Posted on 02/06/2018 6:35:28 PM PST by bitt
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said the FBI should have opened a counterintelligence investigation of Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016.
On "Hannity," Nunes discussed Republicans' controversial memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI, explaining the "clear link to Russia" which led to a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page.
He said the Clinton campaign hired a law firm, which hired Fusion GPS, which then hired "foreign agent" Christoper Steele to dig up dirt via Russians on Donald Trump. The resulting dossier was then used to obtain the surveillance warrant.
"It seems like the counterintelligence investigation should have been opened up against the Hillary Clinton campaign when they got a hold of the dossier," said Nunes.
Earlier in the day, Nunes claimed there have been nearly "100 leaks" to the media by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee related to the Russia investigation.
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I mean it sounds like maybe he’s going for some 6th Floor staff that need wormin’, too.
Obama/Hillary bought themselves a surveillance warrant, to paraphrase Mark Levin. And the FBI/DOJ were happy to take their money and run with it.
The next shoe to drop is that this warrant was a cover for previous, ILLEGAL, spying on Trump.
These people really are stupid!
AWOL
Dems have been doing this for decades. Still doesn’t help when the AG will not address any issue. It will eventually take trump down.
Gee, now let's apply a little deductive reasoning, spiced with a little speculation, to infer what actually happened:
1. Trump tell Ryan/Nunes he won't authorize WH clearance of committee memo if they don't re-authorize FISA.
2. Nunes asks Ryan if the House would override; Ryan says no.
Two questions:
1. Why did Trump want the FISA law re-newed?
2. Why did Ryan side with Trump? (In fact, Nunes exists in the 1st place because of Ryan, who has green-lit every committee activity because of Trump.)
So, class, what do we make of this? Do we pay attention to the resident Eeyores who claim Trump isn't acting with enough authority? What about the pussy-whipped 'traditionalists' who (falsely) claim Trump must follow established constitutional procedures? Lastly, why did the tax bill pass so easily with broad GOP support?
Let's get real here: Trump is utilizing extra-constitutional procedures to clean the swamp. Yes, that means he's using the well established domestic espionage capabilities to both force wavering allies to commit to his side, as well as nail traitors to the wall. Boo hoo. Next comes asset forfeiture seizures. Muh 5th!
Look, we passed the Rubicon into a non-constitutional thugocracy decades ago. You can't restore what hasn't been by self flagellation. We may never get back, but we certainly won't get back playing by rules established by a corrupt deep.
We switched to MSNBC while Hannity was on. She was talking, in mocking tones, about Trump supposedly paying for lawyers for “his people” who would be implicated in the Russian collusion investigation.
So sad that few care about the truth....
The Clinton’s always worked thru a political ally stashed in the #2 or #3 position of any federal department. Seems Trump not only doesn’t have any, they’re doesn’t seem to be anyone to do the right thing by the country.
I saw Lanny Davis the old Clintonista on Hannity tonight spinning the Rat corruption. His only response was that Trump’s man Sessions doesn’t have any problem with any of this. Let’s see Sessions the comatose,deep stater, swamp rat and now Clintonista.
But why? I thought the Clintons and Obamas hated each other.
Every president bitches about their predecessor’s expansion of abuse of power, but they each want to take advantage of it for themselves.
The real problem is that it’s all being recorded. It’s almost beyond expectations of humanity that it would not be used.
By golly, I think you’ve got it! Thanks!
I gotta think that Trump is very happy that Congress is carrying the water on this for now. He’d rather not his appointees be involved yet.
I for one am still holding out hope that Sessions is going to step in at the right moment to take these creeps down.
If so, Trump will be proven as the magnificent bastard that he is!
So Lanny thinks it would be hunky dorry for this president and his administration to spy on rats?
What is preventing the FBI from opening an investigation now?
Answer. Jeff Sessions.
Perhaps because their personal dislike didn’t matter? At least Obama’s dislike of Hillary did not. Obama, for all his self-important preening, was a fence-post turtle. He didn’t get there by himself, he was put there. And the powers that made him president (Pelosi & Reid) yielded to Hillary’s coronation this last time around. Funny thing happened on the way to the Opera...
Of course not, it only goes one way. Don’t you know anything about Democrats?
“Oh I think Nunes is a hero!”
I agree. He is standing up to the constant bombardment from the left including the msm.
The corrupt DOJ and compromised FBI were not interested in doing their real job. They had predetermined outcomes in mind.
Hillary’s illegal email server exposed: investigate Wikileaks.
Bill Clinton tarmac meeting: investigate leakers but not Clinton.
Steele Dossier paid for by Clintons: investigate Trump but not Clinton.
DNC server “hacked” and Seth Rich murdered: investigate Trump for Russian collusion.
FBI allowed Hillary to keep her illegal server and sort out what she wanted to hand over. They allowed her to delete evidence during an ongoing investigation.
Same thing with the DNC server. At minimum, backups of everything on both servers should have been made to preserve evidence until all related investigations were concluded, even if the backups had to be preserved at the highest security clearance levels.
Pattern of corruption.
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