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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Thank you!
Why is Clapper making a “Q” sign in the fifth photo from the top at that CTH article?
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.
“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?
FBI is at least 30 years past its sell by date.
“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.
“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.
Devlin Barrett... the WSJ guy Page and Strzok were leaking to.
“Devlin Barrett... the WSJ guy Page and Strzok were leaking to.”
Great catch.
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.
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.
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.
So yes, sensible people very much did care.
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
Late night kook radio, it just so happens, right now has as a guest Dan “Pentagon Papers” Ellesberg... complete with fake “conservatives” calling in.
“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.
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.
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.
...”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.
Immunity line forms on the left...literally.
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