[stylin19a]

Thanks...I have no idea how any of this works vs. supposed to work.

do they have to run everything by DOJ or AG ?
That isn't how the PAGE transcripts seem to read.
Which means the DOJ pretty much called all the shots re: Hillary ?

Also, it was just reported that the FBI opened an investigation when Pres. Trump fired Comey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html?

Could the FBI do that on their own ? Do they need any form of reasonable suspicion to open an investigation ?

Cripes...my grand daughter, the brainiac, wants to work for the FBI....

[jjotto]

No. I don’t believe either the FBI or US Attorneys need specific approval to start investigations, although they do inform the DAG or AG.

[jjotto]

They won’t pick her unles they believe they can teach her to pathologically lie. This ain’t a TV show.

[smileyface]

Could the FBI do that on their own ? Do they need any form of reasonable suspicion to open an investigation ?

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per Bongino...

I say often one of the great mysteries of this case is what’s Paragraph 1. Paragraph 1, what do I mean by that? When I was a Federal Agent, when you arrest someone you have to do what’s calls an MR, a memorandum report. Paragraph 1 of that MR is always how the case started. I got a call from Jane Doe, bank fraud investigator, said this credit card number was stolen on April 14, 2015. I made a few calls and the next thing you know it’s an 80-page report about this massive scheme. Paragraph 1 though always lays it out, always. Do you know to this day we still have no idea what Paragraph 1 was—why they started to spy on the Trump team? I get it, it was for political, I get that. But at some point somebody, you have to understand folks, how to put down on paper a semi-legitimate reason to start the most massive spying operation in a political campaign in U.S. history. Do you know nobody to this day will tell you what that is? I know what it is.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/11/25/dan_bongino_on_spygate_obama_mueller__the_biggest_spy_scandal_in_american_history.html

[Defiant]

my grand daughter, the brainiac, wants to work for the FBI.

Get her a white hat first.