Posted on 10/27/2017 9:26:04 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said that the Senate Intelligence Committee is going to have to look into the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for funding the controversial Trump dossier during an interview on Thursday.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Panetta how it was possible that neither “the chair of the DNC and the Clinton campaign” knew about payments for the dossier.
“Well, it’s obviously something that the Intelligence Committee is going to have to look at,” Panetta said. “You know, knowing presidential campaigns, they’re big operations and somehow the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing. And that could be the case here.”
Panetta continued, “I really do think that the committee is going to have to get into this, determine just exactly what happened. Who knew what and when?”
Blitzer followed up by asking Panetta why Clinton campaign attorney Marc Elias didn’t tell Clinton campaign chair, John Podesta, they had paid for the dossier.
Elias was the lawyer was represented the Clinton campaign and DNC, during the election and is alleged to have paid Fusion GPS for the Trump dossier.
“Well, it certainly makes the situation very awkward,” Panetta said. “If you’re testifying and saying you have no knowledge, and the attorney sitting next to you is one of those that knew what was involved here, I think it does raise an issue that the committee is going to have to look at and determine just exactly who knew what.”
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Wouldn’t assume “clean”— more like— “I know all the crap about Benghazi” kind of confidence there’s no downside to this limp wrist-— “we gotta investigate” further the “collusion” going on. To provide the continuing narrative it has just not been discovered with Trump.
This is one volley in the continuing deep state battle. From a real crap weasel.
Seems a sort of dangerous game, poking that bear. If anybody outside intelligence circles has all the dirt on everybody, it’s the Clintons. Interesting to speculate what that’s telegraphing, if they’re actually going there. Upshot would be that they’re neutralized as a threat, but on what basis I couldn’t say.
“I wouldn’t get too excited about what Panetta is saying, here.”
Panetta is a Clinton Democrat. He was told what to say and when. He’s trying to frame the investigation. They will claim that only the lawyers broke the law while shielding Clinton. And then Hillary will say they’ve cooperated from the start and the matter is now closed.
And if those lawyers try to say anything not approved by the Clintons, they will be added to the Arkancide list.
RIOC=RICO recall that Preet Bahara was fired— someone else running this investigation. They don’t comment on investigations, remember.
I think things are in high gear. We’ll all know soon.
Rush just said even if Ds get indicted/jailed, they won’t give up the Trump/collusion story.
Maybe it’s too close to home for him
Especially since Clapper (the real weak link moron in all this) said on live tv (Alyson Camerota) that “a counterintelligence operation was begun on Trump before the dossier became known”. Think about how earth shattering that ultimate “cover my crap” up desperate statement is— a private citizen before the primaries were over. How was such a thing possible— based on what, and ordered by whom (obamaumao, or the other actors in the wide open FISA court approval process which fortunately Admiral Rogers provided to Trump, one week after his election win. Causing Clapper, Comey and Brennan to howl for his resignation— right then— a published statement in the press in December 2016!!). Clapper is a candidate for .... well highly public “gone-ing” or “accident”. Keystone Cops.
And EVERYONE expected Hillary to fire him...but alas....No Presidency for you...AGAIN...
Poor Leon. He must have not received the Dem talking points that oppo-research happens all the time, and besides, it doesn’t matter who paid for it.
Sure, Sad Sack Panetta wants it to be bottled up in the do nothing committees, in the do nothing Congress.
Grand Jury NOW! Lock them up NOW.
Paying for the research up front might have escaped the senior finance guys in the campaign. Once they got the dossier, assuming they aren’t the ones who made it up, this was a top 3 level decision to use it. This was nuclear option level. No way in the world they didn’t know they had paid for it before it went public. ZERO chance.
On the one hand these “friends” have portrayed her to be the smartest and most able woman in the world while, on the other, they are having their credibility seriously challenged if they continue to do so.
She can’t have it both ways. The actual evidence amassed over years on Hillary PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt, and this is as real as reality,
That Hillary Clinton is either a total idiot
Or as corrupt as anything the world has ever seen.
This is incontrovertible now. She is as dumb as a rock or absolutely the dirtiest liar alive.
He’ll probably be hit by a truck as he steps from his shower later this week.
If this is real, that is the funniest thing ever.
Big Dems are trying to distance at this point. Makes me happy.
If I ate popcorn I’d be popping some to see how Obama himself will be dealing here.
haha. Please don’t post the pics of his nekky dead ass if that happens. That’s a really ugly man.
I think it is far too premature to predict how all of this is going to play out. The Clintons and Obamas and all of their operatives are still very powerful, ruthless, slimy people. There will be many more “Seth Riches.”
I vote for this option. Strongly.
Of course she is.
Ironically, libs think Trump is worse than Hitler, when their beloved Hillary practically is. If she had an army of troops, I believe she could top his accomplishments.
While true, Trump has been underestimated while thumping 16 Republicans and Hillary. He’s thumped the media, he’s thumping the NFL and he’s thumping some RINO’s. Sooner or later, there will be a “Deep Throat” that sings.... and I’m not talking about Lewinsky.
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