It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the country depends on the outcome of the investigations being conducted by AG Bill Barr and US Attorney John Durham. There have galactically atrocious and egregious abuses of power by the US intelligence services against a nominee, candidate, President-elect and President of the United States. People have been framed. Lines were crossed, in particular by the then Director of the FBI.
Comey lied to the President-elect three times, telling him he wasn’t the target of an investigation.
Comey bragged about how he took advantage of the “chaos” during the transition and in disregard for proper channels sent two agents to interrogate Michael Flynn, who at first would be exonerated and then later framed.
Comey’s FBI never took any notes in meetings with hillary clinton or her campaign. Comey and his agents always took notes when meeting with the President-elect and his campaign. The President-elect never got a defensive briefing- he got an interrogation by the senior agent in the Counter Intelligence investigation opened on the President-elect.
The intelligence briefing the FBI gave to Donald Trump’s team during the 2016 campaign was a “pretext” to gather evidence on the candidate and his foreign policy adviser to help in their counterintelligence investigation, according to the Justice Department watchdog.
The FBI never briefed Trump’s campaign about its fear that Russians might be attempting to infiltrate his campaign, but Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who testified Wednesday about his report on the Russia investigation, said the bureau used an intelligence briefing ostensibly about guarding against foreign interference to gather evidence against Trump and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign got an identical briefing, Horowitz said, but hers was not used by the FBI to collect information on the candidate or her team. Clinton’s campaign was not the subject of a counterintelligence investigation.
“It was a strategic counterintelligence briefing. I mention that because it precisely wasn’t a defensive briefing. It was an intelligence briefing,” Horowitz told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “They were treated differently in that the agent wrote it up to the file and put the information in the file. The briefings were identical, but one was for investigative purposes, and one was purely for the intelligence briefing.”
Horowitz said the goal of a counterintelligence investigation “is to identify potential threats to the nation” and criticized the FBI’s decision to use a defensive briefing in this way.
“They sent a supervisory agent to the briefing from the Crossfire Hurricane team, and that agent prepared a report to the file of the briefing. About what Mr. Trump and Mr. Flynn said,” Horowitz testified, referring to the code name for the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation. “The incident, the event, the meeting was a briefing, and the FBI considered and decided to send that agent there to do the briefing. So the agent was actually doing the briefing but also using it for the purpose of investigation.”
The same agent interviewed Michael Flynn. The FBI would then go on to lie about it.
“Did they ever try to protect Donald Trump from foreign influence?” Graham asked.
“They did not brief him,” Horowitz said.
“As a matter of fact, whenever they went in and gave him a vanilla briefing–‘the Russians are out there, you better beware,’–didn’t they have an FBI agent do a 302 on the defensive briefing itself?” Graham asked.
“They sent one of the supervisory agents from the Crossfire Hurricane team to the briefing and that agent prepared a report to the file of the briefing,” Horowitz said.
17 significant wrongs were found in the FISA applications, all of which went against the President-elect. IG Horowitz said he would not have submitted such a thing.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the committee chair, asked Horowitz if he, as a lawyer, would have submitted the FISA renewal applications the FBI submitted in January, April and June 2017, which did not reflect current information available to the FBI.
“Let me put it this way, I would not have submitted the one they put in,” Horowitz said. “No doubt about it. It had no business going in.”
James Comey and FBI lawyer James Baker refused to have their security clearances reinstated so they would not have answer questions from Michael Horowitz and his team.Despite that, Comey has been prancing around claiming vindication but…
Graham: Comey says he’s vindicated by your report. True?
Horowitz: “The activities we found don’t vindicate anyone who touched this.”
Robert Ray has expressed astonishment that the FBI could have an open investigation into the a Presidential candidate and eventual President-elect without the knowledge of the Attorney General. Four people- count ’em, FOUR- were spied on by the FBI.
Former Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray said he was “aghast to learn how little involved the [Obama administration] attorney general and the deputy attorney general of the United States” were in the FBI investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Ray said that is the most stunning revelation from the Justice Department Inspector General’s review of FBI conduct at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.
“I think Michael Horowitz was surprised to learn,” said Ray on Fox Nation’s “Deep Dive” on Tuesday, “and I cannot believe that there is an investigation that would take you inside a presidential campaign and four people who were targeted within that campaign and that doesn’t require some kind of supervisory review and initiation beyond simply the inner-reaches of the FBI.”
The IG report examined the process by which the Obama administration’s FBI launched investigations into four Trump associates. The FBI targets included former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
An FBI lawyer- Kevin Clinesmith- altered a document denying Carter Page was a CIA/FBI source, but the FBI had been setting up Page for a fall long before that.
Mar 2016 Trump names Carter Page as an adviser to his campaign
April 2016 FBI opens a CI investigation on Page
June 2016 First FISA sought on Trump and Page and campaign
Oct 2016 FISA warrant on Page approved, based on the lie that Page was a foreign agent
Page had previously been an FBI/CIA asset and had helped nab a real Russian spy
FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith alters a document making it appear that Page had not been an IC asset which makes all subsequent FISA warrants illegal. The FBI actually began spying on Donald Trump in March of 2016. Clinesmith also authored an interesting email:
“Is it making you rethink your commitment to the Trump administration?” one FBI lawyer wrote on Nov. 22, 2016.
“Hell no. Viva le resistance,” the future Mueller attorney responded.
Ted Cruz exchange with Horowitz:
Cruz: “A lawyer at the FBI creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email that is in turn used as the basis for a sworn statement to the court that the court relies on. Am I stating that accurately?”
Horowitz: “That’s correct. That’s what occurred”
And bias? Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
Sen. John Kennedy: Does an absence of evidence mean evidence of absence?
Horowitz: No
There was a great question asked by Josh Hawley
“We expect foreign governments to try to meddle, but when our own government does it, how can the American people have confidence, and what can we do?”
https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/440577320205458/
Indeed. hillary clinton, the DNC and barack obama effectively bought the FBI via Orbis Business Intelligence.
Ayn Rand wrote
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”
We are at the precipice right now. Grave wrongs have been committed. James Comey has established a two tiered system of justice in the country and Loretta Lynch has aided him. There have been crimes committed- extremely serious crimes. If people are not held accountable, if people are not indicted conspiracy and for lying to the FBI and to Congress (as were Michael Flynn and George Papdopoulos), if people are not imprisoned and exculpatory evidence continues to be buried by government, then the country is finished. None of us could ever again look to the Justice system and believe it to be fair. We would lose all faith.
If they can do this to a President of the United States, they can do it to any of us. The Constitution becomes meaningless. We become Russia and the FBI becomes the KGB.
That’s the scenario to the edge of which we have crept thanks largely to James Comey and his corrupt FBI.
The future of the country depends on Bill Barr and John Durham and that is no exaggeration.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
We complain about Sxhiff and his basement hearings, isnt the FISA Court this on a scale we couldnt fathom?
51 violations of the Woods Procedures in 1 case only.
Remove this was about the President.
WTF is going on!!!
The so called PATRIOT ACT.
NSA META DATA COLLECTION
SPYING ON CONGRESS
SPYING ON SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Breaking laws is suppose to be Patriotic?
We should just say they will do the right thing from now on, give them a slap on the wrist. Get over it move on.
Leave these established parts of our government, put there to protect us all, as they stand but with a little tweaking.
Forget that the Woods Procedure was put there to protect against the abuses AND THEY TOTALLY IGNORED IT.
Now now dont do that again, maybe spank one or two of them, but leave the rotted unconstitutional system stand.
Obama knew and if he knew, so did Lynch. Don’t forget, Mueller stacked his team with Crossfire Hurricane participants proving his investigation was just a continuation of the coup started by the former. He knew from the start the “evidence” he had was obtained through illegal surveillance. If people start getting indicted, he needs to go down too.
Those are the stakes.
Jim Jordan summed all this up brilliantly at the demokrats’ little Soviet show trial. It goes well beyond PT. People best start waking up and realize what the Party has become before it’s too late.
@another vet: It is not just the Democrat Party its what our country has become, ignoring the Constitution to establish secret data bases, spying on everyone a facility that covers acres of land with data gathered on everyone. Ready to be used against you if they so desire.
No 4th amendment privacy.
AT&t handing over phone records upon demand, Nunes wasnt advised he was swept up in this data he couldnt protest his privacy was being invaded.
A brand new way for the government to break down the door and grab your records.
You now have to prove your innocence, The President must prove his innocence.
Every accusation put on trial by the boob tube talking heads. The evidence OPINION EDITORIALS.
500 scholars opinions of what impeachment is, Who Cares what they think can we look at all 500 of those scholars credentials? individually? Mob rule anyone?
Demand a crime a statute
Demand the evidence
Demand the President have the opportunity to face all accusers and defend himself.
I supported Trump to keep Hillary’s filthy hands off the Supreme Court. If she got to put two (or more) Justiices on the bench, this country would be ruined forever. It appears this was the goal of the left and they were willing to do anything by any means to accomplish that.
This has been the worst threat to this nation since the British invasion of 1812.
Schiff-T-Eyes is up to his dirty work him and the Democrats they need to feel a public backlash over this whole Impeachment scam
@kitt: A buddy of mine’s brother has a couple of Polish guys who fled Communism working for him. They said what they are seeing happening in this country is the same thing that went on under Communism. If you were to go to the DNC website and the CPUSA’s website and compare them, you would find that there are remarkable similarities between the two.
@another vet: A failed ideology of a bunch of unemployed drunkards that someone with organizational skills called intellectuals.
1783-1933 now totally recycled cause if environmentalism were a curious but peripheral aspect of National Socialism, it would be of no real historical interest. Their rising hatred of the Jewish people and capitalism in their movement is not at all a new thing.
Hooray for the Britts! Now we will see if the politicians will keep their word or if England has truly fallen.
McConnell: ‘No chance’ Trump will be removed from office
That is, We are Trump’s willing and obedient tools. The President will control the Senate Impeachment trial that will pass judgement on his own conduct. He will dictate the outcome. That is what the man just said.
There will be no fair and objective hearing of evidence and arguments followed by careful deliberation. Only a mockery of that. Trump controls the outcome of this congressional process, which has been predetermined. This constitutional safeguard created by the Founding Fathers to protect the republic from the rise of an authoritarian leader is now dead.
@Greg: It hasn’t reached the Senate yet.
You always knew if it did it was dead.
Your resistance is dead, beating the long dead horse will not revive it. The civil war begun by politicians will end with politicians.
I already knew that the Republican Party had become The Party of Trump and that those remaining in it had become his willing tools, but I’m surprised to hear McConnell admitting it so clearly and openly.
McConnell is stating that the President will control his own impeachment trial—McConnell is stating he is closely coordinating the entire process with the White House counsel. He is admitting regret that he lacks the power to simply block the impeachment process, as he does with legislation that he doesn’t like.
Do you not understand what this means?
@Greg: Yes I understand exactly what it means, in the senate there is equal power distributed to the power of States. 2 per State not based on mob rule.
A genius check placed there by the founders, oh not that the progressives have not tried to remove this check with the 17th amendment.
The Senate will not allow the Democrats to push the country into a hot civil war, thats what it means.
Dont cry even after Trump is reelected in a landslide the resistance, fueled by billionaires that own media outlets, will continue. They wont stop, its time for our own Lawfare, for the coupsters and criminals to pay up. That should include those that bribed Federal agents for headline leaks.
Wallace sees it coming.
@Greg: Any sane and reasonable person who has seen the “evidence” and the means the Democrats pushed their bullshit impeachment hoax would realize that once the issue is beyond the control of biased, bigoted, whiny, sore loser, butt hurt, crybaby, prejudiced, lying, deceitful, anti-Constitutional Democrats, even bringing it up is ridiculous. However, it MUST be taken up and witnesses must be called. Yeah, one of the witnesses will be a current opponent of Trump, but that is not Trump’s choice; it was BIDEN’S choice to be a corrupt scumbag and BRAG about getting away with his extortion.
This is how seriously Democrats were taking their own hearings:
https://www.analyzingamerica.org/disgrace-democrats-watching-golf-during-impeachment-markup/?utm_source=msp
Democrats took for granted how the hearings would turn out, had no interest in listening to their fellow liars pretend to care, so they were watching GOLF. Yeah…. “solemn and necessary”. Why do you support liars and lying?
So? The entire Democrat process was coordinated with George Soros. If Trump gets to influence the Senate trial, we will see all the necessary and required witnesses and the corruption of Democrats will be fully exposed. This should scare the living shit out you; this will be GOOD for the country, which means it will be very bad for Democrats, just like all the great accomplishments of Trump is good for the country but bad for Democrats.
Maybe your Democrats should have considered this before they allowed the AOC gang to push you idiots off a cliff. I’m not sure you will find this episode worth the asterisk beside Trump’s name.
@kitt: I wonder if when impeachment is over and the Democrats have been wiped out in 2020, Pelosi will contemplate like General Tojo looking over the ruins of Tokyo and Hiroshima thinking, “Maybe attacking Pearl Harbor wasn’t such a great idea after all.”?
@Deplorable Me: The Dems must now also lose the House there are important trade agreements that require passing, massive budget cuts that require passing, reform reform reform. As any of these things will be seen as wins for Trump in their twisted logic they wont happen if the resistance is in the majority.
@kitt:
Trump’s supporters are the mob.
@Greg:
The mob, who spied on journalists, James Rosen being just one of them, ran guns across the Mexican border resulting in a Border Patrol agent being murdered and left four Americans hanging out to dry in Benghazi, left office on January 20, 2017.
@Greg: You should fear us. Your disregard for the law, justice and the Constitution will cost you all your political power.
@Deplorable Me, #16:
The impeachment process is the constitutional remedy for lawless presidents. Donald Trump has already been declared immune to prosecution for criminal acts. Republicans are now telling us that he is also immune to the impeachment powers of Congress, as McConnell has openly stated he and Senate republicans are tools of the President’s will; that he’s coordinating all of his actions with the White House Counsel; that there’s no difference between the President’s position and their position. They’re not even going to pretend to be fair jurors, apparently.
These effing idiots are creating a president who is answerable to nobody. Once that’s done, you may soon have a republic in name only, as you’ve set a precedent. You’ve created a situation where this and future president can get away with misusing their powers of office to determine the outcome of elections and stay in power. Add that brilliant outcome to the power of unlimited money that republicans have already put at a president’s disposal.
Pop quiz: Is The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea the country that’s north or south of of the 38th Parallel?
@Greg:
We know that. We accept that. What YOU don’t seem to be aware of is that it is not a political weapon, which is what Democrats have turned it into. Henceforth, they will wield it like a media blurb, using impeachment more and more to compensate for their own incompetence.
Trump is just as vulnerable to law enforcement and Congressional oversight as any other… but NO MORE vulnerable. You don’t get to shred the Constitution just because you can’t find a single impeachable offense against him.
Trump did the coin toss at the Army/Navy game. Who gave him the coin? Can that be considered a bribe? Did the Russians influence the toss? Did Trump allow them to tell him which side to face up when he tossed the coin? Did he give the coin to someone in an effort to influence an investigation of Biden? This is the kind of shit your idiot Democrats use to push impeachment.
Biden absolutely most definitely extorted Ukraine. No doubt, no possible debate, the evidence is clear, the science settled, debate over.