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Transcripts: FBI, intel officials had little proof of collusion well into Russia probe
Just the News ^ | May 7, 2020 - 8:57pm | By John Solomon

Posted on 05/07/2020 6:35:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released thousands of pages of declassified interview transcripts from the Russia investigation that show more than a year into the probe senior FBI and intelligence officials could offer no specific proof of collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Moscow and instead offered rambling explanations why the probe had persisted.

The testimony of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe typified the testimony that had been given back in 2017 to the committee, then-under the leadership of Rep. Devin Nunes.

McCabe admitted at one point that while the FBI opened up the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation based on a tip from Australia that George Papadopoulos may have been told Russia possessed emails of Hillary Clinton, the bureau suspected the former Trump campaign adviser had little or no contact with Moscow.

So agents pivoted instead to another adviser, Carter Page, who had been the focus of Christopher Steele's now-discredited dossier, he explained.

"Papadopoulos' comment didn't particularly indicate that he was the person that had had -- that was interacting with the Russians," McCabe answered when asked by lawmakers why a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant request in October 2016 focused only on Page and not the man the FBI originally predicated the Trump investigation upon.

It was one of the few extraordinary admissions from McCabe: the FBI opened up an entire counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign on a figure agents did not believe was having contact with Moscow.

The transcripts, otherwise, contain mostly old news, long since surpassed by revelations in Robert Mueller's final report that concluded there was no collusion between any Americans and Russia to hijack the 2016 election and Inspector General Michael Horowitz's detailed report of abuses of the FISA process by the FBI.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: andrewmccabe; fbi; russia
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To: DOC44

Adam Schiff will be reelected in his district, I doubt hes worried much at all.


21 posted on 05/07/2020 7:26:10 PM PDT by Husker24
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To: RoseofTexas
I want President trump to get an xtra 4yrs added to his presidency after 2020!!!!

Good idea.

Think of what good he could have done if America had supported him instead of 55% constantly insulting, suspecting, slandering, libeling, picking at him, opposing him, asking little judges to block him for months at a time and all that. With an honest news media reporting his many good points.

All his accomplishments have been against a strong headwind of evil Dems.

22 posted on 05/07/2020 7:30:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: DOC44

How long before Obama pulls an Epstein?


23 posted on 05/07/2020 7:36:07 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Hojczyk

Please remember John McCain, that piece of $hit, RINO, traitor was the one who presented this “dossier” to Congress.


24 posted on 05/07/2020 7:44:54 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: lurk

They knew the dossier was rubbish in January.


This is what makes me so angry. Allegedly after the docs released today EVERYONE knew it was a pile of chit. WHY DID THEY NOT SAY SO PUBLICLY?????????

Sorry I am yelling. We endured 2 years of a Special Counsel with no basis for it. Where is Rosenstein? What in the hell was going on here? I read the house transcripts. NOBODY said they had evidence of collusion yet Schiff was running around saying he had clear evidence of it?

No corrections. How much impact did this have on the 2018 election? Why did these people who all seem to shrug and point fingers at the FBI not step in when they had an ethical obligation to do so?

They had no problem running to the White House telling them Flynn lied after Pence went on a Sunday News show. Why was that so important and it was not important enough for them to publicly state they were not aware of any “collusion” (still not a crime by the way)?


25 posted on 05/07/2020 7:46:21 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

Clapper testified in June of 2017. The GOP was in control of this committee at that time. Why the heck did they not release this info before the midterms???? There are a lot of unanswered questions here.


26 posted on 05/07/2020 8:09:58 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I have no doubt the bipartisan nature of Never Trumpism is the root of all this. Team Kenyan Village Idiot and later the “Trump” FBI never goes all in without that.


27 posted on 05/07/2020 8:11:42 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: volunbeer

WHY DID THEY NOT SAY SO PUBLICLY??
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The GOP Senate wanted Trump out as much as the Democrats.
Graham was the one who threatened Trump against r=firing Sessions or Mueller.


28 posted on 05/07/2020 8:17:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: lodi90

They had us in a box with no way out of becoming North Mexico against our will.
Both parties agreed on open borders and amnesty.
We were not supposed to be able to elect a President who would side with us.
Then Trump stepped up.
It’s been a non-stop all out effort to stop him from securing the border and restoring the rule of law.


29 posted on 05/07/2020 8:22:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

Bullshit. The FBI knew on DAY 1. They *knew* because they hatched it as a frame up plot.

It’s crap that the investigation was legitimate for even the first 5 minutes. It was a frame up and a political dirty trick.


30 posted on 05/07/2020 8:47:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Hojczyk

“McCabe admitted at one point that while the FBI opened up the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation based on a tip from Australia that George Papadopoulos may have been told Russia possessed emails of Hillary Clinton.”

FBI/CIA sent Halper and others to tell Papadapolis that Russia had Hillary’s emails. Then the 5-eyes Aussie is sent in and claimed he hear Papadapolis say it. And he reports it back to the US intel community.

It’s a damned-licking ice cream cone.

ALL FAKE


31 posted on 05/07/2020 8:50:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

There was never a single moment of honesty. The FBI didn’t get a “tip”. They manufactured the “tip” that came from the Aussie by placing Papadapolis with Halper in London, and throwing people at him saying they “heard” Russia stole Hillary’s emails. Then their 5-eye buddies ran that diplomat at him to “hear” it from Papadapolis.

Pure 100% gold plated USDA bullshit.


32 posted on 05/07/2020 8:54:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

The whole investigation was a self-licking ice cream cone. The very first 5 minutes were not legitimate. Every tip was created by, and then “discovered” by the FBI. All on behalf of Hillary and the deep state.

The FBI should pay a brutal price for this. They should be stripped of everything except bank robbery and kidnapping for a decade or two. They should have ZERO intelligence functions. All of that should be given to the Military. All other FBI functions should be taken over by State and local jurisdictions.


33 posted on 05/07/2020 9:01:59 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Hojczyk

mark


34 posted on 05/07/2020 9:33:00 PM PDT by The Mayor (I am outraged at your outrage toward the outrage!)
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To: DesertRhino

All cooked up by Brennan and his boys at the CIA.


35 posted on 05/07/2020 9:58:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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