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Byron York: When did Trump-Russia probe begin? Investigators focus on mystery months
washington examiner ^ | 5/21/2018 | BYRON YORK

Posted on 05/22/2018 9:46:52 AM PDT by bitt

Revelations that an FBI informant insinuated himself into the Trump campaign have led some congressional investigators to rethink their theories on how and why former President Barack Obama's Justice Department began investigating the 2016 Trump presidential effort.

Most reporting has focused on the July 31, 2016, creation of a document formally marking the beginning of the FBI counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign. The document, known as the electronic communication, or EC, is said to have focused on the case of George Papadopoulos, the peripheral Trump adviser who has pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller about his contacts with people connected to Russia.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2013; 2014; 2015; 201603; 201607; 20160731; byronyork; chalupa; doj; ec; fbi; hillarytrumprussia; isikoff; manafort; oksanashulyar; papadopoulos; russia; spygate; spygatetimeline; trump; trumpdossier; trumprussia; ukraine; ukrainianembassy; valeriychaly
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1 posted on 05/22/2018 9:46:52 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/22/2018 9:47:14 AM PDT by bitt (t)
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The operation against Trump probably started the day he announced.
Making it into the Trump-Russia thing came later.


3 posted on 05/22/2018 9:50:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bitt

Had nothing to do with Russia. That’s the official cover story.

It had everything to do with taking down Trump.


4 posted on 05/22/2018 9:50:49 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who AlbertLives In My Heart Forever)
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To: bitt

Did the FBI and other Intel agencies spy on any other Republican campaign? If not why not?


5 posted on 05/22/2018 9:57:07 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The operation against Trump probably started the day he announced

Then that would be June 16, 2015,

almost a full year earlier than when they said they first became suspicious about Russian influence.

Sounds about right for Obama's Krew


6 posted on 05/22/2018 9:57:10 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: goldstategop
Actually, there are at least two official stories. The story changes as revelations are exposed. First was 'It is about Russia collusion by the Trump players'. Next came 'It is about stopping Russia from interfering in US elections, with a cointel plant, etc.' An auxillary meme has been injected, to try and cover the exposed asses of Clapper and BRENNAN: 'A cointel was begun to protect candidate Trump from Russian inveigling.

Prior to the exposure of the fraudulent 'dossier', the meme was floated about Russians hacking Hillary's emails, and Seth Rich was erased so he could not admit it was he not the Russkies who downloaded the emails.

7 posted on 05/22/2018 9:57:43 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: canuck_conservative

I have read that probably Brennan activated Stefan Halper on March 14,2016. We shall find out when Brennan is indicted and at trial.


8 posted on 05/22/2018 9:59:41 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: bitt

The Neo-Marxist/Globalist North American State, instituted by the Bat-Eared Bolshevik, was to be cemented forever with the “election” of Hillary Clinton and the “defeat” of Jeb Bush. Then came Donald Trump.

The Ruling Class cannot let this stand.

Thus, Civil War II began with Trump’s candidacy.


9 posted on 05/22/2018 10:01:30 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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“informant insinuated himself”

In the English that normal people use, someone who insinuates himself is a spy, not an informant.


10 posted on 05/22/2018 10:01:48 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Parley Baer

The real question being did they spy on the Democratic campaign?

If Russian meddling was a real danger to our democracy, why wouldn’t they protect Hillary as well?

That they never did do it speaks to the partisan motives of the Obama Choom Gang.

They know full well why they took the risk of illegally spying on Trump.

And it wasn’t to keep him safe from alleged Russian blackmail.


11 posted on 05/22/2018 10:02:51 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who AlbertLives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Parley Baer

“If not why not?”

Because any of the others would have been acceptable to the conspirators.


12 posted on 05/22/2018 10:10:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers)
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MAY 19, 2017 : (STEFAN HALPER)“Stefan Halper held an interview with BBC Radio 4 on May 19, 2017.——
This is within days of the DOJ announced Robert Mueller as the Special Counsel.
“…But there is a broad sense that this president may not have the proper skills for this job.” (Stefan Halper, May 19, 2017)
——https://canadafreepress.com/article/suspected-spy-stefan-halper-obama-got-bbc-velvet-glove-treatment


13 posted on 05/22/2018 10:13:20 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Our first guesses months ago were right...

Thugs who thought they were smarter than the American People felt it was their right to overthrow our system of government and install a President of their choosing...

They are traitors they are men who should be hung for treason. It's not cute or a bureaucracy out of control.. it's treason. Not surprising these traitors backed a witch who compromised American Security - a witch married to a man with credible rape charges against him.

Scum white trash - people who stole furniture and silver from the White House when they left... Of course the scum in 'intelligence' wanted the witch and her rapist... they were stealing too... Stealing all that is wonderful about our great experiment...

If these traitors in “intelligence’ can't be put to death they should be imprisoned in a foreign country so we never have to see their filthy faces again.

14 posted on 05/22/2018 10:14:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (An Islamist, a Communist and a traitor walk into a bar.Barkeep says 'what can I get you Mr. Brennan')
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Dreamer


15 posted on 05/22/2018 10:15:40 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Just last week they were claiming it’s only been 12 months of investigating. It’s at least one year longer than that and we knew this last week.


16 posted on 05/22/2018 10:17:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: bitt
I think, given how the democrats have operated, (FBI files in the 90’s) that the instant private citizen Trump asked about Obama’s birth certificate, he has been ‘watched’ in some form or fashion, since.

I also think the Russians worked for Bernie to keep the butcher of Benghazi out of the White House. WHO took Libya's gold?

17 posted on 05/22/2018 10:18:02 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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I wonder if a similar operation was launched against Bernie Sanders once he became a threat to Hillary, and we just haven’t heard about it yet.


18 posted on 05/22/2018 10:19:25 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: KC_Conspirator
Oops wrong thread.

This proves that their story is not holding up.

19 posted on 05/22/2018 10:22:03 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: bitt

From the moment he announced, Donald Trump was the outlier.

The Deep State had the goods on every other candidate; indeed, the wheels were greased to produce Bush-Clinton Part 2. But after DJT started upsetting their apple cart, the government apparatchiks had to scramble to come up with some dirt. But evidently Donald dirt is hard to come by so they had to try to manufacture something.

Unfortunately (for them), it’s hard to produce dirt without getting it all over yourself.


20 posted on 05/22/2018 10:26:03 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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