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.
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but by behaving leisurely, we can now know who all of them are... just the other day, 3000 or so fbi agents signed a letter condemning the flynn decision... or something like that.
Just to add to your great list:
No leakers of significance prosecuted by DOJ. In fact all progress in that area seems to have ground to a halt under Gaspipe Bill’s “watch.”
Why hasn’t Trump criticized Barr and Durham for their inaction as he did with Sessions? It seems Trump replaced one Swamp creature with a Deep Stater.
Trump has critized the Barr DOJ from time to time. Most recently over the Flynn case. Barr got in a huff, threatened to resign supposedly and gave a TV interview to respond publicly.
Trump should have accepted Barr’s resignation. The optics would have been bad, but the MSM would attack Trump even if he promoted a cure for COVID-19. Wait, they have done that already!
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