Posted on 04/05/2018 7:28:45 PM PDT by bitt
It was noted –and reported– yesterday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes sent a letter (full pdf below) to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Asst. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Nunes is demanding un-redacted FBI documents surrounding the origination of the July 2016 counterintelligence operation against candidate Donald Trump, and the FISA application stemming from within the FBI investigation.
The issue(s) surrounding the declassification of the FISA application and subsequent FISA warrant against Carter Page are not new. The new aspect within the Nunes demand relates to a request for the intelligence community “electronic communication” (EC) that kicked off the initial FBI counterintelligence op. Within that new line of inquiry the subject of interest is ultimately former CIA Director John Brennan.
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The corrupt DOJ heads rosenstein, wray, and that backstabbing rat bastard Jeff Magoo, need to all be held in contempt.
Nothing will happen.
Massive cover-up ongoing Trump seems powerless, very strange.
It’s one man against a 4 trillion dollar corrupt stasi state, both parties, corrupt courts, and fakestream media...all in open rebellion. He’s also got a backstabbing AG, goober magoo, who put corrupt obama stooges in charge of the DOJ.
It’s not surprising he’s been hobbled.
No doubt “Sundance” knows better than Nunes what he needs. /s
Good post, although I hold out hope for “goober magoo”. Cheers!
>>Trump seems powerless, very strange<<
Huber is on the case with Horowitz. Huber reports, and has reported, directly to Sessions. Sessions reports to Trump. Trump is anything but powerless; he’s in charge of the entire operation.
At least that’s my take on it. And it all started when Trump was informed by Rogers (?) that Trump Towers was bugged and that he should move his transition team to new quarters. Trump did so the very next day.
Another large pile of conjecture by Mark Bradman, ex-Publix vegetable manager (as Levin said). Next he’ll say the CIA controls North Korea, and Podesta was interrogated at gitmo, and pizza pedophiles are under his bed.
Meanwhile, why is Comey still free? Dude gave classified info to his law prof buddy, boasted about it. Congress referrdd him to DOJ for investigation and prosecution months ago. Free as a bird, slam dunk case.
Oh yeah, forgot. Magoo, Rosenstein, Wray. Same guys doing nothing on Nunes requests.
I think the whole thing is about to implode. Reports say Rod Rosenstein signed at least one of the FISA applications requesting wiretap on Trump team. This makes him either a co-conspirator or a material witness. In either case if the reports are true he should have recused himself. He violated legal and ethical standards by staying on to appoint Mueller.
From which follows more problems. Rod didn’t recuse himself and instead appointed Mueller. Mueller is neck deep in all kinds of muck. For example he was FBI director, will he do an honest job or try to protect his people, agency, reputation? As director Mueller knew all about the Russian bribes that resulted in $145 million to CF and the sale of Uranium One. That is just two of a whole slew of conflicts.
It doesn’t matter if it is true or not - all that matters is that there is potential impropriety due to conflicting interests. How do we know that Rod and Mueller are not active participants in an ongoing conspiracy to obstruct justice among other crimes, covering up their misdeeds as officials in high office?
Then add in the legal technicalities for example Rod needed to state a crime for the special prosecutor to investigate but failed to do so. He appointed Mueller to go on a fishing expedition which is abuse of power (at least) and further raises suspicion that Mueller and Rod have ulterior, personal motives. The close relationship between the parties is another conflict. Rod claims only he has the power to fire Mueller which is an affront to the office of POTUS. And there is a pattern here of the FBI going soft on Hillary (and the DNC) many times, whitewashing crimes going back before Comey was director.
Put all this together and I think you have a solid reason to appoint a second special prosecutor to investigate this cabal of Rod, Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, the 16 people who met with McCabe to plot a conspiracy against Trump, and CIA director Brennan and possibly others in the Obama DOJ. That may not happen, and in any case I think this will collapse under its own weight. If they perjured themselves, obstructed justice, falsified evidence etc then they will probably be unable to hide it and justice will eventually come around - they all probably know this already, too.
It’s real simple: Call a Press Conference and tell the director of the FBI he has 24 hours to turn over ALL documents requested by Congress and IF HE REFUSES to do so, he will be fired for refusing to be transparent and open with the Public.
By framing the argument as such you FORCE the Swamp to defend someone involved in a cover up.
WHO recommended Wray as head of the FBI? This guy is just awful and appears to following in Comey’s footsteps. Along with Sessions, another loser pick.
I’m getting sick and tired of all this BS. I and everyone else that breathes know that the Russians have ALWAYS tried to interfere in American elections. We do it to other countries as well. It is what enemies do! Obama promised the Russians that he would have more flexibility to help Russia and that doesn’t trouble the elite media. A scant few years later Trump gets elected and now the Russians are of great concern. What is wrong with this picture?
We here at FR know what’s wrong. There is so much hatred and unbelief that the the Clinton Crime Syndicate didn’t prevail despite their cheating in the last election that they prove beyond any doubt that liberalism is a mental disorder.
There is no doubt that if President Trump had run as a democrat they would have adored him. The hatred displayed by these vermin is of Biblical proportions!
I share each of your concerns about both Rosenstein and Mueller. Both have histories that justify the concerns. But I’m hoping that Huber’s investigation branches out to encompass all of the obvious crimes that have been committed and that appointment of a special counsel can be avoided. This needs to break soon, not after the next election, and a special counsel will just slow things down.
As long as Huber and Horowitz are honest people they have all the powers necessary to do what any special counsel could accomplish, plus then there’s the issue of who would be chosen for that job. I’m personally comfortable with both Huber and Horowitz from what I’ve read. Maybe I’ll be wrong in that regard.
As for Mueller and Rosenstein, look, we’re not going all the way back to investigate their histories of mismanagement (and probably worse). But it’s possible that both have been put on notice that that is still an option, and it’s possible that they have agreed to cooperate with Sessions (and Trump) as long as they are assured of being left alone in the present investigations. That’s a stretch, I know, but it’s the compromise I’ve made between judging them as either White Hats or Black Hats in all this.
If either were a White Hat by now, I’d be skeptical given their pasts, but if either were a Black Hat today I really don’t think they’d be in their current positions. They’d have been treated like the other Black Hats, reassigned and given non-investigative duties, or encouraged to retire or resign. Again, I could be being too optimistic here and share your concern about each of them. Not that what either of us thinks matters a hoot, of course.
That is a fair point and very well could be the current strategy of Sessions and Trump et al. Let Horowitz finish his audit and pass the findings on to Huber for prosecution of any crimes. I am not sure about either of these people, I am embarrassed to say at one point I thought Mueller and Comey were respectable people. I let the iconic image of the FBI get in the way of my natural cynicism of government.
And yet I don’t know how I can ever really wrap my head around the implications of all this. If the FBI can pay foreign agents to manufacture evidence against the President and present that evidence in federal court, then they can do it to anyone for any reason. Why would they expect anyone to sit on a jury and believe a word they say? This may sound like hyperbole but I think it is pretty serious. This needs resolution.
>>This may sound like hyperbole but I think it is pretty serious. This needs resolution.<<
It’s not hyperbole at all. Entire countries change on a dime because the populace was duped into choosing the wrong leader (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Russia today, China, etc.) Choose a different leader and go the opposite direction.
President Obama corrupted this country beyond belief, and did so in just one term. Everything was in place by his second term including the racial divide that he personally engineered. Had we elected Clinton to follow him none of this would be being pursued, just as Lois Lerner’s efforts were swept under the rug after Obama’s first term.
No, it’s anything but hyperbole. An authoritarian government is our future if the left retakes the government now, especially given how far left they’ve moved in just the past four years or so.
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