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Mueller asked U.S. intelligence officials about Trump: sources
Reuters ^ | January 24, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 01/24/2018 10:30:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - Senior U.S. intelligence officers including CIA Director Mike Pompeo have been questioned by the U.S. special counsel’s team about whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice in the Russia probe, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

In interviews last year with Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers, Mueller’s team focused on whether Trump had asked them to lean on former FBI Director James Comey, the sources said.

Mueller also asked the officials if Trump tried to shut down intelligence investigations into Russian election meddling and into contacts between Russian officials connected with President Vladimir Putin’s government and associates of Trump or his campaign, the sources said on condition of anonymity.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fbi; intelagencies; leaks; mueller; muellerinvestigation; secretpolice; trumpobstruction
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There have been a whole lot of FBI/Comey/Deep State leaks over the last 48 hours ... this is the third I've posted today.
1 posted on 01/24/2018 10:30:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Somebody needs to rip Mueller’s beating heart out of his body still through his ass.


2 posted on 01/24/2018 10:33:18 AM PST by Eddie01 (Stormy Kromer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MORE anonymous “sources”. Probably Dems. Desperate fake news to deflect from widespread dem corruption.


3 posted on 01/24/2018 10:34:28 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rooters on the Deep State payroll. This will come out soon.


4 posted on 01/24/2018 10:35:20 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

it’s because of the memo...all prdictable

it’s a race between Mueller/deep state and Republicans

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been another indictment yet

release the memo NOW!!TODAY


5 posted on 01/24/2018 10:35:33 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words, for asserting his innocence and anger at this political frame, Mueller would like to set up the President on an obstruction of “justice” charge.

He and Jim Comey have been running this con on many people for going on 3 decades. Comey charged Martha Stewart with Perjury for claiming she was not guilty.

This is stuff out of the Inquisition, and is everything our justice system was set up NOT to do.


6 posted on 01/24/2018 10:36:29 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the whole investigation is not about “justice” to begin with, how can it be obstructed?


7 posted on 01/24/2018 10:36:38 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Regulator

In other words, for asserting his innocence and anger at this political frame, Mueller would like to set up the President on an obstruction of “justice” charge.

He and Jim Comey have been running this con on many people for going on 3 decades. Comey charged Martha Stewart with Perjury for claiming she was not guilty.

This is stuff out of the Inquisition, and is everything our justice system was set up NOT to do.


Mueller has to find someone other than Comey and McCabe as key witnesses for obstruction of justice, because they are so tainted...


8 posted on 01/24/2018 10:38:22 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was the whole point of the Special Counsel to try to get Trump to fire him?

The RussiaRussiaRussia ruse is running out of steam.


9 posted on 01/24/2018 10:38:59 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DouglasKC
These same people were asked the same questions in public, in front of Congressional Committees. All of then reported that Trump never asked them to shut down anything.

I recall speculation months ago whether or not Mueller would even take up an accusation of obstruction for firing Comey, and the general consensus that if he did, he would be conflicting himself out of his cherry assignment.

Since the swamp is resurrecting the claim that Mueller is investigating obstruction, it's time to resurrect the rebuttals.

10 posted on 01/24/2018 10:39:35 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Regulator

Federal Bureau of Incrimination


11 posted on 01/24/2018 10:40:02 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rusty0604

So, the slob Comey pal Mueller inquires at the intel agencies about Trump obstructing justice over a crime that no one committed other than perhaps the indolent slobs who worked at the FBI and the CIA who cooked up a phony story to create a phony collusion story, delay and obstruct the President’s agenda, thwart the will of the voters and run this country like they were a Praetorian Guard? What the hell is going on here???


12 posted on 01/24/2018 10:40:53 AM PST by laconic (uir)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trying to SCARE President Trump since he took away their unlimited spending money!
They haven’t learned yet you can’t scare him! Especially when there is no there there:-)


13 posted on 01/24/2018 10:41:16 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: Eddie01

I would pay good money to see that.


14 posted on 01/24/2018 10:41:22 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is based on last year.....so this might be desperate move by FBI or IC or Mueller team or all of them together to justify themselves when
the crap hit the fan ‘publicly’ that the initial evidence for the so called investigation inon the Russian collusion, the Dossier, is found to be a fraud.

“Ok so the Russian collusion was a fraud but we have possible obstruction of justice...so we are justified anyway in doing this....yada...yada”


15 posted on 01/24/2018 10:41:29 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Except this is old news...


16 posted on 01/24/2018 10:42:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Cboldt

Notice none of this is about what this Rat prick was supposedly brought in for. All this leaking is because of the memo. l pray Trump hammers it during the SOTU.


17 posted on 01/24/2018 10:42:54 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Bigtigermike

Yes, last year.

If anything significant had come of it, it would have been leaked by now.

These leaks about old interviews are just desperation ploys to keep the story alive.


18 posted on 01/24/2018 10:44:00 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

They are back on Russia to cover the Dem surrender. Sexism and racism next.


19 posted on 01/24/2018 10:44:11 AM PST by Luke21
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To: gibsonguy

Mueller wants to indict Trump BEFORE the SOTU.


20 posted on 01/24/2018 10:46:37 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the political party of the undead)
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