Posted on 02/18/2017 5:07:32 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
...It was also secretive even by traditional standards: Although Comey was photographed leaving the meeting, committee members wouldn’t admit that he’d been there. And it seemed as though the briefing was urgent, with senators delaying their departure during a weekend recess to hear what Comey had to say.
The Senate Intel Committee considers all manner of intelligence matters so in theory the briefing could have been about anything. Most recently, though, the Committee’s been in the news because it’s leading the congressional investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential campaign. Three days ago, after Mike Flynn resigned, Mitch McConnell said he thought it was “highly likely” that the Committee would include Flynn’s interactions with the Russian ambassador as part of its broader inquiry. And now suddenly Comey’s on the Hill, amid unusual secrecy, addressing them in what seems to have been an especially important briefing.
Still, we need more than that to suspect that the briefing was about Flynn, Russia, and/or Trump campaign advisors’ “constant communications” with Russian officials during the campaign. Which … is where Marco Rubio comes in:
"I am now very confident Senate Intel Comm I serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of #Putin interference and influence"
The word “now” strongly suggests that something that just came to light has convinced him and the rest of the Committee to treat the Russia matter even more gravely than they had before. The word “bipartisan” is significant too, as Democrats were of course already gung ho to investigate. Rubio seems to be suggesting that whatever Comey told them was so serious that Republicans would be eager to get to the bottom of it too.
Has part or all of Comey’s information leaked to the media, with stories already in the works about the mysterious allegations? It didn’t occur to me at the time that there was anything more to Trump’s tweet yesterday about the media as “enemies of the people” than the president being in one of his peevish moods, but David Frum had some interesting speculation about the possible cause of that peevishness:
"Decoded: one or more of NYT, CNN or NBCNews has a very very damaging story in the pipeline …"
That’s just a theory, but if something big is about to drop, the papers may well have already contacted the White House for comment about it, alerting Trump that it’s coming and ticking him off. Could be that Frum’s wrong, of course, or it could be that he’s right but the big scoop has nothing to do with what Comey told the Intelligence Committee. We’ll probably know this week.
Update: Lo and behold, here’s Reuters with a new story this afternoon claiming that Comey’s FBI is running no fewer than three separate investigations into Russian hacking during the campaign. “This counterintelligence inquiry includes but is not limited to examination of financial transactions by Russian individuals and companies who are believed to have links to Trump associates. The transactions under scrutiny involve investments by Russians in overseas entities that appear to have been undertaken through middlemen and front companies, two people briefed on the probe said.”
Fake news. More than likely they are investigating pedophile Cankles.
They caught Al Gore with a suitcase full of money from the Chinese government, and all the American Press said was,
“Oh, those Democrats. Just collecting money for a beer run.”
If they didn’t charge The PIAPS they can’t charge Trump.
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Trump Holds All the Cards
This loser has been wrong daily and spreads Trump hate hourly.
Please don't post crap and drivel from the Salem media a Never Trump cheap labor express Blog from this fraud,
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He should be banned here like idiot Erik E .
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Schumer and McLame were not at the meeting.
Pizzagate?
Clinton Foundation?
Clinton emails round whatever?
IT brothers?
Russians?
Flynn?
Something else?
Since the Russia thing seems to be the speculation, it is probably it or not!
Long knives of the Obama Deep State laying the groundwork to Impeachment ?
Trump Holds All the Cards
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I can’t believe that if Comey had something big to say that these Senators can keep their mouths shut especially if it was against Trump. Dems were at the meeting too.
Almighty God put Donald John Trump IN the White House; and only God can take him out.
True, if it was against or bad for Trump it would be out there. Another FReeper postulated that the appearances on the Sunday shows could be very interesting.
No way the Deep State is going after Hillary so that leaves ‘ The Russians hacked the election with Trump in cohoots ‘gambit.
Even though experts like John McAfee have stated a kid with off the shelf malware cow;d have hacked Hillary`s insecure server and Podesta`s email,whose password was , PASSWORD.
I can’t believe that if Comey had something big to say that these Senators can keep their mouths shut especially if it was against Trump. Dems were at the meeting too.
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Unless this had something to do with those THREE brothers dismissed recently who worked with members of the intelligence committee?
Senators Silent After Meeting With FBI Director Comey
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