LMAO:
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.”
I immediately had another outlandish theory that the Trump campaign knew about the surveillance even during the 2016 campaign, and took active measures to undermine it.
“...both protect freedom and avoid a second Civil War...”
Not possible, friend.
They need to be defeated. By any and all means.
I think Kushner went quiet because of his security clearance issues
Not all of them, especially if they think Trump corrupted the investigation.
The FBI investigation into Trump Campaign-Russia was already going on for awhile, before Sessions was nominated - the Senators at his confirmation hearing even asked Sessions if he would recuse himself and he said he would - Trump could’ve told him then to drop out, he didn’t.
The point is that there NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN an “investigation”!
And but for Jeff Sessions, there wouldn’t be one.
He enabled this, and he continues to protect it.
The same way Rod Rosenstein can’t over see an investigation that he is a witness of and participant in the alleged happenings being investigated?
That would be the same Rosenstein that Sessions protects?
Trump inner circle probably suspected Manafort was being surveilled ....removed.
I believe Trump insiders were suspicious of Page and Pop early on. They were distant players with little input.
Juicy book will be written about all of this.......
The Mueller investigation has nothing to do with the firing of James Comey.
There was an investigation ongoing BEFORE Sessions was appointed and BEFORE he was confirmed.
LMAO:
Not a Special Counsel investigation, no sir.
You'll find plenty of them.
I want to see one that actually has a named source who actually knows what's going on, not one of the dozens and dozens of media reports that are nothing more than speculation.
If Trump is your standard, then he's made his displeasure with Sessions very clear. But since you sound more like a 9D chess proponent, how do you explain Trump's own pesonal lawyer's office, home, and even safety deposit boxes being raided? You really think it was a good precedent to allow the deep state to get away with it?
I give up, man.
Please reinsert your head into Jeff Sessions’s southern side.
i think Trump is doing exactly what he has been saying he was doing - keeping his hands off the DOJ, and we’ll see what happens. He’s made those exact quotes most everytime he’s attacked Jeff Sessions and his corrupt DOJ, which is typically at least once a week. So I’m just taking Trump at his word on this, especially since his only interface with Sessions and the DOJ seems to be limited to constantly insulting them publicly as disgraceful, etc, but letting them continue to dig a deeper grave for themselves.
Just calling things the way I see them.
Trump likes to throw out “shiny objects” to distract the media and “pundits” - he has been doing that all along since day 1. He says look over there and the media jumps while he goes about his real business.
I think Trump’s displeasure with Sessions is disinformation, but time will tell.
You do realize there is war going on right now with the deep state and they will get some wins here and there OR maybe there is a lot more to the Cohen raid, maybe Cohen is compromised, maybe he sold Trump out for a lot money and became a mole for the deep state - again time will tell.
Sessions has been in office for 15 months. What has he done except allow the agencies under his purview to become deeply distrusted by the American people? When will he restore integrity in his department? Why are obvious crimes not being prosecuted?
Sessions’ recusal from the Mueller investigation does not absolve him of his administrative responsibilities to ensure that investigative activities are conducted with integrity and everyone under him is held to high standards and are accountable for their performance. That is what managers do, especially those entrusted with great responsibility.
Sessions is a blight on this administration. If you haven’t noticed the ongoing tensions between president Trump and Mr. Magoo you are willfully ignoring the recalcitrance of our nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
There is a serious crisis of confidence in our national law enforcement agencies that Sessions has neglected/refused to address. Moreover, he is widely perceived as being part of a cover up for an entrenched government cabal that is actively undermining our president and our democracy.
Its long since time for Sessions to vacate his office and go back to Alabama. If they’ll have him.
Kaboom! Great comment.
He hasn't allowed any of this to happen. It was a problem before he got there, and these agencies are doing a fine job of destroying their own credibility without any help from him.
You can't fix all this sh!t in 15 months. The FBI will very likely have to be dismantled entirely. That will be such a political hot potato that it probably shouldn't even be considered until after 2020.
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