Posted on 02/12/2018 2:37:08 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Obama appointee and former CIA director John Brennan is the target of a perjury investigation by the House Intelligence Committee.
Chairman Devin Nunes is turning his attention to the role the CIA played in promoting the Steele dossier.
Brennan said under oath that he didn't know who commissioned the dossier and that it was not used to conclude that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Brennan also swore that he did not know who commissioned the anti-Trump research document, even though senior national security and counterintelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI knew the previous year that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Last week, Nunes released a declassified memo exposing surveillance "abuses" by the Obama DOJ and FBI in investigating Trump's ties to Russia. It said the agencies relied heavily on the uncorroborated dossier to take out a warrant to secretly surveil a Trump adviser in the heat of the 2016 presidential election, even though they were aware the underlying "intelligence" supporting the wiretap order was political opposition research funded by Clinton allies – a material fact they concealed from FISA court judges in four separate applications.
Nunes plans to soon release a separate report detailing the Obama State Department's role in creating and disseminating the dossier. Among other things, the report will identify Obama-appointed diplomats who worked with partisan operatives close to Hillary Clinton to help ex-British spy Christopher Steele compile the dossier, sources say.
An aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Nunes will focus on Brennan as well as President Obama's first CIA director, Leon Panetta, along with the former president's intelligence czar, James Clapper, and national security adviser, Susan Rice, and security adviser-turned U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, among other intelligence officials.
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Greenpeace will complain about us dumping toxic waste, and poisoning barracudas
Flynn’s position is looking rosier....
Your characterization of the scandal almost trivializes it. The facts, which make this overall scandal magnitudes greater than Watergate, are officials were using their authority and their offices to destroy political opponents.
“...already in the weeds...”
HEHEHE.
and already seated in the outhouse.
FINALLY! I never thought the people in DC were very smart, but they've finally awakened to this lying sack of muzzie sh*t!
Now how many years (if ever!) will it take for them to actually do something?
I did try to downplay it a little. The fact of the matter is, they tried a Soft Coup, the FBI, CIA, and the NDC, to overthrow an elected president
“...Sessions is doing his job...
I agree. Why would he be announcing what he is doing? It would make no sense.
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“...Sessions is doing his job...
I agree. Why would he be announcing what he is doing? It would make no sense.
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“former CIA director John Brennan is the target of a perjury investigation by the House Intelligence Committee.”
I read *nothing* indicating the DOJ is going to pick up the ball and run with it.
I’ll be the 1st to give kudos where kudos are due, but there’s been no trial, let alone conviction....yet?.
Doing things “by the book” means doing things be THEIR BOOK.
With his Koran
Patience. Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report should be good reading. https://www.themarketswork.com/2017/12/23/an-introduction-to-inspector-general-michael-horowitz/
And should provide solid foundation for more than just discipline.
I seriously think that the Swamp has something so damaging on Sessions that his rear-end is totally puckered up...
In the words of our esteems AG, Jeff Sessions, no department is perfect.
btt
No exile, as he needs to pay for his perjury....not escape it.
Because Sessions is under attack from those who don’t know how things work in the legal world. They have a different schedule for things which does not work and would greatly increase the chances for acquittals if trials ensue. This would be a disaster.
Much of what Sessions is doing MUST remain in darkness in order to be effective. Only a lamebrain would believe that cases should be investigated in public.
Then there are the idiots who attack him as a sellout, deep stater, not doing anything and having no integrity.
All these claims are total crap. He is one of the few in DC with ANY integrity.
These attempts to undermine the Administration through unjust attacks on the AG must be countered.
Agree. Totally. If Trump fires him or anybody DOJ or FBI, the Dems will nail him for “collusion.” Chaffetz positively fumed about him the other day, saying, “We've sent referral after referral (for prosecution) and nothing happens.”
“Then there are the idiots who attack him as a sellout, deep stater, not doing anything and having no integrity.”
How are we supposed to know that he is doing anything?
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