedings are secret and indictments take time, we need public reports, and soon, from Horowitz’s office about these allegations. Was there a political attempt by the Department of Justice to protect the Clinton Foundation from an FBI investigation? Was Loretta Lynch herself involved? Was the White House or were the Clintons? Or did McCabe do all this on his own to protect the Clintons?

    The OIG report does not dispute the statement, made in the Journal article, that the DOJ official “was ‘very pissed off,’ according to one person close to Mr. McCabe, and pressed him to explain why the FBI was still chasing a matter the Department [of Justice] considered dormant.” As you may have guessed, that “person close to Mr. McCabe” stared at him every morning when he shaved.

    Unfortunately, it looks as though a lot of top officials at the FBI and DOJ were shaving the law, violating our basic constitutional promise that the rules must be applied fairly to everyone. That must include the powerful. Equal treatment must include the men and women who lead the agencies we entrust to collect sensitive information, keep it secret, and enforce the law. They are not exempt, like the king’s courtiers or the dictator’s oligarchs. There is spreading evidence that, in the final year of the Obama administration, our country’s top law-enforcement and intelligence officials failed in that most basic responsibility. We need to know if they did, and we need to know who put them up to it.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...rt_136882.html


    It would appear that McCabe is sitting in the catbird seat. The tangled web is also unraveling more and more and becoming much more understandable and easier tell who all the players are and their contributions to this whole sordid affair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    The question is WHY were the various Clinton investigations all over the MSM in the run-up to the election, and NOTHING about the Trump-Russia investigation. Does that sound like an anti-Trump conspiracy to you?

    What happened to those Clinton investigations, btw? Eighteen months later we don't hear about them. They served their purpose, I guess. "Feds are 'actively and aggressively pursuing' a case," Fox's Bret Baier said. Lol.
    you are looking at a very narrow aspect. Clinton exposed her private server under the Bengazi hearings-
    Clearly she violated cclassification protocol because she had NO State Dept. email!
    was the FBI supposed to ignore this?
    Once it gets out there it's out there - i can't even remember how it got public-maybe a news leak.

    The Clinton foundation investigation was farmed out to local USDA's if I recall ( not FBI headquarters).
    we heard nothing about it during the campaign -despite a lot of shakey looking quid pro quo.

    anyways..you are agian looking at a very narrow aspect.
    Systematic corruption by the FBI leadership and FISA abuse are much larger issues that impact
    prosecutorial bias and gross violations of the 4th amendment, not just a single election

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    The left figured that Hillary was going to win. Trump/Russia collusion was Plan B.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    The existence of an FBI investigation into Trump's campaign was not made public until after the election.
    The reopening of the FBI investigation into Clinton's emails was announced 11 days before the election.

    How do these awkward facts fit into the conspiracy theory?
    Trumps campaign investigation was started without any proof at all that him or his campaign was involved in any wrongdoing...or that any crime was being investigated....

    Hillarys email investigation, or should I say matter, were made public by none other than the Director of the FBI himself....

    Trumps investigation continues today still with absolutely no proof of a crime being committed or collusion with foreign agents......nothing

    Hillary, gets exonerated after the D. of the FBI spells out her crimes in open hearings, under oath, before Congress...

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    because it was bullshit just like the Benghazi charges

    No, the old crooked Hillbag illegally destroyed the subpoenaed evidence that was on her gov't server.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    The news reports have all focused on the FBI’s second-in-command leaking information to the Wall Street Journal – or authorizing subordinates to do so -- and then lying to investigators about it. This is big news, provided that account is borne out by a subsequent criminal indictment and successful prosecution.

    The news will be even bigger if Andrew McCabe pursues a scorched-earth policy against his FBI superior, James Comey, who started the investigation of his deputy. Even a prosecutor fresh out of law school ought to be able to flip McCabe, who is facing serious jail time and thinks he has been betrayed. Such men are dangerous.

    McCabe’s testimony is the best way to learn why the FBI and Department of Justice seemingly mishandled everything related to Hillary Clinton and how the intelligence agencies routinely funneled classified material on Donald Trump to friendly news agencies. If there was a high-level conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Clinton investigation or to use the so-called “Deep State” to smear Trump, McCabe would know a lot about it.

    He could also respond to the stunning allegation recently leveled by Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. On Sunday, Nunes told Fox News anchorwoman Maria Bartiromo, “We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation” of Trump’s aides. Nunes has read the classified materials, and he is making a deeply troubling allegation: An official investigation was mounted against an American presidential campaign with no official information to support it. If so, then U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies were weaponized for partisan purposes. McCabe would know about that, too, or know if it is untrue.

    So would Peter Strzok, number two in the FBI’s counterintelligence section, and his paramour, Lisa Page. They may be talking to investigators already. That would be the most plausible explanation for why they haven’t been fired. As long as they are still on the government payroll, they are available to Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his team of investigators. There are also credible reports that Strzok’s boss, Bill Priestap, is now a cooperating witness. His name is rarely heard in public, but he would have a goldmine of information.

    Although the public focus has been on McCabe’s reported deceptions, one of his presumably truthful comments about the Department of Justice may be even more significant. He said flatly that during the last months of the Obama administration, high-ranking Justice Department officials tried to kill the FBI’s on-going investigation into the Clinton Foundation. It happened in a phone call from DOJ’s third-highest official. Although unidentified in the report, the reference apparently is to Matthew Axelrod, whose title at the time was principal associate deputy attorney general.

    The 35-page report goes on to say that, by leaking that conversation, McCabe was trying “to make himself look good by making senior department leadership, specifically the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, look bad,” Well, yeah.

    The same logic should apply to the misappropriated, classified memos James Comey leaked through his friend at Columbia Law School. Comey has said they were meant to force the appointment of a special counsel.

    Those leaks do make senior law-enforcement leaders look bad. Actually, they make them look politically corrupt. The Horowitz report does not dispute that the DOJ call to McCabe took place or that it was meant to quash a legitimate FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation. If that is confirmed, it is a perversion of the Justice Department and its core function of unbiased application of the law.

    We need to know if McCabe is telling the truth about direct political pressure to help the Clintons. If he is, we need to know who told the DOJ official to make that call. That explanation needs to be under oath before a grand jury, since it smells a lot like obstruction of justice and may involve his bosses. All of them are high-level political appointees.

    According to a Wall Street Journal article, McCabe says he stood straight and tall and “reiterated past instructions to FBI agents that they were to keep pursuing the work within the authority they had.” But that’s based on McCabe’s self-serving leak. The FBI agents under his command say he was more like a supine munchkin, carrying out the wishes of Loretta Lynch’s people. FBI agents investigating the Clinton Foundation “were given a much starker instruction on the case: ‘Stand down,’” according to the Journal report. “When agents questioned why they weren’t allowed to take more aggressive steps, they said they were told the order had come from the deputy director -- Mr. McCabe.” Again, that looks like possible obstruction of justice, done for explicitly partisan-political reasons.

    Somebody’s lying here, and maybe more than one person. All these players are, or were, high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ. All of them ought to explain themselves before a grand jury. Since those proceedings are secret and indictments take time, we need public reports, and soon, from Horowitz’s office about these allegations. Was there a political attempt by the Department of Justice to protect the Clinton Foundation from an FBI investigation? Was Loretta Lynch herself involved? Was the White House or were the Clintons? Or did McCabe do all this on his own to protect the Clintons?

    The OIG report does not dispute the statement, made in the Journal article, that the DOJ official “was ‘very pissed off,’ according to one person close to Mr. McCabe, and pressed him to explain why the FBI was still chasing a matter the Department [of Justice] considered dormant.” As you may have guessed, that “person close to Mr. McCabe” stared at him every morning when he shaved.

    Unfortunately, it looks as though a lot of top officials at the FBI and DOJ were shaving the law, violating our basic constitutional promise that the rules must be applied fairly to everyone. That must include the powerful. Equal treatment must include the men and women who lead the agencies we entrust to collect sensitive information, keep it secret, and enforce the law. They are not exempt, like the king’s courtiers or the dictator’s oligarchs. There is spreading evidence that, in the final year of the Obama administration, our country’s top law-enforcement and intelligence officials failed in that most basic responsibility. We need to know if they did, and we need to know who put them up to it.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...rt_136882.html
    "An official investigation was mounted against an American presidential campaign with no official information to support it."

    Yeah, whatever happened to the Russia collusion obsession?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    "An official investigation was mounted against an American presidential campaign with no official information to support it."

    Yeah, whatever happened to the Russia collusion obsession?
    Mueller got a dry hole -he went fishing elsewhere

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    Mueller got a dry hole -he went fishing elsewhere
    Recall that Strzok was so-so about joining Team Mueller because he thought ‘there was no there, there’.

    He would know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Recall that Strzok was so-so about joining Team Mueller because he thought ‘there was no there, there’.

    He would know.
    Nunes confirms " no intelligence" used to start the FBI probe

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    Nunes confirms " no intelligence" used to start the FBI probe
    Don't forget his sterling work on the FISC application, which he confirmed was based on nothing but the Steele dossier!

    Surely Nunes has done enough to earn a place in this stellar administration. Secretary for Imaginative Interpretations?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    Don't forget his sterling work on the FISC application, which he confirmed was based on nothing but the Steele dossier!

    Surely Nunes has done enough to earn a place in this stellar administration. Secretary for Imaginative Interpretations?
    Well, the Trump/Russian thing looks a little more imaginative with every week that goes by lol.

    It sure seems like they started the investigation on a whim.
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