What if the FBI Had Probed Obama?

wsj opinion ^ | 1/23/2019 | Lee Smith

[Fido969]

He would have liked it.

[GOPJ]

Who watches the watchers?

A commission needs to be set up to watch the FBI... A Civilian Review Board... the FBI's a tool of white liberal elites. They've become a disgusting secret thug army for white liberal corrupt 'elites'...

If we could they should be disbanded - and replaced with a law enforcement group designed to protect citizens NOT to protect corrupt 'elites'...

[Liz]

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F/L Michele, her mother and daughters in the Moroccan palace.

Look at that smile----Obama gave her $100 million tax dollars "to teach Muslim girls."

AND GET THIS: The $100 mill is to be held by the Chicago-based Obama Foundation, to be doled out when necessary (cue laugh machine here).

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NOTE WELL: The $100 million in Obama' hot Halfrican hands came out of the Millenium Challenge Fund at the State Dept----Hillary's fave slush fund.

ACTION NOW: Demand the books be opened-----taxpayers demand to know where the Millenium funds are going.

Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121

U.S. Department of Justice Comment Line: 202-353-1555 Switchboard: 202-514-2000

To report tax-free non-profit crimes: EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov

To report fraudulent fund-raising:
FBI tip line web site----https://www.fbi.gov/tips

[morphing libertarian]

Obama should have been impeached for using the IRS to stifle his political opponents and for letting the ambassador and 3 others die in Benghazi and for letting Holder sell weapons to Mexican drug cartels. All easily impeachable offenses. The IRS thing was far worse then anything Nixon did.

[bitt]

What if the FBI Had Probed Obama?

LEE SMITH JANUARY 23, 2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly opened a counterintelligence investigation in 2017 to find out if President Trump was a Russian agent. What if the FBI had similarly looked into whether President Obama was an agent of Iran?

Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz and reportedly led back-channel talks with the Iranians in 2012. Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter quashed right-wing rumors that her Iranian-American husband’s best man was the son of Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. But under the FBI’s Trump procedures, that denial might have made her suspect. A month after Trump adviser Carter Page publicly asked then-Director James Comey for an interview to clear his name, the FBI obtained a warrant to wiretap him.

As Mr. Trump’s desire for improved relations with Russia raised eyebrows at the bureau, a 2008 article written by John Brennan—who went on to serve as White House counterterrorism adviser and Central Intelligence Agency director—advocated a grand bargain with Iran. In 2009 the Obama White House conducted secret negotiations with Tehran.

Mr. Obama later sidelined Project Cassandra, an investigation of illicit trafficking networks employed by Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese franchise. Launched in 2008, the investigation was run by a multiagency task force, including the FBI itself. Then for 18 months in 2014-15, the Obama White House gave the Iranians $700 million a month in sanctions relief. In January 2016, Mr. Obama sent Iran another $1.7 billion in cash. The administration also had a habit of leaking news of Israeli strikes on Iranian arms convoys and depots in Syria.

All these Obama actions are easily explained: Inducing Iran to sign a nuclear agreement was the former president’s top foreign-policy priority. I believe this pro-Iran policy was disastrous. But it wasn’t collusion or treason or any of the other crimes of which Democrats and their media allies have accused Mr. Trump.

Counterintelligence agents would have examined the target’s personal and professional networks. The FBI investigated at least four Trump campaign figures for supposed ties to Russia. Only one, Mike Flynn, worked in the administration, and for less than a month. The Obama administration had...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly opened a counterintelligence investigation in 2017 to find out if President Trump was a Russian agent. What if the FBI had similarly looked into whether President Obama was an agent of Iran?

Counterintelligence agents would have examined the target’s personal and professional networks. The FBI investigated at least four Trump campaign figures for supposed ties to Russia. Only one, Mike Flynn, worked in the administration, and for less than a month. The Obama administration had a few senior officials with personal ties to Iran.

more...

[bitt]

..The FBI’s suspicions about Mr. Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin were reportedly piqued by, among other things, a May 2017 television interview in which he said he fired Mr. Comey for the “Russia thing.” He’s also staged a series of brazenly public events where he professed his hopes of warmer ties with Vladimir Putin. Like Mr. Obama’s pro-Iran policies, Mr. Trump’s hope for better relations with Russia was anything but clandestine.

Yet critics of the Russia investigations are wrong to suggest the attacks on the president and his associates reflect the increasing tendency to criminalize policy differences. It has nothing to do with policy, for Mr. Trump’s Russia policy has been as hard-line as that of any post-Cold War administration, including Mr. Obama’s. The FBI’s motive for investigating Mr. Trump looks more like pure politics.

Mr. Smith is a media columnist for Tablet magazine..

GREAT THANKS TO MEARS, FOR SUGGESTING www.outline.com!

[Liz]

Trump fired him now it turns out Secy of State Tillerson was pursuing Obama-era policies at the State Dept,
deliberately sabotaging President Trump on Iran policy, relations with Israel, the Paris Accords and other issues.
.......several prominent Obama officials who have knowledge of the Iran deal are still at the State Dept.
<><> Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, in charge of Iran and the Persian Gulf region on the policy planning staff,
<><> a former John Kerry apprentice, Michael Ratney, occupies the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio,
<><> trusted Obama aide, Yael Lempert, served under Tillerson on the same platform.

REFERENCE--- Obama's $1.3B giveaway to Iran was paid in cash Jan 22 and Feb 5 from a little-known fund administered by the US Treasury.The so-called Judgment Fund is made up of tax dollars Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed....

SOURCE: fiscaltreasury.gov. -----The Judgment Fund was established to pay court judgments and Justice Department compromise settlements of actual or imminent lawsuits against the government. It is administered by the Judgment Fund Section, which is a part of the United States Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The Judgment Fund Internet Claims System (JFICS) is the application used to process all Judgment Fund claims.

The Judgment Fund is a permanent, indefinite appropriation available to pay judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States. The Judgment Fund is also available to pay amounts owed under compromise agreements negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice in settlement of claims arising under actual or imminent litigation, if a judgment on the merits would be payable from the Judgment Fund. The statutory authority for the Judgment Fund is 31 U.S.C. 1304.

If funds for paying an award are otherwise provided for in the appropriations of the defendant agency, the Judgment Fund may not pay an award. A federal agency may request that payment of an award be made on its behalf from the Judgment Fund only in those instances where funds are not legally available to pay the award from the agency's own appropriations.

Amounts paid vary significantly from year-to-year. Federal agencies are not required to reimburse the Judgment Fund except when cases are filed under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) or the No FEAR Act (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act).

We can be contacted at judgment.fund@fiscal.treasury.gov or 202-874-6664.

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UT-OH----J.Ansari Zarif, the Iranian deputy for parliamentary and Iranian affairs within Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he would expose "everyone who allegedly accepted bribes" to facilitate Obama's nuke deal with Iran. "........ will reveal which western politicians received bribes.

President Barack Obama is briefed by Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, Director for Iran, NSC, before taping a message to the Iranian people
in the Blue Room of the White House, March 18, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

[Mears]

You’re welcome——I first heard about it here———what an absolute delight it is.

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[Jeff Chandler]

Try this: https://outline.com/C3Vqxq

[Heart of Georgia]

There ya go...the truth! And the FBI did nothing because...well..you know. While MSM said no big deal, you racists.

[The Toll]

The good news is that we are completely free to use the entire surveillance apparatus of the United States against our political opposition in 2020.

It’s TOTALLY legal now! YAY!

[Leep]

Ya don’t think the FBI didn’t know everything there was to know about obama?

[BobL]

“What if the FBI Had Probed Obama?”

Pretty simple, our cities would be in ruins (even worse than they are now). But NO PROBLEM in this case as the FBI was only trying to prevent Fascism from taking hold.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

“Post the URL on outline.com-———gets beyond all paywalls.”

Not anymore. Or at least not today.

[Lurkinanloomin]

They might have found he was still an Indonesian citizen who attended college on an Indonesian passport and never re-naturalized, making him an illegal alien.

[bitt]

thanks!

[JayAr36]

The FBI has the goal in mind to become the KBG of America or at least what is left of America.

[sport]

And they have achieved that goal.

[Farmer Dean]

Maybe they would find Reggie’s missing class ring.

[jeepertrains]

A probe wasn’t required for Obama. The facts were already in the public domain.

Before the primaries, we already knew that he was a dual citizen, Indonesian raised, and ineligible to be a presidential candidate. The very reason for Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution. Our founders didn’t want someone who may have allegiances to other counties to be voted into the highest office. But no one with power would bring up these facts, not the MSM, not our representatives in government. McCain was the most at fault for this. Now we are finding out that McCain may have had the same allegiances as Obama, possibly for different reasons. But that’s what we got and we all stood by and took it.

Who cares “what if”, he is being investigated now.