One only wonders whether the media would have reacted with a YAWN had Bush Jr. done the same investigation of Obama in the 2008 campaign, or in 2012, given the disaster of the Arab Spring (i.e., whether some foreign influence drove Obama to do that)?
Would the media have said something like: “No big deal, why is Obama so paranoid?”
Mueller was appointed to establish a workable timeline that implicates no one at the FBI or CIA as "dirty".
... whenever the FBI’s agents were involved in treason
transferring uranium to foreign gov’ts and entities
to frame the USA (a la Sum of all Fears),
OR when the FBI’s agents were involved in the coverup
of child traffiking and its accounting (Comey’s bro),
OR whenever-they-want because they (for the moment)
are above the duly-elected PRESIDENT.
.... like Hasan they still waste oxygen.
They would need to be reporting to someone...WHO?
Treason is indeed "DEEPLY IMPRUDENT".
Very little difference, apparently, between the FBI upper echelons and the NKVD under Stalin. Had a friend in Russia who was accused of some nonsense which she had nothing to do with; NKVD told her “just sign it, whatever it says, don’t waste our time and yours arguing your innocence”. Is this materially different from Comey, McCabe, Strzok and the others?
Doesn't mean a damned thing until someone who is beyond the reach of never-Trumpers and anti-Trump activist judges decides to do something about it.
We are hosed.
Have to wonder who is leaking this and why now? Are they trying to get in front of some bad news?
Does the FBI have the authority, without the appointment of a special prosecutor, to investigate the President? They report to him. This would seem like a massive conflict of interest at the very minimum.
Did the FBI investigate Nixon?
So many false premises in this article.
My take is probably not the usual one here.
I think the FBI should be able to initiate a counterintelligence investigation, but that it should also ‘fess up that it had done so, rather than redact and frantically cover it up.
Such an investigation might indeed have been warranted during the Obama years, but he was schooled in authoritarian ways and replaced just about everyone who might have or could have done so.
When the Left under Obama consolidated control of the Federal agencies from 2010thru 2016, they paid special attention to the FBI, the CIA and to a lesser extent the NSA. They realized like the Soviet Communists before them that control of these state agencies was important to wield political power. In many ways it is a testament to the strength of American democracy that their plot to scuttle Trump and rig the election for Clinton failed. Trump dropped the ball when he appointed Sessions . Comey, Lynch, Brennan, Clapper, Clinton and Obama should have been arrested Day 1 of the Administration.
It is not imprudent it is a revolution. It is the modern democrat.
Well since they didn’t do it for 0bama then Trump is safe.
1. For one thing, a U.S. president would be the first one to tell anyone that he no longer has any personal life anyway. I imagine almost every form of communication he has is under electronic surveillance for any number of reasons.
2. When I read these reports of this FBI investigation in 2017, I go back and remember the part of Comey's testimony in June 2017 when he described a conversation with Trump from January of that year ... in which Trump told him he might ORDER Comey to have the FBI investigate him -- to vindicate him. It was Comey who told Trump that this would not be a good idea.
A lot of if’s ands and buts in this analysis.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/12/obama-expands-the-nsas-ability-to-share-data-with-other-agencie/
Anyone involved in the decision to do this investigation should be fired.
Exactly...
FBI was run by a bunch of corrupt bullies who thought their job was to protect the power of liberal ‘elites’ and their pets.
Some of those thugs are still there...