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WSJ: There's Mounting Evidence of 2016 Election Meddling Coming From the FBI
Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 12/15/2017 5:21:57 PM PST by Kaslin

There is something rotten at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I mean all of this is just absurd. We have two FBI agents texting one another, one of which is having an extramarital affair with the other, cryptically talking about “insurance” against a Trump presidency. That text between these two agents was delivered on August 15, 2016. You also have Andrew Weissmann, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top lieutenant, voicing praise for then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enact President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which got her fired. Then, there’s another DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, who was demoted for meeting the authors of the infamous and unverified Trump dossier, Fusion GPS; Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for that firm during the 2016 election. If there is nothing rotten at the FBI, then it’s credibility is definitely in question, something that The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board mentioned in their op-ed about this mess. The two FBI agents at the center of the firestorm right now, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are obviously no longer working with Mueller; Strzok was removed in August, while Page’s assignment with the investigation has already ended and she has been transferred elsewhere. Still, from this past summer to now—and we’re just learning about these 10,000 text messages between the two. The Journal makes it clear that there appears to be mounting evidence of election meddling emanating from the bureau:

“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. The texts explain why Mr. Mueller would remove Mr. Strzok, though a straight shooter wouldn’t typically resist turning those messages over to Congress for as long as Mr. Mueller did.

Meanwhile, we’re learning more about the political motives of Mr. Mueller’s lieutenant, Andrew Weissmann. Judicial Watch last week released an email in which Mr. Weissmann expressed his “awe” and praise for Sally Yates, after the then acting AG and Obama holdover refused to implement Mr. Trump’s travel ban.

This should trouble anyone who cares about the integrity of the Justice Department.

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Public confidence isn’t helped by the continuing Justice and FBI refusal to cooperate with Congress. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who supervises Mr. Mueller, toed the Mueller-FBI line on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee. He repeated FBI Director Christopher Wray’s preposterous excuse that he can’t answer questions because of an Inspector General probe. And he wouldn’t elaborate on the news that Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice official Bruce Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Mr. Steele to gin up his dossier.

The man who should be most disturbed by all this is Mr. Mueller, who wants his evidence and conclusions to be credible with the public. Evidence is building instead that some officials at the FBI—who have worked for him—may have interfered in an American presidential election.

So, again, what’s the insurance policy? Is it the dossier that contains salacious and unverified information about Trump, something that Katie pointed out in her post? Or, as it seems, is it the FBI investigation into Russian interference in July. Did they hope to find actual evidence of collusion to nail Trump if he were to become president? Strzok was an agent with the counter-intelligence wing of the bureau. Whatever the case, it seems that meddling, or at least conversation of such activities, is coming from inside the house, or to be more accurate—inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building and not the Kremlin. Judicial Watch just filed a FOIA lawsuit to obtain all of Peter Strzok’s files relating to his reassignment from the Russia investigation conducted by Robert Mueller. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016election; andrewweissmann; christopherwray; doj; election; fakenews; fbi; fbidirector; ig; igprobe; insurancepolicy; muellerinvestigation; nellieohr; ohr; pizzagatecoverup; rodrosenstein; rosenstein; russia; russianpropaganda; teamclinton; teamsoros; thinkagain; trump; trumprussia; weissmann; wray
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1 posted on 12/15/2017 5:21:57 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark


2 posted on 12/15/2017 5:22:55 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Kaslin

For later


3 posted on 12/15/2017 5:24:23 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Kaslin

Sessions needs to stop watching I Love Lucy reruns and read this article.


4 posted on 12/15/2017 5:24:41 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

This is the biggest known scandal in American history, I think.

The FBI trying to fix an election for a known slithering criminal and against a good and decent man, and then having failed to do so, trying to destroy that innocent and good man who is now POTUS.

Everyone involved in this needs to be in prison for the rest of their lives at the very minimum.

Personally, I’d like to see them all with a blindfold and a cigarette.

All of them. This is treason.


5 posted on 12/15/2017 5:27:10 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Kaslin

It’s all about to break.


6 posted on 12/15/2017 5:28:10 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: Parley Baer

He watches Huckleberry Hound reruns, too; it helps him with his diction.


7 posted on 12/15/2017 5:28:59 PM PST by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: Kaslin

The Democrats are always whining about our democracy being in jeopardy. Now we know why.


8 posted on 12/15/2017 5:29:43 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Kaslin

Its mounting! Mounting?!?!! Whats the fricken altitude, Kenneth?


9 posted on 12/15/2017 5:29:50 PM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Kaslin
"one of which is having an extramarital affair with the other"

lol, that is a bizarre way of phrasing it, since they are both involved in the affair.... it is not a one-way event.
10 posted on 12/15/2017 5:30:06 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: chris37

I am right there with you.


11 posted on 12/15/2017 5:31:03 PM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Kaslin

It’s pretty bad and pretty obvious.

It’s not a molehill, it’s a giant dung hill.


12 posted on 12/15/2017 5:32:04 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: chris37

Treason most foul.


13 posted on 12/15/2017 5:32:07 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Kaslin

Clinton/Obama tentacles had a lock on “collusion” in order to interfere with an election, by doctored documents and their campaign of mis-information on a mission to influence voters.

EVERYTHING they laid on Russia, it was they who were the guilty ones.


14 posted on 12/15/2017 5:33:42 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: Migraine

Oh Man.... Rum and Pepsi, all over my desk! LMAO!


15 posted on 12/15/2017 5:33:58 PM PST by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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16 posted on 12/15/2017 5:34:23 PM PST by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this taglineI)
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To: chris37

“The FBI trying to fix an election for a known slithering criminal and against a good and decent man, and then having failed to do so, trying to destroy that innocent and good man who is now POTUS.”

That’s it, I’ll add they either destroy Trump or the truth destroys them.


17 posted on 12/15/2017 5:34:50 PM PST by Vision (If you can't respect the Anthem, then it's time for you to find another home.)
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To: Kaslin

Wow, really?


18 posted on 12/15/2017 5:35:14 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: MNDude

It’s all about to break.
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Don’t hold your breath. WSJ op-ed has went against Mueller before and nada. We’ll see.


19 posted on 12/15/2017 5:36:09 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Vision

All the marbled are a steak!


20 posted on 12/15/2017 5:36:52 PM PST by Professional
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