Deep state monkeys.
Posted on 05/10/2019 6:00:51 PM PDT by John Semmens
In a "town hall" on CNN, fired former FBI Director James Comey contended that the "operation" to surveil a presidential candidate is a "totally normal activity for the FBI to undertake. After all, intelligence gathering is an essential tool we use to defend the United States against all enemies—both foreign and domestic. Trump isn't the only candidate who has been a focus of this sort of investigation. He is merely the first to have survived such an effort."
Comey explained that "inserting covert agents into the Trump campaign was standard procedure. Sending our guys—Mifsud and Halper—to tell Papadopoulos that the Russians had 'dirt' on Clinton was crucial to establishing the predicate for later steps taken to obtain FISA permission to wiretap the campaign. Without the implication that there was a direct link between the campaign and the Russian government I doubt the court would've granted the access we wanted. We all knew that the link was bogus, but with national security at stake we felt the ruse was necessary."
Despite the fact that the Special Prosecutor's report on Trump Russia collusion found no evidence to support the accusation, Comey says he remains "optimistic that obstruction of justice charges may still take the President down. When suspects are interviewed numerous times small variations in their testimony can be construed as lying. Lying to federal law officials like the Special Counsel or agents in the FBI is illegal. So, even if there is no actual crime per se, any variations from one account to another can still be prosecuted."
When CNN's Anderson Cooper pointed out that Comey, himself lied to Trump when he assured him he was "not a target of the FBI investigation," Comey advised Cooper that "the courts have long sanctioned lying by law-enforcement personnel in order to entrap suspects in the act of obstructing the investigation. It's a stacked deck, but it is a court approved bias in the application of laws regarding perjury."
Meanwhile, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) chided Trump for "unnecessarily embarrassing the hard working government officials who so patriotically strove to remove him from office. There was no need to shame FBI employees like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for cheating on their spouses, denigrating Trump's deplorable supporters, and misusing government equipment or employees like James Comey for leaking classified information, forgiving Hillary Clinton's technical crimes and lying to the American people. The President's descent into this kind of indecency is just further evidence of his unfitness for office."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/261024-2019-05-10-semi-news-semi-satire-may-12-2019-edition.htm
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Very good.
Not sure I see much “fiction” in it.
Disturbingly close to the truth, as I suspect it.
Sedition with a happy face.
Coming soon to a cable station near you...
They would have discovered he's not a US Citizen!
I think Comey does think his behavior was normal. That is the problem. He thinks he is a partisan politician.
Probably misspoke. He meant to say the “ New Normal”.
Sorry John, but the truth is not satire. It may be irony, but not satire. :-)
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