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F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia
NY Times ^

Posted on 01/11/2019 5:34:14 PM PST by springwater13

In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.

The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.

Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, took over the inquiry into Mr. Trump when he was appointed, days after F.B.I. officials opened it. That inquiry is part of Mr. Mueller’s broader examination of how Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 election and whether any Trump associates conspired with them. It is unclear whether Mr. Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter, and some former law enforcement officials outside the investigation have questioned whether agents overstepped in opening it.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia
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To: Psalm 144

That’s worth repeating!


101 posted on 01/11/2019 8:45:27 PM PST by Soros Billions (Gore is a pussy, Hillary : There's a man for ya)
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To: LongWayHome

Recycled. Correct word. Old news. But what else can the Slimes do? Report on the current huge successes Trump is enjoying?


102 posted on 01/11/2019 8:51:13 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: advance_copy

Thank you. I too had to see if this was a year old story. It is actually, but the Slimes added todays date.

Pathetic.


103 posted on 01/11/2019 8:54:20 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: springwater13

Sedition or treason? Take your pick. Criminals.


104 posted on 01/11/2019 8:59:45 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dead

Puff Ho is also leading with this old news. Poor press whores. They’ve got nothing to counter the huge successes Trump is enjoying, so they regurgitate old news.

They really are scum suckers.


105 posted on 01/11/2019 9:00:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: thinden
Run you fact check on that, jeff.

After the news media pronounced without evidence the Russians hacked the email account, Trump laughingly called out for them to see if they could find the 30,000 subpoenaed emails Hillary deleted.

What the news media has said ever since is that Trump encouraged them to hack the email account.

One is the truth, the other -- a lie, and they KNOW it.

106 posted on 01/11/2019 9:00:42 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: LeeClementineKenny

I just hope and pray Barr is a false flag. Someone the Uniparty thinks is another Jeff Sessions, so they vote for approval.

Only to have Barr rip the DOJ and FBI new ones.


107 posted on 01/11/2019 9:04:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: springwater13

You know folks, for all the talk about Star vs Clinton, Star didn’t do much of anything. Mueller is basically putting his nose up the Trump People’s posteriors.

Nobody gives a rats ass that Hillary and Mueller were hip deep in giving Russia access to 25% of our uranium deposist. And nobody cares that she got between $50 and $100 million deposited to her foundation as part of the deal.

Honestly, coupled with Mueller’s use of those corrupt documents to obtain FISA warrants, you don’t have to be a great investigator to know this situation stinks like five day old tuna left out in the Sun.


108 posted on 01/11/2019 9:07:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: advance_copy

The article I clicked through to was published today.


109 posted on 01/11/2019 9:08:12 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: springwater13

And who gets to make the call as to how friendly we should be with Russia? The FBI or the President?


110 posted on 01/11/2019 9:09:32 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: blueunicorn6
Democrat Vice President Al Gore was caught, CAUGHT!, with suitcases full of bribery cash from China!

I've been freeping since 2004, and have never seen that claim made here before.

Not doubting you, but do you have a source reference for that?

111 posted on 01/11/2019 9:25:28 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: springwater13

Ugh. More anonymous sources.


112 posted on 01/11/2019 9:25:38 PM PST by CDB
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To: springwater13
The whole “Russia” thing started over a joke Trump made as a candidate.

I remember when Trump made that joke. I never dreamed at the time, that Hillary, the DNC, and the Deep State, would run with that as the basis upon which to launch a grand witch hunt against him.

113 posted on 01/11/2019 9:31:48 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: springwater13
Trump was right all along. Revenge for firing Comey was the FBI starting investigations into every aspect of his life. WITCH HUNT

Banana republic cr@p.

Fire the corrupt director of a Federal agency, and his minions start a retaliatory investigation.

We need some hangins.

114 posted on 01/11/2019 9:47:12 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: datricker
It leaves them a bit depressed and I get the real sense that they come to a realization that our side has changed how we play the game and are flummoxed on how to precede.

Shhhhhh!

Don't tell them about the boiled ropes and gibbets we have planned for them!

115 posted on 01/11/2019 10:00:19 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: springwater13

Well, didn’t the FBI investigate whether Obama was taking orders from Muslims?

Oh, he wasn’t? They didn’t?


116 posted on 01/11/2019 10:06:10 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s recycled, repackaged get-Trump-agitprop. The press is dead. They are just going to clog the media with this stuff until November 2020 & hope it’s enough to eliminate the president.


117 posted on 01/11/2019 10:12:16 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: springwater13

Half a million dollars from Russians to Clintons for a 20 minute speech.

That’s perfectly okay, right?


118 posted on 01/11/2019 10:16:25 PM PST by hattend
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To: bkopto

Yeah, that line is really sticking in my craw. “So concerned”, these virtuous boy scouts. Why, any red blooded patriot would have done would they did...


119 posted on 01/11/2019 10:19:39 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: datricker
I keep telling people that Rapin Bill Clinton had ONE person on the field for his offense against impeachment - Larry Flynt, who put the hurt on two Speakers of the US House by himself.

We're going to have 300,000 - 600,000 berserk blood-in-the-eye Deplorables on the field for Trump's offensive game against impeachment.

The Lefties can start soiling themselves just about now.

120 posted on 01/11/2019 10:21:07 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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