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WSJ: There's Mounting Evidence of 2016 Election Meddling Coming From the FBI
Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 12/15/2017 5:21:57 PM PST by Kaslin

There is something rotten at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I mean all of this is just absurd. We have two FBI agents texting one another, one of which is having an extramarital affair with the other, cryptically talking about “insurance” against a Trump presidency. That text between these two agents was delivered on August 15, 2016. You also have Andrew Weissmann, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top lieutenant, voicing praise for then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enact President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which got her fired. Then, there’s another DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, who was demoted for meeting the authors of the infamous and unverified Trump dossier, Fusion GPS; Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for that firm during the 2016 election. If there is nothing rotten at the FBI, then it’s credibility is definitely in question, something that The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board mentioned in their op-ed about this mess. The two FBI agents at the center of the firestorm right now, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are obviously no longer working with Mueller; Strzok was removed in August, while Page’s assignment with the investigation has already ended and she has been transferred elsewhere. Still, from this past summer to now—and we’re just learning about these 10,000 text messages between the two. The Journal makes it clear that there appears to be mounting evidence of election meddling emanating from the bureau:

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Mr. Strzok wrote Ms. Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 text. He added: “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

What “policy” would that be? The “Andy” in question is Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director. FBI officials are allowed to have political opinions, but what kind of action were they discussing that would amount to anti-Trump “insurance”?

In another exchange that month, Ms. Page forwarded a Trump-related article and wrote: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” He thanked her and assured: “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way.” Mr. Strzok, recall, is the man who changed the words “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” in James Comey’s July 2016 public exoneration of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The McCabe meeting came on the heels of the FBI’s launch of its counterintelligence probe into Trump-Russia ties. July is also when former British spook Christopher Steele briefed the FBI on his Clinton-financed dossier of salacious allegations against Mr. Trump. The texts explain why Mr. Mueller would remove Mr. Strzok, though a straight shooter wouldn’t typically resist turning those messages over to Congress for as long as Mr. Mueller did.

Meanwhile, we’re learning more about the political motives of Mr. Mueller’s lieutenant, Andrew Weissmann. Judicial Watch last week released an email in which Mr. Weissmann expressed his “awe” and praise for Sally Yates, after the then acting AG and Obama holdover refused to implement Mr. Trump’s travel ban.

This should trouble anyone who cares about the integrity of the Justice Department.

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Public confidence isn’t helped by the continuing Justice and FBI refusal to cooperate with Congress. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who supervises Mr. Mueller, toed the Mueller-FBI line on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee. He repeated FBI Director Christopher Wray’s preposterous excuse that he can’t answer questions because of an Inspector General probe. And he wouldn’t elaborate on the news that Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice official Bruce Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Mr. Steele to gin up his dossier.

The man who should be most disturbed by all this is Mr. Mueller, who wants his evidence and conclusions to be credible with the public. Evidence is building instead that some officials at the FBI—who have worked for him—may have interfered in an American presidential election.

So, again, what’s the insurance policy? Is it the dossier that contains salacious and unverified information about Trump, something that Katie pointed out in her post? Or, as it seems, is it the FBI investigation into Russian interference in July. Did they hope to find actual evidence of collusion to nail Trump if he were to become president? Strzok was an agent with the counter-intelligence wing of the bureau. Whatever the case, it seems that meddling, or at least conversation of such activities, is coming from inside the house, or to be more accurate—inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building and not the Kremlin. Judicial Watch just filed a FOIA lawsuit to obtain all of Peter Strzok’s files relating to his reassignment from the Russia investigation conducted by Robert Mueller. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016election; andrewweissmann; christopherwray; doj; election; fakenews; fbi; fbidirector; ig; igprobe; insurancepolicy; muellerinvestigation; nellieohr; ohr; pizzagatecoverup; rodrosenstein; rosenstein; russia; russianpropaganda; teamclinton; teamsoros; thinkagain; trump; trumprussia; weissmann; wray
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To: chris37

That was well-said, Chris, but I don’t think it’s the biggest scandal in American history. It is the just the zenith of an older scandal, and that was the usurpation of an ineligible, CIA plant to the presidency nine years ago.

If we don’t put an end to this sedition, there’ll only be a higher price to be paid later.

The current, large crop of seditionists would never have been able to grab hold of the reins of power and so mightily try to keep hold of it, were it not for the confidence they gained through what was done to bring Barry Soetoro to the fore.

If Trump were to go before a joint session of Congress to announce the arrest of a good number of these Deep State traitors, there would be a lot of dead people before he finished speaking. I would only hope they’d be the ones deserving to be so, but I think they’d probably take a number of innocents with them.


121 posted on 12/15/2017 8:47:55 PM PST by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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To: familyop

It seems like that same effort has gone national, and the characteristics of straight and masculine are now accompanied by white.

At least that is my perception. there is some weird s*** goin’ on.


122 posted on 12/15/2017 8:48:16 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: familyop
We speak English in this country.

Well, some of us talks Mercun.

123 posted on 12/15/2017 8:48:49 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: rx

I think that is it very likely we are going to see something along the lines of what you describe in the near future.

These are bad people, and they are not going to go away on their own, and we cannot coexist.

The course is set.


124 posted on 12/15/2017 8:59:45 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Kaslin

Later


125 posted on 12/15/2017 9:00:17 PM PST by gaijin
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To: tumblindice

Question for you...
Was it Schumer that threatened
TRUMP early on about the about
The Deep State?
OR was it McCain?


126 posted on 12/15/2017 9:32:41 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: chris37
 
 
My question is, what were they getting in return to put themselves at this much risk. I cannot believe they stuck their necks out like this out of the goodness of their hearts for Clinton. What front(s) were their bribes from the Clinton Foundation laundered through. It's evident there was a whole network of 'fixers' working for the Clintons - what was the price, how many pieces of silver. And now it's apparent they've been engaged in using official resources to run a domestic COINTELPRO operation against the current sitting President.
 
 

127 posted on 12/15/2017 10:05:50 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: rx

Good perspective and solid analysis, thank you.


128 posted on 12/15/2017 10:28:59 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: MNDude

I certainly hope so.

This whole thing has been very troubling from the beginning.


129 posted on 12/15/2017 10:34:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lapsus calami

As far as I can see with liberals the Agenda is god, and they will do anything for it.


130 posted on 12/15/2017 10:50:54 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: lapsus calami

Those moths felt what they thought was the approaching warm light of a coming New World Order, in which THEY would be the elite and be able to rule tyrannically.

They look jealously at families like the Rockefellers, Rothschilds and Windsors and see lots people who aren’t even on lists of the World’s Richest People because their wealth is off those charts. Those own the Federal Reserve and like foreign banks and organizations. Others own extremely advanced technology that they’ve stolen from the public and keep advancing using taxpayer money. Others own Saudi Arabian Oil and the like or run the top echelons of the drug trade.

To them, Trump’s money is not of an also-ran, but of a piker. Unfortunately for them, Trump isn’t as easily bought as the rest of the Bohemian Club dwellers.

God doesn’t print money, but the truly elite do. That makes some people (and moths) abandon God.

These moths believed they already had bought slots for themselves and their families in underground bunkers against any coming, planned cataclysm (just like the hoaxes we’ve seen on a smaller scale—did I say smaller? Think WARS.). They believe themselves beyond just clever. They work a certain magic, just like they believe their Boss (of this World) does.

They’ve chosen sides (hint: it’s not the one where people can call upon the Savior, Lord God). The rest of us, by the billions, these moths don’t give any chance at all, and that’s sooner than later. That sooner is, I believe, relevant to the answer to your question.

They think they’re gonna win, but it’ll be short-lived. The answers are indeed in the Bible. If we can defeat them now, we may buy ourselves a reprieve. A decade or two or three, perhaps.

Do you need motivation to fight against rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness you can’t see, against the spiritual forces of wickedness?

What is it worth not to have to tell a soldier’s mother that her son died?


131 posted on 12/15/2017 11:02:17 PM PST by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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To: lapsus calami; chris37
"My question is, what were they getting in return to put themselves at this much risk."

Maybe the prospect of what could be, in essence and theory, a one-branch government: judicial. An oligarchy of elite lawyers. See how many are already in the other two branches.


132 posted on 12/15/2017 11:33:41 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: lapsus calami; chris37
Please allow me to rephrase this. Forgot something.

"My question is, what were they getting in return to put themselves at this much risk."

Maybe the prospect of what could be, in essence and theory, a one-branch government: judicial. An oligarchy of judicial people (forgot to include police and associated others).


133 posted on 12/15/2017 11:36:05 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: chris37

The FBI trying to fix an election for a known slithering criminal and against a good and decent man, and then having failed to do so, trying to destroy that innocent and good man who is now POTUS.


So well said it bears repeating.

Worst thing is that at least 50%of the country has not been exposed to this truth. They walk among us. They have NO CLUE.


134 posted on 12/16/2017 12:05:30 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Enchante

that is a bizarre way of phrasing it, since they are both involved in the affair.... it is not a one-way event.


I caught that too! Say what? It reminds me of Bill Clinton telling us that while Monica Lewinsky had sex with HIM, he never had sex with HER!


135 posted on 12/16/2017 12:06:50 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Migraine

He watches Huckleberry Hound reruns, too; it helps him with his diction.


You wins !


136 posted on 12/16/2017 12:08:56 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

What frightens more is the thought that x% of that 50% has been exposed to the truth, knows exactly what is going on, and wants it to succeed.

Only thing that seems to matter is that their people are in charge in the end. Whatever it takes to get there is just fine.


137 posted on 12/16/2017 12:14:53 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I can’t believe I never connected those two horrible occurrences on the calendar.


138 posted on 12/16/2017 12:19:43 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: snarkytart

Maybe a message for others...


139 posted on 12/16/2017 12:28:54 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: sargon

President Trump—in consultation with those he truly trusts—should calmly, carefully and meticulously gather all the salient facts, making sure his ducks are in a row—coordinating with his Chief of Staff; the Secretary of Defense; the Joint Chiefs; the Speaker; the Majority Leader; the Republican Governors of the Several States; Congressional leaders; and the Armed Forces of the United States—and, while outlining this criminal conspiracy to the American People in an address to a Joint Session of Congress, he should declare a national emergency, immediately arresting the ringleaders.


Would any of these go along with him?


140 posted on 12/16/2017 12:32:33 AM PST by Yaelle
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