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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...”President Trump should ask for the resignations of all those in the Executive Branch that tried to stop or dilute the memo.”...
YES! For, those are just as much of a problems as the perps. Do “We, the people,” own this government, or has it been stolen from us? If it has been stolen in secret, then there are ways to confront that. Bureaucracies are a big problem. I remember in our state when the merit system was put into place. Everyone thought it was an idea long overdue. Now, it seems that the old system of every governor putting his own people into place upon taking office might have been a better idea for freedom, for the merit system was the seed that gave us entrenched bureaucracies which may be the death knell for our system. Rooting those out will take many years, if it can ever be done. It has the same effect on government as tenure does in academia and is a very bad thing for society.
Translation: The Deep State FBI started a war and Trump aims to finish it.
These “changes” are meant to CONFUSE us as to what is TRUE and what is NOT!
If Dir. Wray did NOT approve it or approve of it, he certainly has the authority to order it be taken down.
Political ideology is what each party disbelieves but trots out to win our votes, after which they continue to steal as much of our money and gain as much power as they can.
And this, “Trump has told advisers that the memo could benefit him by undercutting the special counsel’s investigation,” is unattributed.
Fake news through and through.
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