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GOP fuels ‘secret society’ talk with FBI text messages
The Hill ^ | 24th January 2018 | JONATHAN EASLEY

Posted on 01/25/2018 7:19:37 AM PST by Ennis85

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To: Ennis85

Comey is the High Sparrow.


41 posted on 01/25/2018 7:50:56 AM PST by Stentor
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To: robroys woman

I’ve thought similarly since it was disclosed. Could be they passed that text just to have fun or maybe to tweak anybody listening in or later on if the messages were later exposed.

On the other hand, these are some REALLY stupid people to have used SMS for their nefarious discussions and overthrow plans. The agency with the best and brightest sure has some stupid ones.


42 posted on 01/25/2018 7:50:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: backwoods-engineer

We will have to see how it plays out, but I think the Deep State is somehow hoping that Trump has no cards left in his hand. That sort of strategy seems beyond stupid.

If the President has (and only has) a single text between 2 FBI agents glibly talking about their secret society, then (perhaps) the Deep State can flick it all away by saying, “They were obviously joking!”

But if the President to have additional texts, emails, phone calls, etc. of continued off-the-record collaboration between people within the FBI who were known to be actively working against Trump ... well ... “They were obviously joking!” becomes about the weakest defense I can imagine.

I swear the Deep State is playing this game like children: “If I pretend I’m innocent, they can never punish me!”


43 posted on 01/25/2018 7:54:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: Ennis85

After the election there was talk of establishing a “shadow government” by the democrats. Should this be a surprise? They apparently did it.


44 posted on 01/25/2018 8:00:20 AM PST by HarleyD ("There are very few shades of grey."-Dr. Eckleburg)
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To: kabar
(Media) “ Release the memo when we’re all convinced that the memo is nothing more than republican talking points”

GOPe - “ ok”

45 posted on 01/25/2018 8:06:03 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: bitt; LucyT; Whenifhow; GregNH

Ping


46 posted on 01/25/2018 8:07:46 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: laconic
Lee Oswald was on the FBI payroll as well . . .

just saying . .

47 posted on 01/25/2018 8:08:41 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I swear the Deep State is playing this game like children: “If I pretend I’m innocent, they can never punish me!”

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The texts messaged between Strzok & Page from Dec 2016 - May 2017 are missing for a reason. They are being recovered, so the story goes. Why did the FBI do the “dog ate my homework” song & dance rather than state up front that there was a gap & those texts are being recovered & will be forwarded on? Their tactic of “Gee, they’re gone and .... well .... I guess that’s the end of the story & you Congress critters will just have to live with our fairy tale” has further damaged their credibility which is already in “tatters” (yes, Trump used the right word in his tweet!).

I suspect that there are some very damning texts in that batch - Secret Society perhaps, some talk of taking Trump out in nonpolitical ways .... no telling what is there, but it was bad enough for the FBI to try to hide it. Wray should know better - not impressed with him at all. He’s either dumb or playing dumb, neither of which is acceptable for the head of the FBI.


48 posted on 01/25/2018 8:10:31 AM PST by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: HarleyD

The Committee has released a PDF of some of the text messages and they sent a letter to the OIG on Tuesday.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/johnson-grassley-ask-doj-ig-horowitz-about-missing-fbi-text-messages

The whole letter is worth reading but I found this part particularly interesting. “6. In the most recent batch of texts, Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page frequently indicate that they are also communicating about work-related matters via apparently personal accounts on Apple’s encrypted iMessage texting system, as well as through Gmail. Does the OIG have the necessary authorities, resources, and capabilities to obtain any federal records that may reside in those personal accounts? If not, please explain any gaps in your ability to do so.”


49 posted on 01/25/2018 8:11:04 AM PST by azkathy (We the people are FED UP-pun intended!)
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To: Ennis85
Conservatives thought the IRS was after them years ago too...

How DARE conservatives NOT trust the corrupt effing LIBERAL 'elites' who run DC? Just ask Lois Lerner and her fellow thugs and members of the press who mocked conservatives for noticing the corruption - - we were belittled us over that one too.

Didn't David Ignatius stand WITH the corrupt IRS and Lois Lerner and mock conservatives almost to the end? Just like he's doing now?

50 posted on 01/25/2018 8:15:30 AM PST by GOPJ (Attempted coup by FBI "boudoir KGB types" to overthrow the United States is treason)
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To: atc23

The memo will be released next week. I hope before the State of Union address next Tuesday night. Or Trump could announce it will be released the next day.


51 posted on 01/25/2018 8:15:53 AM PST by kabar
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To: robroys woman

If such a society existed....it’d be mostly a drinking opportunity for a couple of older guys to tell 1970s political stories to some young punks just starting out in DC.

The Senators are probably sitting and wondering...these secret Sunday night poker games that they’ve been having for thirty years....would they be seen as a secret society?


52 posted on 01/25/2018 8:17:51 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Ennis85

There is simply no basis to the rumor that officials in the FBI and DOJ formed a secret society known as the “Fraternal Order of the Notrumpinati” which met in the broom closet behind the cafeteria wearing pink pussy hats. No basis at all I say!


53 posted on 01/25/2018 8:21:09 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Qiviut
The texts messaged between Strzok & Page from Dec 2016 - May 2017 are missing for a reason.

No doubt Robert Mueller is hoping that those missing 50,000 Strzok/Page messages the FBI deleted stay deleted.

It’s a safe bet the missing messages confirm the involvement of Mueller, Comey, McCabe and others at the top levels of the FBI in the anti-Tramp 'Secret Society' cabal.

IMHO they are in it up to their beady eyeballs.

And how did they get Jeff Sessions to so easily play into their hands and recuse himself so they could fire up the “Special Counsel” investigation?

Or was it willing cooperation?


54 posted on 01/25/2018 8:21:12 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: rdl6989

Ron Johnson claims he has an informant who backs it up.


55 posted on 01/25/2018 8:26:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ClearCase_guy
I swear the Deep State is playing this game like children: “If I pretend I’m innocent, they can never punish me!”

The Deep State gets away with this because the corrupt press buys their story of being 'innocent'... knowing if the press says 'innocent' often enough, it becomes believable to the ignorant.

Yes, the press knows they're lying for the deep state but they get 'leaks' in return.

In a profession where the 'coin of the realm' is 'sell able information' bribes come in the form on insider information. The press has sold themselves out.

56 posted on 01/25/2018 8:30:00 AM PST by GOPJ (Attempted coup by FBI "boudoir KGB types" to overthrow the United States is treason)
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To: DJ Taylor

This “secret society” stuff is really hot right now! ;)


57 posted on 01/25/2018 8:30:47 AM PST by Steven W.
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To: Ennis85
I've known for a long time that the bureaucrats in DC that run the various departments of government answer to no one. It doesn't surprise me if a pact between higher ups was formed. And it also wouldn't surprise me if it was Anti Trump secret pact. Need more proof but they are masters at hiding everything, especially with the MSM blocking for them.

It is truly scary how probable this all is...

58 posted on 01/25/2018 8:32:32 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: kabar
That timeline doesn't work as well as major events occurring before SOTU making it the most anticipated + watched ever where he can stay out of the muck and stand smiling above the swamp. Trump's out of the country now so I think they'll have the committee vote before then ;)
59 posted on 01/25/2018 8:35:41 AM PST by Steven W.
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Sessions is compromised somehow - that’s my gut feeling. He was with Trump from the beginning & I think that was genuine, but he had a ‘come to you-know-who’ meeting with someone after he became AG & the effect is obvious. I think the same thing happened with Judge Roberts & I’m sure there are countless others who have kept quiet when they would/should have said something about the corruption & lawlessness going on.

Hilly started the blackmail on a large scale with the FBI files - not sure how much of that is still in play, but with supposedly 85% of Obama’s FISA searches being illegal, plenty of the ‘newer’ folks are no doubt caught in the corrupt web of Obama & his cabal.


60 posted on 01/25/2018 8:47:00 AM PST by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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