Posted on 12/07/2017 12:36:08 PM PST by mojito
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled FBI director Christopher Wray Thursday morning. The conservative firebrand demanded Wray confirm whether or not Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok applied for the FISA warrant to spy on Trump officials.
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Nunes impresses me too. Not a grand stander but certainly appears to be dogged in pursuit. I hope he rises to an important spot.
The Don should make this guy a deal that he cannot refuse.
Top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm
The panel has issued numerous subpoenas for documents and witnesses related to the dossier but claims DOJ and FBI have “stonewalled,” an assertion that House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., seconded in a rare public statement in October.
While the agencies say they have cooperated extensively with Nunes and his team, including providing several hundred pages of classified documents relating to the dossier, it was only last weekend that DOJ and FBI agreed to make available to the committee for questioning Peter Strzok, the high-ranking FBI official who was disciplined in July for having sent-anti-Trump texts to a colleague while playing a decisive role in last year’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private server.
Nunes, who has instructed HPSCI staff to draft contempt-of-Congress citations against Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray – preparatory to a House vote on whether the citations should be enforced – issued a fresh subpoena on Thursday specifically covering Ohr and his files.
I see your point but you didn’t answer my question.
BINGO! Thank you!
If you want to understand the news that has been swirling around the FBI’s Peter Strzok, who played a key role in both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging Russia probe (including interviewing General Flynn), you should watch this riveting seven-minute video of Congressman Jim Jordan interrogating FBI Director Christopher Wray earlier today. Wray was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.
Jordan does a beautiful job of tying together the Strzok-related stories that have bubbled to the surface in recent days. He keeps it clean, too, not even mentioning that Strzok’s anti-Trump messages were exchanged with his illicit lover, FBI lawyer Lisa page, who also was discharged from Mueller’s team. Jordan expresses the suspicion that Strzok, on behalf of the FBI, collaborated with the Clinton campaign and, ultimately, Russian sources to produce the fake Trump dossier. Jordan further suspects that it was Strzok, a virulent Trump-hater, who took the false Russian information in the dossier and dressed it up as a FISA court application, which in turn generated an order allowing the Obama administration to spy on the Trump campaign. Wray refuses to comment.
Jordan acts like he knows something we don’t. If he is right, this is the biggest scandal in American political history:
Nice synopsis. Trump obviously had learned a lot about the traps Obama and his DoJ leaders had laid for him when he first launched the “bad (or sick) guy!” tweet.
Trump should have been able to move quickly to expose this after taking the reigns as President, as per the Constitution the DoJ reports to him, if it wasn’t for the selfish Jeff Sessions taking the position of Attorney General, to fulfill a lifelong dream, even though he knew he was likely going to recuse himself from the issue the President was going to need to most support.
Trump immediately responded in interviews and Twitter that he greatly regretted selecting Sessions, claiming that it was completely quote “unfair” what Sessions had done to him. For his part, Sessions doesn’t care, and is being protected by his Senate buddies who have threatened “hell will break loose” if Trump fires Sessions as he deserves. Hell breaking loose means possible impeachment.
So Trump has two options. One is to take control of the DoJ, including firing Sessions and picking an alpha male as he should have initially. The other is to use the Marines or some other Executive Branch strong arm like US Marshalls to invade DoJ buildings and gather the evidence they won’t provide to Congress, and may be destroying.
Either option leads to possible impeachment. The pacifists say just leave it alone, Mueller is falling apart on his own. But even if Mueller falls apart on his own, which I doubt because he seems bent to be the one who took down a President, the deep state control of the DoJ would remain there, indefinitely.
And that is the core problem, the corrupt DoJ. They cannot be trusted to clean themselves up at this point. Trump needs an aggressive AG, to appoint an independent special counsel to investigate corruption at the DoJ, to include Mueller and Rosenstein.
And that will never happen with Jeff Sessions as the AG. He doesn’t have the stomach for it. As was pointed out today in Congress, Sesssions can’t even consistently testify to Congress about where his recusal begins and ends. And he’s fought the appointment of an independent special counsel to investigate the DoJ every time his Congressional oversight committee has demanded it. But once it’s appointed, the tables would be turned. Mueller and Rosenstein would likely have to resign in order to defend themselves from possible crimes related to Uranium One, which should have blocked their original appointments to begin with.
If Trump or his team members are guilty of major crimes, they should be prosecuted. But as of right now, it appears those attempting to prosecute Trump associates, are guilty themselves of much greater crimes.
Completely asinine to blame Trump for this corrupt and out of control DoJ. A corrupt and out of control DoJ you have been routinely defending here, I might add.
The buck stops at the President’s desk. If DOJ and the FBI are stonewalling the release of information to Congress, then the President must step in and order the information be released or explain why it can’t be done.
IMO it is because there is an ongoing criminal investigation separate from the OIG investigation.
First off, you have been one of the primary defenders on this site of Jeff Sessions, who is of course over the DoJ and FBI, which has led to many disagreements with other Freepers, starting with myself.
You can't just sidestep Sessions now, as if he's not at fault, and go after Trump. You need to first admit Sessions has royally screwed this whole situation up, to the point that only Trump may be able to fix it.
Second, Trump has already addressed it. He's wailed against Sessions, and the DoJ, endlessly on Twitter and in interviews. Look at my tagline, which is actually one of his weaker protests.
Trump however has also been very courteous to the understandable desire that the DoJ be able to operate without the President towering over their every move. He has specifically mentioned this in his interviews and tweets, where you were I have no idea, but likely you were full time defending Sessions at the time.
*IF* you are finally starting to see that the DoJ is to blame for this whole scandal, and Sessions has been defending them and is deserving of the President's wrath, then Hallelujah, but I have a right to be skeptical. My guess is you will want to somehow blame Trump for not taking control of Sessions, and the DoJ by extension, while still trying to defend Sessions somehow.
Thank you. I had seen that video earlier. I agree...it is the biggest political scandal in American history. Now it must be brought to lite and people must pay.
Trump and Sessions may have been told that there is “an ongoing investigation” to stonewall them from acting. Swamp folks likely lying to mislead Trump and Sessions, and they won’t find out until after it’s over.
And I remain a staunch supporter of Jeff Sessions.
You can't just sidestep Sessions now, as if he's not at fault, and go after Trump. You need to first admit Sessions has royally screwed this whole situation up, to the point that only Trump may be able to fix it.
No, if you read what I wrote, the President should order the release of the material or explain why it can't be released. I then posited that DOJ and the FBI have been stonewalling because their is an ongoing criminal investigation in addition to the OIG investigation.
Second, Trump has already addressed it. He's wailed against Sessions, and the DoJ, endlessly on Twitter and in interviews. Look at my tagline, which is actually one of his weaker protests.
Good cop, bad cop may just be a cover. The Administration does not want to disclose knowledge of an ongoing criminal investigation related to the Russian investigation.
Trump however has also been very courteous to the understandable desire that the DoJ be able to operate without the President towering over their every move. He has specifically mentioned this in his interviews and tweets, where you were I have no idea, but likely you were full time defending Sessions at the time.
The President has not been bashful in criticizing the Mueller investigation. The President must steer clear of creating the impression that he is trying to influence the investigation, especially since the Dems have now moved on to the obstruction of justice meme.
*IF* you are finally starting to see that the DoJ is to blame for this whole scandal, and Sessions has been defending them and is deserving of the President's wrath, then Hallelujah, but I have a right to be skeptical. My guess is you will want to somehow blame Trump for not taking control of Sessions, and the DoJ by extension, while still trying to defend Sessions somehow.
As always, you miss the point. Sessions actions are understandable if there is an ongoing criminal investigation and a blockbuster OIG report scheduled for release in January with sections being available this month. The OIG report could trigger many other investigations. And we don't know what the ongoing 27 leak investigations would reveal.
their == there
It’s a myth he lied. He’s a straight talker. He just called it different, that’s all.
https://www.today.com/news/former-fbi-investigator-alleged-flight-800-cover-it-just-didnt-6C10387813
Don't you realize they'll all just lie?
It’s on CSPAN now.
What a crock. Just as I predicted, you want to somehow claim that Trump is responsible for the disgrace that is the current DoJ, while trying to claim Sessions has no responsibility, when that is actually his department.
Bottom line, your attacks on Trump, combined with your admitted personal involvement with Sessions, just lead me to further believe that Sessions is part of the swamp, and is working against the President. Nothing else would explain why you're trying to blame Trump first, instead of Sessions first, for the despicable cover up currently going on at the DoJ.
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