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Former Bush White House Chief Of Staff: FBI Director Might Bury Parts Of Report On Obama FISA Abuses
Townhall.com ^ | August 21, 2019 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 08/21/2019 1:22:43 PM PDT by Kaslin

I know we’ve been waiting a long time for the Department of Justice’s inspector general on the alleged FISA abuses that occurred under the Obama administration. It was supposed to be released this summer. Now, it’s due out in early September. The contents might not send anyone from the Obama DOJ to jail, but it will reaffirm what we have been saying for quite some time: that the FBI was allegedly spying on Trump officials, that the meddling of the most concern was really coming from the J. Edgar Hoover Building, and that the Trump dossier was known to be biased, mostly unverified, but also cited as credible evidence in the securing of a spy warrant against Carter Page, Trump’s former foreign policy adviser. The sitting president used the DOJ to place the presidential campaign of the opposing party under surveillance. That’s pretty deep state-ish right there.

Based on the report on Russian collusion by ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Trump dossier pretty much debunked. There is no evidence that the Kremlin and the Trump team colluded during the 2016 election. There was no blackmail campaign. Was this an intentional Russian misinformation campaign aimed at driving some—cough*Democrats cough*–insane? Maybe. Attorney General William Barr is looking into the origins of this circus. The FBI did not verify the dossier either. That’s evident in the glaring inaccuracies in the Trump dossier, which was compiled by former MI6 spook Christopher Steele. And by glaring, I mean—could’ve been easily verified by a simple Google search. The State Department knew the dossier was biased political propaganda as well; Steele told them. He also told the FBI. Steele’s political opposition research project was funded by the Clinton campaign, who had contracted Fusion GPS to lead the effort. Fusion subsequently hired Steele to compile this document. Oh, and members of British intelligence were also highly skeptical of this document. 

And yet, cited reportedly three times as credible evidence in renewing a FISA warrant against Page, who had worked with the State Department, CIA, and FBI for years. It’s not out there to suggest that a lot of dirty laundry is about to be revealed. And FBI Director Chris Wray might want to keep that hidden, according to former White House Chief of Staff and New Hampshire Governor John Sununu (via Washington Examiner):


"I think they should see it all because frankly there’s nothing there of substance that applies to any real intelligence process. It was all a fabricated set of intelligence relationships that were being used to entrap, if you will, the Trump administration," Sununu said on Fox News.

Sununu said he believes the American public will see "a great deal" of the report, which is expected to be released as early as September, though he warned Wray might try to hide some of its findings.

"The only person over there that I think is going to try and prevent that is Christopher Wray who I think has really been co-opted by the FBI bureaucracy," Sununu said.

Republicans have criticized Wray, who was nominated to lead the FBI by President Trump, because of the FBI's resistance to certain document requests and also because he disputed Attorney General William Barr's use of the word "spying" to describe the government surveillance of Trump's 2016 campaign. Barr has praised Wray amid the criticism.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that he expects the report to be “ugly and damning.” We’ll see. The FBI’s alleged bad behavior also goes beyond Page and Trump. They were warned that a key document that was used to investigate Paul Manafort was fake. They ignored it. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 2016election; andrewmccabe; billpriestap; carterpage; christopherwray; davidlaufman; declassification; doj; dojig; dojigreport; donaldtrump; fbi; fisa; fisagate; impeachment; jamescomey; johnbrennan; lisabarsoomian; lisapage; michaelcohen; perjury; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rodrosenstein; russia; russiacollusion; spygate; steeledossier
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1 posted on 08/21/2019 1:22:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Then can his a$$.


2 posted on 08/21/2019 1:23:38 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Kaslin

Comey Part Deux. He shall suffer the same fate.


3 posted on 08/21/2019 1:24:28 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: Kaslin

Swamp protecting the swamp. Little will change.


4 posted on 08/21/2019 1:25:05 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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John Sununu: FBI Director Chris Wray will try to cover up FISA abuse report
5 posted on 08/21/2019 1:25:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Might???? LOL!!!

He don't wanna get arkancided~

6 posted on 08/21/2019 1:27:43 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Kaslin

Q says they’re all going to hang at Gitmo.


7 posted on 08/21/2019 1:30:55 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Kaslin
If this happens, Pres. Trump is either incompetent as the leader over all agencies or in on this. Trump is the Chief Executive Officer and is the leader of the Republican Party. Reagan failed to stand up to the establishment, Trump is on his way. If "its" all about elections might as well stick a fork in the "Grand Experiment" because that flippant and impotent excuse will perpetuate all the way down the drain.

In before the Founders of this nation would be shooting already.
8 posted on 08/21/2019 1:32:21 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Kaslin

No one goes to jail? Kiss the republic goodbye and prepare for the conflict with the commies that will be back in perpetual power soon. Oh and they want us dead by the way, but its good knowing we played
fair and took the high road.


9 posted on 08/21/2019 1:32:30 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Kaslin

Both parties were involved in FISA.
It is highly likely the CIA leaked it to Bush41 and Bush43 to get them to NOT support Trump.
We know McCain was involved.

Funny how no one has ever bothered to ask GWB what he knew.


10 posted on 08/21/2019 1:34:37 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Kaslin

If heads don’t roll the FBI will be little more than a well funded organized crime ring.
They ruined lives based upon a lie they concocted.
If they fail to enforce the law they will, in my eyes have no honor ever again.


11 posted on 08/21/2019 1:35:20 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: Kaslin

The deep-state/fusionGPS/FBI/DOJ/Obama-administration attempt to remove Trump from office, was just the beginning.

The Mueller investigations was just the continued attempt to prove Trump/Russia collusion, and the extended attempt to remove Trump from office. It was nothing more than a sham, a complete hoax.

Now, the IG investigation is, seemingly, nothing more than an excuse to allow the perpetrators to escape blame and prosecution, with nobody getting prosecuted and sent to prison.

This whole set of setups and investigations, all are leading to the conclusion that, politicians are covering each others asses, for the times when they need for the opposition to return the favor(s).

IOW, it’s all bullshit!


12 posted on 08/21/2019 1:37:17 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Kaslin

Then his boss (AG Barr) should call him into his office and give him a direct order to provide all documents. If not, he should be fired for insubordination.


13 posted on 08/21/2019 1:39:46 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: humblegunner

Link?


14 posted on 08/21/2019 1:40:39 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Kaslin
Trust Chris Wray.

LOL!

15 posted on 08/21/2019 1:41:10 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: MileHi
Link?

Nope. 8chan got shut down because of baby rapers and school shooters.

And Qtards too.

16 posted on 08/21/2019 1:43:21 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Kaslin

Ya think?


17 posted on 08/21/2019 1:43:36 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: Kaslin

Why does a ***minor subordinate bureau*** like the FBI get to tell the IG, of it’s superiors, what may or may not be in the report?

Chain of command is President, DOJ, down to FBI. Below them is whale crap.
The IG is supposed to inspect and investigate the DOJ. So why would the SUBORDINATE of the DOJ, get to control what the people investigating the DOJ get to reveal?


18 posted on 08/21/2019 1:43:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: glasseye

The FBI has become America’s Stasi. They, along with the intelligence agencies, are watching everybody and will do whatever their deep state masters order.


19 posted on 08/21/2019 1:46:53 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Kaslin

That little swamp snake Robert Wray? Of course he’ll try to protect the deep state and above all, Barack Hussein Obama. We need to rip rats like Wray out of the there, or suffer the dire consequences of having enemies with great power inside our govt.


20 posted on 08/21/2019 1:47:30 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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