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Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report
thehill.com ^ | 5/24/17 | Katie Bo Williams

Posted on 05/25/2017 6:11:55 AM PDT by ColdOne

Former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial decision to detail the FBI’s findings in the Hillary Clinton email case without Justice Department input was influenced by a dubious Russian document that the FBI now considers to be bad intelligence, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The secret document, which purported to be a piece of Russian intelligence, claimed that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information would go nowhere.

But according to people familiar with the matter, by August the FBI had come to believe the document was unreliable — and in fact may have been planted as a fake to confuse the FBI.

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


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To: ColdOne
It seems to me that if you don't investigate where your information comes from and vet it to be the truth, then your backing yourself in a corner because at some point in the future it will be shown as ‘false’...

So Lynch, Comey and Clinton and crew thought they had the ‘real deal’ only to find out that it's a piece of garbage that wasn't real to begin with, and since Trump had nothing to do with any of it, they don't have the backbone to come out and say that they relied on a ‘piece of crap’ and they LIED this whole time...

They not only should be charged with treason, but they owe the American People and President Trump a huge apology...and then they should be tried and convicted and sent to prison for the stupidity of their deeds...

21 posted on 05/25/2017 6:40:41 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau
It's nuts! If Comey finds the document credible, then he thinks Lynch is going to throw the Clinton private server investigation. Well by golly, he can't let her have all the fun, so he throws the investigation for her!

Supposedly, this vindicates Comey. It justifies him doing all the things the Rosenstein letter says he should not have done. Incredible. If you get news your boss is going to obstruct justice, then that justifies jumping in and obstructing justice so your boss doesn't have to.

If he doesn't find the document credible, then it and the news reports are immaterial. All breathless over another piece of made up trash/fake report sort of stuff any consumer of information finds and discards.

22 posted on 05/25/2017 6:42:15 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: ColdOne

Comey and the Russians also tried to take down Trump via the so-called ‘Trump Dossier

While the dossier was compiled by a Brit, the sources were Russian and the fake information in it was designed to take down Trump.

So Comey and the Russians also interfered in the 2016 by using fake information to take down Trump!


23 posted on 05/25/2017 6:47:12 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: ColdOne

The real question is why our law officers are relying on foreign intel and not having it backed up by US intel. This has been used to bypass our laws and had gotten dangerous.


24 posted on 05/25/2017 6:48:31 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: ColdOne

US better realize quickly that George Soros and his organizations are creating fake news and fast news to over-rule legitimate communications and government authorities.


25 posted on 05/25/2017 6:51:20 AM PDT by Rapscallion (The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, not Sharia, not Congress not the President.)
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To: Steely Tom

You are wrong!
George Soros and his organizations are lurking and sending out fake news to make everybody commit errors.


26 posted on 05/25/2017 6:54:08 AM PDT by Rapscallion (The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, not Sharia, not Congress not the President.)
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To: ColdOne

satire


27 posted on 05/25/2017 6:56:31 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

at some point they also fell for the dossier before they didn’t.

It’s also came out that our intel community can hack and make things look like the Russians or anybody else did it.

Since nobody was talking to each other until shortly before obama left, is it possible that the one itel agency hacked, made it look like the russians, and another of our other itel agencies fell for it ?

Cripes...it sound like an old dick van dyke show skit.

There is a truth somewhere, with someone...


28 posted on 05/25/2017 6:58:14 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: ColdOne

If my nic were Keystone Coney, I wouldn’t advertise it to the world. This story makes him sound like Inspector Cluseau.


29 posted on 05/25/2017 6:59:14 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: ColdOne

So, the reasons laid out in the Rod Rubensten memo do have something to do with Russia....


30 posted on 05/25/2017 7:04:05 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: HarleyLady27
they don't have the backbone to come out and say that they relied on a ‘piece of crap’ and they LIED this whole time...

After this past week of success for Mr. Trump on his overseas trip, the more I look at what is happening back in the USA, it is fully explained as a spiritual battle.

Evil forces within the hearts of men and women are in collusion with the wicked one to thwart the plan of Almighty God to bring His answer to the prayers of millions of faithful that have called out for His Healing of our land.

31 posted on 05/25/2017 7:04:31 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Pass the Ketchup)
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To: ColdOne
The Russians hacked the Comey investigation too? As powerful as they are, it's hard to imagine how Russian communists lost the Cold War.

Or did they?

32 posted on 05/25/2017 7:04:36 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ColdOne

This would have been unwise of Comey to have acted without checking it out.


33 posted on 05/25/2017 7:05:16 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Dustoff45

A washing in blood, not the blood of people but of the Lamb, is needed.

What did we expect sinners to be full of? Surely it wasn’t sin! (Irony)


34 posted on 05/25/2017 7:07:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Cboldt
Supposedly, this vindicates Comey. It justifies him doing all the things the Rosenstein letter says he should not have done. Incredible. If you get news your boss is going to obstruct justice, then that justifies jumping in and obstructing justice so your boss doesn't have to.

It vindicates Comey under the "I was too stupid to know what I was doing" doctrine that has worked so well for Hillary, Sandy Berger, and other Democrats.

35 posted on 05/25/2017 7:07:29 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Dustoff45

Deep State is like the Alien impregnation organism; it strangles you if you try to remove it.


36 posted on 05/25/2017 7:08:38 AM PDT by txhurl (Time to blow the Queen and King off the board, DJT, and by your birthday, or on it!)
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To: Steely Tom

The political and spiritual forces upon Comey were incredibly powerful.

It was probably best that he stumbled in this fashion if he had to stumble. At least it is what some of the older humanists would have called “a cry for help.” One doesn’t just act like that unless one is being leaned upon a la the old USSR.


37 posted on 05/25/2017 7:09:26 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Steely Tom
-- It vindicates Comey under the "I was too stupid to know what I was doing" doctrine ... --

Sometimes cast as "absence of intent."

Even by that standard, this story is particularly incoherent.

38 posted on 05/25/2017 7:10:51 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Sacajaweau

this is to cover for Comey letting Clinton off the hook, and to make his decision to act as Attorney General in his July press conference. “THE RUSSIANS FOOLED US TOO!!..THATS WHY I DID WHAT I DID !!!”...he laying this out there, knowing hes going to be attacked. This is unreal..really is.


39 posted on 05/25/2017 7:10:55 AM PDT by basalt
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To: ColdOne

When all is said and done, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was correct. The investigation into Hillary’s proven misdeeds has gone nowhere.


40 posted on 05/25/2017 7:11:45 AM PDT by monocle
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