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AG Barr expands mysterious review into origin of Russia investigation
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Posted on 10/19/2019 5:00:23 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

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.

The prosecutor conducting the review, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, has expressed his intent to interview a number of current and former intelligence officials involved in examining Russia’s effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, Brennan 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.

With Barr’s approval, Durham has expanded his staff and the timeframe under scrutiny, according to a law enforcement official directly familiar with the matter.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
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To: Bigtigermike
Note a quote from one of the authors of this deflective article that I found on another thread:

One hopes that such liberal activists as NBC News' Ken Dilanian, who wonders "how much longer the American majority will tolerate being pushed around by a rural minority,"...

One wonders how long the American people will tolerate being fed bull crap by a small-minded media.

41 posted on 10/19/2019 5:47:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: DarthVader

“Mysterious review”


42 posted on 10/19/2019 5:48:38 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Bigtigermike

Nervous about what exactly? Whatever truth is uncovered will not be reported as such. And contrary to the delusional many who reside on this forum, no one important in the deep state or left is ever going to get punished under our criminal system.


43 posted on 10/19/2019 5:50:01 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: grumpygresh

Try studying the tactics of Sipio Africanus!


44 posted on 10/19/2019 5:50:50 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: piasa

THANK GOD the rural minority has the common sense and values that the coast on both sides doesn’t have!!! THANK YOU to rural America YOU are saving this country!!!!


45 posted on 10/19/2019 5:51:21 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: gibsonguy

Closing the “loop”!!


46 posted on 10/19/2019 5:56:16 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: piasa

Oh, rught!
I should really really trust the Congressional Intelligence Committee, headed by its Dear Leader, Adam Schitt!


47 posted on 10/19/2019 6:11:32 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Stardate 2592.11

The Attorney general of the United Federation of States told the media today, that he is going to start checking into the soles of the shoes a public figure named Hillary Clinton wore five hundred and seventy-nine years ago while serving in the Obama White House.

Followers of the Clinton investigations are hopeful they are winding down, and indictments might be forthcoming in the next 50-75 years.

“Justice will be served!”, the AG was quoted as saying today.

Some folks were heard saying, “It’s about time!”, today, but the vast majority said they aren’t holding their breath.


48 posted on 10/19/2019 6:11:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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To: Arkansas Tider

Yep!!! And I’m sooooooo tired of it! Can’t even trust NBC. Can we even really trust BARR???? Will he ever come home through???? What’s taking so long ????)!!!!!!


49 posted on 10/19/2019 6:18:24 PM PDT by CAGOPgramma (In God we still trust!!)
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To: DarthVader

We’ll have to do more than letting the elephants through the line. Look to the strategy of Cato. Carthago Delenda est. Carthage was not destroyed after the 2nd Punic war and even managed to pay off reparations.

Who is the enemy ? The leftists ? Wrong. The entire out of control overblown police state federal government apparatus. If the coup is broken, we need to make sure it doesn’t come back. Dismantle the police state and overblown federal agencies.

Otherwise the leftists will be back with another coup.


50 posted on 10/19/2019 6:19:06 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He must never investigate Democrats.

Besides they never ever intend to do anything wrong.

Negative thinkers are always right......... or pleasantly surprised.

51 posted on 10/19/2019 6:20:35 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Of course we need to know how this originated. It is a coup and it will be exposed. Trump is shaking up an old corrupt world order.


52 posted on 10/19/2019 6:21:16 PM PDT by Demanwideplan
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To: grumpygresh

You are obtuse in your thinking. The tactic was not letting literally letting elephants go through the line. It is different think some more. There is a strategy behind it. The entire system is not out of wack. There are factions at war with one another. One good and the other bad. Bad is about to die out.


53 posted on 10/19/2019 6:23:44 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: All

I’m betting on the team that gets away with crime, while blaming others for what they themselves do.


54 posted on 10/19/2019 6:32:23 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Bigtigermike
amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis

It is amazing how the press just lies like this without any shame.

Chuck Todd on Meet the Press the other week shouted down Senator Ron Johnson's mentions of the texts and e-mails as a "Fox News conspiracy" as though they didn't actually exist.

55 posted on 10/19/2019 6:34:51 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: onyx
“I’m comfortable with everything I was involved in,” Brennan said.

doesn't matter if it was illegal, i'm comfortable with it.

56 posted on 10/19/2019 6:36:11 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Didn’t want to read the whole article because I KNOW they will have to do the obligatory insults to President Trump.

Some are getting lawyers. So the CIA and DOJ are fighting each other about (wink wink) classified information.

Am I wrong about the President is the final word on what is “classified” and not classified. Who the he!! does the CIA think they are. Oh I know, that questionable Gina is heading up the CIA and will do anything she can to stop Brennan from harm


57 posted on 10/19/2019 6:39:06 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: DarthVader

Time will tell...but for some reason multiple outlets that wouldn’t even report this investigation exists are now suddenly reporting it as though this investigation was “discovered” by internal sources - even though Barr has repeatedly spoken about it publicly and even testified about the investigation starting to a Senate committee a long time ago - not to mention entire books being written about the subject and reports in multiple publications such as The Hill.

The media is concerned it is possible something may be found, so they are setting the seeds to report that any negative findings will be false - and probably go as far as to say it is another example of an out of control President, now taking political prisoners like a third world dictator - and all the more reason he must be impeached and removed from office to save the Republic.


58 posted on 10/19/2019 6:43:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

This is war and the counter offensive has begun. It is in its early stages and it will grow with ferocity and intensity. The media is nothing more than a bunch of frustrated propagandists like Baghdad Bob.


59 posted on 10/19/2019 6:49:40 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting NBC changed headline to mysterious from “cotroversial”


AG Barr expands controversial review into origin of Russia investigation

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787407/posts


60 posted on 10/19/2019 7:13:32 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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