Posted on 01/11/2019 5:34:14 PM PST by springwater13
In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.
The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, took over the inquiry into Mr. Trump when he was appointed, days after F.B.I. officials opened it. That inquiry is part of Mr. Mueller’s broader examination of how Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 election and whether any Trump associates conspired with them. It is unclear whether Mr. Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter, and some former law enforcement officials outside the investigation have questioned whether agents overstepped in opening it.
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This is the same story we have been reading about for 2 years. Just a different variation.
symbolically referencing that, at the least, there needs to be a movement (peacefully, hopefully, to a point) to jump start this lazy populace of ‘FILL IN THE BLANK’ to save this Constitutional Republic from becoming the next Venezuela!
From an email...
“From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been empaneled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared.
Hmmm, now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Guess who took over this investigation in 2002?
Bet you can’t guess.
No other than James Comey.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was transferred in to the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS?
Your friend and mine, Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
It gets better, well not really, but this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.
Now, that’s interesting, isn’t it?
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this timeframe???
I know, it’s a miracle, just a coincidence, just an anomaly in statistics and chances, Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Now that’s just a coincidence, right?
Ok, lets chalk the last one up to mere chance.
Let’s fast forward to 2009.
James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, on her own personal email server by the way.
The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hillary.
Like all good public servants do, you know looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, the People got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Bill Clinton goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right?
Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Guess who was the FBI Director during this timeframe?
Yep, Robert Mueller.
He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Guess who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
No other than, Rod Rosenstein.
Guess what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Guess what happened soon after the sale was approved?
~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division?
No other than, Lois Lerner.
Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?
Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.
He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law.
He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary.
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013?
Guess who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer.
No other than James Comey.
Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and exonerates her.
Nope couldn’t find any crimes there.
Can you guess what happened next?
In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.
They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury.
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Homey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hillary from any wrongdoing.
Can you see the pattern?
It goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General, Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.
FISA Abuse, political espionage..... pick a crime, any crime, chances are...... this group and a few others did it.
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
(h/t GW)
20 posted on 5/17/2018, 8:39:02 AM by PGalt
See #83.
Reposted yours from a while back. Thought it belonged here.
Hope you don’t mind.
It was probably not the intent here but to me this story makes the FBI look bad. Incompetent.
NY Slimes lying blatantly AGAIN. In August Brennan briefed Senator Reed on the false dossier and Reed ran to the FBI demanding an investigation of Trump. In September the FBI began relying on Nelly Ohr’s influence with Fusion GPS for more data from ‘sources’ then failed completely to verify the dossier before having DOJ sign off to FISA court. Lisa Page went to London in September with two FBI agents ... to obtain what? ‘John’ (who was Mueller’s chief of staff at FBI back when) and was placed high in the DOJ and signed off on the false dossier) knows. His life expectancy is not good at this point, since Congress will get around to questioning him.
I understood it was a closely held hand among the conspirators - a large but secretive group.
They were going to go with the Russia thing long before, as early as April 2016 when Chalupa and the Dems and the Ukrainian embassy were stirring this pot.
Seems like they are no different from mpstasses offederal workers, hateful liberal democrats.
This discredits the FBI not Trump. The FBI had the full cast of plotters like McCabe,Stzrok and Page.
And since Rosenstein wrote a memo to fire Comey, did they investigate Rosenstein as a Russian agent?
Gee, I wonder who the “former Law enforcement officers” were.
Maybe names like Domey, or McNabe, or Cluck, or Rage.
How desperate can the NYT get? How low will they stoop?
I only read the first couple of sentences since I cannot read that paper, but unless it made a right turn...it is typical FAKE NEWS.
God Bless our President.
What it all comes down to is it was a JOKE.
People laughed. It was a JOKE.
The robotic Obama-era government functionaries can’t process a JOKE.
A sense of humor takes some intelligence.
Thus, we have millions spent for NOTHING except filling the bank accounts of robotic Obama-era functionaries.
The good ones had better start coming forward or I’ll treat that fantasy like the eight year old for whom the bell doesn’t ring anymore.
This is what leftists do. They go after Trump’s strengths - in this case his patriotism - and put out a lie to try and see if there are any takers.
Your point touches on another aspect of this completely bogus “investigation.” Trump is an actual man. There are legions of leftover Obama-era functionaries, both male and female, who HATE actual men.
In the days after the NYT embraced communism and advocated for the overthrow of popular elections that they didn't like, law enforcement officials began rewarding them with high level leaks... 😡 HUMBUG!
And Trump appointed Wray and nominated William Barr, both Deep State Scum. He deserves what he gets.
Liars. It was get Trump anyway they can and no matter what it takes.
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Run you fact check on that, jeff.
iirc it was during a debate and intended to be a facetious remark to riddicule the fact that Fibbers couldn't find her 30,000 missing emails perhaps Vlad could.
IMO took the press took this remark outta context & used it to frame the Russia narrative to mis direct her own complicity with the Ruskies
After getting the mockingbird media to push it & then muellers witch hunt, it’s turned into a two year reprieve for hildabeast that she stumbled into & capitalized on his remarks
Dumb luck
Trump is the legally and duly elected POTUS.
Anything and anyone who tries to undo that, for ANY REASON is a traitor and should be hanged by the neck until dead.
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