Posted on 01/11/2019 5:34:14 PM PST by springwater13
In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.
The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, took over the inquiry into Mr. Trump when he was appointed, days after F.B.I. officials opened it. That inquiry is part of Mr. Mueller’s broader examination of how Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 election and whether any Trump associates conspired with them. It is unclear whether Mr. Mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter, and some former law enforcement officials outside the investigation have questioned whether agents overstepped in opening it.
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That’s worth repeating!
Recycled. Correct word. Old news. But what else can the Slimes do? Report on the current huge successes Trump is enjoying?
Thank you. I too had to see if this was a year old story. It is actually, but the Slimes added todays date.
Pathetic.
Sedition or treason? Take your pick. Criminals.
Puff Ho is also leading with this old news. Poor press whores. They’ve got nothing to counter the huge successes Trump is enjoying, so they regurgitate old news.
They really are scum suckers.
After the news media pronounced without evidence the Russians hacked the email account, Trump laughingly called out for them to see if they could find the 30,000 subpoenaed emails Hillary deleted.
What the news media has said ever since is that Trump encouraged them to hack the email account.
One is the truth, the other -- a lie, and they KNOW it.
I just hope and pray Barr is a false flag. Someone the Uniparty thinks is another Jeff Sessions, so they vote for approval.
Only to have Barr rip the DOJ and FBI new ones.
You know folks, for all the talk about Star vs Clinton, Star didn’t do much of anything. Mueller is basically putting his nose up the Trump People’s posteriors.
Nobody gives a rats ass that Hillary and Mueller were hip deep in giving Russia access to 25% of our uranium deposist. And nobody cares that she got between $50 and $100 million deposited to her foundation as part of the deal.
Honestly, coupled with Mueller’s use of those corrupt documents to obtain FISA warrants, you don’t have to be a great investigator to know this situation stinks like five day old tuna left out in the Sun.
The article I clicked through to was published today.
And who gets to make the call as to how friendly we should be with Russia? The FBI or the President?
I've been freeping since 2004, and have never seen that claim made here before.
Not doubting you, but do you have a source reference for that?
Ugh. More anonymous sources.
I remember when Trump made that joke. I never dreamed at the time, that Hillary, the DNC, and the Deep State, would run with that as the basis upon which to launch a grand witch hunt against him.
Banana republic cr@p.
Fire the corrupt director of a Federal agency, and his minions start a retaliatory investigation.
We need some hangins.
Shhhhhh!
Don't tell them about the boiled ropes and gibbets we have planned for them!
Well, didn’t the FBI investigate whether Obama was taking orders from Muslims?
Oh, he wasn’t? They didn’t?
It’s recycled, repackaged get-Trump-agitprop. The press is dead. They are just going to clog the media with this stuff until November 2020 & hope it’s enough to eliminate the president.
Half a million dollars from Russians to Clintons for a 20 minute speech.
That’s perfectly okay, right?
Yeah, that line is really sticking in my craw. “So concerned”, these virtuous boy scouts. Why, any red blooded patriot would have done would they did...
We're going to have 300,000 - 600,000 berserk blood-in-the-eye Deplorables on the field for Trump's offensive game against impeachment.
The Lefties can start soiling themselves just about now.
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