Posted on 07/13/2018 6:16:09 AM PDT by bitt
WASHINGTON — The White House has rebuffed concerns among American intelligence and law enforcement officials and ordered that more lawmakers be given access to classified information about an informant the F.B.I. used in 2016 to investigate possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to two American officials with knowledge of the decision.
Both the director of national intelligence and the director of the F.B.I. tried to keep the classified documents tightly restricted, fearing that a broader dissemination of operational reports and other sensitive material could lead to more leaks of detailed information about the role of the confidential F.B.I. informant.
Some American officials believe, in fact, the reason the White House made the decision was to provide political ammunition to President Trump’s Republican allies who have argued — without any evidence — that the F.B.I. investigation was opened in July 2016 as an effort to keep Mr. Trump from becoming president.
The White House declined to comment.
The F.B.I. files about the informant will now be available to all members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, instead of to just a group of congressional leaders known as the Gang of Eight. It is unclear whether Mr. Trump or a lower-level White House official authorized the move.
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Bttt.
5.56mm
How can they say “without any evidence” without their heads exploding?
Interesting, if true.
Odd how the Russian interference investigation coincided with Trump being the nominee.
The evidence is staring them in the face but they refuse to connect the dots.
bttt wrote: “Maybe John McCain’s brain tumor story was artificial?”
No, it’s real alright.
His brain transplant occurred long ago in a continent far, far away. He came back from ‘Nam with Abby Normal’s brain, which after all these years has proven to be cancerous.
Chinese organized crime/gambling bosses OWN McCain and have been running him since the ‘60s. They wafted Arizona liquor-heiress Cindy Hensley and her millions under his nose and got him to dump his wife and children who had faithfully and patiently waited for his return.
The cancer was actually discovered before he ran for President in 2008, but they kept it quiet because he was just a placeholder to grease Obama’s skids to the White House, anyway.
President Trump wins election and, well whadya know? McCain has cancer. So it’s not polite to talk about how he helped to gin up the Steele Dossier in order to 86 the Trump campaign and to enable Hillary Clinton to win.
I believe we might have seen much more progress, much sooner, vis-a-vis Draining the Swamp if it wasn’t taking so @#$%! long for McCain to die. Sometimes I wonder if he might already be dead, and his handlers simply aren’t telling us.
Maybe they’re just stringing this thing out because they have so many more McCain bylined Trash Trump op eds in the qeue to be published. (Who believes he actually is capable of actually stringing words together anymore?) Or maybe his people hoping Mueller to create something, ANYTHING, for which he can indict President Trump,
But, in a hopeful sign the end may in fact be near, the Navy yesterday re-christened the destroyer McCain. The ship originally was named to honor John’s father and grandfather, both of whom earned the rank of Admiral. It’s a shame, because there are so many other vets more deserving of such an honor, and plenty who would gladly throw his ass overboard during one of those storms of his own making. The fish would vomit him out on the beach.
I agree. I’ll take it one step further. I think they were survelling everybody who was somebody. The surveillance state that everybody feared.
since at least the days of Hillary’s 900 illegally obtained FBI files.
Don’t know if you remember the old crank telephones of the 40s and 50s. The crank turned a 48-volt generator. Not much current, but would definitely get your attention. Probably would work better than 12V.
I wouldn’t trust any Democrat on the Senate or House Intelligence Committees. Some of them are insane; some are political hacks who put “party” before their country and job; and others are suspect in some of their associations.
Check out Rep. Jerry Nadler’s background at www.keywiki.org. It will shock you. Rep. Steven Cohen is absolutely insane. And some of the other clowns I saw at the Strzok hearing were absolutely unprofessional and disrupters.
Feinstein is getting senile and her business dealings along with those of her husband have verged on the very borderlin of criminality, if not actually being over it. THe same for Pelosi and her husband.
Other examples include John Kerry, who should have been jailed for treason a long time ago. Maxine Waters, a good friend of Castro’s Cuba is another, besides earning the title of “The Batshit Crazy Woman from Oakland”.
Rep. Mark Pocan is another rising up Marxist shit.
Right now scores of Democrats in Congress could not get a security clearance under the old, more strick guidelines for issuing them, though Congress has made so many loopholes that you could walk the KGB through them as they got jobs on congressional staffs and committees over the years.
Some congresspeople, over the decades, have been identified as secret members of the Communist Party USA while others were suspected KGB assets besides being Party members or under its guidance/influence.
John Conyers Jr. - once head of the powerful House Judiciary Committee
Bella Abzug (and her husband) - reportedly secret members of the CPUSA but the documentation is missing from government congressional files (so far searches haven’t turned them up)
Ronald Dellums - self-described “socialist” and one of the best friends of Castro and the late, executed Grenadian dictator Maurice Bishop. His aides were couriers between Dellums and Bishop. One of his aides, Barbara Lee, is now a member of Congress. The other, Carliotta Scott was having an affair with Bishop (his execution by a more hardcore Marxist group ended it).
FYI: The wife of the then (1983) Cuban Ambassador to Grenada was Gail Reed, an American communist from the DGI/KGB/CPUSA created/trained Venceremos Brigade (Reed’s history appears in either a House Internal Security Committee study or Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (Sen. Judiciary Comm) study on “The Venceremos Brigade” about 1974.)
Rep. Don Edwards (D-Ca), a former FBI agent turned vicious enemy of the Bureau, tried to get charges of treason dropped against two Soviet spied (CPUSA members), Dodd and Fields.
Rep. Hugh DeLacey (D-Ca), a good friend of Leon Panetta (former head of the CIA), was a top CPUSA member in Congress when he was there.
Others with extensive ties to the CPUSA were the Burton Brothers esp. Phil, and his wife (later Rep.) Sala Burton. (Best source for their activities is the old California professors producted TOCSIN newsletter. It had LOTS of photos).
Rep. Parren Mitchell (D-Md) (Cummings now has his seat). Family ties to the CPUSA, plus sponsoring Communist-created legislation re “The Transfer Amendment”. Some potentially very serious ties to an identified Soviet Spy/CPUSA leader Victor Perlo (now deceased).
The book “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressive in the U.S. Congress”, Trevor Loudon, ed. 2013-2015, contains more congressmen and women than you want in Congress. Worth getting a copy.
After reading it and going to the www.keywiki.org site, as well as “www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org”, you’ll understand what I have written above.
48v should be even more persuasive ;-)
Unfortunately.
Ahem..."without any evidence"???
C’mon let’s get serious. Just hook him up to a spark plug wire and rev the piss out the engine.
What is extremely disappointing is that Rush has not mentioned Gohmert’s disclosers. He also ignored Putin’s request to look into the money laundering and the Hillary campaign.
What is extremely disappointing is that Rush has not mentioned Gohmert’s disclosers. He also ignored Putin’s request to look into the money laundering and the Hillary campaign.
Foreign entity, not necessarily a foreign power.
Oh, come on, those jumper cable clips can sure pinch the nipples
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