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Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:49 pm » wrote:

The conspiracy theories surrounding FBI agent Peter Strzok may have just taken a big blow.

It turns out that the FBI agent who many conservatives believe secretly plotted to take down President Donald Trump may have actually helped get the president elected.

CNN has obtained emails that show that FBI agent Peter Strzok co-wrote the first draft of the letter that then-FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress in October 2016, announcing that the bureau was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

That letter set off a political firestorm just 11 days before the presidential election and hurt Clinton at the polls — so much so that it may have swung the election in favor of Trump.

This development potentially throws a wrench in conservative theories that Strzok sought to undermine Trump in the run-up to the election, and that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is tainted by anti-Trump bias.

And according to a source familiar with Strzok’s thinking, CNN reports, the former FBI agent not only drafted the letter about reopening Clinton’s email server investigation, but also supported reopening the investigation.

Well there goes that theory.

Sgt Bilko » 02 Feb 2018 2:05 am » wrote:

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:49 pm » wrote:

The conspiracy theories surrounding FBI agent Peter Strzok may have just taken a big blow.

It turns out that the FBI agent who many conservatives believe secretly plotted to take down President Donald Trump may have actually helped get the president elected.

CNN has obtained emails that show that FBI agent Peter Strzok co-wrote the first draft of the letter that then-FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress in October 2016, announcing that the bureau was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

That letter set off a political firestorm just 11 days before the presidential election and hurt Clinton at the polls — so much so that it may have swung the election in favor of Trump.

This development potentially throws a wrench in conservative theories that Strzok sought to undermine Trump in the run-up to the election, and that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is tainted by anti-Trump bias.

And according to a source familiar with Strzok’s thinking, CNN reports, the former FBI agent not only drafted the letter about reopening Clinton’s email server investigation, but also supported reopening the investigation.

Well there goes that theory.

You are ludicrous in your hatred of Trump. You blind yourself to the real facts and rant fake news all the time. You are obsessed with your hatred and it takes precedence over everything else!!! Thus creating a mental aberration in your life. You need to get over your obsession with Trump and get your life back. This probably invades your whole life outside of your posting here. How often do you rant about it with others in person or on the phone? Therein lies the truth.

Misty » 02 Feb 2018 12:56 am » wrote:Ironic for someone who is about to release a highly classified 'memo' to the public, shared classified intel with a couple of Russians in the Oval Office, and allows his son-in-law, who is unable to get a security clearance, to sit in on the highly classified Presidential Daily Briefing.

Misty » 02 Feb 2018 12:29 am » wrote:All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up.

Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy. - James Comey

Termin8tor » 02 Feb 2018 7:52 am » wrote:
The smears never end.

It is in the interest of the United States and of Russia to warn them of a possible terrorist attack to share important intell. They have reciprocated previously, warning us about the Boston bombing attacker.

I'm sure it was unintentional that you left that interest out.

Lying, smearing psychopath.

Misty » 02 Feb 2018 12:56 am » wrote:FLASHBACK: Candidate Trump blasted Clinton over classified info-VIDEO

roadkill » 02 Feb 2018 8:02 am » wrote:Misty should be celebrating the release of the FISA memo.

#1 She knows for sure that Trump is guilty of collusion...check.

#2 If she's right, the FISA memo will show that the warrant was justified with the info the Obama admin gave the court...check.

#3 Will she contradict her own claims that the FISA memo should not be released if she really cares about law and order? Well daaaa.

#4 Is she genuinely concerned about exposing classified documents now? Yeah right!

#4 1/2 Her party is going to jail.

Termin8tor » 02 Feb 2018 8:12 am » wrote:
She's in Full Cover Up Mode, but all for naught.

I suspect a breakdown coming.

roadkill » 02 Feb 2018 8:14 am » wrote:
The dems sure are in damage control this morning.

Just saw Schiff on a morning talk show.

Termin8tor » 02 Feb 2018 8:18 am » wrote:
Gotta shine their turds to a lustrous brown!

Please, please, do down with that sinking ship!

Misty » 02 Feb 2018 12:29 am » wrote:Blah, blah, blah from James Comey

Chris Wray is quietly cleaning up the FBI
By Paul Sperry February 1, 2018 | 7:03pm | Updated
Failing to get traction on their Russia “collusion” front, Sen. Mark Warner and other top Democratic inquisitors now suggest President Trump is obstructing justice by forcing a shake-up at FBI headquarters. But FBI sources tell me the pressure to clean house is also coming from inside the bureau, and it’s based on real concerns over malfeasance by top brass there.

In a healthy sign, new FBI Director Christopher Wray is slowly but surely sweeping partisan operatives out of the bureau’s executive suites all on his own. On the job just a few months, Wray told Congress in December he wanted to wait and see the evidence before taking any action against high-level investigators accused of bias and misconduct. Over the weekend, he saw some of that evidence, and it convinced him to remove his own deputy, Andrew McCabe.

“Wray is a smart, experienced attorney,” former assistant FBI Director Ron Hosko told me. “He’s not gonna fold to BS pressure with no facts, so he saw something solid, something from the agency’s inspector general, who has been investigating political conflicts and irregularities involving McCabe for more than a year.”

Whatever Wray saw wasn’t manufactured by the White House. It came from Justice Department watchdog Michael Horowitz, who launched his probe at the request of Democrats.

In fact, it’s doubtful there’d even be an internal inquiry if Democratic leaders hadn’t complained about the FBI reopening its probe into Hillary Clinton’s handling of State Department secrets on the eve of the election.

Yet far from trying to derail her chances, FBI brass reportedly tried to slow-walk agents’ search of a new batch of Clinton emails belatedly found on a laptop belonging to the husband of her top aide, Huma Abedin. In September 2016, agents in New York investigating Anthony Weiner for cyber-sex crimes discovered the email cache and alerted headquarters that the documents were relevant to the case McCabe and his boss James Comey had long closed.

McCabe reportedly was reluctant to move forward. He neglected to act for over a month on agents’ requests to examine the new Clinton emails, according to The Washington Post, citing sources familiar with the IG’s investigation. The IG, it reports, suspects McCabe may have sought to wait to reopen the case until after the 2016 election.

Recently released FBI emails show McCabe played an instrumental role in watering down conclusions in the Clinton case, made two months before Hillary was interviewed.

The IG is investigating whether partisan bias influenced his decisions. His wife, a Democrat, ran for Virginia state office, and McCabe involved himself in her campaign, yet refused to recuse himself from the Clinton case until a week before the election. And he used official FBI email to conduct political business on his wife’s behalf.

More troubling, the IG reportedly is investigating McCabe for allegedly asking agents to change the wording in the so-called 302 summaries of the official statements of suspects and witnesses they took in the course of their investigations, according to Circa News.

McCabe’s exit comes on the heels of the reassignments of his top lawyer, Lisa Page, and top counterintelligence investigator, Peter Strzok, who the IG caught texting political messages slamming Trump and rooting for Clinton during the election. In late October 2016, McCabe assigned Strzok to quickly sift through the thousands of new Clinton emails found on Weiner’s laptop before giving the all-clear just days before the election.

Wray is also sweeping aside Comey’s old chief of staff, James Rybicki, who appears in -mails watering down the case against Clinton. Another Comey crony, James Baker, reportedly is leaving his post as FBI general counsel. Baker recently got into hot water after internal documents revealed he contacted a reporter who wrote about the Clinton-funded dossier tying Trump to Moscow during the election.

“The FBI hierarchy, the management, has been poisoned by politics,” said Michael Biasello, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who spent 10 years in counterintelligence. “This is Comey’s legacy.”

And while Wray is trying to clean up Comey’s mess, he’s at the same time trying to block the release of documents — including the infamous memo reportedly alleging the FBI abused its surveillance powers, which will likely be released Friday over Wray’s objections — that could damage the bureau’s vaunted reputation. Restoring public trust in the FBI — the only agency the public can rely on to expose government corruption — won’t be easy. To get beyond this crisis of confidence, the FBI must come completely clean, no matter how painful the process.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/01/chris-wra ... p-the-fbi/

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 11:37 am » wrote:Wow! Somebody has been a busy little beaver.

Misty » 31 Jan 2018 5:23 pm » wrote:Nunes once again carrying water for the WH just like he did with his little midnight run stunt.
If he is working with the WH on this, that sounds pretty much like a conspiracy to obstruct justice.

* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.

* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.



* The four FISA surveillance applications were signed by, in various combinations, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein.


* The FBI authorized payments to Steele for work on the dossier. The FBI terminated its agreement with Steele in late October when it learned, by reading an article in Mother Jones, that Steele was talking to the media.


* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.




* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele's bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

The FBI and Justice Department mounted a monthslong effort to keep the information outlined in the memo out of the House Intelligence Committee's hands. Only the threat of contempt charges and other forms of pressure forced the FBI and Justice to give up the material.


Once Intelligence Committee leaders and staff compiled some of that information into the memo, the FBI and Justice Department, supported by Capitol Hill Democrats, mounted a ferocious campaign of opposition, saying release of the memo would endanger national security and the rule of law.


But Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes never wavered in his determination to make the information available to the public.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house ... le/2647937

Misty » 31 Jan 2018 5:23 pm » wrote:Nunes won't say if he worked with the White House on the Memo.

I guess that's a yes then.
Nunes once again carrying water for the WH just like he did with his little midnight run stunt.
If he is working with the WH on this, that sounds pretty much like a conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 4:12 pm » wrote:Republicans: If Poor Carter Page Can Be Wiretapped, Who Among Us Is Safe?

Poor Carter Page?
Is that the poor Carter Page who was cavorting around with Russian spies two years before he joined the Trump campaign?

At the time of the FBI’s initial application for a FISA warrant in October, its effort to corroborate Steele’s report was in its “infancy,” according to the Bureau. Subsequently, an FBI report characterized Steele’s dossier as “only minimally corroborated.”

Nonetheless, in January 2017 James Comey purported to “brief” president-elect Trump on the contents of Steele’s fake report, at which time the report was leaked to the press.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... o-says.php

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:30 pm » wrote:I would ask my buddy Clem why he thinks that 45 went to such lengths to concoct a story that the Trump Tower meeting with Russians was about adoption, if he had nothing to hide.

But he won't answer that question, so I won't bother.

The FISA warrants that are the subject of the memo all relate to Carter Page. The original warrant was sought on October 21, 2016, and the memo says that there were three renewals, which apparently occur every 90 days. This would appear to take the surveillance well past the presidential election, and beyond President Trump’s inauguration. The memo does not explain this aspect of the timing. The FISA applications were signed by some familiar names: James Comey signed three, and Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein all signed one or more.....

In addition to Steele’s fake dossier, the FISA application cited an article about Carter Page that appeared on Yahoo News. The application “assessed” that this corroborating account did not originate with Christopher Steele. In fact, it did: Steele himself leaked the information to Yahoo News....


Bruce Ohr’s involvement is even worse than we thought. In September 2016, according to the FBI’s files, Steele told Ohr that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.” The FBI hid this from the FISA court. Not only that, Ohr’s wife went to work for Fusion GPS and was part of the opposition research effort against candidate Trump. “Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... o-says.php

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 4:12 pm » wrote:\Republicans: If Poor Carter Page Can Be Wiretapped, Who Among Us Is Safe?

Poor Carter Page?
Is that the poor Carter Page who was cavorting around with Russian spies two years before he joined the Trump campaign?

Misty » 03 Feb 2018 10:53 am » wrote:Did Nunes and 45 just out a double agent?
Naveed Jamali, a former double agent thinks they might have.

Jamali is an American expert on national security and former FBI operative.
He works for the U.S. Department of Defense as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve.