Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2020-03-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI's Russia collusion case fell apart in first month of Trump presidency, memos show
[Just the News] The piecemeal release of FBI files in the Russia collusion investigation has masked an essential fact: James Comey’s G-men had substantially debunked the theory that Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow by the time the 45th president was settling into the Oval Office, according to declassified memos, court filings and interviews.

And that means a nascent presidency and an entire nation were put through two more years of lacerating debate over an issue that was mostly resolved in January 2017 inside the bureau’s own evidence files. The proof is now sitting in plain view.

In rapid fire sequence in January 2017, U.S. officials:

  • Received multiple warnings about the credibility of informant Christopher Steele and his dossier;

  • Affirmed key targets of the FBI counterintelligence investigation made exculpatory statements denying collusion to undercover sources;

  • Concluded retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, was not engaged in collusion with the Russians.

    The latter revelation has mostly escaped much notice, contained in a single sentence in a once-sealed court motion filed by Flynn defense attorney Sidney Powell that requested what is known as Brady material, or evidence of innocence.

    That motion dated Sept. 11, 2019 requested access to "an internal DOJ document dated January 30, 2017, in which the FBI exonerated Mr. Flynn of being ’an agent of Russia.’"
  • Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

    #1 Andthat means a nascent presidency and an entire nation were put through two more years of lacerating debate over an issue that was mostly resolved in January 2017 inside the bureau’s own evidence files.

    Essentially providing cover for criminal activity, or am I missing something ?
    Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-12 02:15||   2020-03-12 02:15|| Front Page Top

    #2 What I really would like to see.
    (i) Serious investigation of Chinese interference in USA elections.
    (ii) Serious investigation of EU/NGO interference in Israeli elections.
    Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-12 02:19||   2020-03-12 02:19|| Front Page Top

    #3 What I really would like to see.

    Clintons hanged
    Obamas disappeared
    Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-12 10:10||   2020-03-12 10:10|| Front Page Top

    #4 Sorry Skid, your list is much too short.
    Posted by AlanC 2020-03-12 11:13||   2020-03-12 11:13|| Front Page Top

    17:38 Lord Garth
    17:29 alanc
    17:09 BrerRabbit
    16:13 Pancho Poodle8452
    16:08 Beavis
    16:08 Lord Garth
    15:52 Lord Garth
    15:28 trailing wife
    15:26 Pancho Poodle8452
    15:26 trailing wife
    14:34 Frank G
    14:28 Melancholic
    14:27 NoMoreBS
    14:14 swksvolFF
    14:12 swksvolFF
    13:54 mossomo
    13:51 mossomo
    13:50 NoMoreBS
    13:50 Abu Uluque
    13:44 Abu Uluque
    13:41 NoMoreBS
    13:39 Abu Uluque
    13:36 mossomo
    13:36 swksvolFF









    Paypal:
    Google
    Search WWW Search rantburg.com