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| The T-Word... |
| 2019-05-27 |
| ...Our friends across the aisle tend to fling this word about with joyous abandon when we disagree with them about something. Well, finally one of our own has used it, and - IMHO - actual legal justification. Look carefully at the ones who scream the loudest about this...because I suspect there we shall find the guiltiest consciences. [FoxNews] Liz Cheney: Strzok-Page texts sound ’like a coup,’ could be ’treason’ Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo, said in an interview that aired Sunday that text messages between former FBI investigators Peter Strzok and Lisa Page "sound an awful lot like a coup" and could even be treason. "I think what is really crucially important to remember here is that you had Strzok and Page who were in charge of launching this investigation and they were saying things like, 'We must stop this president, we need an insurance policy against this president,'" she said on ABC News' "This Week." "In my view when you have people that are in the highest echelons of the law enforcement of this nation saying things like that, that sounds an awful lot like a coup -- and it could well be treason and I think we need to know more," she said. Cheney was referring to the anti-Trump texts uncovered last year by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Both Strzok and Page were involved in the FBI’s initial counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 election, and later served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team. In an August 2016 text message exchange, they talked about Trump’s chance of being elected president. "[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" Page texted Strzok. "No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it," Strzok responded. In another text the two talked of an "insurance policy" against the election of then-candidate Trump. Page essentially confirmed in an interview with lawmakers that this referred to the Russia investigation. She also explained that officials were proceeding with caution, concerned about the implications of the case while not wanting to go at "total breakneck speed" and risk burning sources as they presumed Trump wouldn't be elected anyway. Horowitz, who was investigating the bureau’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, is now investigating alleged surveillance abuses during the 2016 campaign. Trump on Thursday issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016. "We want to be very transparent, so as you know, I declassified everything," Trump told reporters Friday. "We are exposing everything." |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #3 Yes, there is a technical argument against using the T-word (and, given the alleged Hildabeast/DNC collusion with Steele & the Russians, an argument for it as well.) But, as with the Supreme Court justice discussing pr0n, "I know it when I see it." I just hope that AG Barr will uncover enough evidence to send the coup plotters to a SuperMax for forever and a day. |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2019-05-27 15:33 |
| #2 Left is seriously pushing back on the Treason claims. They know they will be exposed and are starting to fight the firing squad hoping instead of losing their pensions or something that will enable them to live as darlings of the left until the end. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-05-27 10:30 |
| #1 Not a Liz Cheney fan, so I wish this message could have come via a different messenger. That said, I doubt that Jesus at His Second Coming saying it would convince those on the other side, so it's a wash. In any case, the message is sound. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-05-27 10:04 |