Was the Trump-Russia investigation politically motivated from the start?

[Darth Omar]

you tell us, so in nut-bag world the Clinton Email investigation WAS politically motivated , but the Trump Russian nothing burger was NOT?

I just want to try and understand nut-bag world, I really do but it's hard to follow the thinking of a brain that's basically mush, did you Mom have any children that survived, could you summon one of them to explain nut-bag world for us

Clearly, they were dragged kicking and screaming into the Hillary investigation—which has to go down in history as the most half-assed and lackadaisical investigation of its kind.

In constrast to Mullet’s gestapo tactics in the Trump investigation—which actually began with spying on a presidential campaign.

Both investigations are historic for different reasons.

[LV426]

Putin wants Trump to be indicted because Putin knows that Trump is a coward who would never expect to stand trial for any crimes, and Trump will inevitably flee to Russia where he can serve as a President-in-Exile that Putin's FSB can manufacture idiot support for on the internet, thereby creating a permanent and lasting question to the legitimacy of our political system. Putin will treat Trump like a deposed ruler, much how we treated the Shah of Iran after the Islamic Revolution there resulted in his exile. Putin will do the same thing with Trump; using Trump's self-imposed exile as an excuse to question the legitimacy of our system. And he will have 20% of Americans supporting that.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

If there was any doubt about whether the Russian investigation was politically motivated, it was answered by the IG report.

Really? What did the IG report say about the Trump-Russia investigation?

Please note: I am asking what it said, not what you want it to have said.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

made what up?

The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, of course. Geeze.

Read the article.

[Darth Omar]

Really? What did the IG report say about the Trump-Russia investigation?

Please note: I am asking what it said, not what you want it to have said.

Horowitz said little or nothing.

But Strzok assured his mistress that ‘we’ll stop him’. Strzok gets an A for effort. Then he handed the ball off to Mullet.

[Aarr!]

British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...m-links-russia

<< Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told.

GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said.

Over the next six months a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said. >>

Why did it take until July 2016 for the FBI to open an investigation? We know that Comey and McCabe were Republicans. Were they trying to shield Trump?

[Nordberg]

Steele during his investigation in Russia found evidence of Russia interfering in the American elections and was sufficiently shocked that he informed the American intelligence agencies. That is how it all began. Steele did America a service.

[Bigdog]

If you want me to shup up about this, noise, please address the OP. Which do you go for:

- The Guardian made it up
- British intel made it up
- There is some truth in it.

Is there another option?

The Brit's "ex" head of MI6 created the pissgate dossier, using his spy connections, and made it look like an intel report, in order to affect the outcome of U.S. elections in the favor of the Hillbag. It's just another un-provable, manufactured "spy story" cooked up by British intel to influence our politics.

[Tranquillus in Exile]

The Brit's "ex" head of MI6 created the pissgate dossier, using his spy connections, and made it look like an intel report, in order to affect the outcome of U.S. elections in the favor of the Hillbag. It's just another un-provable, manufactured "spy story" cooked up by British intel to influence our politics.

If you're referring to Steele, he was never head of MI6. He ran a commercial intelligence operation specializing in Russia, and he used the same established network of "collectors" after Fusion GPS hired him. The information they collected may be true, partly true or false, but it couldn't possibly have affected the outcome of the election, because it wasn't public knowledge until AFTER the election.

In any case that has nothing to do with the Guardian article cited in the OP, which reports on information passed from British and several other foreign intel agencies to the US before Steele was hired.

[Bigdog]

If you're referring to Steele, he was never head of MI6. He ran a commercial intelligence operation specializing in Russia, and he used the same established network of "collectors" after Fusion GPS hired him. The information they collected may be true, partly true or false, but it couldn't possibly have affected the outcome of the election, because it wasn't public knowledge until AFTER the election.

In any case that has nothing to do with the Guardian article cited in the OP, which reports on information passed from British and several other foreign intel agencies to the US before Steele was hired.

You are correct, he was not head of MI6, but he was a top secret agent for them, and head of the Russian Desk for MI6.

"Steele was recruited by MI6 directly following his graduation from Cambridge, working in London at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 1987 to 1989.[4] From 1990 to 1993, Steele worked under diplomatic cover as an MI6 agent in Moscow, serving at the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow.[1][8][10] Steele was an "internal traveller", visiting newly-accessible cities such as Samara and Kazan.[5]

Steele's identity as an MI6 officer was one of 115 names Her Majesty's Government attempted to suppress through a DSMA-Notice in 1999.[11][12] He returned to London in 1993, working again at the FCO until his posting to Paris in 1998, where he served under diplomatic cover until 2002.[10][13][14][15] In 2003, Steele was sent to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan as part of an MI6 team, briefing Special Forces on "kill or capture" missions for Taliban targets, and also spent time teaching new MI6 recruits.[10] Between 2006 and 2009, Steele headed the Russia Desk at MI6. ... "

[Celticguy]

Of course

[Truth Detector]

Was the Trump-Russia investigation politically motivated from the start?

YES. The notion that Russia had anything to do with Trump trouncing Hillary is probably the most moronic and idiotic narrative ever invented by the FAKE media and their allies in the Democratic Party of the Jackass.

[Truth Detector]

The FBI does have a well-known bias against criminals.

Whiny race hustling lying liberal thinks this isn't about politics.

[Truth Detector]

Was the Clinton-Email investigation politically motivated from the start?

No it wasn't; why do you stupidly believe it was?

I am amused when lying leftist morons try to argue that it is perfectly okay for Government employees at ANY level to conduct their business away from public scrutiny with private e-mail servers. Particularly when it involves highly classified communique. STFU, seriously.

[Truth Detector]

you tell us, so in nut-bag world the Clinton Email investigation WAS politically motivated , but the Trump Russian nothing burger was NOT?

I just want to try and understand nut-bag world, I really do but it's hard to follow the thinking of a brain that's basically mush, did you Mom have any children that survived, could you summon one of them to explain nut-bag world for us

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