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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Yep we all know that Donald Trump’s Russian name is Vladimir LOL..WOW these people are certifiably INSANE, all because Trump beat their messiah Hillary
Pure sedition. The FBI, opening an investigation on the president? They have zero constitutional Authority to do this. The FBI must be disbanded. It’s a treasonous formation at this point, and does not recognize that it operates under any limits, and does not recognize that it is subordinate to the president.
CNN is reporting this now and we changed the channel.
OFFS! Guess they ain’t got anything better to do?
What we have here, is that the FBI disagreed with Trump on policy issues and launched a coup. They should all be stood in front of a wall and shot by firing squad.
explosive implications ???
The implication, especially because there was no appropriate predicate, such as Trump being caught with suitcases full of Chinese-originating cash, as Gore allegedly was, or that the DOJ/FBI was in possession of a 100% verified Steele dossier that indicated coordination with a foreign entity toward the end of materially affecting a (presidential) election.
Absent that type of predicate, which might reasonably justify a full-on investigation, the situation manifests the fact that the "explosive implication" is that whoever ordered the investigation was laying the foundation of a coup, which has now become full blown, enlisting dozens of complicit political operatives from within the US government to carry out the crimes implicit to that coup.
Trump is the single most vetted man in human history.
Names please.
” became so concerned by the president’s behavior”
As I’m so concerned (or not) with stupid, overblown, bs infused stories peddled by the NYSlime balls?
TOTAL BS! Trump was baiting the HRC Campaign because he knew of the Uranium One.
It was always to stop Republicans and help 0bama.
And Hillary.
Set up from the start by Rosenweasel recommending the president fire Comey, then using it to persecute him!
CYA effort by the evil NYT, covering up the crime of Obama’s FBI as they spied on Donald Trump for months before and after the election.If there were any law men left in this country, most of the top brass of this agency would have been indicted and convicted by now.
The Bureau has become a criminal enterprise.
Same old garbage, half truths and lie spun up again.
Names: McCabe, Cheating on his wife Peter Strozk, his slut, Lisa Page, who was cheating on her husband, Former Assistant Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie who worked for Fusion GPS, where the phony "pissing on the Obamas bed" dossier was made with Hillary campaign money...
So, all these fired and humiliated partisan Agents and Senior FBI officials... ALL the ones who have been outed... {Smirk}
Come to F on NYT, is that it??? Really?
Your story just leaves that ALL out???
It's a red banner on MSN web page as "Breaking News" 21 minutes ago. https://www.msn.com/?redirfallthru=http%3a%2f%2fwww.msnnews.com%2f%3f
Well share with us, so we don't have to give them clicks.
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