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Veteran Reporter Says Uncovered FBI Text on Trump Should Alarm Every American
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/author/cillian-zeal/?ff_source=push&ff_medium=conservativetribune&ff_campaign=manualpost&ff_content=2018-08-10

The Strzok-Page texts will be scrutinized by Americans for years to come. They’re the closest evidence we have to the thought processes going on inside the Department of Justice and FBI during the 2016 campaign season and as the special counsel began its investigation.

There’s one text that most people who find something seriously wrong with how the nation’s top law enforcement agencies have behaved point to in particular — one where Peter Strzok said that “we’ll stop” Trump.

According to The Hill’s John Solomon, that’s not where our gaze ought to be fixed, however. If you’re not familiar with him, Solomon is a veteran reporter who’s done some of the most important investigative journalism on the FBI and DOJ’s conduct involving the Trump/Russia investigation.

He’s the one who first reported that the FBI had been investigating Russian connections before they said they were (and that they hadn’t used their own protocols during the investigation) and that the Bureau had tried to pressure a Russian oligarch to give evidence about Russian collusion within Trump’s campaign even though the oligarch said they were “trying to create something out of nothing.”

In an op-ed for The Hill last month, Solomon said that we should instead be focusing our attention on a May 19, 2017 text from Strzok, which stated, “There’s no big there there.” To make matters worse, he notes their motives may not have been entirely pure — and not just because of their political beliefs.

“The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign,” Solomon wrote. “Since the text was turned over to Congress, investigators wondered whether it referred to the evidence against the Trump campaign.

“This month, they finally got the chance to ask. Strzok declined to say — but Page, during a closed-door interview with lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple eyewitnesses.

“The admission is deeply consequential. It means Rosenstein unleashed the most awesome powers of a special counsel to investigate an allegation that the key FBI officials, driving the investigation for 10 months beforehand, did not think was ‘there.'”

And let’s keep in mind, neither Strzok nor Page were known to be great fans of either Donald Trump or his administration. These were people who would have eagerly pursued the case if they believed there was something there to pursue.

“By the time of the text and Mueller’s appointment, the FBI’s best counterintelligence agents had had plenty of time to dig. They knowingly used a dossier funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which contained uncorroborated allegations — to persuade the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to issue a warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page (no relation to Lisa Page),” Solomon wrote.

“They sat on Carter Page’s phones and emails for nearly six months without getting evidence that would warrant prosecuting him. The evidence they had gathered was deemed so weak that their boss, then-FBI Director James Comey, was forced to admit to Congress after being fired by Trump that the core allegation remained substantially uncorroborated....

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Great cartoon. Sooo true!
https://static.onepoliticalplaza.com/upload/2018/8/10/t1-677456-beating_horse.jpg

BTW; am I the only one that sees a resemblance between a horses face and Mueller's?

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Check this thread

https://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-137711-1.html

badbob85037

When this is over and if there is still justice in this nation there will be a lot of Democrats convicted of crimes ranging from conspiracy to high treason. Can anyone explain to me how these people have not been indited or why Hillary is not already serving her time and what about the i***ts that still support these treasonous criminals. Bottom line there is not one issue democrats support that is for the betterment of this nation, not one. They support everything from v***r f***d to disarming us. It's time the silent majority start making some noise until these leftest crawl back under their rock and stay. A good place to start would be the Teachers Union and their text books of lies.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Nope.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

I am with you 100%.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

The handwritten notes exposing what Fusion GPS told DOJ about Trump

John Solomon

A memory stick quietly exchanged in a coffee shop.

An admission of a “Hail Mary” leak.

An unmistakable effort to push the Russia investigation closer to Donald Trump’s inner circle with uncorroborated tales.

Those are just some of the highlights from the day that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson — paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to find dirt on her GOP rival — met secretly with a top Justice Department official, right after T***p w*n the 2016 e******n.

And all of it was captured in the official’s handwritten notes — a contemporaneous record that intelligence professionals tell me exposes the flaws plaguing the early Russia collusion case.

For example, Simpson told then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr during the Dec. 10, 2016, meeting in a Washington coffee shop that he believed Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, was the “go-between from Russia to the Trump campaign.”

Yet, Simpson allegedly acknowledged that most of the information Fusion GPS and British intelligence operative Christopher Steele developed did not come from sources inside Moscow. “Much of the collection about the Trump campaign ties to Russia comes from a former Russian intelligence officer (? not entirely clear) who lives in the U.S.,” Ohr scribbled in his notes.

In those notes, Ohr repeatedly misspells Simpson’s first name as “Glen.”

Cohen has emphatically and repeatedly denied any role in connecting Russia to the Trump campaign. His lawyer, Lanny Davis, declined comment Thursday.

Simpson admitted in sworn testimony last year to the House Intelligence Committee that he had contact with Ohr after Trump’s e******n victory. But Ohr’s notes provide the first detailed public account of what the two men actually discussed.

Congressional investigators now are scouring them for evidence that Simpson and Steele had influence over the Russia probe, even after Steele was dismissed as an FBI informant in November 2016. Investigators want to know if any players in the Russia probe gave Congress false testimony.

One notation that stands out is Simpson’s account that he asked Steele to talk with Mother Jones reporter David Corn about their muckraking on Trump and Russia in the final days of the e******n. At the time, Steele still worked as an FBI source.

Corn’s Oct. 31, 2016, story was one of the most definitive to allege possible ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow, creating an important talking point for Democrats in the final days of the campaign.

“Glen asked Chris to speak to the Mother Jones reporter. It was Glen’s Hail Mary attempt,” Ohr wrote.

When Simpson testified before Congress, he said he and Steele acted out of a sense of duty. “For him it was professional obligations. I mean, for both of us it was citizenship. You know, people report crimes all the time,” he told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In his House testimony, though, he conceded not knowing if what he and Steele dug up amounted to a crime: “At the time that we — you know, that Chris decided to take this to the FBI, I wasn't convinced of the facts of anything in terms of — I wasn't convinced that there was a specific crime that occurred.”

So, congressional investigators want to know why — if Simpson acted purely on the basis of civic duty — he and Steele went to the press shortly before E******n Day with allegations before the FBI completed its work.

Simpson’s lawyer, Josh Levy, did not return a call seeking comment.

Much of the other information attributed to Simpson that December day, according to Ohr’s notes, involved admittedly uncorroborated allegations — such as claims that a computer server in a Russian-owned bank was secretly t***smitting messages to the Trump campaign, or that the NRA was secretly taking money from a Russian official. Many of the claims eventually made their way into news reports.

Ohr made clear he took possession of some evidence from Simpson, writing: “Glen gave me a memory stick.”

Early on, Ohr’s notes detail, the conversation focused on a theory apparently offered by Simpson that revolving Trump team members — former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, followed by informal adviser Carter Page, then Cohen — forged a secret channel with Moscow to hijack the e******n.

All three men long have been cited in the Russia investigation; each denies any coordination with Russia. But Ohr’s notes are the first to quote Simpson as suggesting the three essentially were shark-tooth spies who replaced each other in a secret plot.

“He identified Michael Cohen, a lawyer in Brooklyn w. Russian (Brighton Beach) clients, as the go-between from Russia to the Trump campaign who replaced Manafort and Carter Page,” Ohr’s notes read, quoting Simpson’s alleged narrative.

The notes suggest guilt by association, citing Cohen’s wife and suggesting one of Cohen’s in-laws had real estate dealings in Moscow “with ties to the Kremlin.”

“Cohen may have attended a meeting in Prague, possibly in September, about this,” Ohr quoted Simpson as saying — a claim that became public a month later, in January 2017, when BuzzFeed published a version of Steele’s uncorroborated dossier.

Cohen’s lawyers have rebutted every mention of their client in the dossier, pointedly noting he has never been to Prague.

Cohen, now under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, has hinted he may have information damaging to Trump. But special counsel Robert Mueller has signaled he's not currently interested in Cohen, letting U.S. attorneys in Manhattan take the first crack at his case.

Two days after Ohr's meeting with Simpson, the senior Justice Department official met with the FBI and submitted to an interview about what he had learned.

I shared the Ohr notes I obtained to career intelligence professionals with years of experience analyzing data, sorting the reliable from the garbage.

All had the same reaction: The information, on face value, has the lowest level of credibility. It was second- or third-hand, they noted, and couched with lots of caveats like “may,” “possibly” and “others disagree.”

The alleged Simpson statement that he went to the media as a “Hail Mary” stood out to those professionals as an act of desperation that they would see as weighing against the motives of an intelligence source.

A couple of the experts f**gged that most of what Simpson allegedly told Ohr was not from Moscow — where the alleged plot was supposed to be based — but from a reported Russian in the United States who later seemed to disappear, according to Ohr’s notes.

“First thing I’m wondering is whether that Russian was part of a ‘kompromat' operation to further roil the U.S. e******n rather than a whistleblower,” one of the experts opined.

And all wondered why a Justice official — Ohr — who was not in the chain of command in the Russia counterintelligence probe, and whose wife worked for Fusion GPS on the Trump project, interviewed Simpson at all.

The Ohr interview and many other now-public actions in the Russia collusion case are “breaking every protocol at the fundamental level of intelligence gathering,” one highly decorated intelligence professional told me.

Wh**ever their assessment, Congress has a wide, new mandate to investigate the Simpson-Ohr-Steele contacts with renewed vigor and lots of questions that did not exist just a few short weeks ago: What was on the memory stick? What did Ohr do with the information? Did the FBI rely on it for future court actions? Did the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court that approved surveillance warrants know Ohr was getting information from the Simpson-Steele operation after Steele had been dismissed?

Those answers could make for a long, politically hot autumn in Washington.

Radiance3

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The FBI was created to protect the American people. Instead, it became the most dangerous weapon used against the innocent, political opponent, and the American people, to pursue its corrupt desires to destroying a duly elected president, at the expense of the American taxpayers.

Now most evidences have come to light, revealing everything that they maliciously, illegally, and fraudulently created, in the pursuit of destroying the duly elected president Trump.
All evidences are now gathered.
All participants of the crimes have been named.
Mueller, the party to this fraud, still pretending to continue their pursuit of destruction, is one of the prime enemies of justice.
The American taxpayers have spent tens of millions of dollars supporting these criminal fraudulent activities that are still alive under Mueller.

Why does Mueller still holding into their criminal activities? Or is he so guilty that ending the case might put him on a trap? He has made a number of people suffer, not relevant to the subject he was maliciously investigating.

This is the greatest corruption in the history of our country.
We the people must sue the FBI and DOJ of Obama.
We the people, must demand Congress by requiring the DOJ to create an investigative body to initiate a team of prosecutors, or independent investigators in order to put justice, to clean the snakes from the Justice
System, and the FBI. Must start with Mueller, Rosenstein, Comey, and FBI participants. This is the Deep State of Obama. Hillary Clinton must also answer for all her crimes.

Unless these FBI criminals are not removed from their post, and punished for their crimes, we will continue to suffer a two tiered justice system, and the constitution broken.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Stormy Daniels.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

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nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

I have been harping on that one for weeks. I have put it up time and again; who is "we?"

Radiance3

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