This was a good synopsis of multiple things to do with Russia.
I read the footnotes, exhibits, and motion to dismiss and came away disgusted and also surprised about some things. I also have a suspicion that begs a question.
This document is very bad for the former 7th floor of the FBI. Very bad. No way to sugarcoat it and it is pretty clear they played a dirty game and it made them look like a rogue agency even from the DOJ.
The one question I now have is did “they” set up Flynn to be fired by Trump? I am not clear now on what the lie was that Flynn told Pence. I am also uncertain why the DOJ and FBI felt the need to run to the White House about the comments by Pence to make it look like Flynn lied? Did anyone else find this odd in the Yates transcript and the footnotes? It sounds like an episode of “mean girls” to me.
Was Trump and the White House played by this group to fire Flynn? I would like for Pence to make a statement to clarify because I came away from reading all of this thinking to myself that it was the FBI/DOJ that went to the White House and told them that Flynn lied.
I was also surprised a bit by Yates. I know she was no fan of the President, but you are the acting head of DOJ. She makes it sound like Brennan, Clapper, and her were all advising the FBI to NOT do this and to give a defensive briefing and Comey refused. She was Comey’s boss!
Seriously? It is pretty obvious that Comey/McCabe/Strozk/Page are going to be hung out like dirty laundry, but I still think there is far more behind the scenes that we do not yet know.
If Yates was so concerned WHY did she sign the FISA warrant? Any of them could have blown the whistle. My God. These transcripts are CYA Central..... Brennan/Clapper/Yates/Rosenstein could have all stopped this, but they did not.
Pretty obvious they are going to get a pass. A few prosecutors might be hung out to dry along with the FBI 7th Floor Supercop Brigade. It appears the rest will walk.
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