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"The ‘By-the-Book’ framework is based on a false-premise; but the action, just about any action, taken to mislead (even undermine) the incoming administration is excusable under this carefully crafted justification memo. That’s exactly why Susan Rice wrote it; and each of the participating members knows they can use it, when needed."

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This is extremely convoluted.

I wonder ...... can some of the brilliant people here at FR try to explain all of this.

I am more than a little confused right now, and a little afraid from what I think I've read.

The “By The Book” aspect refers to President Obama and Susan Rice being told by CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, that President Trump was the subject of an active counterintelligence investigation to determine if he was under the influence of the Russian government.
Even the timing of the memo, written 15 minutes prior to the end of the Obama administration, is ex-post-facto useful as evidence of the author’s intent.
Put aside the nonsense aspect to the origination of the investigation for a moment; that part doesn’t apply here…. Accept their position ‘as if’ it is substantive.
We are talking about Brennan, Comey, Clapper and Yates telling President Obama and NSA Susan Rice that President-elect Trump is under a counterintelligence investigation where the suspicion is that Donald J Trump is an agent of a foreign power.
Under that auspices (fraudulent though it may be) the incoming President is a counterintelligence investigation target. A potentially compromised Russian asset. Under this auspices all of the officials would be permitted to lie and mislead their target, so long as they did so “By The Book.”
That’s their justification for a lengthy series of lies and false statements.

The conspirators will be able to legally justify their actions thanks to the Rice memo.

The investigation needs to focus on the the dubious events leading up to the issuance of the FISA warrants; that's their vulnerable point.

The originating predicate (checkmate) for the hoax and the attempted coup will bring it all down. They are not getting away with sedition and treason because of the last minute cya move by Rice. POTUS would not be hitting high notes with the coup trumpet were it not so. The trail of evidence goes too far back in time to now fabricate justification. Obama the usurper was compromised and wholly owned by every single agency that played a part in his rise to the presidency.

This is all, to use Sundance’s own word, chaff. The article itself...because the origination, the fraudulent predicate, the Hillary-source, in July 2016, will be THE story. This Pence COS thing will be lost in deluge...it’s a lame attempt at chaff, and Sundance is placing way too much significance on it. It’s there today, lost in the real deluge tomorrow. He worries too much...or maybe he just needed something to write today.

The fake predicate, the origination of Crossfire Hurricane, is what the FISA Declass, the IG report and Barr’s investigation is all about. When that comes front and center, this and all the other chaff is wiped out as if it were never a thing.