Posted on 08/11/2018 10:28:22 AM PDT by george76
FBI had actually paid Christopher Steele, the man who put together the infamous unverified dossier targeting President Donald Trump during the campaign, in 11 separate cash payments in 2016.
This was despite being admonished in February 2016 and despite the fact that he was being paid with money from the Democrats that went through the law firm Perkins Coie to Fusion GPS to Steele for opposition research to gather against Trump...
FBI was using taxpayer dollars to pay for opposition research and unverified smears on Trump. In the words of FBI official Peter Strzok, sounds like an “insurance policy.”
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the FBI wanted to continue the relationship even after the election and was going to pay him more, but for the fact that Steele violated their rule about leaking to the press that he was working for the FBI.
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Yet despite the questions about Steele, despite the fact that James Comey himself called the dossier “salacious and unverified,” the FBI used the dossier to get multiple FISA warrants to surveil Carter Page before and after the election. And the judges were never told about the Clinton connection to Steele and the dossier.
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The Mueller investigation has spent millions to find no Trump collusion.
So where is the investigation into the DNC, Hillary Clinton and Obama administration actions here?
(Excerpt) Read more at diamondandsilk.com ...
After the fedz MURDERED the Branch Davidians at Mt. Carmel, TX I was in a establishment in the same building in Little Rock, AR that had the fib office upstairs. One afternoon I was there and there was a group of 4 or 5 sitting there laughing and joking about what they “ Pulled Off” in, as they called it Waco.
I had to leave before I puked on the scumbags...
Either zer0 or hitlary...
About 90% of an iceberg is below the surface of the water.
...a combo of incompetence, arrogance and corruption. Pathetic.
may they all die of anal cancer
Sounds like treason. Smells like treason.
I’m aware of that, thank you.
After they get a colonoscopy with a Post Hole Digger powered by Tractor PTO...
I meant to Clear the To:_______
Sorry
Sure he did but what becomes of it. I grow weary of all these sensationalized stories and nothing come from them. No real subpoenas from DOJ, no warrants, no arrests, no grand juries, no convictions.
Yet Trump is the on on the hot seat and those around him arrested and tried
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I agree with your sentiments; it is long past time for action.
With no honest appointed leaders at the head of the DOJ and FBI we will never see reform. Our President has a team player at State with Pompeo but so many of the other appointments have been sorely lacking.
So who in the heck is recommending the likes of RosenWeasel and Wray for appointments to critical positions?
According to Wiki:
"...President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice on February 1, 2017. He was one of the 46 United States Attorneys ordered on March 10, 2017, to resign by Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Trump declined his resignation. Rosenstein was confirmed by the Senate on April 25, 2017, by a vote of 94–6...."
So what the heck was that all about? Somebody thought he was a good man for the job, we just don't know who he was working for then or now?
Good points and it is probably a decision that while he’ll (Trump) never admit but he probably regrets every day.
Narcotics .... DEA ... FBI still does them, but they don’t need to as the DEA already does it and does it better, as that is their only mandate.
Fugitives .... US Marshals ... FBI has Violent Crime Task Forces all over the country, partnering w/ local agencies. US Marshal’s already does this and does it better, as that is their only mandate.
Firearms/Explosives .... AFTE ... FBI has bomb squads - never called b/c the locals get their first. They do Bomb Damage Assessment(BDA), same as the ATFE. FBI has task forces w/ local agencies for firearms investigations and they run the database for all NICs checks - which is something that could easily be transferred to the ATFE, since that is their mandate.
Financial Crimes .... Secret Service - primary job is/was financial crimes, credit card fraud, counterfeit money(protecting the President is actually secondary duty, unless assigned to PPD) .. IRS - has their own investigators and they do it better .. Social Security - has their own investigators to go after SS fraud, disability fraud, Medicare/Medicaid fraud, plus help from state agencies that are the ones that actually administer the programs.
TERRORISM .... the Grandad to all of this - DHS, which was not supposed to be more than a small office of representatives from all the other agencies to deconflict, coordinate and share information, has grown into a behemoth(imagine that). They actually have no mandate other than ‘Homeland Security’, whatever that is, so they just work w/ local agencies and ride shotgun, offer help and provide equipment. And dole out lots of grant money for locals to buy all sorts of fancy stuff that they should buy on their own. However, their are increasingly more and more involved in Counter Terror activities, transfer all of that to them, and take it away from the FBI. No need to have 2 law enforcement agencies competing for headlines, CIA, DIA, NSA, and all the other military intel agencies doing the same thing.
I haven’t even touched on all the corruption, fraud and criminal activity of the FBI Crime Lab. Recent OIG report documents an FBI Agent that took cash bribes, lied, obstructed, hid and protected criminal enterprises, yet the agent was not recommended for prosecution. FBI Agent encouraged and was present in Garland, Tx, when shooting started at art show. And to talk about Ruby Ridge and Waco, now, is a waste of time, as sad as that is.
I haven’t even touched on the fact that they have their own, special training facility, Quantico(they have a tv show about it), when they could just as easily use FLETC and save the taxpayer some money.
So, basically, it’s a dinosaur that has long lived past it usefulness. Time to put it out to pasture.
And Citizen Trump might be fighting for his freedom....
Yep.
To teach the sheep to never attempt it again.
Long past time to drain the swamp.
5.56mm
“You need Two Things for this to matter. A President & an Attorney General willing to go after the Rats. We have neither.”
I’m a big supporter of both, but I agree that going after the ‘Rats doesn’t seem to be a priority.
The only difference is that I think it makes sense for Trump and his administration not to get involved with prosecuting the prior Administration.
It’s not that Obama and his minions don’t deserve to go to prison - they do. Its just that it doesn’t seem appropriate for Trump or his DOJ to lead the charge. The executive branch of one administration prosecuting the executive branch of the prior administration? Republicans vs. Democrats? It seems impossible to separate impartial justice from political retribution.
That’s exactly what Obama’s administration was guilty of - using the powers of the executive branch for politics. Trump may be wisely avoiding that same mistake by instructing his administration to stand down.
I think it’s better to let the legislative branch take the lead and build the case and have the DOJ get involved only upon specific request from the legislative branch.
It’s not Outed if it’s covered up by the media.
That has nothing to do with using federal tax payer money for opposition research.
The purpose of this post is not to go into details but this is NOT the first time the FBI has been used to hide the truth and along the way to commit unbelievable crimes.
The "bastards" that are responsible for this need to be identified, prosecuted and jailed for max terms. Some of them such as Hillary and Hussein should die in jail.
Rod Rosenstein’s letter appointing Mueller instructs him to investigate only the Trump campaign, not Hillary or Stein or anybody else. Even though the letter also says “wherever it leads” this is interpreted to mean things like “Manafort’s 10 year old tax return” and not “FBI collusion to influence the outcome of the election” or “any other candidate or campaign that may have had their computer systems infiltrated by the Russians” as at least one party publicly alleged.
This is all you need to know to understand that it’s a fishing expedition to get Trump and that there is no pure motive to root out foreign influence in American elections. IMHO, Mueller was appointed to whitewash, cover-up, deflect from and hide as much evidence of FBI, DOJ, CIA and other Obama Administration corruption and collusion to steal the election.
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