Posted on 04/02/2019 1:52:39 AM PDT by blam
One sentence. That's it. The rest is the aftermath and yet the aftermath generated so many more words in the article.
The magic trick. Look over here where the flash is, not over there where the real trick is being pulled off on the down-low.
That is one hell of a picture of Clinton
I’m still trying to figure out how the dossier was a Republican effort to begin with???????
is that pic even real, maybe i’m silly to ask
oh wow it’s real
What is J Edgar Hoover an Eagle Scout? The biggest scandal in American history.
Was J Edgar Hoover an Eagle Scout? The biggest scandal in American history.
Ultimately the answer is that Hillary needs the email server scandal to be buried at any cost.
Crime committed after crime and the Clintons still walk free?
CIA has been covering for them since Mena.
Ya want proof Hussein isn't black? Ask any black man what the first thing they'd do as preeze. Jug ears dindoit! Why? Because it would jeopardize the govt drug cartel monopoly.
“I’m still trying to figure out how the dossier was a Republican effort to begin with???????”
The Free Beacon denies funding or knowing about the dossier.
https://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/fusion-gps-washington-free-beacon/
The dossier was a work in progress document. The supposed Cohen visit to Prague in August 2016 and Page going to Russia in July 2016 happened well after the opposition research was handed off to the democrats. That said, we know the Fusion GPS already had a file on Manafort. One would think they would tell the Free Beacon about Manafort when he showed up at the campaign in March of 2016.
And what do you think that would be? Just curious...
They got that origin wrong- HilLIARy didn’t hire Steele to FIND evidence of Trump’s ‘ties to Russia’, she hired Steele to MANUFACTURE dirt.
He gave her a totally fake “dossier” and she never complained, after paying $8 million...
Why would you pay $8 million for something then find out it is 100% fake... and not complain?
“Russiagate: “Why Did This Ever Start In The First Place?”
Simple, the democRATS MO is to accuse the opposition of wrongdoings they actually do themselves.
My understanding was that during the republican primaries one of Trump’s competitors, I believe Rubio or Jeb, started some “intel” and then handed it over to the Clinton campaign. None of the content of significance existed until the Clinton team took over and really financed Fusion GPS.
...hence the claim that it came from a Republican, which is deliberately misleading.
So, the FBI and the CIA were working together on this.
This article seems to indicate that all this Trump-Russia collusion stuff started in 2016. But note from the Epoch Times article referenced below how many times the year 2015 shows up. What was going on in 2015 that would drive the Obama Administration, and the Hillary for President campaign, to start developing a Trump-Russia collusion scheme?
Could it be that the best defense is a good offense? Of course, the Hillary e-mail scandal was heating up. But also, Hillary and Uranium One was a powerful Hillary-Russia collusion story. Peter Schweizer’s book, Clinton Cash, came out in 2015. Could it be that the Democrats felt that they could beat any Republican candidate, but that Trump was a wild card. To bury Trump, and to bury the Uranium One scandal, two birds with one stone, they accuse Trump of doing what the Clintons had actually done. The same team leaders in the FBI/DOJ handled both the e-mail investigation and the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
From the Epoch Times article referenced below, 2015 occurs in several key points:
1) Promotion of McCabe and Strzok to key roles
2) Undercutting the power of the Inspectors General to keep them from interfering with the spying and other abuses of power
3) In 2015, John Brennan established himself as the point man to push for an investigation into the Trump campaign. Using a combination of unofficial foreign intelligence compiled by contacts, colleagues, and associates—primarily from the UK
4) Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was involved in collecting information regarding then-candidate Trump and transmitting it to the United States. The GCHQ is the UK equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
5)Eight months before Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, Simpson had hired Nellie Ohr, the wife of then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, to work for his firm as a researcher in October 2015
First, some discussion about Papadopoulos and his involvement, starting in March, 2016.
From the following article:
Spygate: The Inside Story Behind the Alleged Plot to Take Down Trump
On Aug. 5, 2014, Horowitz and other inspectors general had sent a letter to Congress asking for unimpeded access to all records. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates responded on July 20, 2015, with a 58-page memorandum, titled “Memorandum for Sally Quillian Yates Deputy Attorney General,” written by Karl R. Thompson, the principal deputy assistant attorney general of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
The July 20, 2015, opinion was widely criticized. But it accomplished what it was intended to do. The opinion limited IG Horowitz’s oversight from extending to any information collected under Title III—including intercepted communications and national security letters. (Notably, The New York Times disclosed that national security letters were used in the surveillance of the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.)
In response, on Aug. 3, 2015, IG Horowitz sent a blistering letter to Congress. The letter was signed not only by Horowitz but by all other acting inspectors general as well:
“The OLC opinion’s restrictive reading of the IG Act represents a potentially serious challenge to the authority of every Inspector General and our collective ability to conduct our work thoroughly, independently, and in a timely manner. Our concern is that, as a result of the OLC opinion, agencies other than DOJ may likewise withhold crucial records from their Inspectors General, adversely impacting their work.
The Obama Administration only backed off from this policy after Trump won the election. They wouldn't want the Trump Administration to be able to use the same weapon against them. From the Epoch Times article referenced above:
Horowitz continued to push Congress for oversight access and encouraged passage of the Inspector General Empowerment Act. Horowitz would ultimately win his battle, but only as President Barack Obama was leaving office. On Dec. 16, 2016, Obama finally signed the Inspector General Empowerment Act into law.
From the Epoch Times article, the team that eventually ran the Trump-Russia collusion game was the same team that was pulled together to "investigate" the Clinton e-mail scandal in mid-2015.
On July 30, 2015, within weeks of the FBI’s opening of the Clinton investigation, McCabe was suddenly promoted to the No. 3 position in the FBI. With his new title of associate deputy director, McCabe was transferred to FBI headquarters from the Washington Field Office, and his direct involvement in the Clinton investigation began.
Strzok would follow shortly.
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Starting in October 2015 and continuing into early 2016, FBI Director James Comey made a series of high-profile reassignments that resulted in the complete turnover of the upper-echelon of the FBI team working on the Clinton email investigation:
See the article for the list of names.
On Jan. 29, 2016, Comey appointed McCabe as FBI deputy director, replacing the retiring Giuliano, and McCabe assumed the No. 2 position in the FBI, after having held the No. 3 position for just six months.
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By early 2016, the three participants in the infamous “insurance policy” meeting—McCabe, Strzok, and Page—were now in place at the FBI.
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This new structure resulted in some unusual reporting lines that went outside normal chains of command. Strzok, who would not normally fall under Priestap’s oversight, was now reporting directly to him.
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While the elements of the day-to-day investigative team differed for the Clinton email investigation and the Trump–Russia investigation, the primary team remained the same throughout both cases—as did the lines of communication between the FBI and the DOJ. According to testimony by Page, John Carlin, who ran the DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD), was receiving briefings on both investigations directly from McCabe.
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A report published by IG Horowitz in June 2018, which reviewed the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton email case, included the notable statement that several witnesses had informed the IG that Page “circumvented the official chain of command, and that Strzok communicated important Midyear case information to her, and thus to McCabe, without Priestap’s or Steinbach’s knowledge.” Steinbach, who was the executive assistant director and Priestap’s direct supervisor, left the FBI in early 2017.
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But, going back to 2015:
As the Clinton investigation wound down, interest from the intelligence community in the Trump campaign was ramping up. Sometime in 2015, it appears former CIA Director John Brennan established himself as the point man to push for an investigation into the Trump campaign. Using a combination of unofficial foreign intelligence compiled by contacts, colleagues, and associates—primarily from the UK, but also from other Five Eyes members, such as Australia—Brennan then fed this information to the FBI. Brennan stated this fact repeatedly during a May 23, 2017, congressional testimony:
“I made sure that anything that was involving U.S. persons, including anything involving the individuals involved in the Trump campaign, was shared with the [FBI].”
The Brits were involved in the Trump-Russia business in 2015:
In late 2015, Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was involved in collecting information regarding then-candidate Trump and transmitting it to the United States. The GCHQ is the UK equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
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In early March 2016, Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie—the law firm used by the Clinton campaign and the DNC—expressing interest in an “engagement,” according to an Oct. 24, 2017, response letter by Perkins Coie. The firm hired Fusion GPS in April 2016 to “perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle.”
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The year 2015 is important again:
Notably, eight months before Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, Simpson had hired Nellie Ohr, the wife of then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, to work for his firm as a researcher in October 2015. It was at this time that Fusion GPS was retained by the Washington Free Beacon to engage in research on the Trump campaign.
*EVERY* 'Russian Agent' that approached the Trump team to try to get them to 'collude' with Russia WAS AN FBI OR CIA AGENT!!
They repeatedly tried to entrap someone on the Trump team AND FAILED.
The "Missing Link" is Obama unleashing the US intel apparat against Trump, both as a candidate, and, as a sitting president.
So racked with committing treasonous crimes and contemplating the loss of power, the nefarious bunch
even thought they could stop the Inauguration of Donald as president......and install Hillary in the Oval Office.
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