Quote:RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?
It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.
Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.
Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who’d be staying on in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump.
It happened at an Oval Office meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, intel chiefs John Brennan and Jim Clapper and national security adviser Susan Rice, as well as FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.
“From a national-security perspective,” Rice’s memo afterward put it, “President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”
This even as then-President Obama also directed that as many people as possible across his administration be briefed on the (utterly unsubstantiated) allegations against Team Trump — and as Rice and others took unprecedented steps to “unmask” US citizens like Flynn whose conversations had been caught on federal wiretaps of foreigners.
Indeed, the Obama administration went on a full-scale leak offensive — handing the Washington Post, New York Times and others a nonstop torrent of “anonymous” allegations of Trumpite ties to Moscow. It suggested that the investigations were finding a ton of treasonous dirt on Team Trump — when in fact the investigators had come up dry.
Sadly, Comey’s FBI played along — sandbagging Flynn with the “friendly” interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he’d done nothing like collude with the Russians.
Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn’t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.
Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.
There was the IRS scandal disallowing conservatives non-profit status, the AG gun running scandal, the DOJ tarmac scandal, the FBI Clinton scandal... so why would anyone in their right mind believe for one second that Obama was NOT involved in trying to frame then Candidate and current President Trump?
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2020 03:19 PM by CrimsonPhantom.)
Only one reason a UN Ambassador or the Amb to San Marino and 35 others would all be doing this-to muddy the waters so much that no one is ever held accountable.
The old adage about eating an elephant, where to start? And this little concerto of synchronized unmasking didn’t just happen organically. There had to be a director to get everyone on board.
So, who would have the ability to get the CIADirector, the Acting Asst Director of Treasury and ALL these other far-flung people singing from the same song sheet?
(05-13-2020 04:59 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: Only one reason a UN Ambassador or the Amb to San Marino and 35 others would all be doing this-to muddy the waters so much that no one is ever held accountable.
The old adage about eating an elephant, where to start? And this little concerto of synchronized unmasking didn’t just happen organically. There had to be a director to get everyone on board.
So, who would have the ability to get the CIADirector, the Acting Asst Director of Treasury and ALL these other far-flung people singing from the same song sheet?
Do any of you really believe Clapper? He really doesn't remember? That excuse might fly legitimately for slo Joe Biden, given his mental deterioration, but Clapper? He doesn't remember the reason for asking for the incoming National Security Advisor to be unmasked? That's a really big deal to do that to somebody in that position. But they felt they had to as Flynn was an experienced intelligence professional and would blow the lid off of much of what they had done and were doing.
Not.buying.that.for.a.second. Clapper's a lyin POS, just like the rest of the clowns surrounding the chief lying POS that occupied the big chair.
The rats are scared cause they know that all will be laid bare soon. This weasel Clapper seems incapable of telling the truth. The left and their co-conspirators and their enablers (the complicit media stooges that were being played by the intelligence community with planted, strategic leaks) are pulling out all the stops to keep this from being obvious to even the dumbest of the American people. We have a few of them that frequent this board.
Justice Sullivan's antics in the Flynn case seem to be a stalling tactic to drag all this out past the election in hopes they can cheat by harvesting enough ballots to get Biden (or anybody but Trump) elected and then they can make ALL OF THIS go away. Hopefully, Sidney Powell (or somebody else) can get a speedy hearing or assistance from a higher court to slap down Sullivan's nonsense and get the case dismissed. Sullivan should be dismissed from the bench for his clearly partisan antics.
Think about this: there was not one single person in that administration that said, “wait a minute. This is not legal nor is it right. We lost. Time to pack up and leave like civil leaders.” Not one whistle blower in the whole bunch. Disgusting. They followed Barry like the Germans followed Hitler. No one felt the honor to stop him.
(05-14-2020 05:02 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote: Think about this: there was not one single person in that administration that said, “wait a minute. This is not legal nor is it right. We lost. Time to pack up and leave like civil leaders.” Not one whistle blower in the whole bunch. Disgusting. They followed Barry like the Germans followed Hitler. No one felt the honor to stop him.
Yates might have been a candidate but she choose the wrong path.
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