Here's a theory:
The Electronic Communication opening the FBI investigation at the end of July 2016 was based on nothing but the earliest parts of the Steele Dossier passed along through John Brennan or Hillary people at the State Dept. The Steele Dossier was a Hillary campaign-produced smear document with laughably over-the-top allegations against Trump that could not be substantiated.
By January 2017 the Obama administration realized that, having lost the election, they better go back and try to shore up the basis for the illegal spying by the Obama administration against the political opposition presidential campaign. Sally Yates was Acting Attorney General at this time.
I would guess that through examining the illegal interception of Trump people communications, they had hit pay dirt on Papadopoulos - maybe drug usage or cheating on his wife or girlfriend or a financial irregularity - and in January 2017 used that to pressure him into creating the story that Professor Mifsud (who is really linked to MI6, not to the FSB) told him about the Hillary emails (but in reality he heard Judge Napolitano say that Russia had Hillary emails on Fox News TV the day before he met Downer for drinks).
See this thread:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3659311/posts
I speculate that they went back and faked the documentation the FBI claimed they relied on to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump Campaign, to try to shore it up by adding Papadopoulos to it.
We need a second Special Counsel with real investigators drawn not from the swamp, using a grand jury, who can flip witnesses and aggressively go after the evidence. But already, no doubt much evidence in the form of private communications has already been purged and destroyed.
The FBI needed to create a cover story as they executed Obama’s order to infiltrate and sabotage the Trump campaign.
...and under this theory, that is why the DOJ has been refusing to show the actual document to Nunes even after the President basically told them to be transparent — because it’s fake.
“We need a second Special Counsel with real investigators drawn not from the swamp,“
We need an Attorney General who will do the damned job.
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I wonder if there’s a “deep throat” helping Kimberly Strassel.
Can you imagine that? If that were true, and if it ever came out, the Democrats would be screaming for that person’s head on a platter.
Unlike the reaction of the Republicans to learning about the existence of the Watergate Deep Throat.
Yet another traitorous bureaucrat embedded like a tick. The circle of traitors keeps expanding.