WSJ: There's Mounting Evidence of 2016 Election Meddling Coming From the FBI

Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2017 | Matt Vespa

[Kaslin]

There is something rotten at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I mean all of this is just absurd. We have two FBI agents texting one another, one of which is having an extramarital affair with the other, cryptically talking about “insurance” against a Trump presidency. That text between these two agents was delivered on August 15, 2016. You also have Andrew Weissmann, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top lieutenant, voicing praise for then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enact President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which got her fired. Then, there’s another DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, who was demoted for meeting the authors of the infamous and unverified Trump dossier, Fusion GPS; Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for that firm during the 2016 election. If there is nothing rotten at the FBI, then it’s credibility is definitely in question, something that The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board mentioned in their op-ed about this mess. The two FBI agents at the center of the firestorm right now, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are obviously no longer working with Mueller; Strzok was removed in August, while Page’s assignment with the investigation has already ended and she has been transferred elsewhere. Still, from this past summer to now—and we’re just learning about these 10,000 text messages between the two. The Journal makes it clear that there appears to be mounting evidence of election meddling emanating from the bureau:

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Mr. Strzok wrote Ms. Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 text. He added: “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

What “policy” would that be? The “Andy” in question is Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director. FBI officials are allowed to have political opinions, but what kind of action were they discussing that would amount to anti-Trump “insurance”?

In another exchange that month, Ms. Page forwarded a Trump-related article and wrote: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace.” He thanked her and assured: “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way.” Mr. Strzok, recall, is the man who changed the words “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” in James Comey’s July 2016 public exoneration of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The McCabe meeting came on the heels of the FBI’s launch of its counterintelligence probe into Trump-Russia ties. July is also when former British spook Christopher Steele briefed the FBI on his Clinton-financed dossier of salacious allegations against Mr. Trump. The texts explain why Mr. Mueller would remove Mr. Strzok, though a straight shooter wouldn’t typically resist turning those messages over to Congress for as long as Mr. Mueller did.

Meanwhile, we’re learning more about the political motives of Mr. Mueller’s lieutenant, Andrew Weissmann. Judicial Watch last week released an email in which Mr. Weissmann expressed his “awe” and praise for Sally Yates, after the then acting AG and Obama holdover refused to implement Mr. Trump’s travel ban.

This should trouble anyone who cares about the integrity of the Justice Department.

[…]

Public confidence isn’t helped by the continuing Justice and FBI refusal to cooperate with Congress. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who supervises Mr. Mueller, toed the Mueller-FBI line on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee. He repeated FBI Director Christopher Wray’s preposterous excuse that he can’t answer questions because of an Inspector General probe. And he wouldn’t elaborate on the news that Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice official Bruce Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Mr. Steele to gin up his dossier.

The man who should be most disturbed by all this is Mr. Mueller, who wants his evidence and conclusions to be credible with the public. Evidence is building instead that some officials at the FBI—who have worked for him—may have interfered in an American presidential election.

So, again, what’s the insurance policy? Is it the dossier that contains salacious and unverified information about Trump, something that Katie pointed out in her post? Or, as it seems, is it the FBI investigation into Russian interference in July. Did they hope to find actual evidence of collusion to nail Trump if he were to become president? Strzok was an agent with the counter-intelligence wing of the bureau. Whatever the case, it seems that meddling, or at least conversation of such activities, is coming from inside the house, or to be more accurate—inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building and not the Kremlin. Judicial Watch just filed a FOIA lawsuit to obtain all of Peter Strzok’s files relating to his reassignment from the Russia investigation conducted by Robert Mueller. 

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Yeah - well, I'm pretty jaded when it comes to skullduggery. Time and again when I was convinced some windup toy or another was acting on personal beliefs and ideology it would eventually be discovered they were being compensated. Now, if all those characters ARE real believers in some kind of a "new world order" with them holding prominent positions in it, they will always be a danger whether they remain inside the government or busted down to flipping grilled patties at a local burger shack for a living. Those kind will strive and agitate in perpetuity to bring about and get their place in despotic glory. Those are the sort who are the spiritually dead foot soldiers who have administrated the tragic regimes of history. I don't have to name them - we all know which ones.

 

My next question is, which one of that gang of "fixers", "cleaners", "janitors" or whatever you want to call them tied up the loose end of Seth Rich and then made sure a broom handle was jammed through the spokes of the subsequent investigation. They have already demonstrated they were willing to be everywhere to stamp out brushfires and grease the skids for their soon-to-be fuhrer. We may be closing in on exactly how far they went, what all they did in protection of those interests.

 

 

[itsahoot]

When the final story is told, this will prove to be one of the most vile, depraved, deep, conspiracy in world history.

All depends on whether they are successful or not doesn't it?

[itsahoot]

It must be repudiated by men of good conscience...

Which one of those named would that be?

[itsahoot]

Mueller has already wasted $7,000,000 of taxpayer money.

That amount might cover postage but it would not cover 17 lawyers and staff.

[relentlessly]

It’s all about to break. / / / Don’t hold your breath. WSJ op-ed has went against Mueller before and nada. We’ll see.

We have all been waiting - patiently - something big - huge - needs to break our way - soon. For now, it's all talk and no action - Sessions needs to step up.

[SaraJohnson]

The coup involves the DOJ and the FBI. Who is to bring justice? The military.

[MortMan]

Actually, even if only one is married, it is still extramarital.

[Paladin2]

So maybe it’s extraextramaritial or extramaritialmariatial or extramaritialextramaritial.

It sounded like it was his fault only.