Posted on 01/25/2018 7:19:37 AM PST by Ennis85
Republicans are floating the idea that FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials formed a “secret society” that held meetings in which they plotted to undermine President Trump and his administration.
Two FBI agents accused by Republicans of harboring anti-Trump bias exchanged text messages, one of which mentioned a “secret society” — possibly as a private joke.
The message, first described by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), lacks context and the lawmakers have admitted that they don't know for sure what it means.
But the term has caught fire in conservative media and Republicans have promoted the text as a potentially explosive development, implying it confirms suspicions that the FBI gave Hillary Clinton an election-year pass but remain hell-bent on bringing charges against Trump.
Liberals claim Republicans are selectively leaking out-of-context text messages, irresponsibly fueling an elaborate conspiracy theory meant to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump campaign officials coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
The single message, sent the day after Trump was elected, was from senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page to Peter Strzok, the top counterintelligence officer at the FBI and a key figure in the bureau’s past investigations into Trump and Clinton.
“Are you even going to give out your calendars?,” Page asks Strzok. “Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society.”
Strzok and Page were having an extramarital affair. Both served briefly on Mueller’s special counsel investigative team but were removed last year.
Strzok interviewed Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, as well as key witnesses in the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified material.
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Heh, the article shows that the lefties are shaking in their vaginas (all lefties of all thousand sexes have vaginas, dontcha know).
Yeah, we shouldn’t talk about the Democrat’s secret plans to destroy Constitutional controls on the power of our government.
But ...
Republicans are floating the idea
What?
Oops misgif, pls ignore!
This is the classic way the MSM covers stories that are negative to Democrats.
They frame it as the GOP or “conservative critics” alleging something conspiratorial, and then proceed to try to debunk their claims.
If the shoe were on the other foot, this would be reported breathlessly as fact.
The text messages fuel the talk.
... terrorist CELLS within the government would be more in keeping with the marxist-muslim BHO agenda for the destruction of America.
Weren’t those Strzok’s words?
And the usual pearl-cluthing anti-Trumper idiots chime in as well.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Tuesday that an informant has told Congress that a "secret society" was set up within the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice shortly after Donald Trump was elected president.'Informant' alleging secret anti-Trump FBI meetings, Sen. Johnson says
I have to admit that the “secret society” stuff sounds kinda silly.
Outside of movies, who says they know of, or are a member of a “secret society”? Seems like a setup. Disinformation, if you will.
Check out the entire angle of this article is to ridicule the GOP.
Where is the reporting of the conspiracy by the FBI members and other dems?
I know this is a rhetorical question, and we really cannot expect anything better or different from the MSM.
The author is trying to downplay the facts and make it into some kind of conspiracy theory. Release the memo and the supporting evidence now!!
Let’s stop the speculating and strategizing and get everything out in the open ASAP. Just shows us the friggin memo.
See Russian collusion, Trump incites violence at rallies, and so on.
So here we go. The MSM is pushing the story that the GOP is manufacturing a hysteria with the false secret society talk. Ridicule is a go to weapon for the left so we are going to hear a lot of the GOP is wearing tin foil hats talk.
Don’t read the comments on that article.
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