Posted on 05/27/2017 8:18:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the FBI knew the Russians were trying to interfere in our election, and they could—from time to time—peer into their networks and see what was taken. This is what they found, which reportedly influenced former FBI Director James Comey to hold a press conference on July 5, 2016 and issue that strongly-worded rebuke of Hillary Clinton and her team concerning how they handled classified information. A memo reportedly from Democratic operative reportedly made assurances that the FBI’s email probe would not go too far, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch would ensure that. If the investigation ended with no charges and this was leaked, the credibility of the FBI would be in the crosshairs. The New York Times had a lengthy piece in April about Mr. Comey’s attempts to keep the FBI out of the political spotlight during the 2016 cycle, which proved all but impossible (via NYT):
During Russia’s hacking campaign against the United States, intelligence agencies could peer, at times, into Russian networks and see what had been taken. Early last year, F.B.I. agents received a batch of hacked documents, and one caught their attention.The document, which has been described as both a memo and an email, was written by a Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far, according to several former officials familiar with the document.
Read one way, it was standard Washington political chatter. Read another way, it suggested that a political operative might have insight into Ms. Lynch’s thinking.
The notion that the Democratic-led DOJ could be playing favorites for Mrs. Clinton were further amplified by Ms. Lynch telling Mr. Comey not to call it an investigation, but a matter—and that 20-30-minute meeting between Ms. Lynch on former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix days before the July 5 presser. Mr. Clinton boarded Ms. Lynch’s plane where the two reportedly spoke about golf and grandkids. That was never going to suffice and the screams that the fix was in should no charges be filed would be deafening. The only problem was that Mr. Comey didn’t see intent, he saw gross negligence, but not intent which is the standard he wanted to go by, despite the letter of the law not having such a statute. That explains the blistering indictment of Mrs. Clinton’s judgment at the presser, and that of her staff. Mr. Comey wanted to show that the Democratic–run DOJ was not putting its thumb on the scales. At the same time, Republicans would say that’s all good, but he still didn’t file charges when it seems apparent that maybe he should have. Now, we know that the memo in question that former FBI Director James Comey took into account was not genuine and he knew that was the case (via CNN):
Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake -- created by Russian intelligence -- but he feared that if it became public it would undermine the probe and the Justice Department itself, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the process.As a result, Comey acted unilaterally last summer to publicly declare the investigation over -- without consulting then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch -- while at the same time stating that Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information. His press conference caused a firestorm of controversy and drew criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.
Comey's actions based on what he knew was Russian disinformation offer a stark example of the way Russian interference impacted the decisions of the highest-level US officials during the 2016 campaign.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that this Russian intelligence was unreliable. US officials now tell CNN that Comey and FBI officials actually knew early on that this intelligence was indeed false.
President Trump fired Mr. Comey earlier this month over his conduct during this investigation, though Democrats find that explanation ludicrous. At the same time, the October 28, 2016 letter Mr. Comey sent to Congress informing them that more emails would be reviewed sent Democrats into a rage, with many calling for the then-FBI director to resign. When Trump did fire Mr. Comey, the outrage continued, but this time Democrats thought the move reeked of Watergate. That’s patently false. The hypocrisy has been thick from the Left over this.
They haven’t even accused him of a crime, only that “the Russians hacked the election.” What does that mean? What did they fake? Which of the emails that we all saw were fraudulent?
So many words wasted on bullshit. None of this garbage is true except for the fact z Lynch was compromised and Comey is a Clinton insider.
This is such a huge lie. The claim by Comey that Hillary Clinton did not knowingly have US government secrets on her private server is ludicrous.
She was Secretary of State. Prior to that she had served years as a Senator on the Armed Services Committee. Prior to that she had spent years in the White House as First Lady.
She knew damn well what kind of information constituted US government secrets, and saw it staring back at her on her own computer or blackberry screen from her own private server hundreds and hundreds of times over the course of not just months but years.
No jury would ever believe that Hillary never once, not a single time, over her years as SOS, recognized any of those 1,000+ instances of government secrets as a government secret.
The debate over whether negligence is sufficient under the Espionage Act is a red herring. No one can believe that Hillary never knowingly had these secrets on her system.
And we have a NEW intellegence spy in the NSA leaking info. to Ms. Lindsay and his boyfriend Senator McCain.
“..My guess is that the memo that is fake is the golden shower memo and the other memo, of which apparently no copy has been produced, written by an unidentified individual,..”
And picked up and hand delivered to the FBI by John McCain.
So why hasn’t Jeff Sessions convened a Grand Jury in ANY of these cases? Not a rhetorical question.
He was letting Hillary go no matter what, that is why we had that scam investigation
Thanks for that link. I’ve been looking for it. Now I have it in safe keeping.
Precisely
NY Times, Washington Post and CNN? Only an idiot would believe anything the Unholy Trinity concocts.
Assume every word is a lie.
NY Times aka NY Slimes
Washington Post aka Washington Compost
Clinton News Network
Fact: Every word is a lie!!!
What else?
NP =)
Libs desperately want everyone to believe it’s fake.
There’s no evidence that it was fake; the lib CNN and such are trying to assert it must be fake because Hillary’s pal Renteria and others in the memo claim they never spoke and don’t even know each other.
Democrats are incestuous and gossipy. There’s no way they don’t know each other, given their positions.
The only thing Putin was alarmed about was that his free reign of invasion and land annexation that started under Bush and then was wildly successful during Obama’s watch was at risk of coming to an end before he’s able to annex anything else.
The Russians were planting disinfo left and right; it was all over this website as posters laid on Russia Today and Iranian sourced articles thick as flies on a cow’s ass which was lapped up because they slathered it with stuff people wanted to hear about Hillary; meanwhile on leftist sites the Russians busily fed them crap they wanted to hear, too, including the usual environmental garbage to keep them in opposition to fracking and pipelines.
Best outcome for Russia is to keep both the left and right in the US fighting. Ideally, the Russians would like an isolationist US that is incapable of using its own resources.
No, that would be the dossier. This memo isn’t from the dossier.
All three want the memo to be disregarded as fake.
This gentle reader wishes to ask, what was revealed about Hillary Clinton or the DNC that has turned out to be false?
Has Wasserman-Schultz been offered her job back?
Has Donna Brazile been tendered an apology?
Was Antony Weiner’s laptop full of messages about yoga and wedding planning?
Good point
I’d bet it’s not fake.
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