Posted on 02/12/2018 1:04:34 PM PST by mojito
February 8, 2018
The Honorable Susan Rice Senior Fellow, Belfer Center Harvard University 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
c/o Kathryn Ruemmler, Esq. Latham and Watkins LLP 555 Eleventh Street NW Washington, DC 20004
Dear Ambassador Rice:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has a constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the FBI and the broader Department of Justice. Part of that duty involves ensuring that law enforcement efforts are conducted without improper political influence. Accordingly , the Committee has been investigating the FBI's relationship with Christopher Steele during the time his work was funded by Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee, as well as the FBI's reliance on his unverified third-hand allegations in the Bureau' s representations to courts.
As part of that effort, the Committee sent a request to the National Archives for records of meetings between President Obama and then-FBI Director Corney regarding the FBI's investigation of allegations of collusion between associates of Mr. Trump and the Russian government. In response, the Committee received classified and unclassified versions of an email you sent to yourself on January 20, 2017 - President Trump's inauguration day. If the timestamp is correct, you sent this email to yourself at 12:15pm , presumably a very short time before you departed the White House for the last time.
In this email to yourself, you purport to document a meeting that had taken place more than two weeks before, on January 5, 2017. You wrote:
"On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Corney and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present."
That meeting reportedly included a discussion of the Steele dossier and the FBI's investigation of its claims.1 Your email continued:
"President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities "by the book". The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book."
"From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia."
The next part of your email remains classified. After that, you wrote:
"The President asked Corney to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Corney said he would."
It strikes us as odd that, among your activities in the final moments on the final day of the Obama administration, you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual email purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the FBI regarding the Trump/Russia investigation. In addition, despite your claim that President Obama repeatedly told Mr. Corney to proceed " by the book," substantial questions have arisen about whether officials at the FBI, as well as at the Justice Department and the State Department, actually did proceed " by the book."
In order for the Committee to further assess the situation, please respond to the following by February 22, 2018:
1. Did you send the email attached to this letter to yourself? Do you have any reason to dispute the timestamp of the email?
2. When did you first become aware of the FBI's investigation into allegations of collusion between Mr. Trump' s associates and Russia?
3. When did you become aware of any surveillance activities, including FISA applications, undertaken by the FBI in conducting that investigation? At the time you wrote this email to yourself, were you aware of either the October 2016 FISA application for surveillance of Carter Page or the January 2017 renewal?
4. Did anyone instruct, request, suggest, or imply that you should send yourself the aforementioned Inauguration Day email memorializing President Obama' s meeting with Mr. Corney about the Trump/Russia investigation? If so, who and why?
5. Is the account of the January 5, 2017 meeting presented in your email accurate? Did you omit any other portions of the conversation?
6. Other than that email, did you document the January 5, 2017 meeting in any way, such as contemporaneous notes or a formal memo? To the best of your knowledge, did anyone else at that meeting take notes or otherwise memorialize the meeting?
7. During the meeting, did Mr. Corney or Ms. Yates mention potential press coverage of the Steele dossier? If so, what did they say?
8. During the meeting, did Mr. Corney describe the status of the FBI's relationship with Mr. Steele, or the basis for that status?
9. When and how did you first become aware of the allegations made by Christopher Steele?
10. When and how did you first become aware that the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded Mr. Steele's efforts?
11. You wrote that President Obama stressed that he was "not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective." Did President Obama ask about, initiate, or instruct anything from any other perspective relating to the FBI's investigation?
12. Did President Obama have any other meetings with Mr. Corney, Ms. Yates, or other government officials about the FBI's investigation of allegations of collusion between Trump associates and Russia? If so, when did these occur, who participated, and what was discussed?
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please contact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley' s staff at (202) 224-5225 or Lee Holmes of Chairman Graham's staff at (202) 224-5972 if you have any questions.
If I didn’t know better, I would say that she was trying to guarantee that this email would be noticed. When I send an email to myself, it is usually because it is of high importance.
It was vital that she e-mail this to herself. Otherwise, she would not have known about it.
And Comey.
Remember, he stated he only met with Obama twice, ever.
This would be a 3rd meeting.
Is Graham Grassley’s Deep State handler or something? He’s getting in on everything that the Chair of the committee is doing.
When and how did you first become aware that the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded Mr. Steele’s efforts?
Later, thanks
First Rule of Lawyers’ Club: Never ask a question the answer to which you don’t already know.
The first question they sent to Rice inculed this tidbit “ Did you know the Timestamp had been changed”? What?
Which book, the Koran?....Rules for Radicals?...the Communist Manifesto?...Mein Kampf?
With the RATs, often it's both.
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From Conservative Treehouse:
calbear84 says:
Of course they were doing things "by the book"! Unfortunately, that book was ‘Rules for Radicals’.
lol
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The Rice letter mentions "a meeting" at the WH
<><> White House logs show no such meeting ever took place.
<><> Rice includes Comey at the mystery meeting....so if it DID take place, he lied to Congress ....again.
<><> suggesting Boobamba wanted things done "by the book" is a total repudiation of his admin to date.
“By the book” means _by THEIR book_
Busted!!!
All roads lead back to Odumbo & his criminal crew!
Obama is guilty!
Or they DID use email— through the illegal clinton private server, and those 33,000 emails (which are really “not” lost, but in possession of NSA and hence, the President’s current Justice Department (subject to a Grand Jury evidentiary hearing from a new Special Counsel).
They talked, all the time, on extra governmental email system, and using blackberry— but.. they are retrieved. One more bombshell to be revealed, held in reserve.
This is, btw, an espionage case, because it links all this anti-trump abuse of FISA, but also incorporates the Uranium 1 payoff list of a wide range of “payees” (no doubt some of whom are not running for re-election, dem and repubs, oh and the paedophile networks of the Podestas and clintons- controlled in that fashion), and involves the Mueller and Comey run FBI in ignoring the Russian operation of bribery and corruption in securing the uranium, and the total co-opting of the Leftist democrat party and “open borders” Soros intermediaries. A review of Yuri Bezemov (former KGB) of the “playbook” of just such operations.
What should drive this to completion is the realization of how the muzzie in chief/marxist (there are millions of muslim marxist/communists in the world) and his entire admin of willing loyal accomplices carried this out— and how many of our soldiers, SEALS, specops, and clandestine patriots were killed to conceal it.
The political plate shift of this uncovering is tectonic— deep and wide and the tsunami is coming. We should make use of this for every House seat some democrat thinks they can “win” and much else.
More precisely— how did the millions Jeb! spent make its way to the bushie/uniparty deep state crooks, pals with the “other side of the aisle” deep staters to help destroy (failing) the Trump ascendancy to candidate, and later.. to HELP (that is the Bush dynasty) hitlery to beat Trump in the national election.... AND finally to supply the fake opposition research to hitlery (which they clearly did).
As we are less and less reminded by certain leftist mouthpieces... the “dossier” began as being contracted by “republicans” through the Washington Free Beacon. This fact is mentioned less and less as the gestation of the DNC/Hitlery paying for the continued GPSFusion/Steele cabal’s “development”, and the original (so called 2nd dossier) fabricated by Cody Shearer and “sheep dipped” through the State Dept. by Sidney Blumenthal.
Jeff Sessions has to investigate all of this— clean, non-bush Special Counsels— and clean out the Swamp of all the bush and clinton operatives. No matter what the criminal dems and “GOPe” rinos try to get away. The feeding trough has to be emptied, for the sake of our Country, our Republic.
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