Posted on 10/19/2019 7:40:57 AM PDT by janetjanet998
A review launched by Attorney General William Barr into the origins of the Russia investigation has expanded significantly amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis, multiple current and former officials told NBC News.
Durham has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russia’s activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers, according to three former CIA officials familiar with the matter. And there is tension between the CIA and the Justice Department over what classified documents Durham can examine, two people familiar with the matter said.
Good point. I looked at it a little differently. If Powell knew of the existence of these devices and the Mueller prosecutors did not, then that would mean the DOJ is deliberately withholding information from the prosecutors.
Personally, I think the biggest bombshell came in the Mueller report when they admitted that the FBI never examined the DNC server that had allegedly been hacked by the Russians. This was explosive for two reasons:
1. If your job in the special counsel's office was to examine Russian interference in the U.S. election, wouldn't that be one of the most important pieces of evidence in your case?
2. Mueller's team actually prosecuted several Russians for interfering in the 2016 U.S. election and claimed in those filings that the DNC server had been hacked by the Russians. The formal charges filed in a criminal case are sworn statements from the prosecution team. So Mueller's report basically undermined a case that his team had already begun to prosecute.
Item #2 is critical here, because it gives someone like AG Barr all the justification he needs to cut his own prosecutors loose and treat them as potential targets of a criminal investigation.
".... the origins of the Russia investigation has expanded significantly amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis...."
What concerns are those? From who? The democRATS? The AG at the DOJ can investigate whatever he deems important. Trying to say it's questionably legal or factual is ridiculous.
Like I said. We'll be lucky if we ever see the end of this.
We’re a month from the holidays.Next year in an POTUS election. The Deep State has run out the clock. This is all just rearranging chairs in the beltway theater at this point.
The Slomes is also getting scared. Here’s their article of this morning on the same topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787420/posts
SH*T both are stalling and expanding letting time run out and on into the election so that nothing can happen that would be “politically” influencing in the election cycle and then TRUMP gets cheated and then poof...all is for gotten!!!! Seen this movie played out before on everything.
Heard all along the ‘patriots have everything....some BS in the air somewhere all around
Deep state dems and repubs, klinton and all the rats in the ABC govt orgs are safe in pour continuing two tiered justice system. We have NO JUSTICE - our country and it’s laws is a lie for WE THE (small) PEOPLE!
I unfortunately agree...see my post...guess I am a pessimist based on the history of the klinton, nobamas bush I and especially the last 3 years of nothing accomplished in going after the bad *ssholes! I feel TRUMP is trying BUT....
The Slomes is also getting scared. Here’s their article of this morning on the same topic:
I hope he gets done before Warren’s inauguration.
Nice post.
You left out the GOP.
Excellent observations.
I admit to being cynical about Barr’s investigation (because no one is ever held accountable in the DC Swamp) but at the same time I sympathize with him because of the snake pit that he’s been thrust into. It must be a nightmare of epic proportions; he not only has to unravel it all but will probably advise the president on how to clean it up. Its a herculean task for sure. And the corruption has been growing for decades so it can’t be fixed overnight.
But Barr has an historic opportunity to be a modern day Wyatt Earp. I don’t think its an exaggeration to say that the fate of our country depends on his ability and dedication to round up the seditious outlaws in DC. If he fails, the political weaponization of our federal agencies will have effectively been legitimized.
In another thread I noted that according to the NYT “Two former senior F.B.I. agents are assisting with the review”. Any idea who those two are?
You left out the GOP.
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Yep. THEY are the enablers, if not co-conspirators in many cases.
We’re a month from the holidays.Next year in an POTUS election. The Deep State has run out the clock.
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A disturbing, yet insightful, observation.
The Dems are very good at demonizing and branding their opponents, and exceptionally good at clock management. The weak and clueless Republicans will never be their strategic or tactical equals, unfortunately.
Trump is the only one who really fights for us.
“amid concerns”...
These unending investigations are getting tiresome because we all know that nothing has happened so far to put the bad guys away and yet they keep "looking into it".
I have lost any faith in the system to get to the bottom of this conspiratorial coup attempt on the sitting president.
Or maybe Barr is trying to extend it until Trump's reelection so the bad news and bad guys won't be able to disrupt the election in 2020.
After that, he and Trump will have "more flexibility" a la Obama and Putin.
Nothing to do but wait some more.
“controversial”?
1. The phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president took place one day after Mueller's testimony before the House committee.
2. In the transcript of the call, President Trump specifically mentioned the Crowdstrike angle of the 2016 election scandal in addition to "the Bidens" when asking for the Ukrainian president's help.
3. The Crowdstrike reference has gotten zero coverage in the mainstream media -- even to the point that CNN apparently eliminated it entirely in its initial reporting on the transcript.
Prompting some of them to hire lawyers, according to three former CIA officials familiar with the matter.
Sure are a lot of words that mean one word GUILTY.
Lol, the Mueller template. How’d that turn out:-) we will only be allowed 1 win. A 2020 vote for Trump. I personally don’t expect anything else.
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That’s all these investigations are.
The State Department just concluded over 600 violations of law were not evidence of a crime.
They also concluded that nobody actually meant to break the law.
Say what?
Is Barr praying Trump doesn’t get re-elected in 2020, so he won’t have to ever worry about prosecuting anyone?
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NBC is full of shit, and so are their “experts.”
“amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis, multiple current and former officials told NBC News.”
There is a ton of evidence. Documents, texts, phone calls, witness testimony etc.. Of a coup.
Methinks the Deep state, DNC and their lackies in the corporate media are getting scared.
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