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WSJ: The FBI’s Trump ‘Insurance’
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Dec. 13, 2017 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 12/13/2017 11:52:34 PM PST by Helicondelta

Wednesday’s revelations—they’re coming almost daily—include the Justice Department’s release of 2016 text messages to and from Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent whom Mr. Mueller demoted this summer. The texts, which he exchanged with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, contain expletive-laced tirades against Mr. Trump. Such Trump hatred is no surprise and not by itself disqualifying. More troubling are texts that suggest that some FBI officials may have gone beyond antipathy to anti-Trump plotting.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Mr. Strzok wrote Ms. Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 text. He added: “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

What “policy” would that be? The “Andy” in question is Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director. FBI officials are allowed to have political opinions, but what kind of action were they discussing that would amount to anti-Trump “insurance”?

In another exchange that month, Ms. Page forwarded a Trump-related article and wrote: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” He thanked her and assured: “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way.” Mr. Strzok, recall, is the man who changed the words “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” in James Comey’s July 2016 public exoneration of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The McCabe meeting came on the heels of the FBI’s launch of its counterintelligence probe into Trump-Russia ties. July is also when former British spook Christopher Steele briefed the FBI on his Clinton-financed dossier of salacious allegations against Mr. Trump.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201607; 201608; 20160815; adamschiff; andrewmccabe; andymccabe; leakers; leaks
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1 posted on 12/13/2017 11:52:34 PM PST by Helicondelta
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WSJ sucks ass. Editorial board responding to yesterday’s news.


2 posted on 12/13/2017 11:55:32 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Helicondelta

Demoted? Really now........What did they do? Suspend his Twitter account? Pay him the same wages to become obscure and irrelevant?


3 posted on 12/14/2017 12:02:09 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Helicondelta

Such Trump hatred IS surprising

And it IS disqualifying.


4 posted on 12/14/2017 12:04:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Gene Eric

WSJ defends Trump a lot

stop with the “us against them” attitude when it’s not real

there are enough that are against us


5 posted on 12/14/2017 12:15:03 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Helicondelta

Links to some good analyses on this subject:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/13/fbi-agent-peter-strozk-anti-trump-messages-released-to-media-however-the-key-question-is-not-content/

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/13/and-now-we-know/


6 posted on 12/14/2017 12:15:28 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: dp0622

WSJ is Newscorp. You know that, right?

WSJ, if not directly, is vicariously #NeverTrump.


7 posted on 12/14/2017 12:30:59 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

“vicariously”?


8 posted on 12/14/2017 12:45:57 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

elucidate...


9 posted on 12/14/2017 12:48:02 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Is that the word you wished to use?

How would one know what another experiences vicariously?


10 posted on 12/14/2017 12:49:55 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

according to cnn, 375 text messages, not 10000...

the CT articles are a royal pain to read and keep jumping to the top, at least when read using chrome.


11 posted on 12/14/2017 12:55:33 AM PST by SteveH
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To: D-fendr

>> How would one know what another experiences vicariously?

I like the way you think... curious about your opinion of atheists.

Regarding WSJ, it echoes the FNC #NeverTrump round table. Disagree? Tell me why.


12 posted on 12/14/2017 1:08:55 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Helicondelta

Bump


13 posted on 12/14/2017 2:28:32 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Helicondelta

If there was still “justice” in America, Strzok and his pals would be headed for the gallows.


14 posted on 12/14/2017 3:12:17 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Helicondelta

I heard someone make the argument that the “insurance policy” was the text itself. Namely, that Strzok was doing bad things with the approval of McCabe, and the whle purpose of the text was for Strzok to say to McCabe, if you get Arkancided before age 40, this text will serve to say you told me to do what I did.


15 posted on 12/14/2017 3:24:33 AM PST by XEHRpa
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To: Helicondelta

Unfortunately, instead of being arrested and obtaining search warrants for the homes and offices of these ‘employees’ to access their personal computers and other materials in an effort to obtain evidence of treason, these ‘employees’ were instead demoted to the mail room.

That was in August, so any additional evidence has now likely been wiped from their hard drives, other phones and tablets, etc.

The mainstream media will not even bother to mention this attempted coup, but the appearance of a coup is clearly there... What did Mueller, the FBI or the Justice Department do when presented with obvious evidence of a collusion between their ‘employees’ as conspirators to oust the duly elected President of the United States... They demoted them.

Hmmm!


16 posted on 12/14/2017 3:42:38 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Helicondelta

Here are three really terrific articles that are up to speed on the deep state coup:

“An Investigative Pattern Emerges”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/14/an-investigative-pattern-emerges/

FBI Plot Against Trump

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268730/fbi-plot-against-trump-matthew-vadum#.WjJTrNX5QRg.twitter

DEMOCRATS DEPLOYED RUSSOPHILE COLLUDER AGAINST TRUMP
The strange career of Nellie H. Ohr, a veteran of Fusion GPS.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268721/democrats-deployed-russophile-colluder-against-lloyd-billingsley


17 posted on 12/14/2017 3:58:17 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SteveH

“according to cnn, 375 text messages, not 10000...”

Are you FRICKING kidding me? You quote CNN?! Explains why you posted incorrect information ...aka fake news. Geezus.

Per Hannity it is 375 released to the media out of 10000 Strozk tweets.


18 posted on 12/14/2017 4:11:17 AM PST by Justa
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To: Helicondelta

The leaders of the FBI could not care if there
are bleeding to death witnesses, raped children
missing their internal sold organs, or if
crimes against the US Constitution occur
systematically.


19 posted on 12/14/2017 5:02:10 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: XEHRpa

I am sure the insurance policy was the dossier.


20 posted on 12/14/2017 5:08:12 AM PST by TiGuy22
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