Posted on 01/07/2025 5:28:49 AM PST by MtnClimber
As Donald Trump re-enters the White House on a pledge to end national security state overreach, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still hiding critical details on the Russia conspiracy investigation that engulfed his first term.
In response to a Freedom of Information request filed by RealClearInvestigations in August 2022, the FBI on Dec. 31, more than two years later, released a heavily redacted copy of the document that opened an explosive and unprecedented counterintelligence probe of the sitting president as an agent of the Russian government.
The Electronic Communication, dated May 16, 2017, claimed to have an “articulable factual basis” to suspect that Trump “wittingly or unwittingly” was illegally acting on behalf of Russia, and accordingly posing “threats to the national security of the United States.” The FBI’s “goal,” it added, was “to determine if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation.” It additionally sought to uncover whether Trump and unnamed “others” obstructed “any associated FBI investigation” – a reference to Crossfire Hurricane, the initial FBI inquiry into the Trump campaign’s suspected cooperation with an alleged Russian interference plot in the 2016 election.
While Crossfire Hurricane, which was formally opened on July 31, 2016, had by that point focused on members of Trump’s orbit, the May 2017 probe was specifically targeted at the president himself during his fourth month in office. The investigation of Trump was undertaken at the behest of then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, one week after Trump had fired his former boss and mentor, James B. Comey.
According to the declassified document, McCabe’s decision was approved by FBI Assistant Director Bill Priestap, who had also signed off on the opening of Crossfire Hurricane; and Jim Baker, the FBI general counsel.
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It is just possible that quite likely, but not necessarily, something may have happened or maybe not depending on which day of the week it is.
Somebody did something somewhere at some time.....................
Precisely!
Hell, no surprise. The &#*^@%*$ FBI has been withholding evidence of hundreds of issues for decades!! No surprises here. Their inventor was a homo and a crook. What do you expect?
The FBI is politicized, incompetent and completely corrupt. It needs to be ripped down to the foundation and rebuilt or abolished.
Well, DJT will at least know very soon.
We can only have confidence in him full transparency.
The Feebs aren’t just covering for our Deep State, are they...
There’s a very good reason why the UK’s Deep State, for one example, is freaking out.
Aaron Mate and Paul Sperry at RCI have done an excellent job over the past few years of reporting on the corruption of the DOJ and FBI in regards to Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the witch hunt against Trump.
You can bet your bippy that the Demoncrats will do everything possible to make sure the Trump Presidency fails, at the expense of the rest of the US. If we brought treason charges against a lot of them engaged in those actions, along with the firing squads traitors deserve, the Republic would be much better off.
The entire FBI works for the Executive. Trump needs to go in there with some Congressmen and Senators and expose and de-classify everything. None of this ‘ongoing investigation’ nonsense.
They all need to be prosecuted. Kash Patel will be taking over soon.
It sickens me how hard the left is building the case that President Trump and his posse are vengeance seeking tyrants so as to blunt any evidence uncovered and revealed.
And so many, some even on our side, just calling for letting bygones be bygones.
There's been no evidence made public to prove the mass murderer was using bump-fire stocks. Crime scene photos appear to show ARs equipped with bump-fire stocks, but the ATF was never allowed to examine them and there's been no evidence released to demonstrate that those weapons were used in the shooting.
Nonetheless, Trump45 issued an UNCONSTITUTIONAL EO unilaterally directing the ATF to ban bump-fire stocks.
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