Her biggest mistake was she believed the "Intelligence Community Assessment" (aka: "ICA"; aka "The Obama Dossier") that Russia was interfering in the election, and had taken over at least some significant systems such as the DNC and other RAT IT platforms.
Because of this, she thought the U.S. was virtually under attack and the investigation was warranted.
Yates was catapulted far up the ladder from AUSA to A.G. (for a few weeks) by people ahead of her leaving. She was not in a position in 2016-2017 to call out Brennan, Clapper, Comey et al. as LIARS.
Moreover, she tried to control Comey but was unsuccessful, as he evidently WENT AROUND HER STRAIGHT TO PRESIDENT ZERO (or, more likely, Zero went around her to Comey).
My biggest takeaway from reading the Yates transcript was the IMPORTANCE of the ICA ("Obama Dossier") to this whole plot.
I went straight from Yates to reading the Michael Henry transcript--President of Crowdstrike.
Henry had NUTHIN'. They alleged they "Recognized" some techniques of hacking that they had internally ascribed to the Russian Government. Proof of HACK? Only "Circumstantial", i.e., "How else could the documents have been provided to Wikileaks?
Yet, this pile of trash and lies is now taken as "Gospel" even by many so-called Republicans. IT MAKES ME SICK.
At one point, Henry even used the ICA as part of his "Evidence" of Russian HACK--EVEN THOUGH THE ICA ("Obama Dossier") relied TOTALLY on Crowdstrike!
You can't make this stuff up.
Incidentally, Henry (Crowdstrike) was asked about the theory that someone (i.e., Seth Rich) could have taken the DNC data using a thumbdrive. Henry said "No way," but was TOTALLY UNABLE to JUSTIFY this answer. He said his "Experts" told him so.
The whole Crowdstrike involvement and the subsequent ICA (i.e., Obama Dossier) is one of the BIG LIES of this coup d'etat ... right up there with the Steele dossier.
“I read the Yates transcript rather carefully; and, I think she was Not Guilty of being part of the coup d’etat cabal.”
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I agree. Her transcript was the first I read. I believe she was kept “out of the loop”...useful idiot / placeholder
Given all we now know, is there ANY question on who ran the Hillary email investigation and cover up?
Barky pulled the strings, play by play. Right down to the Press Conference of exoneration.
I am reading Moyer’s interview now. Yates was next.
Just got done reading Farkas.
Gowdy’s questioning would put anybody into a perjury trap.
I agree, bogus.
I also read recently that SR didn't have the skill set to hack into the server. Seriously, he had access to the data. It's not rocket science to copy an entire DB or the output of a query to a thumb drive.
I’m sending this on. With permission, of course.