Posted on 06/24/2018 11:38:39 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Michael Daniel confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice ordered him and his staff to "stand down" in 2016 in regard to Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 election.
Daniel, special assistant to former President Barack Obama and White House cybersecurity coordinator, told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that quotes attributed to him in the book, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, were an "accurate rendering of the conversation" he had with Rice and his staff.
Daniel's staff reportedly responded to the order in "disbelief."
Over the past year, the Obama administration has been criticized for allegedly being aware of Russian attempts to influence the election yet primarily remaining silent on the subject.
The Washington Post reported that Obama himself — along with three top aides — was given direct evidence from the CIA of Russian President Vladimir Putin's cyber campaign to influence the election.
The Obama administration reportedly knew of Russia's actions for months ahead of the 2016 election, but failed to take retaliatory action until December.
"It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend,” a former senior Obama administration official involved in White House deliberations on Russia said of the administration's inaction. “I feel like we sort of choked.
I wonder if Obama wanted Hillary to lose and keep her dream from being President from coming to fruition. There was no love loss between Clinton’s and Obama’s. So Comey makes his statement which in turn supposedly caused Hillary to lose.
Their plan keep Hillary from winning, let Trump win, then get him impeached, indicted, removed from office. Then move onto Pence removal, thus next in line would have been Ryan.
It is just all too strange still why Comey did what he did- makes no sense to hurt Hillary, who he worked for and supported.
Just my theory.
I disagreed. I believed Hillary wanted the investigation to unfold basically like it did. So she would be able to claim that the FBI had cleared her of any wrong doing. Comey had to reopen the investigation to keep it from looking like the whitewash that it was. Obama and Clinton are both more self-centered, arrogant, and dismissive of each other then down right hating one another.
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