"Incredible – FBI Blocking Release of Unredacted Text Messages Between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok"

https://theconservativetreehou...ge-and-peter-strzok/

Apparently they want top wait until after the 2020 election to release them. Presumably when they have a more "friendly" president. Once again, tic toc run out the clock. Wray works for Sessions 2.0 (err, I mean Barr..) who has authority to declass anything. Yet he lets Wray continuously block investigations. (Government or otherwise). These texts were sent over non-classified government phones, there is NO reason for them to be redacted or denied release.

Unless the FBI is just seeking to hide their treason.

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On May 23rd, 2019, President Donald Trump gave U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr full authority to review and release all of the classified material hidden by the DOJ, FBI, State Department, CIA, FISA Court, and aggregate intelligence apparatus. It’s been over 90 days…

Is it within Trumps executive powers to demand these be released without any further delay? If so why has he not done it? Waiting closer to the election perhaps? Again Judicial Watch and Tom Fitton are being relentless on these things. I never donate a single dime to any campaign I prefer to write Judicial Watch a meaningful check once a year. Way better value for my money.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:

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On May 23rd, 2019, President Donald Trump gave U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr full authority to review and release all of the classified material hidden by the DOJ, FBI, State Department, CIA, FISA Court, and aggregate intelligence apparatus. It’s been over 90 days…

Is it within Trumps executive powers to demand these be released without any further delay? If so why has he not done it? Waiting closer to the election perhaps? Again Judicial Watch and Tom Fitton are being relentless on these things. I never donate a single dime to any campaign I prefer to write Judicial Watch a meaningful check once a year. Way better value for my money.

Probably because it never ends and the man has absolute rivers of bullshit to wade through and only 24 hours in a day to do it.

Wray is the second worst appointment Trump has made. He is a swamp creature to his very marrow.

Do we have enough rope?

Nice thing about rope, it can be used again, and again and again!

I know everyone is tired of hearing "the report is coming" but here is the latest from John Solomon.

https://www.washingtonexaminer...-abuse-investigation

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has reportedly completed his investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the Justice Department and FBI.

"What I can report tonight, Sean, is that the IG has completed his work on the FISA abuse report. It's expected to be transmitted as early as next week to Attorney General William Barr and that will begin a process of declassification,"

"I think we are still on track for that timeline, I've been saying on your show: mid-September to early October seems the most likely release point,"

Horowitz's team is examining the FISA application and three renewals beginning in October 2016 to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page . The applications relied heavily on the unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and funded by Democrats.

Is John Durham still on salary? If he’s done anything I have yet to hear of it.

“A Justice Department inspector general has concluded former FBI Director James Comey did not 'live up' to his responsibility to safeguard sensitive information – but has not recommended he be prosecuted for the leak of memos of his awkward conversations with President Trump.
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'The OIG has provided this report to the FBI and to the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility for action they deem appropriate,' it said – a referral below a recommendation of sending it to a prosecutor…”

https://mol.im/a/7407333

Rudy G was quite agitated on Ingram show about the Comey felonies signing the FISA warrants.

Get used to hearing these words over the next few months as these reports come out:

"The DOJ has declined to prosecute"

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Get used to hearing these words over the next few months as these reports come out:

"The DOJ has declined to prosecute"

WORD!

Unless people are prosecuted and go to jail- The entire Deep State Coup is just a right wing conspiracy theory.

It almost seems as if we have two tiers of the Justice system.

It’s Just Us conservatives and little people that get prosecuted if we commit crimes.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
It almost seems as if we have two tiers of the Justice system.

It’s Just Us conservatives and little people that get prosecuted if we commit crimes.

There's no "almost" about it.

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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Get used to hearing these words over the next few months as these reports come out:

"The DOJ has declined to prosecute"

WORD!

There is one potential bright side though... If, (and I mean IF) Repubs manage to somehow grow a pair. Eventually they will have a chance to do the same to a Democratic POTUS. Apparently, the president has been set that none of these things are crimes, so by default, they should be able to do the same to the next Democrat POTUS.

The default answer to all the made up nonsense leveled against President Trump should be thus:

"Go ahead... Give it your best shot... We're going to sit back and take notes. What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander."

Matthew Whitaker: DOJ Meeting Suggests Andrew McCabe Will Be Indicted ‘Imminently’

https://dailycaller.com/2019/0...cabe-indictment-doj/

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Matthew Whitaker: DOJ Meeting Suggests Andrew McCabe Will Be Indicted ‘Imminently’

https://dailycaller.com/2019/0...cabe-indictment-doj/

Does anyone else see the delicious irony in charging an FBI agent with lying to the FBI, which (as in institution) has such an extensive history of lying to the courts as well as the public it was supposedly created to serve?

God, I hope this (an indictment) is true and the culture of the agency can be changed into something more closely resembling lie the agency has been misrepresenting itself as for so many decades.

This post is about an article by Chuck Ross.

CTH is barking up the same tree.

They are saying that the IG report just released indicates that when Comey briefed Donald Trump on 6 Jan 2017, it really wasn't a brief to help Donald Trump. It was a trap just like the FBI trap interview of Michael Flynn.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/0...mp-briefing-dossier/

An inspector general’s report released Thursday says that witnesses told Justice Department investigators that FBI officials wanted to use a briefing that James Comey provided President Donald Trump in early 2017 about sex allegations made in the Steele dossier to collect information that might be of use in the Russia probe.

The witness statements, which are laid out in a scathing 83-page report on Comey, would seem to undercut the former FBI director’s claims about the purpose of the briefing, which was held at Trump Tower on Jan. 6, 2017.

Comey has long asserted that he had a one-on-one meeting with Trump in order to give the then-president-elect a heads up about salacious rumors contained in the dossier, which former British spy Christopher Steele compiled while on the payroll of the DNC and Clinton campaign.

The FBI’s Russia team held a meeting prior to the briefing to strategize about what information could be gathered, the OIG report says.

Comey also treated information that he wrote in a memo after the meeting with Trump the same as if it were derived during surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Lisa Page, a top FBI attorney who worked on the Russia probe, also told the OIG that Comey asked that a memo he wrote after his briefing to Trump should be included in the Russia investigation case file because it was “central to investigative activity.”

Trump’s allies have alleged that Comey and other intelligence community officials set the series of events leading up to the Comey-Trump briefing in order to force the dossier into the public domain. Trump himself has said that he believed Comey’s briefing was meant to intimidate him.

According to the OIG report, witnesses told investigators that FBI officials had discussions about “Trump’s potential responses to being told about the ‘salacious’ information.” The officials believed “Trump might make statements about, or provide information of value to, the pending Russian interference investigation.”

FBI executives also agreed prior to the briefing that Comey should write a memo in order to record the “salient details of those conversations.”

“What was supposed to be a defensive briefing was anything but,” said Jordan, adding that the briefing appears to have been an attempt “to trap the president in an attempt to help their investigation.”

Lisa Page, who served as counsel to McCabe, told the office of the inspector general that Comey met with the FBI team leading the Russia probe after his initial meeting with Trump.

She said that Comey briefed the team on the discussions, and shared the memo so that it could be added to the FBI case file

Comey also treated the information in the memo the same way as information obtained through surveillance through FISA.

Comey told the OIG that he believed the memo “ought to be treated…[like] FISA derived information or information in a [counterintelligence] investigation.”

The FBI and other government agencies use FISA in order to secretly collect foreign intelligence information for counterintelligence investigations

Comey had a secure laptop waiting for him in his FBI vehicle. He started writing a summary of the 6 Jan 2017 mtg right after he got in to leave.

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same topic w story by Byron York

https://www.washingtonexaminer...oscow-sex-allegation

So, preparations were made. "Comey said he had a secure FBI laptop waiting for him in his FBI vehicle and that when he got into the vehicle, he was handed the laptop and 'began typing as the vehicle moved,'" the report says. He worked on his account as the FBI car took him to the New York field office, where aides had set up a secure video teleconference with Rybicki, McCabe, Baker, and the "Crossfire Hurricane" supervisors. Comey continued to work on his memo after that and sent the group a final version the next day, Saturday, Jan. 7.

In his memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, Comey wrote that at the Trump Tower briefing he assured the president-elect, "We are not investigating you, sir."

At the moment Comey said those words, he had the "Crossfire Hurricane" team ready for a secure video conference on Trump's response to the Steele dossier allegation.

James Clapper defending Comey:

"One man's leaker is another man's whistleblower"


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There are multiple examples from the memos of what a snake Comey was. Here is one:

From 28 Jan 2017 memo

In talking about the sex tape that Steele said the Russians were holding over Donald Trump, Comey wrote

"He said he thought maybe he should ask me to investigate the whole thing to prove it was a lie. I replied that it was up to him, but I wouldn't want to create a narrative that we were investigating him, because we were not and I worried such a thing might be misconstrued."

Comey explicitly lied to the President

Andy McCarthy's book "Ball of Collusion" appears to be very good. (I have only read a little so far.)

Here is one small piece from the book.

While Clinton keeps raising Donald Trump coordination/collusion w Russia, do you recall Skolkovo ?

A 2017 article:

https://www.nationalreview.com...erests-putin-regime/

Hillary Clinton also favored Skolkovo, an “innovation city” near Moscow, which enjoyed some $5 billion in Russian-government seed money. She discussed Skolkovo with Russia’s then-president, Dimitry Medvedev.

“At a long meeting I had with Medvedev outside Moscow in October 2009, he raised his plan to build a high-tech corridor in Russia modeled after our own Silicon Valley,” Hillary said. “When I suggested that he visit the original in California, he turned to his staff and told them to follow up.”

The month before Medved’s June 2010 visit to Silicon Valley, the State Department arranged for 22 leading U.S. venture capitalists to tour Skolkovo. Under Hillary, State encouraged American companies to participate in the Skolkovo project. Cisco, Google, and Intel are among those that got involved.

By 2012, Skolkovo boasted 28 “Key Partners” in the U.S., Europe, and Russia. Among these major supporting organizations, three-fifths had donated or pledged funds to the Clinton Foundation or paid speaking fees to Bill Clinton. According to From Russia with Money, an August 2016 study by the Government Accountability Institute, these 17 “Key Partner” entities donated between $6.5 million and $23.5 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Far more troubling, in 2014, the FBI wrote companies that operated in Skolkovo or backed the Skolkovo Foundation.

“The foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application,” warned Boston-based FBI agent Lucia Ziobro. “The FBI believes the true motives of the Russian partners, who are often funded by their government, is to gain access to classified, sensitive, and emerging technology from the companies.”

The U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Program at Fort Leavenworth concluded in 2013: “Skolkovo is arguably an overt alternative to clandestine industrial espionage.”

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