Posted on 12/31/2017 9:34:06 AM PST by JP1201
The original question the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign was to answer was a simple one: Did he do it?
Did Trump, or officials with his knowledge, collude with Vladimir Putin's Russia to hack the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and leak the contents to damage Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump?
A year and a half into the investigation, and, still, no "collusion" has been found. Yet the investigation goes on, at the demand of the never-Trump media and Beltway establishment.
Hence, and understandably, suspicions have arisen.
Are the investigators after the truth, or are they after Trump?
Set aside the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory momentarily, and consider a rival explanation for what is going down here:
That, from the outset, Director James Comey and an FBI camarilla were determined to stop Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. Having failed, they conspired to break Trump's presidency, overturn his mandate and bring him down.
Essential to any such project was first to block any indictment of Hillary for transmitting national security secrets over her private email server. That first objective was achieved 18 months ago.
On July 5, 2016, Comey stepped before a stunned press corps to declare that, given the evidence gathered by the FBI, "no reasonable prosecutor" would indict Clinton. Therefore, that was the course he, Comey, was recommending.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, compromised by her infamous 35-minute tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton — to discuss golf and grandkids — seconded Comey's decision.
And so Hillary walked. Why is this suspicious?
First, whether or not to indict was a decision that belonged to the Department of Justice, not Jim Comey or the FBI. His preemption of Justice Department authority was astonishing.
Second, while Comey said in his statement that Hillary had been "extremely careless" with security secrets, in his first draft, Clinton was declared guilty of "gross negligence" — the precise language in the statute to justify indictment.
Who talked Comey into softening the language to look less than criminal? One man was FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whose wife, Jill, a Virginia state senate candidate, received a munificent PAC contribution of $474,000 from Clinton family friend and big bundler Terry McAuliffe.
Also urging Comey to soften the fatal phrase "gross negligence" was key FBI agent Peter Strzok. In text messages to his FBI lover Lisa Page, Strzok repeatedly vented his detestation of the "idiot" Trump.
After one meeting with "Andy" (McCabe), Strzok told Page an "insurance policy" was needed to keep Trump out of the White House.
Also, it appears Comey began drafting his exoneration statement of Hillary before the FBI had even interviewed her. And when the FBI did, Hillary was permitted to have her lawyers present.
One need not be a conspiracy nut to conclude the fix was in, and a pass for Hillary wired from the get-go. Comey, McCabe, Strzok were not going to recommend an indictment that would blow Hillary out of the water and let the Trump Tower crowd waltz into the White House.
Yet, if Special Counsel Robert Mueller cannot find any Trump collusion with the Kremlin to tilt the outcome of the 2016 election, his investigators might have another look at the Clinton campaign.
For there a Russian connection has been established.
Kremlin agents fabricated, faked, forged, or found the dirt on Trump that was passed to ex-British MI6 spy Christopher Steele, and wound up in his "dirty dossier" that was distributed to the mainstream media and the FBI to torpedo Trump.
And who hired Steele to tie Trump to Russia?
Fusion GPS, the oppo research outfit into which the DNC and Clinton campaign pumped millions through law firm Perkins Coie.
Let's review the bidding.
The "dirty dossier," a mixture of fabrications, falsehoods and half-truths, created to destroy Trump and make Hillary president, was the product of a British spy's collusion with Kremlin agents.
In Dec. 26's Washington Times, Rowan Scarborough writes that the FBI relied on this Kremlin-Steele dossier of allegations and lies to base their decision "to open a counterintelligence investigation (of Trump)." And press reports "cite the document's disinformation in requests for court-approved wiretaps."
If this is true, a critical question arises:
Has the Mueller probe been so contaminated by anti-Trump bias and reliance on Kremlin fabrications that any indictment it brings will be suspect in the eyes of the American people?
Director Comey has been fired. FBI No. 2 McCabe is now being retired under a cloud. Mueller's top FBI investigator, Peter Strzok, and lover Lisa, have been discharged. And Mueller is left to rely upon a passel of prosecutors whose common denominator appears to be that they loathe Trump and made contributions to Hillary.
Attorney General Bobby Kennedy had his "Get Hoffa Squad" to take down Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. J. Edgar Hoover had his vendetta against Dr. Martin Luther King.
Is history repeating itself — with the designated target of an elite FBI cabal being the President of the United States?
RICO Sedition collusion among Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Lynch, H->! and Hussein, among others.
It is the way of the swamp but next chapter appears fluid or in progress .. the People know hearings and talk means everyone has a drink together ... pats each other on the back and says ... Good Job ... It’s the way of the swamp
Sessions did do something. He appointed Mueller and delayed the real investigation for a year so far!
The answer is, obviously yes. Will anything be done about the fascist Deep State, the American KGB known as the FBI, and the criminal Clintons?
The answer is: No.
Based on prior posts regarding our Southern border wall I believe the answer is yes, he demands instant gratification on all things.
“the concept of “an investigation”” for the Feds often is a coverup, identification of a Fall Guy, and issuing skates for the real perps.
As good a summation as I have read, and to the point. Well done Pat. Pat does OK on things that don’t involve Israel.
Well we all know that where there is smoke there is fire and we are blowing all the smoke we can. The Deplorables will understand sooner or later.
While you make some valid points, you are missing the critical problem with this mock investigation.
The FBI and DOJ are supposed to be APOLITICAL. Lady Justice is supposed to be APOLITICAL. While we all understand that politics were thoroughly infused into the DOJ under the Obama administration and I won’t bore you with the countless examples, Trump promised to stop this. He promised to drain the swamp and the whole spectrum of the Clinton foundation, emailgate, the IRS targeting, and this faux Russian collusion charade represents the most visible examples to me of the swamp. I said it before and I will keep saying it (tagline). They will do everything to bring down Trump and Trump chose to play the gentleman. It is not working and until he demands a thorough and fair investigation of these events (and others) he will not bring the FBI and DOJ into line nor will he “drain the swamp,”
And you demand no gratification on anything while you enable our craptacular “AG”.
“Did Duff Sessions do anything about it at all?”
He’s flying paper airplanes around his office.
All part of a “dream” act? I pray you are right, but...
That’s a fascinating fantasy you have there, bigbob.
You should write a fiction book about it.
The answer is all of them.
Sounds like some nifty magical thinking.
“Do you understand the concept of “an investigation”? Or do you demand instant gratification and instant knowledge of all matters instantly?”
They built the Empire State Building and Hoover Dam faster than these faux gumshoes can read five emails.
Actually it is far more insidious. It is swamp speak for we will form a blue ribbon commission of the usual and reliable panel queens and get a set of recommendations and actions and we can set up another panel to oversee the "implementation." By the time anyone wonders what is going on we will have kicked the can down the road into the next administration.
I just noticed that the narrative has now been changed from collusion with Russians to conspiracy with Russians.
Can anyone explain to me how conspiracy can occur without collusion?
The conspiracy angle, the cover up angle, is an attempt to ride on Watergate coattails.
In the little minds and imagination of the democrats, the success of Watergate is the magic talisman that makes all things possible in dealing with Republicans.
Make no mistake about it, the Deep State cabal is still after Trump. Even though they failed in their attempt to fabricate “collusion” and the bogus dossier has been exposed, they are not giving up on their mission to discredit and remove him.
Any special prosecutor with integrity would have resigned and/or shut down this political inquisition by now. Yet the “investigation” persists even in the face of blatant conflict of interest, leaks, and scandals. This is an unchecked abuse of power.
These people are charter members of the Deep State who will stop at nothing to get Trump. Unfortunately, they have the support of much of the congress and enjoy and protection of a sympathetic media. In fact, the New York Times is their mouthpiece and propaganda arm.
Trump must realize that there is no end in sight and that this is an illegitimate attempt to overturn his election. He must act as some point to put an end to this madness by replacing Sessions forthwith with someone who will do the right thing and end this madness.
I wonder if Buchanan and others ever get tired of writing the truth knowing they’ll be ignored.
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