Posted on 06/17/2018 9:38:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Breitbart, we’ll have to wait for the IG’s report on Russiagate to know for sure, won’t we? Maher’s take is certainly possible. Strzok wouldn’t be the first or last guy to reassure his girlfriend that he’ll protect her from the bad guys with no intention of actually doing anything about it. “Don’t you worry your pretty little head, darlin’. Strzok-y’s here.”
But the “virtual pillow talk” theory is somewhat harder to entertain in context. And there’s a lot of context:
I’ve mentioned the following passage from the DOJ report in half a dozen posts by now but it really can’t be stressed enough. The IG explicitly considered a scenario in which Strzok slow-walked the investigation into Anthony Weiner’s laptop because he was leery of doing something to hurt Hillary’s chances in the final weeks of the campaign. Strzok denied it, the IG couldn’t prove it, but Strzok’s bias against Trump was so amply supported by the evidence that the IG just couldn’t dismiss the possibility. That is to say, the authority on this matter, who spent months examining Strzok’s behavior, believes it’s perfectly plausible that Strzok really did let politics steer his investigative decisions.
Maher’s theory is strange when you consider that he’s as strongly anti-Trump as Strzok was, if not more so. Democrats have spent the last three days zeroed in on two topics that contradict each other to some extent: (1) Trump’s child-separation policy at the border is a fascist atrocity and indelible stain on America, and (2) there’s no evidence that Peter Strzok let his antipathy to the perpetrator of these fascist atrocities guide his actions during the Emailgate investigation. Er, by the left’s logic, shouldn’t he have? What would a member of the hashtag-Resistance have done in Strzok’s shoes? If you were an FBI agent convinced that Trump is a creature from the Book of Revelation, spawned by hell to wreck American democracy, and you were forced to decide in the home stretch of the campaign whether to pursue a damaging new lead against Hillary Clinton, what would you have done? What would Special Agent Bill Maher have done? Given the level of Maher-like alarm at Trump evinced by Strzok in his chats with Page, it’d be weird if he didn’t let his biases corrupt the investigation. Which is exactly why the IG is suspicious of his motives.
I’ve not looked into it, so I could say the same thing. The media came up with that as far as I know.
BillyBoy seems to overlook relevant facts
What a p**** this guy is
I guess it’s only coincidental that Strzok started the ‘Russia Russia’ investigation, and his being the first Agent sent to London to plant a Spy. Just a coincidence, I tell ya.
And Hillary was just trying to impress her girlfriend (Huma), selling classified information to every enemy of the U.S.
Hes was number three at the FBI, not some guy working in a bowling alley. O
When David Frum dies and we no longer hear anything from AllahPundit it won’t surprise me.
An old defense attorney trick; Take a damming fact and trivialize it by isolating it from all the other mounds of related evidence. John Gotti was just showing off when the feds recorded all those threats.
I'm just wondering where Freepers originally thought this was a manufactured affair for some unknown benefit to make the FBI look good.
Don’t be too sure if that... how many are actually writing behind this Alias?
I had forgotten about the texts. I never read anything from them to my recollection.
Did they contain hot and heavy exchanges, or what it all business related?
All machines need testing before being pressed into service. I vote Maher as test subject for the guillotines which must be built to clean up the filth submerging Washington DC.
“And one Strzok was in no position to keep.” And THAT is why he used the “we” rather than the “I” ... he knew he was on a team with that goal in mind, and Mule ear hustled him over onto the coup attempt team!
After IRS/Tea Party corruption do they expect us to believe there’s no bias or abuse of power? ‘Right? Right!?’
She wasn’t his girlfriend. That was just the FBIs excuse to redact.
The fact that some find this bird informative or the least bit entertaining is a bit reprehensible.....he is definitely not funny and his satire only amuses the low-infos
If saying that impressed her, just imagine how impressed shed be if he DID IT. Seems like Maher is saying there was motive and intent to run a biased investigation.
Maher is a clown entertainer posing as a serious talk show host. If I saw him i’d call him a clown, laugh, and brush him off.....not worth my time.
He was just trying to impress his girlfriend? Like Hinkley?
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