Posted on 02/13/2018 3:39:39 PM PST by EyesOfTX
The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Former Obama Deputy Attorney General and very brief Acting Attorney General in the first days of the Trump Administration, Sally Yates, is suddenly becoming a major person of interest in the study of the actions of the Deep State Cabal, that group of corrupt FBI and DOJ officials who apparently attempted to tilt the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton and since have worked to undermine the Trump presidency at every turn.
Ms. Yates had a brief moment in the spotlight back on January 30, 2017, when she was summarily fired by President Trump for refusing to enforce his initial travel ban order. She then got another bit of sunshine on May 8, when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the role she played in concocting the “Logan Act” violation scheme that ultimately trapped General Mike Flynn, and led to his guilty plea for lying to the FBI. Notably, the sentencing for that plea is currently on hold until at least May at the request of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who finds his reason for being in his current role increasingly under political fire and public suspicion.
But back to the erstwhile Ms. Yates, who became such a cause celebre’ in leftwing circles for her defiant testimony last May. Little had been heard from her since that time, but two new revelations this week place her right back in the middle of things.
First is the nutty email that Susan Rice sent to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017 – which I lampooned in this morning’s Campaign Update – that was uncovered this week by Senators Lindsey Graham and Charles Grassley. In a very ham-handed CYA move, Ms. Rice claims that President Obama, in discussing his senior staff’s interactions with the Trump Transition team in a meeting on January 5, instructed everyone present to do it all “by the book.” Obviously, something else took place in that meeting that had Ms. Rice extremely concerned – thus, the CYA email. Notably, she lists other senior officials being present in that meeting, including Joe Biden, James Comey and – guess who? – Deputy AG Sally Yates. Golly.
Then there’s yesterday’s piece from Byron York that discusses the fact that, in March 2017, James Comey testified to congress to the effect that the FBI agents whose interview with General Flynn in late January led to Flynn’s guilty plea told Comey that they did not believe Flynn had misled them during that interview. Comey also told congress that those agents saw nothing wrong with the outreach conversations Flynn had conducted during December and early January with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
It was only after Ms. Yates concocted her absurd scenario that Flynn was somehow in violation of the 218 year-old Logan Act, a law that has never in U.S. history been enforced, mainly because it is very likely unconstitutional, that Flynn suddenly came under harsh criticism in the fake news media and was ultimately fired by the President.
As York Reports:
So Comey went to Capitol Hill in March to brief lawmakers privately. That is when he told them that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe Flynn had lied, or that any inaccuracies in Flynn’s answers were intentional. And that is when some lawmakers got the impression that Flynn would not be charged with any crime pertaining to the Jan. 24 interview.
And yet, with the Mueller Special Counsel staff floundering around, desperate to pin something on somebody, Flynn ultimately ends up pleading guilty in November to lying to the FBI. So, either Comey lied to congress last March – which, given the multiple such instances we’re already aware of, certainly would not be surprising – or FBI SuperAgent Peter Strzok and the other FBI agents present in that meeting with Flynn lied to Comey – which also would surprise no one.
Regardless, the timing of all these various events:
- the January 5 meeting that Susan Rice was so worried about she felt the need to do some CYA for Obama 15 minutes after her job had ended; - the December/January calls between Flynn and Kislyak; the January 24 meeting between the FBI agents and Flynn; - the January 30 firing of Yates; and - the furious efforts by Yates between January 5 and January 30 to pin something, anything on Flynn – seem to indicate that Yates was right smack in the middle of the Cabal’s plotting, and that we will likely be seeing and hearing her name come up a lot more in the weeks to come. So we got that going for us.
The more you know.
That is all.
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Yates is Hillary in training.
The Rice email also does something else. Both Comey and Obama have testified or proclaimed that Obama never met with and instructed the FBI about any of this investigation. The Rice email shows contemporaneously with the events that Comey lied under oath and Obama lied to the United States at large as he always did.
Absolutely right. Others are writing about that - I hadn’t seen anyone picking up on the Yates angle yet, and found that interesting as well.
Is this the reason why Mueller asked for the delay in sentencing Flynn? Did the judge get wind of this and request more information? This is all to weird with the original judge recusing himself. This new judge Sullivan I think has been pretty hard on Hillary and the deep state in the past.
It is hard for me to believe that Mueller is really a white hat and realized that he made a mistake. Mueller has to get the President out of the way to protect himself.
Boil them in oil. Easier. /s
I was really mad when they didn’t fire her on Day 1, but now I think it might be possible they wanted to see who she passed info to and what they sent and make the case for where it goes up the chain. Or they were just stupid. One or the other.
What happened at that meeting is this:
The head of the FBI, Obama, Yates, Rice, et al., met and came up with a plan. Comey would tell Trump about the dossier. They would keep Trump under wiretap, and all his transition people and even after he was President, and they would use that dossier to get him to try to take actions to cover it up, to keep it from coming out, to tell his people in DOJ or in the White House to do things to keep it under wraps, and then they would use those actions to impeach Trump. That was the plan. First, Comey had to tell Trump about it.
Up to reading your theory of what happened, I was of the view that Rice was talking about a meeting that never actually happened. Your suggested sequence of events is certainly worth considering....
They forgot the step where they get Trump to spend four years of blood and treasure dragging out a very unpopular war.
All horse crap politics so far.
When the hell is someone going to jail?????
If this is true, then it would be the first time Rice ever told the truth.
It will be nice to skewer all parties with it for a while though.
Oops. I goofed. Was watching Olympics and brain jumped the rails from Yates to Rice.
Even better. Maybe this is something after all against Zero, Rice & Comey.
It was not the Obama administration,it was the Obama Crime Syndicate
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