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Why Did Obama Tell The FBI To Hide Its Activities From The Trump Administration?
The Federalist ^ | May 11, 2020 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 05/11/2020 5:36:06 AM PDT by gattaca

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To: Diogenesis

Crime against the Republic


21 posted on 05/11/2020 6:11:17 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: gattaca

Collusion/Sedition!


22 posted on 05/11/2020 6:12:20 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: gattaca

Because he knew that they were illegal.

Also, the decision to revoke the order prohibiting agencies from working together was portrayed as an effort to make it more difficult for Trump to destroy the evidence. That’s obviously false since there was no evidence. What he was really trying to do was cover up the fact that they’d been violating the executive order all along. Because that would have implicated him.


23 posted on 05/11/2020 6:12:39 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ealgeone

Why would he.......he was part of the plan!


24 posted on 05/11/2020 6:15:05 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: cyclotic
I hadn’t heard about the cake either. Peeling off all the W’s was actually kind of cute.

The same teenage level of maturity.

25 posted on 05/11/2020 6:16:53 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: gattaca

A Coup d’etat is a Coup d’etat is a Coup d’etat....etc.


26 posted on 05/11/2020 6:22:18 AM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: gattaca

Let no Chinese ever into our country again. They stole most of our technology and took it back to China.


27 posted on 05/11/2020 6:27:29 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.)
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To: Brilliant

The article says - “At the time Obama suggested to Yates and Comey—who were to keep their posts under the Trump administration—that the hold-overs consider withholding information from the incoming administration”

They did withhold the info from Trump, but they shared it with the New York Times and others - repeatedly. This is a fact and the author agrees.

“They put damaging the incoming Trump administration above protecting the country from purported Russian agents.”

Obama changed the rules to share certain “intelligence” with multiple agencies making it harder to trace the origin of the leaks as you said.

While it is possible that some of the “actors” did not realize they were cogs in a big wheel they could not see, they still shared the same goal - to damage a duly elected President.

How do you protect an investigation when you are leaking the guts of the investigation (the Steele dossier) to the media and leaky politicians? Their own actions undermined the idea and demonstrates the real goal was to harm Trump. They succeeded.


28 posted on 05/11/2020 6:51:27 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: gattaca
Priestap: "had we provided a defensive briefing to someone on the Trump campaign..."

What a crappy excuse! Comey could and should have given Candidate Trump or President-elect Trump that defensive briefing directly.

And Priestap has so little confidence in the FBI's level one surveillance potential that he be worried that someone who changes their tactics couldn't be ferreted out? It's silliness for BP to have constructed something so ludicrous!

"You're fired, Bill!"     Oh... PDJT already thought of that.

29 posted on 05/11/2020 6:52:00 AM PDT by rx (Truth will out!)
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That was part of his problem....he didn’t fight back.
That's because they're all like minded members of the same club.
30 posted on 05/11/2020 6:55:05 AM PDT by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
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That was part of his problem....he didn’t fight back. That's because they're all like minded members of the same club.

Because Republicans had, for decades, been conditioned to know, instinctively, that it was a no win game to fight the Media.

31 posted on 05/11/2020 6:57:20 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: dfwgator
Just imagine if the parties were reversed. It would have been Watergate times a thousand.

Ain't it the truth; ain't it the truth!

32 posted on 05/11/2020 7:11:25 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: gattaca

Try Obama and the rest of the Democrats in Congress and the Federal agencies who had anything to do with this for at least sedition, if not treason.


33 posted on 05/11/2020 7:13:09 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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First Daughters in the White House: Then and Now
Amy Carter than and Now pictures
34 posted on 05/11/2020 7:14:55 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Travis McGee

That’s such a great picture. 8>)


35 posted on 05/11/2020 7:16:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: gattaca

They surveilled the Trump campaign to give Hillary an edge in the election.

They continued with the surveillance and investigation to slow Trump down and attempt to stage a coup.

Republicans, like Paul Ryan and John McCain helped slow Trump down and were part of the criminal surveillance and attempted coup.

Our gov’t is rotten to the core with barely a handful of “good people” working there.


36 posted on 05/11/2020 7:17:56 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: gattaca

I’m beginning to wonder if Obama himself was a leaker to the press. The MSM would have taken anything he said hook, line and sinker.


37 posted on 05/11/2020 7:18:12 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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38 posted on 05/11/2020 7:18:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: ealgeone

I can understand that he didn’t while he was president, but I wished he had taken revenge after he was out of office. He surely was entitled to it.


39 posted on 05/11/2020 7:19:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: gattaca
From Mollie Hemingway's artice: In light of the newly declassified documents released in recent days, it is clear that understanding what happened in that Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the full scope and breadth of the corrupt operation against the Trump administration.

It is long past time for lawmakers in Congress who are actually interested in oversight of the federal government and the media to demand answers about what really happened in that meeting from every single participant, including Obama and Biden.

40 posted on 05/11/2020 7:19:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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