Congressional Republicans have set their sights on former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for their roles in the Trump-Russia ‘witch hunt’ that may have been conducted illegally using flimsy evidence.
In particular, GOP lawmakers along with President Trump are looking to blame the two former intelligence chiefs over the use of the highly controversial Steele report – created by former UK spy Christopher Steele .
The dossier, a shadowy document that makes a series of salacious allegations about Trump, has long been a flashpoint for Republicans.
Some Republicans allege that FBI investigators relied too heavily on it to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Some of the allegations in the dossier have been verified, while others were proven false or remain unsubstantiated. –The Hill
In May, a dispute erupted over whether Comey or Brennan pushed to include the Steele Dossier in the US intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference. According to Fox News, an email chain exists indicating that Comey told his subordinates that Brennan insisted on the dossier’s inclusion, while a former CIA official “put the blame squarely on Comey,” according to the report.
According to former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), communications between Comey and Brennan are the key to unlocking the decisions behind the dossier.
“Whoever is investigating this, tell them to look for emails between Brennan and Comey in December of 2016,” Gowdy told Fox News‘s Sean Hannity last month.
Republican lawmakers took Gowdy’s cue.
“Comey and Brennan have made a lot of statements, some under oath, about the origins of the Trump Russia investigation, the timing and role of the Steele dossier and reasons for surveillance of Trump campaign officials. As I’ve been saying for awhile now, some of that is inconsistent with the contents of classified documents and the sworn testimony of other witnesses,” Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a member of the Judiciary Committee, told The Hill.
“And more recently, some of what Brennan and Comey have been saying is now inconsistent with one another. As Attorney General Barr said this morning, it just doesn’t jive. Someone isn’t telling the truth,” he continued. –The Hill
Attorney General William Barr has placed Connecticut US attorney John Duham in charge of reviewing the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, while President Trump gave Barr complete power to declassify information linked to the investigation – leading Democrats to suggest that Trump would ‘pursue a political agenda’ while investigating the politicized ‘witch hunt’ against him.
“Selectively declassifying sources and methods in order to serve a political agenda will make it harder for the intelligence community to do their jobs protecting this country from those who wish to do us harm,” said Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA).
Perhaps Congressional Republicans will focus next on Joseph Mifsud – the Maltese professor and Clinton ally who ‘seeded’ the rumor that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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It gets better:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-01/its-all-fraud-deceptive-edits-found-mueller-report
Mueller and team allegedly fabricated “evidence.”
While hopeful I am not optimistic. To change the dynamic, Trump would need to arrest prosecute and imprison or execute the key political figures….right up to and including Obama and Hillary. Failure to do so will simply encourage additional corruption of our legal system, weaponization of the intelligence services and additional coup plotting.
The “… ‘ADDITIONAL’ corruption of our legal system, weaponization of the intelligence services and ‘ADDITIONAL’ coup plotting…?
They’re already completely ‘additional’ed’. That game is over. You’ve say yourself. The Capital Cartel’ controls all with a global conspiracy of elite bankers. Resistance is futile. Hope is stupid.
Hitler, Stalin and Mao would’ve been jealous of Uncle Sam’s conviction rates. If the Feds want you, you get got. The facts don’t matter, justice is dead. End of story. Because not one of the many OBVIOUS criminals that have reported directly to the last four Presidents is going to jail. IT ISN’T TRUMP’S FAULT!
Remember Hoover, the faggot, pipsqueak, crossdressing FBI Director that EVERYBODY hated, who collected everybody’s yanked shorthairs for decades into a “dossier, a shadowy document that makes a series of salacious allegations …?
The real “weaponization of the intelligence services’ IS the final corruption of our legal system, and it makes Hoover look benign. They ‘have the goods’ on everybody, even if they have to manufacture them.
There will be no ‘justice’ for those who have steered America’s heritage into a ditch; we’ll just get fucked harder until we end the rape.
You’ve offered to lead the charge, yes?
Where’s Lexington?
Will Hammer and Dung please let us dream ? Please don’t slap us with reality and wake us up.
I asked if other’s were willing to lead the charge against the Jews, the Deep State etc. based on way over the top internet muscles BS…. Nope, I am safely tucked away hoping the crocodile eats me last.
All of a sudden…
…they had an understanding.
It was New Year’s Eve, 2012, Sayulita, Nayarit. My oldest daughter’s 30th birthday was January 1, so we were on a tear. I’d already walked our party through a private home’s living room on the way to a beach party and limits weren’t a consideration.
The glowing coal of Sayulita’s nightlife, The Buddha Bar, was sparkling Mexico’s unique aura of sinister sensuality when I led my two daughters and their fellows in shortly after 11 PM. Its entry was its dance floor, which was empty, as were its perimeter booths., recessed in arched plastered alcoves. The music thumped through the concrete floors and I immediately wanted to dance.
I turned around to face my daughters, halfway across the danced floor, “Who wants to dance?!?!”
“Uh, Dad..” My oldest daughter had that ‘are you kidding me?’ look, “…maybe a drink first?”
“Right… I’ll be right back.”
The line was 30-deep at the bar. Despite my promise to my youngest daughter to NOT bring any blow into our revelries, everyone had filled their nose with the Devil’s dandruff except her, thanks to Dad’s always unbridled limits on revelry.
So I cut in line in a Mexican bar on New Year’s Eve in front of many sketchy critters, slapped a $100 bill on the counter in front of the first guy in line and said to the bartender, “Cinco Patrón Añejos, y Cinco aguas; no cambio.”
The bartender’s huge tip clearly wasn’t his main interest as he grinned at the smoldering customer, who I’d interrupted and was glaring at me when he asked, “Who the FUCK do you think you are?”
I loved it; molten metal began to well, I looked at him, deadpan, the muscles on one side of my nose twitching, “Mi Nobre is cocodrillo, y usted?”
The guy’s eyes unfocused and his answer couldn’t be heard over the Bartender’s booming laughter as he turned to fill my order. Ten minutes later, I was dancing with a woman who approached and asked me to dance while I was grooving in the men’s bathroom line.
My forehead didn’t ever have a red mark when, during a spining moonwalk, I headbutted the arch in front of my daughter’s booth and plaster showered onto the floor.
Drugs are bad, mkay.
That is just flat out bullshit.
You mean the Clanton’s at the O.K corral?
Don’t forget ValGal, she’s in this up to her evil fucking eyeballs.
The GOP got off their ass to do something about anything? The Bigfoot and Loc Ness Monster marriage photos are more believable than action by the GOP.
err Sasquatch is real the Loch Ness monster unlikely as the Loch was covered in a 1-mile thick sheet of ice in the last ice age….over the course of the last 6 million years there have always been multiple hominid species co-existing…why would now be any different? Now back to your regularly scheduled political programming.
I thought Q was fake…
Hell I needed a good laugh today…thanks.