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White House declassifies info on secret FBI probe into whether Trump fired Comey at Russia's behest, official says
CBS News ^ | 08/05/2026 | Jennifer Jacobs, Kristin Brown

Posted on 08/05/2026 12:12:49 PM PDT by DFG

The White House on Wednesday released declassified information saying the FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was acting as an asset for Russia when he fired FBI Director James Comey, a theory an administration official said was not backed up by evidence.

The official said the investigation, known as Oxferd Comma, was a subcomponent of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI probe into potential collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government — an investigation that has long drawn Mr. Trump's ire. The predicate of Oxferd Comma was the newly elected president's decision to fire Comey in 2017.

The case was marked sensitive, which is generally done to keep a case off the books from other agents, the official said. The agents who opened the case said they believe it was going to be the least intrusive method to address a serious national security risk.

Oxferd Comma was eventually rolled into Special Counsel Robert Mueller's larger probe into Mr. Trump, the official said, and was later found not to have any merit when the rest of the Mueller investigation was closed down.

"I was unaware that the predicate for the obstruction included a claim that Donald Trump was somehow acting on behalf of Vladimir Putin," the official said. "The short of it is, almost everything in the FBI's possession at that point had debunked or ruled out that Trump or his campaign was colluding with Russia at that time."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comey; fbi; oxferdcomma; russia

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1 posted on 08/05/2026 12:12:49 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

What an unbelievable waste.


2 posted on 08/05/2026 12:14:00 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA "by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DFG

Comey was already fired. So when all these articles say “The FBI opened an investigation” - who exactly was it opening these investigations?


3 posted on 08/05/2026 12:18:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: DFG

If they haven’t been fired already these FBI traitors, who opened up this joke of an investigation, need to go.


4 posted on 08/05/2026 12:18:31 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: DFG

CBS aka Continuous Bull Shit


5 posted on 08/05/2026 12:20:37 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: DFG

This actually suggests that there was a substantial number of bureaucrats at the FIB who believed their own BS.


6 posted on 08/05/2026 12:27:40 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DFG

Priming the pump for impeachment 3


7 posted on 08/05/2026 12:38:32 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DFG

What kind of bullsh*t is this?


8 posted on 08/05/2026 1:06:54 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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To: DFG

They didn’t just deliberately misspell Oxford as Oxferd, they substituted in a zero ( 0 ) for an “o” so that it’s not Comma, it’s C0mma.

Totally designed to foil FOIA requests.


9 posted on 08/05/2026 3:06:11 PM PDT by CFW
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