It sure is a good thing Jeff Feckless is in charge. Perhaps he will shift the discussion to the nationwide epidemic of jaywalking.
Posted on 10/24/2017 4:49:29 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Here’s a story consistent with what has been reported in the press—how reliably reported is uncertain. Democratic political opponents of Donald Trump financed a British former spook who spread money among contacts in Russia, who in turn over drinks solicited stories from their supposedly “connected” sources in Moscow. If these people were really connected in any meaningful sense, then they made sure the stories they spun were consistent with the interests of the regime, if not actually scripted by the regime.
The resulting Trump dossier then became a factor in Obama administration decisions to launch an FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and after the election to trumpet suspicions of Trump collusion with Russia.
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My God, how deep does this thing go?
All the way to the Bushes.
First Pravda on the Potomac (WaPo), now WSJ.
WTH! Maybe we’re moving past just popcorn to a whole pizza.
You don't think one of Jeb's funders was digging dirt on Trump?
The Mueller/Comey boys have thoroughly politicized the FBI and it was going on before Hussein.
Here’s a story consistent with what has been reported in the press—how reliably reported is uncertain. Democratic political opponents of Donald Trump financed a British former spook who spread money among contacts in Russia, who in turn over drinks solicited stories from their supposedly “connected” sources in Moscow. If these people were really connected in any meaningful sense, then they made sure the stories they spun were consistent with the interests of the regime, if not actually scripted by the regime.
The resulting Trump dossier then became a factor in Obama administration decisions to launch an FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and after the election to trumpet suspicions of Trump collusion with Russia. We know of a second, possibly even more consequential way the FBI was effectively a vehicle for Russian meddling in U.S. politics. Authoritative news reports say FBI chief James Comey’s intervention in the Hillary Clinton email matter was prompted by a Russian intelligence document that his colleagues suspected was a Russian plant.
OK, Mr. Mueller was a former close colleague and leader but no longer part of the FBI when these events occurred. This may or may not make him a questionable person to lead a Russia-meddling investigation in which the FBI’s own actions are necessarily a concern.
But now we come to the Rosatom disclosures last week in The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress.
Here’s another story as plausible as we can make it based on credible reporting. After the Cold War, in its own interest, the U.S. wanted to build bridges to the Russian nuclear establishment. The Putin government, for national or commercial purposes, agreed and sought to expand its nuclear business in the U.S.
The purchase and consolidation of certain assets were facilitated by Canadian entrepreneurs who gave large sums to the Clinton Foundation, and perhaps arranged a Bill Clinton speech in Moscow for $500,000. A key transaction had to be approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Now we learn that, before and during these transactions, the FBI had uncovered a bribery and kickback scheme involving Russia’s U.S. nuclear business, and also received reports of Russian officials seeking to curry favor through donations to the Clinton Foundation.
This criminal activity was apparently not disclosed to agencies vetting the 2010 transfer of U.S. commercial nuclear assets to Russia. The FBI made no move to break up the scheme until long after the transaction closed. Only five years later, the Justice Department, in 2015, disclosed a plea deal with the Russian perpetrator so quietly that its significance was missed until The Hill reported on the FBI investigation last week.
For anyone who cares to look, the real problem here is that the FBI itself is so thoroughly implicated in the Russia meddling story.
The agency, when Mr. Mueller headed it, soft-pedaled an investigation highly embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton as well as the Obama Russia reset policy. More recently, if just one of two things is true—Russia sponsored the Trump Dossier, or Russian fake intelligence prompted Mr. Comey’s email intervention—then Russian operations, via their impact on the FBI, influenced and continue to influence our politics in a way far more consequential than any Facebook ad, the preoccupation of John McCain, who apparently cannot behold a mountain if there’s a molehill anywhere nearby.
Which means that Mr. Mueller has the means, motive and opportunity to obfuscate and distract from matters embarrassing to the FBI, while pleasing a large part of the political spectrum. He need only confine his focus to the flimsy, disingenuous but popular (with the media) accusation that the shambolic Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
Mr. Mueller’s tenure may not have bridged the two investigations, but James Comey’s, Rod Rosenstein’s , Andrew Weissmann’s , and Andrew McCabe’s did. Mr. Rosenstein appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel. Mr. Weissmann now serves on Mr. Mueller’s team. Mr. McCabe remains deputy FBI director. All were involved in the nuclear racketeering matter and the Russia meddling matter.
Let’s stop here. All this needs to be sorted out, but not in a spirit of panic and hysteria. We are a prosperous, successful country, in pretty good shape right now by historical standards, even if our officials behave in the frequently dubious, self-interested way they always have.
But still: By any normal evidentiary, probative or journalistic measure, the big story here is the FBI—its politicized handling of Russian matters, and not competently so.
To put it bluntly, whatever its hip-pocket rationales along the way, the FBI would not have so much to cover up now if it had not helped give us Mrs. Clinton as Democratic nominee and then, in all likelihood, inadvertently helped Mr. Trump to the presidency.
Appeared in the October 25, 2017, print edition.
October 24th is National Bologna Day..... what an ironic day for this story to hit the press..... Ciao.
I’m surprised everyone is behaving as if this is new news, this “dossier” otherwise known as “the thing” in media and entertainment circles where it had been shopped going back to early 2016 but nobody was foolish enough to bite, has long been attributed to Republican oppo research which was then turned over to the Clinton campaign.
Now, of the field of Republican primary candidates, who was well funded enough and connected enough to have tried to pull that off? Who was vindictive enough to then turn it over to the Clintons when he didn’t get his way?
I can think of only one primary candidate who fits that bill. If we’re needing to play the game of keeping the whole sordid mess at arms’ length by blaming donors, well, whatever, it was still being done for that candidate and it’s very unlikely that the candidate was completely unaware. Maybe not officially aware, but then that would defeat the purpose of keeping dirty work at arms’ length, now wouldn’t it?
Seems I recall a whole lot of smug “you’re never going to be President” directed at Trump coming from a number of quarters, from Jeb Bush to Barack Obama to Ted Cruz who was acting all weird selecting a VP and trying to pull some stunt at the convention.
Yes, it runs very deep, it runs straight back to the Republican establishment that’s still trying to undo the 2016 Presidential election, and it appears to me as if they colluded with not just the Clinton campaign but the Obama administration.
Tucker Carlson is breaking news tonight.
Has a Source that was a top guy at Tony Podesta’s firm.
Says the media has the entire story backwards.
It’s HRC/Obama that colluded
He’s correct but only in part. There are swamp creatures with an (R) beside their names as well, and they do not deserve deference or protection.
I’m not hearing Tucker defend anyone.
HRC and the Obama admin certainly did collude, that much has been staring us in the face for close to a year now. However, that is a partial truth, sin of omission. There are other parties to this and they need to be held to account as well. I don’t see Tucker Carlson doing that.
Time will tell.
I just posted this on another thread.
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HRC and Obama, with the help of the “maverick”
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Whoever it turns out to be, this needs to be exposed fully.
Heck, for all we know at this time the “Original Republican Donor” that started this Opposition/Dossier research could have been the Koch Bros.
Interesting twist.
NYT Reporter: Clinton Campaign Lawyer ‘Vigorously’ Denied Being Behind Dossier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3598234/posts
Getting ahead of the Judge ordering the release of Fusion’s bank statements?
A diversion? (throwing WaPO under the bus)
The Post say it was Marc Elias and the bank records show someone else?
It sure is a good thing Jeff Feckless is in charge. Perhaps he will shift the discussion to the nationwide epidemic of jaywalking.
I read the article in toto and in looking at the last few paragraphs, Holman needs a course in dumb bell English. Brevity and superfluous-—two words you need to know Jenkins.
ping ping ping
The media feigned indignation over Russian collusion in the election, but crickets chirp when FBI collusion against a duly-elected President and the will of the American people is exposed. A complete overhaul of the intelligence community—including its collusion with the media—is necessary to restore the Republic.
That’s what IM concluding. If it’s correct the STORM is hitting!
Sounds like OUR president has kept his enemies closer
The Mueller/Comey boys have thoroughly politicized the FBI and it was going on before Hussein.
It actually goes all the way back to its founding. Utterly corrupt since it's beginning, as it was intended to be by the powers that be.
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