Posted on 05/11/2017 12:17:22 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
Congressional officials were told by FBI Director James Comey before he was fired that there are just a small number of Americans who are targets of the criminal or counterintelligence probes involving Russia and that none were President Trump or his top aides, Circa has confirmed.
Behind closed doors, Comey provided specific updates on about a half dozen or less targeted US citizens who were the focus of either counterintelligence probes or criminal investigations emanating from the Russia election scandal, sources familiar with the intelligence told Circa.
"President Trump is not a target, nor is any senior government official if Comey's account is correct."-Congressional Official
"President Trump is not a target nor is any senior government official if Comey's account is correct," one source said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because that person was not authorized to comment.
Related:Questions Russia probe needs to answer
While the counterintelligence probe is focused is on whether any American was compromised by Russian spies, knowingly or unwittingly, the criminal issues are mostly focused on possible crimes not directly related to the core question of collusions with Russia, such as tax, lobbying or money laundering laws, the sources said.
"As had been stated publicly many times the FBI made clear it does not yet have proof of any criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia or any proof voting ballots were changed. These probes can go on for a long time and things can change, but right now that is what is the state (of things)," said a source.
The sources spoke as Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) took the extraordinary step of going to the Senate Judiciary open hearing Thursday to say that he had been provided no evidence to date in classified briefings that Trump was a target.
"Shortly after Director Comey briefed us, I tweeted that he should be transparent. I said he should tell the public what he told Senator Feinstein and me about whether the FBI is or is not investigating the President," said Grassley.
"On Tuesday, the President’s letter said that Director Comey told him he was not under investigation. Senator Feinstein and I heard nothing that contradicted the President’s statement."
His statement was backed up by his Democratic counterpart on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D- CA).
are you implying that Grassley and Feinstein are both lying?
Of course not. They did the job the White House spokesmen/women should have done. The two senators validated what Trump said. How hard was that? Not very.
ooooooooo lol (sorry, FRiend, I’m still on my first cup of coffee )
I’ve been there, on that coffee deal. :)
Remember the good ol days when the FBI investigated REAL crimes??? They actually waited until they had evidence something wrong had been done before they set out to investigate. Because Hilliary and her fellow snowflakes cannot yet accept she LOST, all this effort, time and money is being spent on a snipe hunt. In the meantime, REAL terrorists, gangbangers, illegal aliens and criminals are skating by because so many resources are involved in this bogus escapade.
Trump killed him. Who else?/s
That’s disturbing, and possibly true.
:: and his murder is still unsolved ::
And, who knew that SR enjoyed 4am jogs in his neighborhood; surveillance info by a well-connected information agency?
:: CNN is an arm of the DNC ::
More correctly, the media is an arm of the Dhimmicrat party.
I think we ought to suggest that they start their own political party called “The Media Party”.
They (MSM) continually bray that, under Amnd-1, they are a fully protected political class.
To quote MCHammer: “Can’t Touch This”.
“sources familiar with the intelligence”
If the source can’t be named it’s fake news.
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