Peter Strzok hearing LIVE

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I got to see none of it because of work.

But let me guess: Strzok was advised to not answer any questions that specifically dealt with his actions that might have been influenced by bias.

This is one of the highlights ...


GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert (Texas) tore into FBI agent Peter Strzok with deeply personal attacks on Thursday, questioning how many times the agent looked "innocently into [his] wife's eyes" as he carried out an extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page.

“I can’t help but wonder when I see you looking there with a little smirk — how many times did you look so innocently into your wife’s eye and lie to her about Lisa Page,” Gohmert asked Strzok during a joint hearing before the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees.

"The credibility of the witness is always an issue," he continued as his remark drew immediate, loud protests from Democrats.

“You need your medication,” Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) shouted at Gohmert.

Other members called for the House Judiciary chairman to halt Gohmert's treatment of the witness, calling it "outrageous," "intolerable," and "harassing the witness."

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...nnocently-into

His "out" card was typically that he could not comment on the russian investigation because it was still active.

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I got to see none of it because of work.

But let me guess: Strzok was advised to not answer any questions that specifically dealt with his actions that might have been influenced by bias.

You can replay it using that vid I posted in the OP.

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that 2nd (3rd?) Steele dossier is the one funneled thru the State dept to the FBI. Nunes has been investigating.

It's incredulous that the Dems applauded for this asshat. TDS to the max.

It requires a lot of dot connecting, and my memory is Horowitz did call him corrupt,
but not able to document his animus was animating the investigation.

We do know he held back the existence of Weiner's laptop Emails -so obviously he's willing to manipulate
the direction of the counter-intelligence investigation as well as the Clinton Emails.

His texts are Machiavellian kill Trump. why should we believe he was anything but?

Hey, did you notice how Nunes skipped out today, one question went his way regarding the contradiction between his Committtee and the Senate Committee's findings and he took a quick powder never to return again. Now what was up with that?

Today was just a theatrical production orchestrated to perpetuate a narrative intended to undermine the Mueller investigation. Every scenario they attempted to portray has already been invalidated by the IG report, and in the process they made themselves verified why Americans have such a low opinion of Congressman

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I doubt it.

It would take a second SP to make that happen and I see little chance of that.

There will be 2nd IG report coming out having more to do with FISA abuse by the FBI/DOJ and bias.

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that 2nd (3rd?) Steele dossier is the one funneled thru the State dept to the FBI. Nunes has been investigating.

It's incredulous that the Dems applauded for this asshat. TDS to the max.

It requires a lot of dot connecting, and my memory is Horowitz did call him corrupt,
but not able to document his animus was animating the investigation.

We do know he held back the existence of Weiner's laptop Emails -so obviously he's willing to manipulate
the direction of the counter-intelligence investigation as well as the Clinton Emails.

His texts are Machiavellian kill Trump. why should we believe he was anything but?

One from Buzzfeed, one from McCain, one from Jones (Mother Jones) & Simpson (Fusion GPS).

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Hey, did you notice how Nunes skipped out today, one question went his way regarding the contradiction between his Committtee and the Senate Committee's findings and he took a quick powder never to return again. Now what was up with that?

Today was just a theatrical production orchestrated to perpetuate a narrative intended to undermine the Mueller investigation. Every scenario they attempted to portray has already been invalidated by the IG report, and in the process they made themselves verified why Americans have such a low opinion of Congressman

Strzok's smirking testimony that he wasn't biased ( just mistaken ) and it was all just bad form on his part is belied at minimum that he manipulated the exposure of Weiners laptop, as well as his text about Impeachment etc etc.

My advice is not to drag Mueller into Strzok. Strzok was rightly fired by Mueller.
Strzok own's his animus, and short of everything but the smoking gun shows he was talking insurance policies etc.
This is not a good guy, and he brings disregard on the Bureau - not Trump.

Dems are so screwed up in the head they applauded him

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One from Buzzfeed, one from McCain, one from Jones (Mother Jones) & Simpson (Fusion GPS).

those are 3 sources, but I think the same..I dunno though..Nunes has specifically mentioned thru State..??

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Just for you........speaking of the Code Of Ethics, from a C.I.B. Rep. Russell of OK
With all the fights and sharp attacks all day today, THIS man quietly sums it all up near the end of the day...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4739666/steve-russell

Your right, he summed it up perfectly, state his beliefs, cherrypick some Dept Manuel, pretend to ask a question, talk over the response so that Strzok never gets to answer the question, and then end with some distorted personal conclusion. Same scenario repeated throughout the day

It was funny though, certainly verifies why the overwhelming majority of Americans thinks Congress is a joke

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Sad I had to work. This sounds like good TV.

Republicans stupidity and covering for the idiot emperor on full TILT display

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those are 3 sources, but I think the same..I dunno though..Nunes has specifically mentioned thru State..??

I thought Strzok mentioned a "slight difference" between them. LOL........can you imagine???? It's like everybody was just wingin' it, not even taking care to make sure they all were identical????? What the.........

He did say that Orr provided one from Steele to the FBI. It's getting hard to keep score.

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Strzok's smirking testimony that he wasn't biased ( just mistaken ) and it was all just bad form on his part is belied at minimum that he manipulated the exposure of Weiners laptop, as well as his text about Impeachment etc etc.

My advice is not to drag Mueller into Strzok. Strzok was rightly fired by Mueller.
Strzok own's his animus, and short of everything but the smoking gun shows he was talking insurance policies etc.
This is not a good guy, and he brings disregard on the Bureau - not Trump.

Dems are so screwed up in the head they applauded him

And once again you are regurgitating the demogogue inneundos, as Strzok himself explained, yes he expressed bias opinions, but they played no role in his work performance. Everyone has biased opinions, you don't think everyone of those Republican Congressman sitting there didn't have biased opinions of him even before they began the questioning?

Point you are neglected is that there exists zero proof that anyone's biased opinions had any effect on any part of either investigation, or as the IG report states it, "We found no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations. Rather, we concluded that they were based on the prosecutor’s assessment of facts, the law and past department practice.”

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Your right, he summed it up perfectly, state his beliefs, cherrypick some Dept Manuel, pretend to ask a question, talk over the response so that Strzok never gets to answer the question, and then end with some distorted personal conclusion. Same scenario repeated throughout the day

It was funny though, certainly verifies why the overwhelming majority of Americans thinks Congress is a joke

He and everyone else didn't need to hear anymore out of Strzoky Puck's mouth. He had his lemmings in the house all day interrupting and deflecting off into point of order, objections, immigration, Manafort and purple hearts.

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Sad I had to work. This sounds like good TV.

Republicans stupidity and covering for the idiot emperor on full TILT display

It was great theater, and right from the beginning the Democrats exposed it for what it was, they had zero interest in what he said, he was there only as a prop in a narrative the GOP was aiming to perpetuate to undermine the Mueller investigation.

Seventy two Congressman each getting five minutes to ask questions, which very few of them did, rather just regurgitated the same old questions feeding the same old inneundos

But Goudy's bogus frustration cause he couldn't get his Fox "gottcha" moment and Gohmert's totally hilarious questioning topped the day

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He and everyone else didn't need to hear anymore out of Strzoky Puck's mouth. He had his lemmings in the house all day interrupting and deflecting off into point of order, objections, immigration, Manafort and purple hearts.

Strzok had very little to do what happened today, as I just noted above, they didn't care what he had to say, he was only there as a prop in the narrative they were attempting to perpetuate to undermine the Mueller investigation

Whole thing was a joke

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Did FBI get bamboozled by multiple versions of Trump dossier?

y John Solomon
Opinion Contributor

Like dandelions in an untreated lawn, the now infamous Russian dossier apparently multiplied in numbers — and emissaries delivering it to the FBI — the closer Donald Trump got to the White House.

We know from public testimony that dossier author and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele shared his findings with the FBI in summer and fall 2016 before he was terminated as a confidential source for inappropriate media contacts.

And we learned that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) provided a copy to the FBI after the November 2016 election — out of a sense of duty, his office says.

Now, memos the FBI is turning over to Congress show the bureau possessed at least three versions of the dossier and its mostly unverified allegations of collusion.

Each arrived from a different messenger: McCain, Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Fusion GPS founder (and Steele boss) Glenn Simpson.

That revelation is in an email that disgraced FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok wrote to FBI executives around the time BuzzFeed published a version of the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017.

“Our internal system is blocking the site,” Strzok wrote of the document posted on BuzzFeed. “I have the PDF via iPhone but it’s 25.6MB. Comparing now. The set is only identical to what McCain had. (it has differences from what was given to us by Corn and Simpson.)”

The significance of Strzok’s email is obvious to investigators who reviewed it in recent days. The FBI is supposed to be immune to manipulation by circular information flows, especially with sensitive investigations such as evaluating whether a foreign power tampered with an American election.

Yet, in this case, the generally same information kept walking through the FBI’s door for months — recycled each time by a new character with ties to Hillary Clinton or hatred for Trump — until someone decided they had to act.

That someone was Strzok, whose own anti-Trump bias was laid bare by his personal text messages. He first opened a case on Russia-Trump collusion on July 31, 2016 after the first flow of information, then escalated to get a warrant targeting a former Trump adviser in October after a second flurry of allegations.

The pattern is so troubling that one investigator said this to me: “The dossier and its related dirt was on a circular flight path aboard a courier service called ‘Air Clinton,’ and the FBI kept signing for the packages.”

Here is the evidence that supports those concerns.

Simpson and his firm were paid by Clinton’s campaign to hire Steele to find dirt on Trump in Russia during the 2016 election.

Oddly — and perhaps contradicting Strzok’s email — Simpson testified he was unaware of any version of the dossier being given to the FBI. “I don't know that there was a version provided to the FBI,” he testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In his House Intelligence Committee testimony, Simpson acknowledged he “acceded” to letting Steele talk to the FBI but insisted he himself never talked to the FBI about the dossier. “Did you meet with intelligence officials regarding the dossier?” he was asked. “No,” Simpson replied. Pressed if he ever talked to the FBI, Simpson added: "I didn't approach the FBI."

In light of the new emails, investigators will want to determine if Simpson misled Congress or if Strzok misstated the source of one of the versions.

The chief courier of the Trump dirt was Steele, a former MI6 agent respected for past collaborations with the FBI on intelligence matters. But we now know he was “desperate” to defeat Trump, according to sworn testimony.

The first time Steele met the FBI on July 5, 2016, he got a lukewarm reception.

Then Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in late July recalled a May 2016 conversation he had with Trump adviser George Papadopoulos about possible Russian hacks of Clinton emails, and relayed that to U.S. authorities.

Downer — another “courier” in some investigators’ minds — has his own ties to the Clintons. As Australia’s foreign minister in 2006, he arranged one of the largest-ever foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, a $25 million grant to fight AIDS.

Strzok quietly opened an investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion on July 31, 2016, based in part on Downer’s information.

A few weeks later, Clinton allies Sidney Blumenthal, who was paid for years by the Clinton Foundation, and Cody Shearer sent the government dirt on Trump that mirrored the Steele dossier, Congress has been told.

Then, in mid- to late September, the FBI re-engaged with Steele. Yet, soon after, agents were forced to part ways with Steele when they caught him having contacts with the media, a prohibition for confidential FBI sources.

In October, the FBI submitted and won a request for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, another Trump adviser. In support of the request, it cited a Yahoo News article that, officials admit, was influenced by the Steele dossier.

Around the same time, in late October, Corn wrote an article in Mother Jones about Steele’s Trump-Russia allegations.

In an email to me, Corn said he told the FBI about the dossier before writing that article. After Trump won the election, he shared a version of the document with the bureau in hopes of furthering his reporting. “I tried the FBI again after the election. On my own accord, I shared a copy of the dossier with the FBI in order to see if the bureau would authenticate the documents and now comment on them. Once again, it would not,” he wrote me.

Corn dismissed any suggestion that made him an FBI source: “To characterize me as a source of the document is inaccurate. I was merely doing what a journalist does: trying to get more information on a story I was pursuing.”

Corn’s opposition to Trump is well documented in his articles, a book he wrote, and on Twitter where, this month, he declared: “Trump has a far greater affinity for the leader of a corrupt and repressive autocracy than he does for any leader of a liberal Western democracy. That should concern Democrats and Republicans.”

In November, the world was mostly unaware the FBI was investigating the unproven Russia-Trump allegations when McCain sent the FBI a copy of the dossier. McCain had his own animus toward Trump, dating to when the future president dissed the former GOP presidential nominee’s record as a war hero.

More important to investigators is where Team McCain got the dossier. In his congressional testimony, Simpson all but acknowledged he and Steele provided the information to McCain ally David Kramer, who provided it to the Arizona senator to forward to the FBI.

“I don't remember whether I called David or David called me, I just don’t remember, but we got in touch,” Simpson testified about his dossier-related contact with Kramer. Simpson’s lawyer stopped him from answering more.

When asked why he’d talk to Kramer about the Trump dirt, Simpson gave an insightful answer: “We were concerned about whether the information that we provided previously had ever, you know, risen to the leadership level of the FBI.”

In other words, it was a ploy using a Republican critic of Trump as the courier.

It’s all the sort of recycling that, in another context, might make an environmentalist happy. But it’s exactly the sort of circular intelligence-gathering and political pressure that the FBI is supposed to reject.


http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/396...ump-dossier%3F