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Mueller Removed Top F.B.I. Agent Over Possible Anti-Trump Texts
NY Times ^ | Dec 2, 2017 | MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN

Posted on 12/02/2017 9:17:20 AM PST by rdl6989

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To: rdl6989

Mueller putting on his good guy hat? Could it be he’s trying to reshape his credibility? The man is a DC swamp creature who himself needs to be investigated.


21 posted on 12/02/2017 9:40:54 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Titus-Maximus

We are hearing his BS now because they want to paint a picture of impartiality before mueller commits a completely partial act against The trump administration. Total bullshit. We need to reopen the Hillary investigation and uranium one NOW!


22 posted on 12/02/2017 9:44:52 AM PST by Nicojones
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To: rdl6989

This is long but worth the read as it is comprehensive. Hard to believe that it is only now reaching Media 3 months later.

August 23, 2017
by Scott Creighton

News broke 7 days ago about a key investigator in the Robert Mueller inquiry being suddenly demoted to the Human Resources department of the FBI. The news broke, seemed profoundly interesting and then it disappeared off the radar like it never happened.

Just over a month ago, the Justice Department announced FBI Section Chief Peter Strzok would be joining their investigation into the Trump campaign “collusion” with the Russian’s story. Strzok was a high ranking investigator with a history of being either in charge of or assisting on some very high profile cases:

July 13, 2017 – “Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought on Peter Strzok, a senior FBI official who oversaw the Hillary Clinton email investigation, to help manage his investigation into Russian election meddling, according to two US officials briefed on the matter.

Strzok helped oversee the beginnings of the Russia probe last summer at the FBI.” CNN

So Strzok was not only the lead investigator looking into Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private email server while she was Sec. of State, but he was ALSO helping to head-up the FBI’s investigation into the alleged Trump “collusion” story.
That’s some high-powered investigations at the time, especially when you consider the lengths to which the Obama administration and the Justice Department went through in order to make sure Hillary was ordained in November of 2016.
But then something happened:

Aug. 16 2017 – “One of the FBI‘s top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election, has left Mueller’s team, sources tell ABC News.

The recent departure of the FBI veteran, Peter Strzok, is the first known hitch in a secretive probe that, by all public accounts, is charging full steam ahead…

It’s unclear why Strzok stepped away from Mueller’s team…
As chief of the FBI’s counterespionage section last year, he helped oversee the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was the secretary of state…

Within weeks of the end of the Clinton probe, Strzok found his office facing a new challenge: investigating Russia’s alleged efforts to influence last year’s presidential election…

(He) is now working for the FBI’s human resources division” ABC News

This is a remarkable demotion for someone with so much access to extremely dangerous information. It has been reported that it is very rare for someone so high ranking to be demoted in this way, but it has happened and when it has in the past the point it to keep a subject on the payroll while limiting their access to intelligence.

In short, the neutered Peter Strzok after he was a key player in their efforts to white wash Hillary’s criminal background, while trying their best to fabricate one for her opponent.
Right around the same time seven days ago, this little gem appeared:

Aug. 16 2017 – “The FBI has “reopened” its consideration of a request for records on the infamous 2016 tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, the group behind that request told Fox News” Fox News

Was Strzok struck down because they wanted to avoid the appearance of still more collusion between the Justice Department and the Clinton criminal regime or were they concerned he might leak something in a last ditch effort to protect them?

It’s hard too say but these two events are probably not merely a coincidence.

In order to better understand what has just happened under the radar, you have to go back and take an honest look at the timeline of events that unfolded during what I consider the most corrupt election process this country has ever suffered from. And we are suffering.

Say what you will about Bernie Sanders (and I have said plenty about that corrupt, sheep-dogging, war-supporting, lying piece of crap) the Clinton campaign stole the nomination from him and more importantly, his supporters. That is an UNDENIABLE fact.

Understanding that very simple fact should make it easier for you to digest what I am about to tell you:

The Obama administration, the Obama Department of Justice, the Obama administration’s intelligence services and the intelligence agencies of the 5 Eyes nations colluded together to thwart our democracy starting in Sept of 2015 and they didn’t stop until well after Dec. 19 2016 when the Electorial College voters cast their votes the way their constituents told them to and Donald J. Trump was officially the president elect of this country.

It was not the Russians that tried to undermine our democracy. It was not the Russians who “attacked” us and committed what some call an “act of war” against the people of the United States… it was our own president at the time and the same intelligence agencies who have been running an ongoing operation against Trump’s administration ever since the general election in Nov of 2016.

The story of Peter Strzok is intricately intertwined in this saga and that is probably why the news of his demotion was swept down the memory hole just as quickly as it appeared.
In order to understand the role he played, you have to go back and evaluate the evolution of the insider attack on our election process. Some might not like this effort of mine since they are emotionally and intellectually committed to TrumpHate but if we wish to understand where we are and the danger before us, we have to understand how we got here if for no other reason other than to prevent it from happening again.

If a president is allowed to turn the full power of our intelligence services against his political opponents and nothing is done to prevent said efforts, then there is nothing to prevent the next president from doing the same thing.

So let’s take a look at how President Obama did everything he could to ensure his political benefactors, the Clintons, would assume the office of the presidency upon his completion of his final term in office.

Sept. 2015 – “The attorney general’s request, reported in The New York Times in April, came just before a congressional hearing in September 2015 where Mr. Comey was sure to be asked about the investigation.

“The Clinton campaign, at the time, was using all kind of euphemisms — security review, matters, things like that, for what was going on,” Mr. Comey said on Thursday. “We were getting to a place where the attorney general and I were both going to have to testify and talk publicly about. And I wanted to know, was she going to authorize us to confirm we had an investigation?

“And she said, ‘Yes, but don’t call it that, call it a matter,’” Mr. Comey continued. “And I said, ‘Why would I do that?’ And she said, ‘Just call it a matter.’” New York Times
Very early on in the electorial process, Obama’s Attorney General Lorretta Lynch made it clear that they were going to adapt the John Podesta talking points in terms of any mention of the then ongoing investigation into her use of an illegal server while she was Secretary of State.

At the same time, republicans were trying to dig-up or manufacture dirt on the leading candidate at that time in the Republican Party primary process, Donald Trump. They turned to MI-6 for help in that matter.

Sept 2015 – “In September 2015, a wealthy Republican donor who opposed Trump’s candidacy in the Republican primary hired Fusion GPS, an American research firm, to do opposition research on Trump. For months, Fusion GPS gathered information about Trump, focusing on his business and entertainment activities. When Trump became the presumptive nominee in May 2016, the Republican donor withdrew and the investigation contract was taken over by an unidentified Democratic client.[13][14]

Steele delivered his report as a series of two- or three-page memos, starting in June 2016 and continuing through December. He continued his investigation even after the Democratic client stopped paying for it following Trump’s election.[13]
On his own initiative, Steele decided to also pass the information to British and American intelligence services because he believed the findings were a matter of national security for both countries” Wikipedia

It is important to note, in June of 2016, after searching and finding nothing substantial to implicate Trump colluding with the Russians over Clinton’s criminal use of a private email server, Fusion GPS arranged for a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and some Russia-connected lobbyists in an effort to implicate Trump. The “golden shower” report was quickly debunked and turned out to be mostly useless but still it was picked up by the Democrats in June as they were desperately seeking anything they could find on Trump who by that time was the presumptive nominee.

Right after Lynch instructed the FBI on how they should adapt John Podesta’s talking points on the Clinton “matter”, suddenly British intelligence service GCHQ decided to start assisting in the program to investigate Trump and his campaign staff. They too were looking for anything they could find to implicate the Trump team. Simultaneously, the “Russia hacking/collusion” story would be used to absolve Hillary of her crimes.

December 2015 – “GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.

Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said…
The issue of GCHQ’s role in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into possible cooperation between the Trump campaign and Moscow is highly sensitive. In March Trump tweeted that Barack Obama had illegally “wiretapped” him in Trump Tower.”

The Guardian

For those of you who recall, Judge Nap. went public with this story a while ago and Trump mentioned it himself. When that happened the CIA-owned MSM attacked them both saying it was almost treason to suggest GCHQ would EVER do such a thing. Nap. was fired from Fox and the MSM was beside themselves accusing Trump of being unfit for duty for daring to make such an allegation.

Then the Guardian confirmed the story after GCHQ flatly denied it. It was confirmed. The Brits did aid the Obama administration in their attempt to dig up dirt on Trump. And of course, the story then died like it never happened.

Jan 1 2016 – “The New Year’s Eve release of over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails from the State Department (regarding Clinton’s illegal 2011 invasion and regime change operation in Libya exposes) admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.”

Foreign Policy Journal

As the investigation into Hillary’s email server dragged on, periodically various emails were leaked to the public. The release on Jan. 1 of 2016 was particularly damning in that she was locked up in a tighter race than anyone expected with sheep-dogger Bernie Sanders and the leaks confirmed Hillary’s ulterior motive regarding the illegal invasion and regime change in Libya she admitted she pushed for. It also confirmed she had been using al Qaeda terrorists to help destabilize the country. Same al Qaeda terrorists she took photos with on the tarmack in Libya after her “liberation” project.

Sheep-dogging Bernie Sanders said he was “sick” of hearing about her emails earlier in the campaign which should have made his real roll in the primary process perfectly clear to everyone paying attention.

Around June things started heating up.

June 27, 2016 – “Attorney General Loretta Lynch described her Monday meeting with Bill Clinton aboard a private plane as “primarily social,” but some Democrats are struggling to stomach the optics of the attorney general’s meeting with the former president while his wife is under federal investigation — while others are fiercely defending her integrity.” Politico

A week before Hillary is scheduled to testify to the FBI, her husband met with Obama’s Attorney General for nearly 40 minutes. The news of the meeting was leaked and it looked very bad for the Clintons and Obama.

Peter Strzok was present at Hillary Clinton’s 3 hour testimony about the use of that illegal server and her erasing something like 33,000 emails that belonged to the State Department and the people of the United States who paid for them.

July 2, 2016 – “A former CIA analyst, Laufman joined several other DOJ colleagues and FBI section chief Peter Strzok during Clinton’s three-and-a-half hour interview, notes from the interrogation show.” The Daily Caller

Three days later, James Comey, then Director of the FBI, gave Hillary a pass saying what she did would get anyone else arrested, but since he couldn’t prove “criminal intent”, he would let it go.

July 5, 2016 – “Comey said Clinton’s handling of classified information was “extremely careless” but gave a news conference to announce that the FBI would not be recommending charges against Clinton“

For two weeks the nation understood the scope of the collusion between the Obama administration and the Clinton crime family. Nothing would stick to Slick Willie and even less than nothing would be hung on his corrupt wife no matter what the evidence, no matter what they did.

And the country was talking about it and disgusted by it.
Around the same time-frame, all sorts of news was coming out about Hillary stealing the nomination from Bernie Sanders and in the end he would refuse to allow any investigation into the rigging that made her the nominee and even eventually start campaigning for her, still trying his best to sheep-dog her into the White House.

And then:

July 19, 2016 – “Donald Trump officially became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee on Tuesday after a roll call vote overshadowed by dissent and apathy atypical of what is traditionally a celebration of the party’s White House candidate.” NBC News

Emails from the DNC showed that after Jeb Bush and the “responsible” neocons had all dropped out of the race, the Clinton team WANTED help from the complicit MSM to push a Trump victory. They figured if corrupt Hillary could be anyone, it would be Donald Trump. Now that he was the nominee, the Obama administration kicked off it’s efforts to undermine his candidacy using the full power of America’s intelligence industry.

But someone in that same industry had other ideas.
July 22, 2016 – “WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 DNC emails. It would eventually release more than 44,000 emails and 17,000 attachments, WikiLeaks says on its website.”
Now the 5 Eyes spying program is handed over to Obama’s Department of Justice. They were fishing with the “Russian collusion” story as cover. What they wanted was to find something, anything big enough to nullify Hillary’s LONG history of criminality that was coming out piece by piece with every day that drew us closer to the election.

July 25, 2016 – “Now, nine months since the earliest of those intrusions came to light, the FBI has confirmed that since July (2016), it’s been investigating possible connections between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.” Wired
July 25 2016 – “James Comey, the FBI director at the time, would later testify that the FBI in late July 2016 began investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump campaign associates were involved in those efforts. ” Fact Check
If you recall, when the story broke about the “17 intelligence agencies all agree the Russians hacked the election” it turned out it wasn’t 17 agencies but rather, it was 3. And you might also recall how I wrote about it not really being all of the folks hired by those 3 agencies, but rather, it was about 20 people from them who were “HAND PICKED” to review the “intelligence” and come to that conclusion.

The key here is “HAND PICKED” (and it was James Clapper himself who admitted that before congress)

You can HAND PICK 20 intelligence assets from 3 agencies who will tell you their investigation proves the earth is flat or that their “assessment” of the Kennedy assassination is that he was killed by a Cuban ham sandwich.

And this is a key point because someone else who appears to have been HAND PICKED for these TWO major investigations with history changing implications for the then upcoming presidential election, was Peter Strzok.

Strzok was there in that room to make sure the unnamed agents who conducted the questioning of the future Queen of America didn’t go too far or touch on certain topics. Then, as soon as Obama’s FBI director announced Hillary’s absolution, he was shipped over to oversee the illegal spying program they were running against the Queen’s competition.

It is unclear to this researcher at this time if Peter Strzok was one of the FBI agents who were given access to the laptop Anthony Weiner handed over to the Feds in exchange for keeping his perverted ass out of a state prison for child sex charges. I wrote before that it is PERFECTLY clear that laptop was not Weiner’s but it was in fact the missing BACKUP of Hillary’s server that she and Huma had made when they left the State Department.

My guess is, it was Strzok who was there for the evaluation of that laptop. The same guy who eventually said there was no “there there” to be found in it when Hillary got her second pass right before the election.

So why is Peter Strzok so important to this investigation? Why was he kicked off of Mueller’s team and the current incarnation of the “derail Trump” program?

Without more information, it’s almost impossible too say. Of course, Strzok isn’t talking and the MSM has swept this story under the rug like the Anthrax Attack as soon as we found out it came from the Department of Defense stockpiles and not Iraq.

But his history and his close connection to this entire process of illegal collusion between the previous administration and their preferred political candidate exposes a rot that lies at the heart of our corrupt political process like nothing that I have seen before in my 50 years on this planet.

It’s possible something in the Lynch/Slick Willie meeting investigation is going to turn up with Peter Strzok’s name on it.

It’s also possible that someone in the Mueller team figured Strzok being there after his history of white washing Clinton and spying on Trump wouldn’t pass the smell test once the country’s few remaining real journalists got wind of it.
However you look at it, the story of how certain HAND PICKED assets in our intelligence agencies influenced our election process (or tried to unsuccessfully) is the REAL story of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and in the heart of it is one Peter Strzok.

And the fact that that story disappeared off the radar with the quickness of a Clinton body count bullet should be all you need to know regarding it’s importance.

I do not support Donald Trump’s neoliberal agenda. He has backtracked on every populist promise he made on the campaign trail and surrounded himself with nothing but warmongering generals and Goldman Sachs globalists.

But that said, I also do not support the idea that the Deep State gets to pick and choose the leadership of this country. At least not in such an obtrusive way. Let’s be honest… they’ve done worse in 1963 and 1968 and without a doubt, there was a coup in this country that started in 2000. And they have been involved in more subtle ways over the decades. That’s a fact.

All that said what we have seen over the past two years sends a shiver down my spine in spite of the fact of who it was they were trying to thwart and just how badly they botched it.

If they are not held accountable, they will do it again. And they will learn from this failure.

The DHS is already looking to take control of the entire election system. Taking from the states so one main hub can control the whole thing. That was the main flaw in their program last year.

If you hate Trump and what he stands for, you aren’t protecting the Clintons and the DNC by ignoring the facts of what just happened. You are ensuring Trump will have access to the same levers of power Obama tried to use.

Trump is cowing before the powers that be. He is giving them what they want. Sure, the complicit MSM keep everyone’s eyes off his neoliberal agenda of austerity measures by calling him a racist every time he opens his mouth, but that still serves his interests and at this point, with his glorious generals calling the shots overseas and his republicans about to pass crippling economic measures here at home that will enrich Big Business and the Billionaire Class who rule our country, Trump is not likely to be removed anytime in the future.

And if his fake populist facade holds up for another 3 years, he could easily be ushered in for another term as the next Ronnie Raygun.

And he will have all the power Obama used against him to wield against whomever we chose to oppose him.
You see how that works?

They say truth will set you free and when it comes to this past election cycle, they are absolutely right. Love Trump, hate Trump. It simply doesn’t matter. I love democracy and someone attacked it last year and they weren’t from Russia so we had better come to understand it or it will happen again.

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23 posted on 12/02/2017 9:46:44 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: rdl6989
He helped lead the investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information on her private email account


Ok, that says it all.
24 posted on 12/02/2017 9:46:47 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

My thoughts exactly.


25 posted on 12/02/2017 9:54:55 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: tired&retired


26 posted on 12/02/2017 9:58:21 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Notice the names on this memo..

McCabe

Strozek

Kadzik

Comey

I bet if we check out the remainder of the names we will find more swamp creatures.


27 posted on 12/02/2017 10:01:31 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: rdl6989

According to WaPo the guy engaged in digital pillow talk. So he’s an utter idiot on top of everything else.


28 posted on 12/02/2017 10:05:08 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt (Sehnsucht)
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To: rdl6989
This is a rather old story. Happened this past summer.

From the actual NYT's story:

But Mr. Strzok was reassigned this summer from Mr. Mueller’s investigation to the F.B.I.’s human resources department, where he has been stationed since.

So why is this story being written by the NYT today? They're trying to cover up something.

What?

Finally, I searched for this guy Strzok on the Internet.

He has no--zilch, nada, keine---no presence ANYWHERE on social media or elsewhere. This in itself seems strange for a guy let go for saying too much on SOCIAL MEDIA (who has none)!

29 posted on 12/02/2017 10:05:38 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: tired&retired

Another name on the FBI memo.. Trisha B Anderson

Wedding announcement NYT OCT. 8, 2011

Trisha Beth Anderson and Charles Lawrence Newman were married Saturday at the Clifton Inn in Charlottesville, Va. The Rev. Scott E. Davis, a United Methodist minister, officiated.

The bride, 35, who will keep her name, is a senior counsel to James M. Cole, the deputy attorney general, in Washington. Until July she was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She graduated from Yale and received a law degree from Harvard.

The bridegroom, 33, is a deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council, at the White House. He graduated from Duke and received a law degree from the University of Virginia.


30 posted on 12/02/2017 10:06:05 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

That looks like a shop.

I’ve seen that agent on a TV show or somewhere.


31 posted on 12/02/2017 10:06:13 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: rdl6989

Yup- He is dirty and corrupt. Otherwise he would not have gone along with Comey. It also explains why he hates Trump. He should be fired post hast.


32 posted on 12/02/2017 10:07:02 AM PST by Revel
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To: Fedora

bump


33 posted on 12/02/2017 10:09:34 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Very interesting! There is no logical reason to rerun this story, unless they’re up to no good.


34 posted on 12/02/2017 10:09:49 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: rodguy911

Over here!

Something fishy going on with this guy AND the NYT’s deciding to make him a story on 2 December 2017.

The Internet has been SCRUBBED on him as well.


35 posted on 12/02/2017 10:14:05 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: tired&retired

Thread on Hillary’s interview by the FBI :

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3445798/posts


36 posted on 12/02/2017 10:15:27 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: rdl6989

He should be brought up on disciplinary charges, and also investigated into his role in the Hillary’s email case. He obviously has a problem with being impartial, and unbiased, a violation of the oath they take. He should lose his job.


37 posted on 12/02/2017 10:17:59 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Strzok was apparently hired in July and lasted only into August.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/politics/peter-strzok-special-counsel-russia-fbi/index.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsels-russia-probe-loses-top-fbi-investigator/story?id=49249486


38 posted on 12/02/2017 10:19:20 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: tired&retired
Hard to believe the NY Slimes covered this

Probably means the guy was *really* fired for some other reason.

39 posted on 12/02/2017 10:19:48 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: piasa

btt


40 posted on 12/02/2017 10:24:04 AM PST by Fedora
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