Posted on 05/24/2019 6:55:41 AM PDT by Kevin in California
President Donald Trump's order to declassify documents explaining the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation is "all nonsense," Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Thursday night.
Nadler said there's no "basis" to examine the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. He called it an "imaginary scandal."
If you’ve got nothing to hide, then let the investigation go forward, Nadler, you fat ass lying tub of festering crap.
This fat Penguin looking fool is just afraid he and his criminal democrats will be found out..I hope this Soros bully get his butt jailed for treasonous acts along with his fool democrats..
Wow.
That is the boldest lie I have heard from Democrats since President Trump was elected.
DNC = COUP = TREASON, yet half the Voters agree with Nadler.
Détente is no longer an option.
Just saying it ain't so, doesn't make it so, Fatso.
I am aware of a pricey study, with precise data compiled for corportions, businesses etc to use as employment guidelines. There are three types of people that should be avoided and Nadler is one of them.
The really scary part of this to me is that I don’t think any of this is new behavior.
I still think it is possible that the same types of people that are after Trump went after Kennedy when he went after the Intelligence area and the federal reserve.
I am kind of surprised they haven’t tried to kill Trump. He is upsetting the status quo like none other in recent memory.
Yes!! Using a line from the Democrat’s playbook, “Then thorough, open and on-going investigation will prove that.”
Horsechit, fat man. You had the secret briefings and know the truth. You and your ilk feel free to lie, safe in the knowledge that the truth is classified and will never see the light if day. Whoops, there’s a new sheriff in town and he has your number. BOHICA, Jerry, if you can.
The democrats have a power source that never fails them. Deception. It gives them great confidence. They have faith that if plan A fails, which is to lie, then they can always fall back on plan B, which is to lie.
That is why they are never at a loss for words and always have a plan ready to go.
The lawless, lying commie Rats deserve every bit of hell that can be heaped on their heads. . . .
So says the head cockroach.
“Imaginary scandal” will be the new talking point preceeded by “Cover up” earlier this week and “Constitutional crisis” the week before.
The real task for the white house is finding out who is NOT corrupt inn the Intel agencies. From the looks of it they are all playing for the dark side.
Using the Democrat definition, didn’t Nadler just obstruct justice?
Except of course for the testimony already given, and the official Government documents being declassified.
But other than that there’s no reason.
“Nadler said there’s no “basis” to examine the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.”
Well, if they did nothing wrong, then they have nothing to hide and won’t mind if we scrutinize everything.
After all, that’s what they tell us US citizens when we object to them spying on us!
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8 Times Obamas Intelligence Agencies Set People Up To Fabricate The Russia Story
The Federalist ^ | JUNE 6, 2018 | Willis L. Krumholz
FR Posted by E. Pluribus Unum
The Obama intelligence bureaucracies spied on the Donald Trump campaign: FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrants were granted because of a Hillary Clinton-funded and unverified document, national-security letters were issued to allow warrantless spying, and the unprecedented but not-illegal-per-se unmasking of Trump officials conversations with non-U.S. persons was shockingly routine.
Yet the news of a CIA-connected human source operating as far back as April or May of 2016 is about more than just spying. It is the latest example in what now looks to be a long line of attempted setups by the Clinton team, many times aided and abetted by our intelligence bureaucracies. These events should anger any red blooded American who believes in representative democracy and the importance of the rule of law. Lets review eight examples.
1. CIA And FBI Human Intelligence Weve just learned about Stefan Halper, a CIA-connected Cambridge professor who working for the FBI contacted Trump advisers Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Sam Clovis during the 2016 election, to investigate what they might know about suspicions of collusion with Russia. Former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo has claimed that he was approached by an unknown second U.S. intelligence community asset in early May of 2016. The FBI says that the Russia investigation began in July, because of something Papadopoulos said to an Australian diplomat in May. Papadopoulos had supposedly told the Australian diplomat something about Russia having information that could be damaging to Clinton. Papadopoulos allegedly heard this from Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese-born professor who allegedly claimed to have close ties with Russia. Special counsel Robert Muellers team charged Papadopoulos unconvincingly with lying to investigators, because Papadopoulos said his contacts with Mifsud began before he was on the Trump campaign. Actually, the contacts started after he learned he would be a foreign policy advisor for the campaign, but before the campaign made a public announcement that he was to be an advisor. Mifsud is strangely now in hiding, possibly fearing for his life. Lee Smith details Mifsuds ties to Western intelligence agencies, and Margot Cleveland suspects Mifsud may have been a U.S. intelligence plant along with Halper.
2. The Trump Tower Meeting Whenever Democrats or David French types talk about Trump and Russia collusion they look to the Trump Tower meeting as definitive proof. There are several problems with that. First, no presidential campaign in American history would pass up the chance of hearing evidence of crimes being committed by their opponent, no matter the source. In fact, some would say youre doing the country a favor if you let everyone know that your opponent is subject to blackmail from a not-so-friendly foreign power (just dont have your son and son-in-law sit in on the meeting). More problematic is that Glenn Simpson head of Fusion GPS, the firm being paid by the Clinton campaign and the DNC to prove (or create) ties between Trump and Russia met with the two Russians who attended the Trump Tower meeting both before and after the meeting. Simpsons excuse for doing so? Because he was working with the two Russians on a different issue, the repeal of the anti-Kremlin Magnitsky Act. In other words, at the very least, the firm that created the dossier for Clinton and the DNC using Russian intelligence sources was the same firm that was working with the Kremlin to repeal a law passed by Congress because Putins thugs beat an innocent man to death in Russian prison. At most, this was yet another setup.
3. Mike Flynn And The Logan Act During the 2016 campaign, Democrats howled about the need to prosecute Trump campaign officials under an obscure 1799 law called the Logan Act. Byron York has documented that this was the pretext Obama-appointed former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates used to unmask former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynns side of highly-appropriate phone conversations with the Russian ambassador that occurred during the transition period, and then send FBI agents to interview Flynn about those conversations. Although the FBI has tried to cover this up, we now know that the agents who interviewed Flynn including the disgraced and hugely anti-Trump Peter Strzok didnt believe that Flynn had lied. Nevertheless, Muellers team charged Flynn with lying to the FBI. After Muellers charge had nearly bankrupted Flynn, and after Mueller threatened to go after Flynns son, Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI.
4. Andrew McCabe Sets Up Reince Priebus After an intelligence briefing at the White House in early 2017, former FBI number two Andrew McCabe asked to meet privately with former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. A story had just dropped anonymously sourced from multiple intelligence community officials that Trump aides had multiple contacts with Russian intelligence during the election. McCabe wanted to tell Priebus that the FBI didnt think the story was true. Of course, Priebus asked McCabe if the FBI could publicly say just that. McCabe said he would have to check. But former FBI Director James Comey called Priebus to say that the FBI couldnt publicly shoot down the story. Days later, the breaking news on CNN was that the White House had tried to pressure the FBI into batting down the reports on supposed ties between Trump and Russia. So not only was the White House supposedly colluding, now there were allegations of obstruction of justice.
5. Brennan Shops Dossier To Harry Reid Former CIA Director John Brennan, who may have been the U.S. intelligence official to first push an investigation into the Trump campaign, briefed then-Sen. Harry Reid on the Clinton-funded dossier in August 2016. The briefing did two things: First, it lent some legitimacy to the dossier, and second, it got Reid to pressure the FBI to not drop the investigation. The briefing had the added bonus of allowing Reid to speak publicly about Trumps ties to Russia, as if he had just gained access to groundbreaking proof of collusion, which was of course covered by the media.
6. Comey And Clapper Give CNN A Reason To Publish The Dossier Comey, at the behest of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, briefed Trump on one of the allegations in the dossier, but not on the main allegation in the dossier, who had funded the dossier, or how that dossier was being used by the FBI. Nevertheless, this briefing looks like one more setup, meant to allow CNN to report on the existence of the dossier as if it were highly verified and being seriously examined by U.S. intelligence community officials. Clapper then leaked information about the dossier and the briefings to CNN, and later looks to have lied about those leaks to Congress. Amazingly, Clapper has previously lied to Congress. Clapper now works for CNN.
7. The Jeff Sessions Recusal Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation after anonymous intelligence community leaks about his contacts with Russians. Specifically, Sessions as a senator met with former Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak in his D.C. office. In another meeting, Sessions gave a speech and a gaggle of diplomats including Kislyak talked with him for several minutes as he was coming off the stage. The idea behind the unnecessary recusal was that somehow Sessions had misrepresented these contacts to former Sen. Al Franken. Actually, Franken referring to one of many CNN stories sourced by anonymous officials about supposed Trump and Russia collusion had clearly asked about whether Sessions had colluded with any Russians during the campaign, not whether Sessions had ever met any Russians.
8. Rosenstein Recommends Comey Firing, Appoints Special Counsel But with Jeff Sessions out of the way, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein became the acting attorney general for all things Russia-investigation-related. Rosenstein then recommended Comeys firing, and then overseeing the investigation that stemmed from that firing appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel. Mueller, a former FBI Director, happened to be a close associate of Comey and Rosenstein, and would surely want to protect the interests of the FBI and the Justice Department. Taken together, these setups indicate a massive effort to aid the Clinton campaign before the election.
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