Posted on 06/14/2017 3:46:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election is interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, officials said.
The move by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Trump’s own conduct marks a major turning point in the nearly year-old FBI investigation, which until recently focused on Russian meddling during the presidential campaign and on whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Investigators have also been looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates, officials said.
Trump had received private assurances from former FBI Director James B. Comey starting in January that he was not personally under investigation. Officials say that changed shortly after Comey’s firing.
Five people briefed on the requests, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said Daniel Coats, the current director of national intelligence, Adm. Mike Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, and Rogers’ recently departed deputy, Richard Ledgett, agreed to be interviewed by Mueller’s investigators as early as this week. The investigation has been cloaked in secrecy and it’s unclear how many others have been questioned by the FBI.
The NSA said in statement that it will “fully cooperate with the special counsel,” and declined to comment further. The office of Director of National Intelligence and Ledgett declined to commen
Might be more fake news
Trump should get rid of this guy..
Officials?
Which shows why the appointment was foolish
Mueller and his thugs are on a witch hunt to find ANYTHING . . . if there’s no collusion, then there should be no “obstruction” and thus, NO “special counsel”
Get rid of these traitorous bastards NOW
After “mattering” Seth Rich and Clinton and Pizzagate,
the FBI ought INVESTIGATE ITSELF for obstruction of
justice and not the ALREADY CLEARED President.
More “anonymous sources” who will be nowhere to be found once this is exposed as more Fake Witch Hunt News.
A Democrat-stacked political coup.
The REAL crime is Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton and James Comey.
That is where this crime ACTUALLY took place.
After “mattering” Seth Rich and Clinton and Pizzagate,
the FBI ought INVESTIGATE ITSELF for obstruction of
justice and not the ALREADY CLEARED President.
Officials = Unnamed Sources.
Fake news, or leak, one or the other. This one out of Camp Mueller.
Could be fake news. But Mueller has zero authority to investigate the presidency. That job is laid squarely at the feet of Congress.
Second of all Trump has an absolute right to direct Comey’s investigation, the FBI, and DOJ. They are not independent. He cannot obstruct them, he supervises them!
Time to issue full Pardons to everyone remotely supposedly involved here.
And it Mueller creates a case, which I believe would be fake, the House and Senate are the only ones who can take action.
Typical.
This is absolutely BULL SHIT WASHINGTON POLITICS.
NO ORIGINAL CRIME, but always searching for a cover-up.
“officials say”? NAMBLA officials? DNC officials?
Was reported that Mueller met with Burr & Warner last night.
In other words, "we are making sh$! up again, which will be grabbed by all the other msm and played forever"
I’ve heard Trump has an overdue library book from 1989.
I hope he doesn’t think he’s going to get away with that.
Trump needs to fire Mueller and Sessions needs to resign. Trump needs to regain control of the Justice Department from the Democrats.
FIFY
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