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 ...
Little?!
They had BUPKIS!
They knew the dossier was rubbish in January. Seven months later rosenstein commissioned muller to do a collusion probe based on the dossier.
All of these players need to be loaded on a bus and catapulted off the deck of the Abe Lincoln.
Honest law enforcement agents would have stopped once it was established to have no basis.
Honest law enforcement would have looked into where the false information came from.
How long before Adam Schiff pulls an Epstein?
All of these players need to be loaded on a bus and catapulted off the deck of the Abe Lincoln.
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That’s a new one, I kind of like that.
I want President trump to get an xtra 4yrs added to his presidency after 2020!!!!
I want President trump to get an xtra 4yrs added to his presidency after 2020!!!!
Little?
There was none, period.
Full stop.
The greatest hoax in American politics was devised by the DNC, the Obama Adminstration, the deep state and the complicit news media. They should be hanged with a short rope for an attempted coup.
There are no honest law enforcement officers. If so, they would rat each other out instead of covering each other’s asses.
L8r
Kisylyak sits with the dem
Can we finally use the word ‘bombshell’?
Well, at least it’s a CAREFULLY lit ( and hopefully short) fuse!
theres video of a small car likema vw bug being launched off a carrier.
You are exactly right!
Certainly seems to be the case with the Federal Bureau of Incrimination And Sedition.
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