Posted on 03/15/2019 9:56:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Investigators Ask Loretta Lynch: Why Didnt DOJ/FBI Give Trump A Defensive Briefing If They Suspected Members Of His Campaign Had Ties To Russia?
Although the transcripts from former Attorney General Loretta Lynchs Testimony last year have not been released yet, investigative reporter Sara Carter obtained a copy and said that lawmakers had one question on their minds. If the DOJ and the FBI were so worried that Trumps campaign had been penetrated by Russians, why didnt anyone give him a defensive briefing which is customary? Lynchs inability to answer this question spoke volumes.
Defensive briefings are often given to presidential candidates, elected officials and even U.S. businesses that have either been unwittingly approached by foreign actors attempting to gain trust and befriend those in position of influence. A senior former intelligence official told Carter that, if the FBI or intelligence agencies suspect foreign adversaries may be trying to penetrate a presidential campaign, as those FBI and DOJ sources suggested in testimony to lawmakers, it would then be required to warn those affected. In 2008, for example, the FBI gave John McCain a defensive briefing due to their concern over the Russian connections of a member of his campaign. Why wasnt Trump offered the same courtesy?
Carters source added:
It is an essential task of the FBI and the intelligence community to give a defensive briefing to a presidential candidate when a foreign adversary is attempting to penetrate or make contact with someone in the campaign. If the FBI and DOJ were so concerned about Carter Page and (George) Papadopoulos why didnt they brief Trump when he became a candidate? The fact that they didnt is very revealing. If they gave a defensive briefing to the Clinton campaign then I think we have the answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Yawn. Just some more going nowhere red meat for the GOP base. I’m just not interested any longer. Hannity was painful to listen to yesterday. Total broken record.
Because they wanted to use this to secretly investigate the President. They did this before the election and if he happened to win they wanted to have an insurance policy to win the house and hopefully cripple his Presidency.
That’s why.
Hey, the Republican party is allowing this double standard - even though it harms THEIR side.
They won’t stop it and they don’t want US trying to either.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Yep. Ping me when a single person in our country’s entire law enforcement apparatus emerges from their coma and actually arrests someone, anyone who participated in the most egregious coup attempt in our nation’s history.
“Yawn. Just some more going nowhere red meat for the GOP base. Im just not interested any longer. Hannity was painful to listen to yesterday. Total broken record.”
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Can any Democrat truly be an American?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to chuckle yesterday when Hannity had “breaking news” about some rocket hitting Israel. Yet didn’t have a word to say about the GOP vote to enable cartel drug smuggling and human trafficking that happened right before his show. He’s become a total GOP company man. His show is an embarrassment.
Valerie Jarrett is the one who managed the corrupt DOJ and it's war against Trump.
And, she is still doing so from the basement of Obama's basement...she lives there.
They didnt give the briefing because they knew that all the foreign contact with campaign workers was by people(spies) hired by themselves.
Nothing is nothing.
“Hey, the Republican party is allowing this double standard - even though it harms THEIR side.”
It does NOT harm ‘their’ side. It harms OUR side. Their side isn’t OUR side.
I'm down to my last nip of patience, and I'm willing to give Barr until the mulehead report comes out, but after that, if he doesn't come with guns blazing, I may have to...errr, that's rhetorical blazing guns for those of you that are the honest, hard working fbi agents that have been assigned to monitor every keystroke at FR.
I know the fbi has time to monitor us at FR, because none of the sonsofbitches has the balls to turn states evidence at the fbi headquarters.
Hannity has assured me, that not a single fbi agent has been tainted by the corruption at headquarters, and all of the other 35,000 hard working fbi folks are appalled at the corruption. Meh!
The fbi should be disbanded with the US Marshall service given the fbi jobs, and then allow any fbi that is willing to take a drug aided lie detector test to apply for the service.
Don't pass, get another job.
Please don't tell me that super fbi agent can overcome a drug aided test and get away with lies.
If they run out of the drugs, use the waterboard.
It seems that way and I had the same thought. But, if he was not sounding that record, nobody would be so he needs to keep it up.
I did hear Rush picking up on it today.
<>Fortunately, Lynch, Page and the rest of their colleagues will be offered the opportunity to clear things up before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a grand jury or maybe even a special counsel.
This is far from over.<>
I hope Sara Carter is right. Our republic depends on it.
Tick Tock.
Broke Clock.
Perhaps - if so, then he should dispense with the hackneyed hyperbole, and respectfully let his more articulate guests finish their thoughts.
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