Kimberley Strassel finds one line buried in IG report ‘that is central to everything’ and must be answered

Twitchy ^ | 12-12-19 | Brett T

[MNJohnnie]

We learned a lot about the inspector general’s report as its author testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. For example, we learned that not even Michael Horowitz could say the FISA warrant against Carter Page and its three renewals actually turned up important information, and yet it just kept getting renewed.

Of course, most of the attention is being directed toward the infamous Steele dossier and what role that bit of opposition research played in securing that FISA warrant, but the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel has found one line buried in the document dealing with the timeline, and she says it brings up a question that must be answered: who knew what in the spring of 2016.

Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel 1) Buried in the IG report is a line that poses an enormous question, one that is central to everything, and really must be answered. Remember: According to all relevant players, prior to July of 2016, nobody had a Trump-Russia collusion narrative on their minds. ...(cont)

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Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel Replying to @KimStrassel 2)Indeed, the FBI says it was only the Downer tip-off at end-July that spurred the investigation. Downer for his part says it was public revelation in July of the DNC hack that caused him to finally wonder about collusion and connect his spring conversation with Papadopoulos.

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Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel Replying to @KimStrassel 3)Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson, meanwhile, in Senate testimony, "stress[ed]" he hired Steele in May to look at Trump's "business activities" in Russia....By Simpson's telling (under penalty of perjury), Steele just sort of stumbled on this much "broader" "political conspiracy."

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Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel Replying to @KimStrassel 4) But here is what Steele told the IG: That in May 2016, Simpson approached Steele to "assist in determining Russia's actions related to the 2016 election"; "whether Russia was trying to achieve a particular election outcome"; and...

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Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel Replying to @KimStrassel 5)"whether there were any ties between the Russian government and Trump and his campaign." (Page 93) Seems Simpson had a pretty good bead on the "narrative" long before the govt. claims to have had it and before even his own source had reported it to him. Huh.

[MNJohnnie]

People who observe politics notice a strange correlation between the fake Russian Collusion narrative and the WikileaKs exposure of DNC corruption in the 2016 election. The "Russian Collusion" narrative magically appeared immediately after the DNC corruption expose to driver it out of the "news".

The evidence is starting to emerge that this was a deliberately manufactured Democrat Fascist Party PR move to deflect and distract attention off the corrupt in the Clinton campaign and the Democrat party.

They knew they could rely on their mindless toadies in the Fake News to carry the tune for them as long as they gave them a fake story to chase.

[ClearCase_guy]

Seth Rich was unavailable for comment.

[Hojczyk]

They all were getting kick backs from the Ukraine..,that is why Graham will not do much..

[Paladin2]

How is the IC IG doing with his investigation ?

[ptsal]

The IRS audit team should be having a field day. /s

[janetjanet998]

reminder: Simpson refused to talk to the IG

[Sgt_Schultze]

The media will not inquire about the obvious . . . . when did obama order this op?

[bigbob]

Barr and Durham know everything Horowitz knew because they read his report. But they know much more.

And the immediate prepared-in-advance statements from both took issue with the predication and other conclusions reached by Horowitz with his limited access to information.

Even Ray Charles could read these tea leaves.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Has Steele provided any testimony under oath?

[ptsal]

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How is the IC IG doing with his investigation ?

According to some reports, the IC IG has rented a fleet of backhoes. He appears to be digging more holes but not finding any nuggets that he can report.

[Alas Babylon!]

Glen Simpson.

The hired gun of Hillary, the Root of All Evil.

[stylin19a]

Kimberley Strassel ✔ @KimStrassel Replying to @KimStrassel 2)Indeed, the FBI says it was only the Downer tip-off at end-July that spurred the investigation. Downer for his part says it was public revelation in July of the DNC hack that caused him to finally wonder about collusion and connect his spring conversation with Papadopoulos.

Not quite\probably not the only tipoff.

From the IG report: pdf page 110, report page 77

"McCabe's notes from a morning meeting with Corney and others in late July 2016 reflect that McCabe learned from Corney during the meeting that another U.S.government agency had briefed President Obama on intelligence that agency had suggesting that a RIS( my note: Russian Intelligence Services) was engaged in covert actions to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of Trump.

Read that carefully...there is no date as to when "another U.S.government agency had briefed President Obama on intelligence that agency had suggesting that a RIS( my note: Russian Intelligence Services) was engaged in covert actions to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of Trump."
Had to be before the end of July 2016 ?

And Corney(The FBI) knew about it.

then there is this:

McCabe told us he did not attend this WhiteHouse briefing; however, based on his notes, he said he did not believe the FFG information would have been discussed during this meeting, and our review of his notes did not indicate otherwise. According to McCabe's notes of what he had been told by Corney, President Obama stated that the FBI should think about doing "defensive briefs."

defensive briefs are exactly what occurred.

There are not many references to President Obama in the IG report.

Based on this, it begs the question: "what did Pres. Obama know and when did he know it"?

[blam]

"The IRS audit team should be having a field day. /s"

Lois Lerner proved that the IRS is owned by the Democrats.
(as is true with most of government)

[shelterguy]

“””””””reminder: Simpson refused to talk to the IG”””””””””

Horowitz said something like Comey did not renew his security clearance so they could not talk to him, either.

[Pollard]

Can't be best buds with No Name and not get dirty.

[qaz123]

Absolutely sickening that these people have such little regard for a life to protect their political aspirations and the source of their corruption and wealth.

[griswold3]

How many campaigns were they spying on?

We need a huge time line to corelate all these facts!

[Brilliant]

Also the report states that the government was using confidential human sources to interact with both Papadopolous and Carter Page BEFORE they joined the Trump campaign. So that suggests the CIA or FBI had something to do with getting them into the Trump campaign.

[qaz123]

And I’m betting that the President knows even more than any of them. While these corrupt SOBs have tainted all the agencies they were associated with, beyond repair in my opinion, I like to believe that there are plenty in each that are patriots, support the President and the people that elected him, and most of all, love this country and hate seeing what is being done to it.

Enter Adm Rogers. I’m sure he ain’t the only one with access to info. And I’m confident that that info is getting to the President.

As I’ve said, more than once, it was NYPD that found all the information on Weiner’s computer. It was turned over to the FBI, after NYPD contacted them. Amazing we haven’t heard much about that, but I’m betting that some copies of whatever was on there has made its way to the White House.

[janetjanet998]

Horowitz said something like Comey did not renew his security clearance so they could not talk to him, either.

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He said that he couldn’t talk to him on important matters to “refresh his memory”..I don’t really understand that since its is info he already knew....