I knew the report was a pretext for something when Obama said it had to be on his desk prior to leaving office. It was used as a cover up for the entire Russian investigation into the Trump campaign, which the FBI began in July 2016 based on the Steele dossier, the Papadopoulos nonsense aside. It was also used to justify the monitoring of the Trump transition team and subsequent leaks when he took office. This was the fig leaf providing the rationale for the unmaskings and leaking.
This is the text of the January 6, 2017 report that was signed off by Clapper. It was drafted and coordinated by the CIA, FBO, and NSA. One of the findings was:
We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. All three agencies agree with this judgment. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has moderate confidence.
Notice that NSA (Mike Rogers) did not go along totally with the finding. I wonder how much Strzok contributed to the report.
All I can say (grrrr) is SO WHAT?
Didn't Obama do the SAME in Israel vis-à-vis Bibi?
Didn't MEXICO, Vincente Fox, Enrique Peña Nieto, and all the rest do the SAME to Trump?
This selective outrage, on the part of our supposedly NON-POLTICAL intelligence agencies, is an absolute outrage and in fact, a Constitutional crisis if I ever saw one.
Unless this is prosecuted and disavowed from ever happening again, this country has suffered a mortal blow, I kid you not.
Talk about desperate.
The report used to get the fisa warrant was designed to get minds off of Hillary getting paid 145 million for helping pootie get away with 20% of our uranium to Russia. The true collusion.
It was also designed to keep zero safe from people taking too close alook at who got all those other agencies, 12 I think, to sign off as well.
Both were in dire straits and needed a diversion or projection of their worries onto something someone else.How bout' Trump.
In addition the phony story was also designed to pretend that Russia did the hacking not Seth Rich.And since the dnc decided to kill Rich they too had a lot to cover up and a lot of jeopardy. So most of the higher up dems were and still are in harms way.
That's when things get interesting and you get zero following our president around the world,setting up his headquarters for the demise of the U.S. a couple of miles away from the White House and Hillary bleachbitting her computer and hitting it with a hammer.
Bigger question is now that its all in the open what happens next?