Posted on 05/17/2018 6:18:14 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes appeared on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday, where he provided a potentially explosive hint at what’s driving his demand to see documents related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Trump-Russia probe. “If the campaign was somehow set up,” he told the hosts, “I think that would be a problem.”
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Think of the 2016 Trump-Russia narrative as two parallel strands—one politics, one law enforcement. The political side involves the actions of Fusion GPS, the Hillary Clinton campaign and Obama officials—all of whom were focused on destroying Donald Trump. The law-enforcement strand involves the FBI—and what methods and evidence it used in its Trump investigation. At some point these strands intersected—and one crucial question is how early that happened.
What may well have kicked off both, however, is a key if overlooked moment detailed in the House Intelligence Committee’s recent Russia report. In “late spring” of 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey briefed White House “National Security Council Principals” that the FBI had counterintelligence concerns about the Trump campaign. Carter Page was announced as a campaign adviser on March 21, and Paul Manafort joined the campaign March 29.
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It’s long been known that Mr. Steele went to the FBI in early July to talk about the dossier, and that’s the first known intersection of the strands. But given the oddity and timing of those U.K. interactions concerning Messrs. Page and Papadopoulos, and given the history of some of the people involved in arranging them, some wonder if the two strands were converging earlier than anyone has admitted.
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When reading the Steele Dossier, the second time that I actually laughed out loud (the first time was reading about the pee party) was when I read this bit about what the Kremlin has collected on Hillary over lo these many years:
Asked about...rumours about a Russian dossier of 'kompromat' on Hillary CLINTON (being circulated), Source B confirmed the file's existence. S/he confided in a trusted compatriot that it had been collated by Department K of the FSB for many years, dating back to her husband Bill's presidency, and comprised mainly eavesdropped conversations of various sorts rather than details/evidence of unorthodox or embarrassing behavior. Some of the conversations were from bugged comments CLINTON had made on her various trips to Russia and focused on things she had said which contradicted her current position on various issues. Others were most probably from phone intercepts.
So let me get this straight: On very likely the most corrupt people to ever occupy the White House, the ONLY secret intel the Russians have on Hillary, going back all the way to the early 90s when they first ran for president, is that Hillary had different public and private positions on policy issues.
No blackmail material on any pay-for-play. Nothing on Bill's compulsive sexual behavior and Hillary's covering it up. Nothing on the Chinese compromising the Clintons. Nothing on Vince Foster. Nothing on Ron Brown. Nothing on cattle futures disguised bribe. Etc. ad infinitum.
The Russians had nothing, nothing, nothing, on Hillary except she has different policy positions in public and private.
Which, by the way, we all expected at that time would surface -- tapes of her speeches to Goldman Sachs and other bankers. For example, later we would learn in a recording of a speech to international bankers that Hillary desires a borderless western hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.
So was this bit planted here to prepare the way for Hillary to blame the Russians when those recordings were eventually released? I guess they figured that just wouldn't fly, because I don't remember them daring to do that.
But that's when I realized something: either Hillary herself wrote the dossier, or it was written by some sycophantic lickspittle that is so obsequious to her as to be practically at Lanny Davis-like levels of sycophantic lickspittleness.
Is the sky blue on a sunny day? Like...duh! Of course the whole thing was a set up.
Great comment. I have my doubts that Hillary is smart enough to have planned something so Trumpian. But I like thinking over new ideas. Thanks.
Well...the campaign WAS set up and it IS a problem.
Meanwhile, House Democrats handed Congressional computers over to some shadowy Pakistanis.
And a former Secretary of State circulated confidential emails on an unsecured server, tried to erase them, and also literally destroyed equipment which would have held incriminating information.
But.....about that Stormy Daniels....
It bears repeating that Hillary was suppose to win going away and the intelligence apparatus was all set to frame Donald Trump after his election loss and then to indict him for Russian collusion and absolutely destroy the Trump financial empire.
That is what they had planned and in place until they lost the election and then eventually control of the intel machinery. This is story needs to be told. Clinton was intent on destroying Trump after the election. He forced the shutdown of the pay for play Clinton Foundation.
It’s going to get nasty now.....
Obama Says Trump Won't Be President: ‘It's Not Hosting a Talk Show’
This was February 16, 2016... It go my attention at the time...
Gee, how could we have so misjudged her? Thinking that she was the most corrupt person ever to run for President (with the possible exception of her husband), when she is as pure as the driven snow.
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The best lies are usually built on obvious truth. The obvious truth here is that Trump had business dealing with the Russians for more than a decade the rest are probably lies.
What amazes me is that not only has it been demonstrated the Hillary campaign started the dossier is that nobody has anything to say about British collusion.
I say ‘perhaps’ just to be civil.
There are currently Hundreds of Thousands of Criminals on Death Row that were convicted with Far Less Evidence than what is in the Public Domain regarding this attempted coup and Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States Government.
WHERE IS THE ROPE?
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Levin was just on Hannity.... he is right on all fronts. This has never happened before .. the government turned on the people and tried to annul an election... our government turned into criminals. The fact it has not happened before... we also had never had a barack hussein obama as President before.
I am amazed at all those at the top, who went in with him and jarrett and all his bunch who have lived like this in chicago for years. He managed to get the top leaders of our justice dept, the IRS and all that could help him gain the power he was after... and he used all of it against the citizens of this country. The list to describe him and who he is ... is too long to get into tonight.
This is MY country! I voted for the best man and they call me not smart enough to understand what all they think they understand
But about 2 weeks ago I posted a comment on FR and I post it again below. *******
The ONE who is at the helm of ALL that has been going on is none other than barack obama. If we thought we would be rid of him after 8 miserable years, think again. He aimed to keep his control over Washington and everything in it... he never planned on leaving or considering his time over/up.
While President, he used every way possible to set up his government forever. He, being black, was able to control the news media through fear of being racist and through threats... plus he used every dept and every person and every way, to keep his control long after 8 years.
He managed to get the justice dept and the intelligence agencies to give him the path to control.. complete control. He used the IRS to threaten and power to keep conservatives from fighting back. He tied their hands... and he had hillary at his fingertips to be a figurehead and obama would still be the power behind everything.
He had NO... NO ..plans to turn over his power to a new President Trump. He had him spied on from the beginning and through the transition. when we saw obama greeting Trump... there was hate and power in obama’s mind... Trump was never going to have the Presidency if obama held his control.
Look at what and who he had control over... the media.. they lie for him every day all day. Even michelle says she is the forever first lady.. and who in hill gave her that title? she and obama think they are the forever President. He believes the majority love, adore, worship him.. West must be putting a fear in obama’s plans... he is making waves in obama’s “people”.
Put it all together and the corruption is at the feet of obama... he never planned on giving it up.. He has kerry doing his secretary of state work to save his lousy iran deal.. the deal he bought with millions of dollars he flew in when he did not know or have any idea how to make a deal. He would love to see iran take Israel off the map... and destroy the United States we have known... obama would end up with a kingdom much like the bad Lion in the Lion King movie... devastation.
Obama has been mueller’s boss.. we see the judges tell him there can be no unfettered power, but that is exactly what Obama had and wants to keep. They all answer to obama... not to President Trump!!!! Until the Trump administration understands and makes sure the country, the courts, congress, and the media .. and barack obama ... know we have a new President with the power obama once had and tried to hold on to... all are scared of him... and consider Trump not worthy to wear the shoes we voters gave him... they are paralyzed with fear and have obeyed for so long, they don’t know how to transition into a successful Presidency... one who loves this country enough to stand in the midst of all their attacks... obama is done... he is being exposed... as afraid as they are to name him... they will.. for he is the root and the evil that has been spread all over our land! God help us all!!
TREASON.
I have no doubt as well, select Republicans were helping Obama, in the attempt to stop Donald Trump. The mass media was whole hog in the action...
The names you seek are Sid Vicious Blumenthal and John ‘the stealth enemy muslim’ Brennan.
If the dems kept going to Russia to get dirt on Trump, seems to me that the Russians have dirt on Obama too. I have wished for 10 years that they would release it. Obama is at the top of all of this corruption of our government as he and his minions have been the most corrupt in history of USA.
Cody Shearer also a candidate.
So we are to believe per the Steele Dossier that the Russians have no intel on Hillary’s poorly-concealed serious medical condition.
No dirt on her relationship with Huma and Huma’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
No intel on Hillary’s role in Benghazi.
Nothing about Hillary’s secret bathroom server or her destruction of evidence and they certainly don’t have her emails from it.
She was Secretary of State of the United States of America for four years and the Russians have basically manage to collect no meaningful intel on her during that time.
Nope, just like Sergeant Schultz, according to the credible and trustworthy Christopher Steele, whose mere word can support a FISA wiretap on an American citizen, the Russians know nothing, nothing, about Hillary!
Except that Hillary sometimes has a private and a public position on policy issues.
The Russians were trying to do what they always do, cause chaos and division of Americans during the election cycles. You can be sure that if the harridan Hillary had been elected, there is lots of data that would have dribbled up from the sewer.
Well...the campaign WAS set up and it IS a problem.
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But not enough of a problem for the Republicans in congress to want to hold people accountable for this treachery.
Only Nunes and a precious few other Republicans care about it.
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