Posted on 05/11/2018 9:03:06 AM PDT by ethom
A new bombshell report reveals that the FBI may have had a mole embedded in the Trump campaign.
In an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Kimberly Strassel unpacked some stunning developments in the battle between the Department of Justice and House Intelligence Committee members.
House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, D-Calif., and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., received a classified briefing at the DOJ on Thursday, viewing classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI probe of the Trump campaign.
According to Strassel’s Wall Street Journal piece:
The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.
House investigators nonetheless sniffed out a name, and Mr. Nunes in recent weeks issued a letter and a subpoena demanding more details. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s response was to double down—accusing the House of “extortion” and delivering a speech in which he claimed that “declining to open the FBI’s files to review” is a constitutional “duty.” Justice asked the White House to back its stonewall. And it even began spinning that daddy of all superspook arguments—that revealing any detail about this particular asset could result in “loss of human lives.”
This is desperation, and it strongly suggests that whatever is in these files is going to prove very uncomfortable to the FBI.
Nunes could not view the information because it apparently “could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
“This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough,” Strassel noted. “Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.”
“I believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it,” Strassel wrote. ” It would therefore be irresponsible to publish it.”
“But what is clear is that we’ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI’s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible,” she concluded. “It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid.”
Sure he could fire him, but it has risks that have to be weighed.
1 - Sessions is a former Senator and firing him would cost Trump support in a tight Senate
2 - No one Trump wants would be confirmed
3 - McConnell says won’t even have vote for a replacement
4 - Linda Graham used the Impeachment word when asked what might happen
5 - Sessions could compose new testimony to Mueller
Those are significant risks that Trump shouldn’t have to take. If Sessions were honorable he would resign in light of his rogue department’s actions and his inability to control it.
It really doesn’t matter what the liberals do.
It does matter that Mueller exists.
It matters what voters think, if they think he rigged the investigation it works against him.
Manafort and Cohen as possible moles is the dumbest thing you have ever posted. Their lives have been turned upside down by Bob Mueller’s raiding parties. Made into living hell at least for a while. Moles don’t have to spend millions on lawyers.
I wonder how many of Trump’s voters would think that...
I’ll go with zero.
Sessions is the spy.
“Agent Sessions! Tell us all you learned.”
Sessions: “I sort of, well, I never really got going on that spying stuff. I forgot and then took a nap and, oh, well..
If Trump wanted him to resign, it would have happened already - maybe he will at some point.
Trump has always been 50 steps ahead on just about everything, this is no different.
If Session was really the swamp creature that you think, why was his Senate Confirmation vote only 52-47 ?
Wouldn’t the Swamp vote him in overwhelmingly ?
Besides, removing Sessions would give Rosenstein even more power. Too many corrupt senators in both parties to confirm a new Trump AG pick.
Now you are just being ridiculous
really big deal, 100 times worse than Watergate
You’re right.
That will get it 12 seconds on CNN and MSNBC and page 39-G of WaPo and NYT. If that.
It’s not the Trump voters - it’s the fence sitters, independent voters that matter
2. He's a Democrat.
3. His father is a shady character and a convicted criminal himself.
1. The public stories you see about this battle between the House Intelligence Committee and the DOJ are nothing more than a charade designed to bring public attention to an issue, person, or point of fact that is allegedly in dispute between the two.
2. Every news report about this "battle" includes some pretty detailed information about what exactly a given House subpoena to the DOJ is requesting. The most recent reports about this "FBI asset" the House is seeking to identify in the redacted document from Rosenstein to Mueller outlining the responsibilities of the special counsel in investigating "Russian collusion" in the 2016 election.
3. What better way to guarantee major media coverage than to fabricate a pitched battle between the House committee and the DOJ that even includes threats of impeachment of top DOJ officials?
4. The House committee doesn't really have any interest in getting their hands on this information. What they're really doing is making a big deal out of this "dispute" with the DOJ, for the purpose of getting a pretty detailed description of the information in these redacted documents out in the public eye.
5. The House committee doesn't really have any interest in making the public aware of this information. What they really want to do is telegraph its existence to specific people who: (A) have a great interest in the redacted information, and (B) have a lot of legal leverage to get their hands on it.
6. Who might these "specific people" be? We may have seen a perfect example of them last week in the court proceedings in the Eastern Virginia and D.C. District Courts: The lawyers representing the defendants in the various criminal cases Mueller's team is prosecuting. Can it possibly be a mere coincidence that the redacted document mentioned above in Item #2 is one of the specific documents listed in the discovery demands by the lawyers for the Russian company that is among the defendants in Mueller's election interference case?
He has an obvious conflict of interest that precludes him from having any involvement in a "Russian collusion" investigation. He can't possibly oversee the investigation when he's a victim in the case.
What exactly is this "Russian crap" you describe here? This whole thing has been turned on its head and has now reached the point where it is more likely to completely vindicate Trump.
If you think he went through all that sh!t just to end up with some recalcitrant old fart from Alabama undermining him, you know nothing about the guy.
I've said for more than a year that a lot of things are not what they appear to be on the surface.
I’m sure you can figure it out if you try real damn hard.
No, I’m pretty sure that the people who voted for Trump are going to vote for him again, and if Sessions hadn’t been so dishonest and corrupt, there would be no investigation for Trump to “fix”.
Sessions and his recusal is the reason this all exists.
I don't find your theory outlandish in the least. I completely agree with you.
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