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Devin Nunes: 'Hidden' passage in Mueller report shows scope memo tainted by Trump dossier
The Washington Times ^ | 04-19-2019 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 04/19/2019 5:51:48 AM PDT by Kevin in California

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., revealed where in special counsel Robert Mueller's report he says "Clinton dirt" tainted the Russia investigation.

During an interview on Fox News, hours after the 448-page report was released, Nunes pointed to a "hidden" passage on page 11 that addresses the scope memo for the yearslong investigation.

"When you look at what happened today, remember we talked a lot about the scope memo. What were the directions given to the special counsel? Well, we now know hidden on page 11, very thinly, still veiled, but we now know they used the Steele dossier, the Clinton dirt, the Clinton-paid-for dirt as part of the memo for the special counsel that directed the special counsel what to do," Nunes told host Sean Hannity.

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KEYWORDS: dossier; dsj02; mueller; nunes
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41 posted on 04/19/2019 11:07:17 AM PDT by bitt (The pain IS coming!!!)
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To: nikos1121
I sounds like Nunes is talking about this: from page 11. If anybody else heard Nunes differently, please chime in.

The Acting Attorney General further clarified the scope of the Special Counsel's investigatory authority in two subsequent memoranda.
A memorandum dated August 2, 2017, explained that the Appointment Order had been "worded categorically in order to permit its public release without confirming specific investigations involving specific individuals."
It then confirmed that the Special Counsel had been authorized since his appointment to investigate allegations that three Trump campaign officials-Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and George Papadopoulos- "committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election." The memorandum also confirmed the Special Counsel's authority to investigate certain other matters, including two additional sets of allegations involving Manafort (crimes arising from payments he received from the Ukrainian government and crimes arising from his receipt of loans

42 posted on 04/19/2019 11:31:31 AM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: nikos1121

China had access to Hillary’s illegal server, they’re in on it.


43 posted on 04/19/2019 11:47:21 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Kevin in California
Am I the only one who caught a weird comment made by AG Barr while giving his press conference?

First, the report details efforts by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company with close ties to the Russian government, to sow social discord among American voters through disinformation and social media operations. Following a thorough investigation of this disinformation campaign, the Special Counsel brought charges in federal court against several Russian nationals and entities for their respective roles in this scheme. Those charges remain pending, and the individual defendants remain at large.

When I heard that throw away comment, my antenna went up. I couldn't find that specific statement in the Mueller Report, either I missed it or it was Barr's own comment. Either way - it's pretty close to an out and out fabrication. It was my understanding that some of the Russians who were indicted DID make themselves available and Mueller punted.

I then read what the supposed crime was that these "Russian entities" committed. Apparently their crime was to sign up with fake names on social media in an attempt to "influence" the election.

All the stupid things that they claim was interference are comments that we've been making well before Trump was even the nominee. It insults my intelligence that they believe we're so stupid and easily swayed by comments - like their braindead comrades in arms who are incapable of having an independent thought.

It's also suspicious that it's always only poor Hillary that these entities are targeting. Not Bernie, who was truly a real threat to Hillary before she took care of that. It's hard to see why someone who supposedly prefers Trump would also be just fine with Bernie. So it must be just poor Hillary - everybody is ganging up against her.

Also, this IRA group supposedly started putting out their feelers back in 2014 - under Obama's watch and right after the Obama administration bragged about how accomplished they were about using social media in their election efforts.

Sorry, folks - this whole IRA/Russian interference thing has Clinton Cabal/Deep State written all over it. Same thing as the planting of spies in the Trump campaign, these fake accounts would tweet to members of the Trump campaign sounding like they were on the team in order to suck them in. Then when an unsuspecting Trump person would retweet or forward the comments, they investigated it as possible "collusion".

And then there's the DNC hacking supposedly by the Russians. I wish someone would ask Mueller where he got all the information that he detailed in his Report, as I thought the DNC servers are lost and the FBI never were allowed to investigate. Was he relying on the DNC's hand-picked CrowdStrike investigators for that info, bought and paid for by the DNC/Clinton campaign - hmmmmm....has a familiar ring to it.

When I hear the Deep State claim "17 Federal intelligence agencies confirm Russian interference in the election" - all I hear is "scientists are unanimous that man-made global warming is true".

This crap is wide and deep, but the MO is totally transparent.

44 posted on 04/19/2019 2:34:18 PM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: bitt
I have been working all day on the Mueller Report - scanning the intro and special summary plus the 3-page Special Counsel's Investigation.

One thing becomes quickly apparent: Mueller bought everything the HRC and DNC people claimed. I wondered why AG Barr stated that the Russians hacked the DNC server since we know that the FBI never took possession of the server. Mueller states such and obviously AG Barr will have to determine these facts with his own investigation before contradicting the Report.

Every page reads as if Trump participated in questionable acts - like receiving congratulations from Russian Ambassador Kislyak - but evidence is lacking that such was done in a criminal manner. OUTRAGEOUS!

I agree with ex-WH Counsel Dowd: This report could have been done in two pages and completed almost immediately. It is a travesty of justice!

45 posted on 04/19/2019 3:59:17 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: NonValueAdded

Of course Hollary colluded with the Russians. Obama was even caught colluding with the Russians on a live microphone. That is why they accused Trump. It was the only strange type of defense they could muster. And projection comes natural to them.


46 posted on 04/19/2019 4:11:26 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: nikos1121
He was afraid to do what Barr is doing.

E.g. Stand on the law and the facts. Swampcritters can’t do that.

47 posted on 04/19/2019 7:29:36 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: nikos1121; allendale

Sessions was also being surveilled illegally, and thus will be a witness in the investigations against the coup plotters. Not because he was weak, but because a victim of a crime cannot be the prosecutor.


48 posted on 04/19/2019 8:26:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations)
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To: Bob Ireland
Right, bob.

They have gone to great lengths to validate the ruskie involvement & tampering with the 2016 election.

Just saw Michael Waltz R FL interviewed on fox & friends.

He is parroting the same russian tampering line that is now becoming the common MSM take away from the mueller report.

I guess they had to let the SC have a win to get it shut down.

Crossing my fingers that this false premise is blown out of the water by IC

49 posted on 04/20/2019 6:35:30 AM PDT by thinden
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To: Bob Ireland

oops:

“Crossing my fingers that this false premise is blown out of the water by IC”

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should read:

Crossing my fingers that this false premise is blown out of the water by OIG


50 posted on 04/20/2019 8:16:00 AM PDT by thinden
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To: tired&retired
Speaking of introductions, who was the bearded guy standing there along with them? I don’t think he was ever introduced.

Barr’s bearded neighbor is not as well known. He’s Edward O’Callaghan, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who joined the Department of Justice earlier this month as a principal associate deputy attorney general.

O’Callaghan’s career reveals a firm commitment to the Republican Party. As Newsweek reported, O’Callaghan previously worked for the 2008 presidential campaign of the late Senator John McCain. In that capacity, he traveled to Alaska to intervene in a state investigation into Sarah Palin, then the state’s governor and McCain’s running mate. Palin faced an ethics probe into her suspicious termination of the state’s Department of Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan; Monegan had reportedly refused to fire a state trooper who happened to be the ex-husband of Palin’s sister. According to Newsweek, O’Callaghan worked with Palin aide Meghan Stapleton to try to defuse the investigation.

“Stapleton and this guy did almost daily press conferences to discredit the investigation,” Hollis French, an Alaska legislator, told Newsweek. “She was the face Alaskans would recognize. Others would have no idea who this attorney was standing next to her.” Les Gara, a serving Democratic state legislator, told the magazine that O’Callaghan and Stapleton made the investigation “look like a Democratic attack against Palin.” Sounds familiar!

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O’Callaghan sounds like another DS fixer drafter from the “no name” branch of the swamp.

(wonder if he will recuse himself from dealing with another no name cabal apparatchik, david kramer?

no name revenge??

51 posted on 04/20/2019 8:52:56 AM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden
***Right, bob.
They have gone to great lengths to validate the ruskie involvement ... Crossing my fingers that this false premise is blown out of the water by (OIG)***

Julian Assange could clear it up in a moment - if he survives that long. I always remember that he urged financial support for Seth Rich's family. ❓

52 posted on 04/20/2019 10:17:00 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: stig; FreedBird
"Why does politics have to be dog eat dog 24/7"

It always has been.

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Indeed. Political fighting, or waring, has been going on since the dawn of politics. [1][2][3]

53 posted on 04/20/2019 12:22:38 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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