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Trump-FBI feud over classified memo erupts into open conflict
Washington Post ^ | 01/31/2018 | By Josh Dawsey, Devlin Barrett and Karoun Demirjian

Posted on 01/31/2018 7:59:23 PM PST by unlearner

The long-simmering feud between President Trump and the Justice Department erupted into open conflict Wednesday when the FBI publicly challenged the president’s expected release of a contentious and classified memo related to the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

In a rare unsigned statement, the FBI cited “grave concerns” with inaccuracies and omissions in the four-page memo, which was written by House Republicans and alleges abuses at the Justice Department connected to secret surveillance orders. Trump has told advisers that the memo could benefit him by undercutting the special counsel’s investigation and allow him to oust senior Justice Department officials — and that he wants it released soon, something that could happen as early as Thursday.

“We have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,” the FBI said.

The extraordinary statement pits the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency against a commander in chief who already has fired one FBI director and has repeatedly expressed a desire to remove the attorney general and others connected to the Russia investigation. That probe, led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, is aimed in part at determining whether any Trump associates coordinated with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and investigating any related issues.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: devlinbarrett; fakenews; fbifisamemo; wapo
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To: MAGAthon

Thank you!


101 posted on 01/31/2018 9:47:08 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Why is Clapper making a “Q” sign in the fifth photo from the top at that CTH article?


102 posted on 01/31/2018 9:49:43 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: unlearner

GUWESS who’s going to lose this one, and it isn’t going to be Trump.

Time to jail Mueller, McCabe, Strzok/Page, the Ohrs, Baker, Sullivan, Yates, Holder, Lynch, Hillary and Obama.

The only “Rushing Collusion” I have here is my hurry to clean out the outhouses of what is supposed to be an honorable DOJ/ FBI, Congress and the whole recent Obama Outhouse.

I’ll buy the toilet paper and ExLax.


103 posted on 01/31/2018 10:05:06 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: thoughtomator

“So they have the guy named as a co-conspirator with Fusion GPS as an author of this article?”

Be specific. Which author?

What’s your source?


104 posted on 01/31/2018 10:13:05 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Bshaw

FBI is at least 30 years past its sell by date.


105 posted on 01/31/2018 10:14:14 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: catnipman

“WaPoo is just making this up ... unsigned statement ... all anonymously sourced or not sourced at all ... stated as FACT ... total fake news”

Wish it were as simple as that.

It is posted on the FIB (transposed intentionally) website:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-hpsci-memo

Of course, when it becomes obvious that WP, Google, and other info sources have become front organizations of corrupted “intelligence” agencies, it all begins to make sense.


106 posted on 01/31/2018 10:22:01 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

“We need to get every rabid lefty that voted for Hillary out of the fed govt. All 97 percent of them.”

Whether 30%, 50%, or 97%, the leftist politicos are worse than dead weight anyway. They’re actively engaging in a war against justice. Better off without them. Better off with nothing getting done, than having what gets done being evil.


107 posted on 01/31/2018 10:25:12 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner

Devlin Barrett... the WSJ guy Page and Strzok were leaking to.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/25/chairman-chuck-grassley-releases-new-batch-of-fbi-text-messages-and-questions-fbi-director-chris-wray/


108 posted on 01/31/2018 10:29:30 PM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: thoughtomator

“Devlin Barrett... the WSJ guy Page and Strzok were leaking to.”

Great catch.


109 posted on 01/31/2018 10:46:35 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Revel

I don’t think Shannon Bream knows what she is talking about. Did she cite any source? Of late, I haven’t found Shannon too reliable. She says she is being an objective reporter, but I sense an hostility to Pres. Trump on her part. Of course, this might just might be my own subjective thinking.


110 posted on 01/31/2018 10:47:48 PM PST by 1lawlady (To G-d be the glory. Great things He has done!)
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To: WilliamIII
The memo was voted out of committee at the first available session after Nunes completed the summary.

The only point of #ReleaseTheMemo was to pressure Ryan and the rest of the House Leadership not to stand in the way of the Intel Committee to force a vote by the whole House.

And before you go into the usual Ryan-is-a-tool-of-the-Devil routine, The Speaker was under enormous pressure from both the DOJ and the FBI to suppress the the memo, and he needed the public support.

111 posted on 01/31/2018 10:54:54 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue, to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

Ryan is a piece of living sh!t that wants Trump gone as much as the deep state does

No one cares if he was under pressure.


112 posted on 01/31/2018 11:32:50 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Electric Graffiti
It matters, because it was within his power to block release of the memo.

So yes, sensible people very much did care.

113 posted on 01/31/2018 11:38:21 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue, to be born?)
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To: unlearner

Same Washington Post that celebrated their courage in releasing the pentagon papers now laments the release of this memo

The left has no character left....zilch


114 posted on 01/31/2018 11:40:14 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: wardaddy

Late night kook radio, it just so happens, right now has as a guest Dan “Pentagon Papers” Ellesberg... complete with fake “conservatives” calling in.


115 posted on 01/31/2018 11:51:32 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: FredZarguna

“It matters, because it was within his power to block release of the memo.”

It was? I thought he just urged it’s release. Either way he’s still a pathetic ball gargling corrupt member of the swamp. A hillary voter.


116 posted on 01/31/2018 11:54:47 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: piasa

George Nori/Norey Coast-to-Coast or whatever his name is, touting Dan Ellesberg’s smoke and mirrors. Dan was the guy encouraging leaking with that misnamed “Truth-Telling Commission” a while back.


117 posted on 01/31/2018 11:59:37 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: unlearner

FBI and DoJ had well over a year to cooperate with the committee if they were concerned with getting the facts straight; but they conspired to withhold the truth. Based on that, they are in no position to claim innocence now.


118 posted on 02/01/2018 12:19:35 AM PST by WASCWatch
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To: Doogle

...”Unsigned....it means nothing...People are going to prison!”...

It is way past time that the treasonous in our government are sent to prison. That is the only thing which will curtail the criminals who manage to worm their way into our system.


119 posted on 02/01/2018 1:48:02 AM PST by jazzlite
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To: jazzlite

Immunity line forms on the left...literally.


120 posted on 02/01/2018 1:56:04 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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