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The Strzok-Page Texts and the Origins of the Trump-Russia Investigation
National Review ^ | May 14, 2018 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 05/15/2018 1:20:14 PM PDT by detective

Peter Strzok and Lisa Page’s texts shine a highly redacted light on how the Trump-Russia investigation began.

It was July 31, 2016. Just days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation of Russian cyber-espionage — hacking attacks — to disrupt the 2016 election. And not random, general disruption; the operating theory was that the Russians were targeting the Democratic party, for the purpose of helping Donald Trump win the presidency.

FBI special agent Peter Strzok was downright giddy that day.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; doj; fbi; strzok; strzoktexts; trump
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"We now know that the investigation began in late July 2016, apparently driven by this concatenation: the hacking of Democratic email accounts; the first reports from the Clinton campaign-sponsored opposition-research compilation that became known as the Steele dossier; and information that a low-level Trump campaign adviser, Papadopoulos, had heard the Russians had thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails. The Strzok-Page texts of this period are eye-opening, combining alarm over the Putin regime’s suspected hand in the hacking and scrutiny of media stories about Trump ties to Russia."

The FBI began early creating the false narrative of Trump Russia collusion. They sent Strzok to London, they used the fraudulent Clinton dossier, the worked with the Clinton State Department and they framed and falsely accused low level Trump volunteer George Papadopoulos.

The marching orders came from higher up but the corruption was everywhere.

1 posted on 05/15/2018 1:20:14 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Not much of a detective, are you?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3655345/posts


2 posted on 05/15/2018 1:22:41 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Based on what’s known now, this could be a based on a true story movie Part I.

Part II is hopefully when everyone involved is taken down or away in handcuffs.


3 posted on 05/15/2018 1:25:13 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: detective

Pretty clear the FBI was completely politicized in favor of the Democrats, at the top.

That is all you really need to do. Replace the top leadership with your partisans who are willing to do your bidding.


4 posted on 05/15/2018 1:36:14 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: detective

Lengthy and complicated but worth reading!


5 posted on 05/15/2018 1:36:20 PM PDT by livius
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To: marktwain

More than that...did you get to the part where they said “the White House is running this”? The Obama WH, of course. This is about as bad as it can get.


6 posted on 05/15/2018 1:38:36 PM PDT by livius
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To: Eddie01

I retired from the organization in 2011 after 32 years’ service. In the three decades I was there I cannot recall ever having met a liberal. The FBI was teeming with rock-ribbed conservatives. Now the place is a marxist outpost.


7 posted on 05/15/2018 1:38:52 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: huckfillary

My take on the agencies was that the CIA was very leftist(progressive) and the FBI was quite conservative.

Without a lifetime Hoover, the federal “secret police”, i.e. the FBI was ripe for being turned into a political tool by the first president with no morals or ethics.

I think it started turning with Bill Clinton.

I would appreciate your opinion.


8 posted on 05/15/2018 1:42:22 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: livius

All roads lead back to the White House.


9 posted on 05/15/2018 1:42:24 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Eddie01

Yes, fine.
But note that homey calls himself a detective yet was unable to detect that the article had been posted previously.

That. That right there.


10 posted on 05/15/2018 1:44:01 PM PDT by humblegunner
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True....good article but read it here about 4 hours ago


11 posted on 05/15/2018 1:58:24 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: detective

Seth Rich died on July 10th.


12 posted on 05/15/2018 2:01:33 PM PDT by jettester (I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
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To: detective

My guess is that this thing was cooked up between Brennan at CIA and Hannigan at GCHQ.

Hannigan had been feeding Brennan anti-Trump gossip since December 2015 from Estonian, German and other sources (perhaps originating in disinfo from Russia).

Strzok was Brennan’s boy at the bureau.

I’d bet Brennan’s name appears under some of the [REDACTED]s in the Strzok/Page texts.

And that both Brennan and Hannigan were well aware of Russophile professor Mifsud’s daily activities through the highly advanced electronic data collection methods revealed by Snowden and others.

Brennan’s meeting in Moscow in March 2016 with the FSB figures into this as well. Everyone knew Hillary was going to win and all the players, from GCHQ to the FSB were looking to create favorable chits with people who were power brokers and would continue to be so under Hillary, such as Brennan.

They looked for opportunities to set up Trump people like naifs Papadop and Carter Page using their circle of intel operatives.


13 posted on 05/15/2018 2:05:16 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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Showing a whole lot of intrigue and CYA by the DOJ


14 posted on 05/15/2018 2:06:59 PM PDT by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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To: marktwain

Thank you for your response. Till the end my career there, the 7th Floor rarely interfered in investigations. Mueller and his predecessors were consistently reliable in supporting the troops in the trenches. If we recommended or requested a specific investigative tactic against a target, it was pretty much a done deal.

I can only speak for my division and my specific area of expertise. During my tenure, every FBI exec (i.e. the 7th Floor), save the Director, started working the streets and worked their way up the food chain. Only the Director was a political appointee, which is hardly the case today, as we’re learning. The current crop of the 7th Floor never worked the streets, never worked surveillance in blizzard-like conditions, never even got dirt under their finger nails. Today, they’re all spit ‘n polished, their hair perfectly coiffed with perfumed hair lotions. Just corrupt, overpaid lackeys.

I cannot speak of the political inclinations of any other intelligence services.


15 posted on 05/15/2018 2:21:13 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: detective

If Trump and company were evil, all these assclowns would be down in Mexico dissolving in 50 gallon drums.


16 posted on 05/15/2018 2:33:41 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I speak hyperbolically)
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To: humblegunner

Properly done, the whole back story to the dossier/FBI/DOJ/Obama White House thing could make a compelling movie.


17 posted on 05/15/2018 2:47:36 PM PDT by lurk
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McCarthy must have a slow news day. That was a lot of work to arrive at the quoted passage for what I determined the first time I scanned the (irretrievable) texts and all the redactions...months ago. (paging Dr. Obvious)

“And if that is the claim, are they telling us that Hillary Clinton was investigated — and given a pass — for the unauthorized transmission of classified information by FBI officials who were themselves actively engaged in the unauthorized transmission of classified information?”


18 posted on 05/15/2018 3:03:48 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: detective; rodguy911; Liz; radu; LUV W; Albion Wilde; left that other site

BREAKING: We’ve Just Learned Why General Flynn Signed A Guilty Plea!

Flynn was muscled and coerced into a plea deal, several sources said.

Flynn plead guilty after Mueller threatened Flynn’s family, including his son Michael Jr. According to sources close to Flynn family, Mueller threatened Flynn on multiple occasions that if he did not plead guilty to lying to the FBI, Mueller would investigate other Flynn family members.

Including his son. And rack up thousands more dollars in legal fees.

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=126735


19 posted on 05/15/2018 3:07:21 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: detective
I see this:

1. Everybody knows that HRC's emails were being read in real time the world over. Ergo the FBI whitewash was a calculated gamble that she would win (she HAD to win).

2. Trump's Russian ties were a genuine danger that info from these emails could be made public during the campaign, which would have been a genuine national security threat, as well as sink the SS Hildebeast AND not unimportantly, a disgrace to the FBI, CIA, etc.

2a. Sidenote: The WikiLeaks emails were DNC emails and not HRC emails because Rich had access to the DNC server but not HRC's secret server.

2b. The Russians were never ever going to share the priceless info from the HRC emails w/ anybody and certainly not the potential next POTUS.

3. The investigation had two goals; (1) prevent the HRC emails from seeing the light of day and (2) derail the Trump campaign before it could challenge HRC.

Summation: The "experts" in the BHO admin were too cute by half; by trying to kill two birds w/ one stone they missed both and the scheme is unraveling right before our eyes.

20 posted on 05/15/2018 3:08:26 PM PDT by Pietro
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