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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...but the FBI did not care at all that Hillary was openly colluding with Russia in a blatant quid pro quo scheme.
Replace the FBI with the states’ agencies only.
Maybe there’s a need for some back-room types to help coordinate redundant efforts. Or a few specific federal laws that need enforcement by specific agencies (like Secret Service, ICE, and DEA do)?
It wasn’t revenge. FBI/CIA started investigation when Trump came down the escalator.
All the Congressional testimony of these crooks should be made public.
The anatomy of a smear.
... on the BASIS of WHAT?????
NBC “News” this morning must have said “BOMBSHELL” 15 times in the first thirty minutes!!!*ROFL*
If there was ANYTHING to this stupid story, it would’ve been blasted all over the news months ago...
Just more liberal/socialist bullsh!t...These people are delusional...
No mention of the fact that it was Rod Rosenstein himself who recommended firing Comey. What a piece of excrement this article is.
One of the “incidents” that officials were concerned about was that, supposedly, President Trump said he was going to send a letter to Comey about his firing...He didn’t send a letter!!!!
OH NO!!!!!!! He didn’t send a letter!!!!! That’s sure proof he is aligned with Russia!!!!.....IDIOTS!!!!!
The designated faithful secretly made the treasonous effort
All I heard was ;
Blah blah blah Trump blah blah FBI blah blah Russia blah Putin blah blah...
It's like the difference between democRAT, Liberal, Progressive, Socialist and Communist.
There is no difference except the spelling. The meaning is the same.
Totalitarian Marxists.
I thought this was old news. But it works as a reminder for their Leftist readers about how bad Trump is and how he sold out to the Russians to beat Hillary. That "collusion" that Mueller's never been able to find after two years, doncha' know?
And what is your guess about what this "something big coming out against them" is?
Is Trump about to drop the hammer on the democRAT crooks?
Exactly.
Whenever we’re perplexed by the media re-spinning useless fake journalism about debunked Russia hoaxes or non-crimes, many times they know something is coming worse against their side.
I want to believe it’s the declassification. But... Lucy... and the football... we know the drill.
Wall Street Journal
After an 18-month witch hunt, why is the deep state leaking a story to the NYT that attempts to justify Mueller and his team of democrat hacks?
FBI. The hierarchy there are without a doubt the worst of the worst in that District of Corruption.
Horse manure. President Trump fired Comey because Rosenstein recommended it. End of story. Hell, even the democraps wanted Comey fired. I hate all these bastards, especially Mueller.
Mueller and anybody in the FBI linked to this BS should be put on a list.
Traitors.
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