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2019-11-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Whitewash update: Horowitz FBI Didn't Spy On Trump's Campaign

[Hot Air] Can you imagine what the presidential sh*tposting about Bill Barr will be like if the Horowitz report turns out to be a dud? Trump is counting on it to deliver his vindication in the Russiagate mess. Barr was the Roy Cohn figure POTUS had longed for after being massively disappointed by Jeff Sessions, the AG who would finally prove that Trump’s worst fears were right all along. The bogus Steele dossier inspired the witch hunt; the renegade deep-staters at the FBI spied on the campaign; Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, and God knows who else were all rancid with bias against Trump because they resented a right-wing anti-interventionist president who wasn’t chummy with Washington’s entrenched bureaucracy.

According to last week’s Times story about the IG’s draft report and now this new one, none of it is true. Per this afternoon’s reporting, inspector general Michael Horowitz is prepared to conclude that the FBI didn’t spy on the campaign.

...although it did use at least two informants to make contact with Trump campaign staff. Huh?

Until now, the debate over whether the FBI had "spied on the campaign" focused on the spying part. Is it "spying" when the police use an informant as part of a legitimate counterintelligence or criminal investigation? (Last week’s reporting claimed that the draft report will find that the Russiagate probe did have a sufficient factual and legal basis when it was opened.) But now we’re going to end up debating the "on the campaign" part too. Was the FBI spying on "the campaign" if it had informants in touch with advisors to the campaign but not attempting to join the campaign themselves? Remember that both Stefan Halper and a mystery woman were each working for the feds when they made contact with George Papadopoulos.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-28 03:10|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Obama administration's faux concern over Russian espionage. Oh WTF, just release all ten of them. We'll call it a 'swap' and go grab some lunch.

Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман, born Anna Vasil’yevna Kushchyenko 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on June 27, 2010 as part of the Illegals Program spy ring. At the time of her arrest she was accused of espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (SVR).[2][4][5] She had previously gained British citizenship through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S.

Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. She and the other Russians were deported to Russia on 8 July 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia–U.S. prisoner swap. Learning that Chapman had wanted to return to the United Kingdom, the UK government revoked her British citizenship and excluded her from the country.

Since her return to Russia, Chapman has worked in a variety of fields, including for the government as head of a youth council, a catwalk model in Russian fashion shows, and running a television series.

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-28 03:47|| 2019-11-28 03:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, and God knows who else were all rancid with bias against Trump

God knows who else? Well, we know who else.
Clinesmith aka Otter, plus
Weissman plus
Vindman aka Flounder plus
Ciaramella aka PajamaBoy...

Simpson aka

Posted by Lex 2019-11-28 04:09|| 2019-11-28 04:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Pre-spinning by Democrats and their symps

Posted by Frank G 2019-11-28 06:54|| 2019-11-28 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Nothing heard on the topic from Admiral(Ret) Michael S. Rogers, U.S. Navy, former Director NSA. Yes, that's the fellow who conducted a solo visit to Trump towers (the day before the Trump campaign team moved to more secure quarters).

Nothing heard at all.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-28 09:25|| 2019-11-28 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 If they were spying or whatever they kept notes and tapes and all sorts of data. Trump could declassify it all. I'm sure it would make interesting reading.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-11-28 10:21|| 2019-11-28 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 SS Part 200

Posted by Lex 2019-11-28 11:12|| 2019-11-28 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Leaks printed by the NYT? I wouldn't put too much faith in them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-28 11:33|| 2019-11-28 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Where are we headed? And why are we in this handbasket?

Posted by Regular joe 2019-11-28 16:04|| 2019-11-28 16:04|| Front Page Top

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