A more wrong statement has never been recorded in the history of the internet or even on the earth.
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Posted on 05/20/2020 5:07:08 AM PDT by billorites
Blame-shifting. It is a Washington pastime. It also appears to be the reason why former National Security Adviser Susan Rice wrote her now-infamous memo, documenting an Oval Office meeting at which top Obama administration officials resolved to withhold Russia-related intelligence from the incoming Trump administration.
A key paragraph of Rice’s memo, previously redacted, has now been declassified and made public. Fox News obtained a copy Tuesday from the office of Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., which had sought access to the document.
The memo was written as an email “to the File” as Rice was leaving her office for the last time on Jan. 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated.
It seems that the purpose of the memo was to shift the blame to then-FBI Director James Comey for the withholding of Russia intelligence from the Trump team.
Rice’s objective was to absolve President Barack Obama of any blame for directing that Russia information be concealed from Trump and his incoming national security team, particularly Michael Flynn
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We are left to understand that nothing about withholding Russia intelligence was really resolved at the meeting, and to assume that nothing happened afterward that would have caused President Obama to do anything further.
Translation: If it came to pass that Russia information was withheld from President Trump, National Security Adviser Flynn and the incoming Trump team, blame Comey.
Of course, the palpable reason for concealing Russian intelligence from the new president and his national security team would be to obscure the fact that the Obama administration had monitored the Trump campaign and planned for the investigation to continue even after Trump took power.
That is not something an FBI director could have pulled off on his own. Counterintelligence investigations, after all, are done for the president.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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Obama's Jan. 5, 2017 WH meeting with his various flunkies, including Joe Biden, is being showcased as evidence
of Obama's villainous activities to "get Trump." Obama was paranoid about protecting his "scandal-free" administration.
The shocking details of a criminal president flow from an unusual email to herself in which Susan Rice (to be replaced
by Gen Flynn) revealed significant details about the evil cabal.....all of it written on Trump's inauguration day.
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RICE BEGINS BY EXPOSING THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EVILNESS:
“Pres Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain
if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” Rice emailed herself.
When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.
Obviously their lack of honesty was a serious issue.......but flipping off established protocol had serious ramifications. This was a “justification memo”......outgoing National Security Advisor Susan Rice needed to explain why there have been multiple false and misleading statements given to the incoming President Trump and his officials.
NOTE After-the-fact memos are rarely a good idea....they reveal things the author never intended——as did Susan Rice in her now-infamous email to herself on Trump’s inauguration day.
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BACKSTORY Pres Obama’s maneuver of January 3, 2017-——his signing of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 out of AG Lynch’s office ——is the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State. Obama’s original ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333.”
NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.
But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House. Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive actions.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.
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Suzan skipped down the Yellowbrick Road, along with the mental midgets of the Obama Administraton that notorious day.
Obama’s FBI, DOJ, ODNI, CIA and intelligence officials flipped a finger at protocol....and even worse ....they were intentionally dishonest with incoming President Trump and key members of his new administration. ump and all of his officials.
NOTE WELL This is not a “CYA” memo, this is a justification memo for use AFTER the Trump-Russia collusion/conspiracy narrative collapsed; if the impeachment effort failed.
Her intellectually facile “By-The-Book” reference -refers to both she and then-President Obama being told by CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, that President Trump was the subject of an active counterintelligence investigation to determine if he was under the influence of the Russian government. But they NEVER told candidate Trump about it.
Even the timing of Rice’s Oz-ish memo, written 15 minutes prior to the end of the Obama administration, is ex-post-facto useful as evidence of the author’s intent.......as Suzan stupidly confesses to a host of crimes.What people miss about Susan Rice and her need to write that last memo is her attempt to craft a record of a ‘COUNTER-INTEL’ operation that was ongoing and that Obama had instructed that everything be done ‘by the book’.
What is significant here is that during a counter-intel investigation, it is permissible to lie, or in official terms ‘to disseminate disinformation’.
As long as the Obama spying was characterized as a counter-intel operation, it was legal to have words and actions left in place that might be discovered as untrue.
In other words, Rice’s final memo was an attempt to carve out a last minute get-out-of-jail pass for all those involved in the spying.
Rice likely foresaw that her successor Gen Flynn, and Congressional hearings might uncover false and perjured statements on the part of persons in the spy operation to which the response would be “So what? It was a Counter-Intel operation.”
This is why it was IMPERATIVE for Barr and Durham to investigate the ORIGINS because if the origins revealed no predicate, no basis, no genuine probable cause for launching a counter-intel operation, then Rice’s feeble stay-out-of-jail memo would fall apart.
A more wrong statement has never been recorded in the history of the internet or even on the earth.
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He's also played his bagpipes.
Number one analyst on FR, bar none.
These mopes are lucky to have you and have no idea how valuable you are. Now if they'd only listen.
ol! Race throws Comey under the bus to protect Obama. Must suck to be Comey.
Race? is that a Freudian slip?
“Charging somebody with a lesser and included offense to the detriment of the larger investigation is retarded.”
Really? What’s your evidence that charging him would be a detriment? Seems to me that letting a high level government functionary walk from charges of perjury would be more damaging than charging him and then using those charges for leverage.
“Trust Rosenstein. He’s a Pink Parasol...”
Only in a land inhabited by Qballs could that be seen as detrimental to an ongoing investigation.
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Bagster, I’d like to thank you for your snappy little logo. It makes it so much easier to ignore your posts.
Your post deserves two responses:
1. William Barr spent more than 25 years outside of government as a corporate attorney before he was nominated to the AG post by President Trump.
2. There's a huge difference between "unchecked Executive Power" and "separation of powers under the U.S. Constitution." Read up on Mr. Barr's background on this and notice where he's put his energy.
In order to believe it one would have to believe that a new commitment to accountability will suddenly and miraculously exist in the Swamp. I just cannot see that happening.
Standard prosecutorial techniques apply here.
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Is there such a thing in DC?
Holder was a ‘planner’ who understood how to orchestrate a plan. Mr. Big is the one that ordered the ‘plan’ to be designed and to order its implementation. The plan was designed with the help of Brennan and Clapper, and the Lt. in charge of implementation was Comey. You are right about one thing. The plan is bigger than you know.
She needed to protect Obama, he would be more useful for her ongoing career, Comey goes under the bus as he provides no value to her.
CYA, by definition.
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Barr may have taken Obama off the list for now, but Comey sure as heck better be prosecuted.
Not to worry......Obama’s not off the list.
Barr does things now ......that become clearer later.
Yates said under oath that Rice was not present for that part of the meeting. Only she and Comey.
So, care to venture a guess who suggested and dictated the blame absolving contents of the memo ? BO.
Who writes a memo in the last hours of the job about something that took place 10 days before?
The old standby GOP trick. Talk fire and brimestone to all the select, targeted talk shows and then... do absolutely nothing. Drag this out for months or years and let it all vanish as a vapor claiming it’s time to move on.
Trey Gowdy, Lindsey Graham and others mastered this “one simple trick”.
Over and over.
If AG Barr wants to get serious, I suggest he look into money laundering. More specifically, he should look into the lucrative deals given to Obama and members of his administration by Netflix and the lucrative book fees paid to Democrats by publishers that recoup only a few cents on dollars paid in book fees. The last time I looked, sustaining large losses for political favor was not a goal of capitalism and I would suspect there are more than a few unhappy investors.
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