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Top House Republican: ‘We are Going After’ FBI & Clinton for Spying on Trump Based on ‘Explosive’ Durham Memo
https://beckernews.com ^ | February 17, 2022 | by Kyle Becker

Posted on 02/17/2022 11:39:54 AM PST by Red Badger

House Intel Committee Member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-OH) appeared on Fox News to address the Durham findings that the Clinton campaign’s lawyer Michael Sussmann had paid a tech firm to effectively ‘spy’ on the Trump campaign and while Donald Trump was in the White House.

“This is basically Special Counsel Durham sending a memo to Michael Sussmann saying he’s not being well served by his lawyers,” Rogers said. “The pleading sets out allegations, evidence that they intend to admit into court that relate to third parties.”

“People besides Michael Sussmann himself, of which, though, he would be caught up,” he went on. “The pleading basically says you’re not being well served by your lawyers, you should be cooperating, and your lawyers have the interest of others, third parties that don’t affect you.”

“We’re going to be going after them also,” Rogers added. “And that’s where we get these explosive allegations of the spying against the Trump administration, this Trump campaign, a number of criminal activities that are alleged. Certainly I think Michael Sussmann needs to read this again and pay very close to what Durham is saying about his own counsel and certainly look to his best interest, which probably is to cooperate.”

“Congressman Andy McCarthy, over at National Review, he’s a former prosecutor, has written that ‘this could turn out to be the same as the Mueller investigation — where there’s a lot of smoke, but there’s no actual fire where you get people indicted and arrested,” Fox News host Dana Perino said. “The possibility exists that the real scandal here is in all the stuff that’s legal, but goes right up to the line of being illegal. Do you see that as a possibility in the Durham investigation?”

“Well, we’ll have to see,:” Congressman Rogers replied. “We don’t know what evidence that he has or what he’s going to actually introduce into court. This pleading is about what he intends to introduce, but there are really four explosive of allegations here, right?”

“There’s the Clinton administration, this Clinton campaign spying on the Trump campaign. And there’s the Clinton campaign perhaps continuing that spying into the Trump administration itself. And the other two are the attempts by the Clinton campaign and others to coopt government, the Department of Justice, the FBI. And then the fourth is those actions that actually happened. Those things that we know where the FBI lied basically to the FSA court and where there were investigations that were undertaken into Trump himself and the Trump campaign. All of which that were bogus — based upon opposition research from the Clinton campaign that proved false.”

“This is not only just scandalous, this should never happen again,” Rogers continued. “And I definitely agree with Devin Nunes (R-CA), there’s a number of areas where we need to change the laws. One of which is never allow the FBI to enter into a FISA court. Again, opposition research that they’ve gotten from a political campaign.”

“It shows that this really was part of the Clinton campaign, part of the Democratic Party campaign to smear Donald Trump and certainly thwarted the first years of his presidency,” he added. “And that’s why, of course they’re not reporting on it. Because they were in on it from the beginning, they were reporting things that were not true with no evidence, certainly diminishing the ability the Trump administration to do its work.”

The discussion then turned to the matter of accountability.

“There’s a number of people who need to be held accountable and in both the FBI and the Department of Justice who knew what they were doing and were complicit in this hoax and in thwarting, the Trump administration as the president was being sworn in,” Rogers added.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintoncrimefamily; softcoup
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1 posted on 02/17/2022 11:39:54 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.


2 posted on 02/17/2022 11:42:05 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Red Badger

I’ll believe that only when I see it.


3 posted on 02/17/2022 11:44:16 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah right!


4 posted on 02/17/2022 11:44:18 AM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Red Badger

Would this be the biannual promises of bold action by the assistant Democrats?


5 posted on 02/17/2022 11:44:23 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Red Badger

Great. I can’t wait. Two years of hearings and strongly-worded letters, then nothing.

No one is going to jail.


6 posted on 02/17/2022 11:45:04 AM PST by wny ( )
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To: Red Badger

Going after them in the chow line maybe


7 posted on 02/17/2022 11:45:26 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Red Badger

We’ll see.


8 posted on 02/17/2022 11:45:30 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Red Badger

Just more fundraising soundbites from House Republicans.


9 posted on 02/17/2022 11:45:50 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: Red Badger

If all that happens is the disgrace of Hillary and the death of her political career, I’ll be satisfied.


10 posted on 02/17/2022 11:46:29 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Schiff and Jake Sullivan were all over the media bragging about this spying in 2017. Who was in control of Congress in 2017? The GOP. Who made made exactly zero effort to uncover the facts of this case then? The GOP. Past is prologue as they say.


11 posted on 02/17/2022 11:46:54 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Red Badger

Sussman can get out of jail free if he comes up with evidence tying Hillary to this.


12 posted on 02/17/2022 11:46:55 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Harrumph!


13 posted on 02/17/2022 11:47:20 AM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: Red Badger

100% you are NOT.

Theater for the masses. Please re-elect me. I promise to do better the next time. I really mean it this time. I really, really do. I promise


14 posted on 02/17/2022 11:47:58 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Red Badger

Has this guy taken over making promises for Lindsey Graham??


15 posted on 02/17/2022 11:48:17 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: wny

I wonder if he’s going to partner up with Linda Graham and they’ll both get to the bottom of all of it. Subpoena’s for everyone.


16 posted on 02/17/2022 11:48:41 AM PST by qaz123
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To: thefactor

The RNC is pummeling me with their crappy polls and wanting money, sending the garbage to my phone.


17 posted on 02/17/2022 11:49:01 AM PST by Luke21
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To: 1Old Pro

He will probably get out of jail anyway. We see what that judge in New York did this last week with Sarah Palin’s case; he just decided to dismiss it; case closed. That’s how these Dems operate. And they get away with it all the time.


18 posted on 02/17/2022 11:49:56 AM PST by Joann37
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To: wny

Oh no, my Friends, we’ll get a nice, shiny new REPORT. 🙄🥱😴


19 posted on 02/17/2022 11:50:41 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: Red Badger

Yeah. Blah blah blah.


20 posted on 02/17/2022 11:50:54 AM PST by Enterprise
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