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Biden Present at Russia Collusion Briefing Documented in ‘Odd’ Susan Rice Email
Breitbart ^ | 02 Jun 2019 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 06/02/2019 10:39:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

NEW YORK — Vice President Joe Biden was documented as being present in the Oval Office for a conversation about the controversial Russia probe between President Obama, disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior officials including Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice. In an action characterized as “odd” last year by then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Rice memorialized the confab in an email to herself describing Obama as starting “the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book.’”

Grassley, in a letter to Rice, commented: “It strikes us as odd that, among your activities in the final moments on the final day of the Obama administration, you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual email purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the FBI regarding the Trump/Russia investigation.”

Grassley noted the unusual timing of the email sent by Rice to herself more than two weeks after the January 5, 2017 White House meeting on the Russia investigation, but mere hours before she vacated the White House for the incoming Trump administration.

The email, Grassley documented, was sent by Rice to herself on Trump’s inauguration day of January 20, 2017.

“If the timestamp is correct, you sent this email to yourself at 12:15 pm, presumably a very short time before you departed the White House for the last time,” Grassley wrote to Rice in a letter seeking clarification on a number of issues regarding the email and the Oval Office briefing at which Biden was documented as being present.

Also in the email, Rice used the “by the book” phraseology a second time, writing (emphasis added):

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1 posted on 06/02/2019 10:39:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Joe was there to get the coffee and keep the young female interns amused or irritated.


2 posted on 06/02/2019 10:44:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Joe Biden Linked to Early Stages of Russia Probe, Report Suggests NN ^ | 26-05-19 | Jay Greenberg Posted on 5/26/2019, 4:39:29 PM by McQ444 2020 Democrat Joe Biden was reportedly involved in the early stages of the Russia Probe during his time as vice president in Obama's administration, a newly reemerged report suggests.Biden was allegedly one of the few Obama White House officials to participate in secret meetings during the Obama-era intelligence community’s initial investigations into suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.The information was revealed deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017. /////Significantly, Biden is also mentioned in Susan Rice's infamous memo to herself on Trump's Inauguration Day.

When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides. CYA memos are rarely a good idea. Most often, they reveal things the author never intended——ala Susan Rice’s now-infamous email to herself.

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WHY SUSAN RICE WROTE AN EMAIL TO HERSELF........the extraordinary email Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote to herself at 12:15 on January 20, 2017........within minutes of President Trump’s inauguration must have been her last act, more or less, before she vacated the White House. So obviously the email was important to her. But why would it be important to send an email to herself (the only person copied was one of her aides)?

you read the email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?

Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier.

The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:

Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”.

Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

This is pure boilerplate.

It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)

The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes: The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.

Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.

Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.

Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.

If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.

What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.

There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.

The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.

And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.

Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.

3 posted on 06/02/2019 10:47:55 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Biden was there so was Obama’s puppet master Valerie Jarrett.


4 posted on 06/02/2019 12:25:18 PM PDT by lewislynn
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Damn right she was. She was behind it all. Barack couldn’t do “anything” w/out her input, because he’s never had an original thought in his miserable life.


5 posted on 06/02/2019 1:29:31 PM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In a way, I’ve always considered Biden (and John Kerry) the “slow kid” in the class (of traitors). I think of Biden as the one not trusted to finesse anything or come up with ideas, but to carry water when and where he’s told to take it. Meanwhile he (and Kerry) act like they believe they are major players on the world stage. So looking at the ways Biden (and Kerry) turns up in the wrong place at the wrong time (implicated in wrong doing) puts a big smile on my face, as if to say, “Well, Jerk? Is THIS the attention you were trying to call to yourself? Was it worth being charged with treason?”


6 posted on 06/02/2019 5:03:02 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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7 posted on 06/03/2019 9:24:48 AM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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OH yeah!

slimy worm Kerry and dumbazz Biden...


8 posted on 06/03/2019 9:26:18 AM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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Worshippful Susan Rice gets her daily orders from the Obama police state.

Image result for obama and susan rice in WH

"Get me dirt on Penguin books so I can shake them down for big books on my book contract."
"Lois Lerner loved that dirt you got on conservatives."
"And get me the IRS files of Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi."

9 posted on 06/03/2019 9:30:54 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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He can’t wipe his behind without ValJar.


10 posted on 06/03/2019 9:34:38 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Liz

I hope the redacted part of the email is part of the declas.

Why would anyone, especially in those people’s positions, have to even say “do it by the book” ?
seems that means some things previously weren’t done by the book.


11 posted on 06/03/2019 9:40:42 AM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: lewislynn
If Biden was there so was Obama’s puppet master, Iranian born Valerie Jarrett.

There, better, IMHO, YMMV...

12 posted on 06/03/2019 9:42:48 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.

13 posted on 06/03/2019 10:02:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Democrats are going to toss old Joe soon... they fear he’s Bob Dole...


14 posted on 06/03/2019 11:03:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Joe Biden will be the Bob Dole of 2020... Democrat's are gonna dump him soon.)
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To: Liz

LIZ——YOU ARE THE BEST!!!


15 posted on 06/03/2019 9:32:32 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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What they did to General Flynn is atrocious. They needed him out of the way

Flynn was the execrable Susan Rice's successor.

He would be privvy to all of the unmasking crimes ....and God knows what else.

Susan Rice needs to be nailed b/c she hid important facts, and may have lied to Flynn.

All of these criminal activities took place b/c of an impending all-American tradition.....a tradition the Halfrican deplores.

16 posted on 06/04/2019 3:29:17 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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