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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: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey

Was that the same trash company that was involved in the mysterious death of the top US cybersecurity expert who was mugged, wandered around aimlessly, disappeared and then killed and tossed in a dumpster a few years back?


61 posted on 01/31/2018 8:39:59 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: unlearner

The FBI needs to be dismantled and rebuilt, it’s shameful what it has become.


62 posted on 01/31/2018 8:40:58 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Doogle
Unsigned....it means nothing...

They should have signed it "Your friends at the FBI".

63 posted on 01/31/2018 8:41:31 PM PST by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: unlearner

“Got to get Deep State out of our intelligence agencies.”

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


64 posted on 01/31/2018 8:42:37 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: tennmountainman

“It’s shaping up to be a death match between Trump and the Deep State.”

My money is on President Donald Trump, no doubt or question.

Deep state don’t want the Presidents Army of Deplorables to decide the tree of liberty needs nourishment.


65 posted on 01/31/2018 8:44:19 PM PST by oldvirginian (Its for the children and kick the can down the road. Two phrases that make my trigger finger twitch.)
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To: Revel

Well, that IS the reason for the meeting, why it was sent over. Why else would they meet?


66 posted on 01/31/2018 8:44:33 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: AndyJackson

Gee, would have been nice if the FBI would have posted on their site last year the fact that President Trump was *not* under investigation. Their web site guru must have been out in 2017.


67 posted on 01/31/2018 8:45:56 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: raiderboy
Where is Sessions?

He removed himself from the Trump Russia collusiom probe. This obviously has everthing to do with it.

68 posted on 01/31/2018 8:47:13 PM PST by Gritty (Feminism ends as loneliness, bitterness and heartache that Merlot and cats can't fill-Lee Jackson)
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To: unlearner

Get the memo out and watch these rats scatter. I want polygraph on these traitors that wrote this “unsigned” objection and their immediate termination without retirement!! Where is sessions?


69 posted on 01/31/2018 8:47:42 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: matt1234; Electric Graffiti; AndyJackson
Archive of FBI statement.

01_31_18_fbi

70 posted on 01/31/2018 8:47:53 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bshaw
The FBI is a disgrace.

Clinton almost got away with it and who knows WTF Obama would do next knowing the death of America was mission accomplished by him.

71 posted on 01/31/2018 8:50:05 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: unlearner

Open conflict? Fine, anyone crossing Trump gets fired. Start with Boyd. No one is going to criticize Trump.


72 posted on 01/31/2018 8:51:05 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

This is the end of the FIB as we have known it. The panic has turned into a rout!! Go Trump. Bust their ass!! We have open treason caught in the headlights!!


73 posted on 01/31/2018 8:52:00 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Doogle

Ditto’s!


74 posted on 01/31/2018 8:52:17 PM PST by Billyv ( Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: LouieFisk
Who is the REAL Director of FBI now - that’s what I want to know. Someone is getting up everyday and acting the part, making a plan - etc. I think Wray is in so far over his head it’s not even funny.

Who is it? Valarie Jarrett and Barack Obama over at his Colorama digs?

75 posted on 01/31/2018 8:52:22 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: unlearner

If the deep state is embarrassed about the choices they made, maybe they should have made different choices.

AND

If FBI thugs are going to get off on sex stories how about showing us Hillary and Huma? I mean we don’t want Hillary to be blackmailed, right? So let’s use it as an excuse to peep on her campaign... and children and husband.


76 posted on 01/31/2018 8:52:36 PM PST by GOPJ (Republicans care about Americans. Democrats care about illegals, corrupt elites, and criminals.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

A lot of chutzpah but then again they obviously have nothing to fear from wray or sessions. /rolleyes


77 posted on 01/31/2018 8:53:11 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: unlearner

If the deep state is embarrassed about the choices they made, maybe they should have made different choices.

AND

If FBI thugs are going to get off on sex stories how about showing us Hillary and Huma? I mean we don’t want Hillary to be blackmailed, right? So let’s use it as an excuse to peep on her campaign... and children and husband.

And the Washington Post? They benefit from corrupt thugs in intelligence ‘leaking’. Can’t cover the circus if you’re effing the elephants...


78 posted on 01/31/2018 8:54:18 PM PST by GOPJ (Republicans care about Americans. Democrats care about illegals, corrupt elites, and criminals.)
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To: unlearner

Release the memo and let the FBI release any omissions.

These so called omissions are documents that the FBI refused to hand over to congress in the first place. In other words they are the source of the omissions.


79 posted on 01/31/2018 8:55:12 PM PST by aquila48
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To: tennmountainman

Hopefully Sessions is going to trigger the raids concurrently with the memo release.


80 posted on 01/31/2018 8:55:35 PM PST by Billyv ( Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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