Sharyl Atkisson on Spygate: Sure looks like FBI's operation against Trump was political

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  1. Grokmaster

    Grokmaster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    She makes a very compelling, step-by-step case. I cannot post the entire article, but you can read what I do not post, and there is a video of the ENTIRE INTERVIEW at the link.

    Sorry it was not all in text, which I much prefer...but CHECK IT OUT.

    She is very thorough.

    To say that it is disturbing, is a major understatement...especially when you factor in the FACT that the Clinton Campaign, which spent $MLLIONS to contact the Russians for "dirt" on Trump, somehow, didn't need the same "protection from the Russians" as the Trump campaign allegedly did, despite NO EVIDENCE ANYWHERE, of their APPROACHING THE RUSSIANS FOR ANYTHING.

    Quite the opposite...they were APPROACHED BY RUSSIANS, at least one of whom was abetted by the Obama DOJ, and initiated a meeting at Trump Tower, after conferring with Fusion GPS founder Simpson = SET UP.


    Sharyl Atkisson on Spygate: Sure looks like FBI's operation against Trump was political


    Tuesday, we broke down how based on publicly disclosed information, it is a logical and reasonable conclusion that politics played a major role in the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence operation involving the Trump campaign and alleged connections with the Russian government.

    Wednesday, investigative reporter Sharyl Atkisson amplified this idea at The Hill and laid out a devastating case:

    (T)here’s a growing appearance of alleged wrongdoing equally as insidious, if not more so, because it implies widespread misuse of America’s intelligence and law enforcement apparatus.

    Atkisson lays out eight major indications that the operation was directed at Trump, not the Kremlin, and was politically motivated.

    Her observations include the plethora of wiretaps:


    Secret surveillance was conducted on no fewer than seven Trump associates: chief strategist Stephen Bannon; lawyer Michael Cohen; national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn; adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner; campaign chairman Paul Manafort; and campaign foreign policy advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.

    The extraordinary use of National Security Letters:

    Improper use of such letters has been an ongoing theme at the FBI. Reviews by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General found widespread misuse under Mueller — who was then FBI director — and said officials failed to report instances of abuses as required.


    The ubiquitous and insidious use of media leaks to help drive and shape the news narrative surrounding the investigation:

    A few of the notable leaks include word that Flynn was wiretapped, the anti-Trump “Steele dossier” of political opposition research, then-FBI Director James Comey briefing Trump on it, private Comey conversations with Trump, Comey’s memos recording those conversations and criticizing Trump, the subpoena of Trump’s personal bank records (which proved false) and Flynn planning to testify against Trump (which also proved to be false).






    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/24/sharyl-atkisson-spygate-sure-looks-fbis-operation-/
     
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    straight ahead Well-Known Member

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    But the left wing media swears it was not a spy. Just keeping tabs on the evil Trump. After all, they only tell us the truth for our own good, right?
     
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    Remember when she lied about having her computer hacked?
     
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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The ‘head in the sand’ TDS sufferers will continue to ignore the obvious. Wonder how they will react to the release of the OIG reports?
     
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    She “claims” to have been hacked by the government. She even has lawsuits and has had one thrown out. Chick is bat crap crazy.
     
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    ummm.......no

    CBS News confirms Sharyl Attkisson's computer hacked

    CBS News announced Friday that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson's computer was hacked by "an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions," confirming Attkisson's previous revelation of the hacking.

    CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said that a cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News "has determined through forensic analysis" that "Attkisson's computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012."

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-confirms-sharyl-attkissons-computer-hacked/
     
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    She certainly was a target of the Obama admin after reporting on Fast and Furious and now we know the Obama admin used spy’s against the Trump campaign. With those stooges anything is possible.
     
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    yeah I mean who would believe the dems weaponized the FBI and justice system? You use the IRS as a weapon once and suddenly people see that everywhere. I mean who would believe this besides the people who are about to vote again?
     
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    Schiff says he heard nothing to that claim yesterday, as expected... "spygate" case closed... on to N. Korea, glorious leader...
     
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    But but but......they were trying to protect Trump. So says the Lying Machine Clapper.
     
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    More validation of the Demos going political.


    Holder urges DOJ/FBI to unconstitutionally defy President: 'Protect the institutions'.....


    Former Attorney General Eric Holder publicly urged his former employees at the Justice Department to defy President Trump’s request for transparency and public disclosures of information related to the unprecedented spy operation launched in 2016 against the Trump campaign.

    Holder’s insistence that the DOJ and FBI “protect the institutions” rather than carry out their constitutional duties and protect the constitution, the document they actually swear to protect when entering their federal positions is telling and rather frightening.
    If one ever searched for a “deep state” smoking gun it appears Holder has offered it up. Protect the “Institution” of the Justice Department at the expense of the US Constitution. Defy the President’s orders for the sake of the governmental apparatus.

    The more this story develops, the more they expose themselves.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...y-defy-presid/
     
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    I listed the false points in the claims that I mentioned, and I will have no trouble documented EVERY single one of them

    Citing a timeline written by the same pundit who wrote this catalog of false and misleading claims is preposterous.

    If you want a timeline of the Trump/Russia scandal. here is one"

    https://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/

    You will note that this timeline, unlike Akisson's is backed up with links and annotations, and not just empty and often false, irrelevant, or deliberatly misleading assertions.

    Some of this stuff is flat out ridiculous.

    This one is a particular gem:

    "Ukrainian-American Alexandra Chalupa, a paid consultant for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), begins researching lobbyist Paul Manafort’s Russia ties."

    Of course, for this to take on the notorious aspect that Atkisson claims, one would have had to know two years in advance that Donald Trump was going to run for President and that he would make Paul Manafort his campaign manager.

    As for the sinister insinuation that some Ukranian who has "DNC ties" (why would a Ukranian work for an American poltical party???????), the idea is ridiculous on its face.

    It didn't need research.

    I could have told you about Paul Manafort's shady Russian and Pro Russian Ukraniam friend in 2014.

    I knew exactly who he was the day Trump named him campaign manager in 2016. It was a real head scratching moment. (one of many).
     
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    Of course he did.

    And decent lawyer would have.

    Deliberately trying to bully the Justice Department into breifing the attorneys of the person you're investigating is not normal.
     
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    Not to mention Holder being desperate for attention. Since he is going to be running for the Presidency. Knowing he doesn't even have a chance at winning.

    Bullying the Justice Dept.....doesn't have anything to do with not letting the Justice Dept investigate themselves.
     
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    They will either disappear or call the OIG an alt-righter.
     
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    I am no Bama fan, but there is about to be a crimson tide.
     
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    Holder is a traitor, huh? That's crazy to think he was the AG.
     
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    Obama turned our FBI into a version of the KGB
     
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    More than likely. There is a poster on here now from the left that is claiming the New York Times is fake news because it reported about the spy on the Trump campaign.
     
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    It makes no sense because it didn't work.
     
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    I am not aware that Eric Holder is "desperate for attention"

    As a matter of fact, I was not even aware that Holder had commented on this highly irregular and improper bahavior until you brought it up.

    As for the justice department investigating itself, that wasn't the objective.

    The objective was to try and bully the Justice Department into showing what its evidence was to the attorneys for the potential defense. Which is why Trump made Emmet Flood attend, and why the Republicans at first intended this to be an entirely partisan exercise. Guliani essentially told the truth for a change. He said out loud that the real purpose of this breifing was to give Nunes something he could hand right to Trump and step in front of TV cameras and blab.

    The Justice Department gave him a polite but firm NO.

    The other reason for this circus was to blow a few things off the TV screen. Notably the revalation that the UAE approached the Trump campaign with an offer of direct aid and the same sort of data operation that the Russians were already running on Trump's behalf. An offer like this, could be absolutely illegal.

    Trump also didn't want you thinking about his fading dream of a Nobel Prize as the plan for talks with North Korea were falling apart (as many predicated).

    Also, they didn't want you paying attention while the GOP quietly dismantled the Dodd Frank Act, effectively re establishing the free wheeling no rules casino that crashed the world economy so effectively in 2008. Steve Mnuchin's work is almost done.
     
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    You don’t appear to be aware of current events or that Holder just asked for sedition.
     
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    No chance the report calls the FISA warrant process OK, and the Halper spy story bullshit?? No chance?? Wow, talk about preconceived notions...
     
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    Holder is a better AG today than the current AG.
     
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    There was no such report in the New York Times. Maybe somone on your AM radio told you that.

    But that's why you're so often punked by your own "news" sources.
     
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