GOP Lawmakers Cite New Allegations Of Political Bias In FBI

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  1. Wehrwolfen

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    How else was DJT to accept the accolade as presented by bowing his head to a man of lesser height. Should they have built a box for the Saudi King to climb so that DJT didn't have to bend?
    In the case of Obama there was no gift presented when he bowed and scraped before the Saudi King.
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    I made no criticism of posture. The cogent point is that Mueller having hardcore Trumpers in a tizzy by exposing the treachery of trumpery is resulting in a desperate, coordinated attempt to discredit the Trump Justice Department Special Counsel. It is his success in confirming the substance of what they had once tried to dismiss as their "nothingburger" that insures his continuing in his pursuit of wrongdoing. Putin's clandestine eforts to interfere in a US election to assist Trump and damage America must be exposed as a matter of vital national interest.
     
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    That was your inference. Admit it....
     
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    In Texts, F.B.I. Officials in Russia Inquiry Said Clinton ‘Just Has to Win’.....

    Senior F.B.I. officials who helped investigate Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign last year wrote in text messages that Hillary Clinton “just has to win” and described a potential Trump victory as “terrifying,” according to texts released Tuesday night.

    The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is investigating the texts as part of a wide-ranging inquiry into how the F.B.I. handled its investigations into Mrs. Clinton’s personal email server and of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. It is highly unusual for the government to release these types of documents until such an investigation is complete. The move caught internal investigators by surprise.

    F.B.I. officials who worked directly with Mr. Strzok on the Clinton and Trump investigations said they never detected any bias in his investigative work. The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, said last week at a congressional hearing that he could not discuss the texts because of the continuing investigation. But Mr. Wray said that he would “hold people accountable after there has been an appropriate investigation, independent and objective, by the inspector general into the handling of the prior matter.”

    The Justice Department’s decision to provide the texts to Capitol Hill in the middle of an investigation is also likely to attract scrutiny from Democrats.

    By releasing the texts, the Justice Department has given Mr. Trump both a shield and a sword in his political battle with Mr. Mueller’s investigators.....snip~

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/fbi-trump-russia.html

    Yep.....one can see how the GOP would be questioning about the Political Bias of the FBI. Especially those career people who never were appointed.
     
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    funny how any news of bias comes from right wing sources


    funny how the cries of bias are getting louder whenever Mueller uncovers more truths about the Trump campaign
     
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    That may have been your inference. Please don't project.

    My clearly stated opinion is that the Trump Justice Department Special Counsel is being targeted by hostile forces upset by his progress in his assigned mission, the same folks who would still be extolling his virtues and honouring for failing miserably to expose any wrongdoing.
     
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    Really? How about all those false allegations about DJT, and other Republicans coming from the Progressive Marxist Democrat agents of disinformation?
     
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    According to Trumps Lawyer.....the investigation will be over in a few weeks.


    The empty-handed Mueller investigation is coming to a close and will likely wrap up in failure within a few weeks.

    Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have finished all interviews with White House staff members according to an attorney on President Trump’s legal team.

    “The White House interviews are completed,” White House special counsel Ty Cobb told CNN on Tuesday. “We remain hopeful for an appropriate and prompt conclusion.”

    Though more interviews could be scheduled, Cobb indicated that the White House portion of the probe should be completed next year. A White House official told CNN that interviews of President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence were not requested by Mueller’s office, while Cobb and a special counsel spokesman declined to comment.

    “It’s much closer to the finish line than people realize,” Cobb said. “We’re basically done here at the White House.”.....snip~

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    most FBI agents are going to have a liberal bias given that all FBI agent candidates must have earned at least a bachelor degree.
     
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    Here is some that's not.....so you will need a better lame excuse than that lame excuse about sources.


    Mueller investigators’ text messages in 2017 mull “insurance policy” in case of Trump victory.....


    Text messages involving an FBI agent assigned to both Robert Mueller’s special-counsel probe and the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton have called the integrity of both cases into question. Peter Strzok got reassigned from his top counterintelligence position to Human Resouces after the discovery of the communications with fellow FBI agent Lisa Page, also briefly assigned to the Mueller team. Their comments over more than a year of text communications reveal a heavy bias against Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular, but it might be Strzok’s affinity for Hillary that could put the FBI under a microscope — including James Comey:

    Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in 2016 that were obtained by Fox News on Tuesday refer to then-candidate Donald Trump as a “loathsome human” and “an idiot.”

    More than 10,000 texts between Strzok and Page were being reviewed by the Justice Department after Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe after it was revealed that some of them contained anti-Trump content. …

    That seems rather telling. One could argue that an agent faced with a decision less than two months later that could knock out the “D” in favor of the “loathsome human” after both won their respective nominations could have put his thumb on the scale to keep the “D” in the race. Given the difficulty in parsing out the difference between “extreme carelessness” and “gross negligence” in a Cabinet official who deliberately hid her secret e-mail system from both Congress and the courts until it was discovered in the course of another investigation, that question seems veeeeeeery pertinent indeed.

    However, the issues aren’t entirely limited to the Hillary probe. The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross found a couple of cryptic messages that suggest some sort of plan to deal with a Trump win, one possibly involving FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe:

    Just what would this insurance policy be? An attempt to allege collusion with Russian propagandists, perhaps?.....snip~

    https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12...sages-ponder-can-smell-trump-support-walmart/


    Exactly.....just what type of insurance policy would the deviate Demos come up with, huh?

    Now what lame excuse can you come up with when they have these mopes texts and emails?

    Have you finally figured out why Mueller wont be able to go after Trump now? Looks like your very own kind ****ed that **** up.

    How you looking now.....besides coming with the lame source excuse?
     
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    Most FBI agents aren't talking about coming up with an insurance policy.....just in case Trump wins. Funny how that don't require a bachelors degree......just more deviousness coming from a leftist.
     
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    Yes. We need to expand Title IX protections to include viewpoint bias.
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    The FBI’s Trump ‘Insurance’
    More troubling evidence of election meddling at the bureau.
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    The Editorial Board

    Democrats and the media are accusing anyone who criticizes special counsel Robert Mueller as Trumpian conspirators trying to undermine his probe. But who needs critics when Mr. Mueller’s team is doing so much to undermine its own credibility?

    “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office—that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Mr. Strzok wrote Ms. Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 text. He added: “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

    What “policy” would that be? The “Andy” in question is Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director. FBI officials are allowed to have political opinions, but what kind of action were they discussing that would amount to anti-Trump “insurance”?

    Meanwhile, we’re learning more about the political motives of Mr. Mueller’s lieutenant, Andrew Weissmann.

    The man who should be most disturbed by all this is Mr. Mueller, who wants his evidence and conclusions to be credible with the public. Evidence is building instead that some officials at the FBI—who have worked for him—may have interfered in an American presidential election. Congress needs to insist on its rights as a co-equal branch of government to discover the truth.....snip~

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fb...483e1c530a0a4fe07&reflink=article_email_share
     
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    Looks like there is good reason to go after the FBI for their Bias.



    FBI made 'a ton more' edits to water down James Comey's statement on Clinton email probe
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    The FBI did far more editing of former FBI Director James Comey’s statement on their probe of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server than previously known, edits that erased serious concerns the FBI initially had, according to a key senator.

    In documents provided by Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, there were three major edits to Comey’s statement that seemed to absolve Clinton. A committee official said overall there were “a ton more” edits than previously known.

    The changes included reducing Clinton’s “culpability” in the scandal, removing references to the intelligence community’s role in the probe, and downgrading the likelihood that spies had penetrated Clinton’s private server stuck in the basement of her New York home.

    Johnson is now demanding that everybody connected to the process of writing and editing Comey’s statement be identified. “We are asking for everyone that edited the speech,” said a committee official.

    He is also looking into the pro-Clinton, anti-President Trump bias in the probe.

    Johnson’s letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray also cited another major edit. “The edited version also contained a sentence that read, “This is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on servers not supported by full-time security staff, like those found at the departments and agencies of the U.S. government.” Comey did not use that sentence in his final statement.

    Before: “We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. Given the combination of factors, we assess it is reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s private email account.”

    After: “Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account.”.....snip~

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/f...tement-on-clinton-email-probe/article/2643568
     
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    Grassley To DoJ: You’d Better Explain Strzok’s “Insurance Policy” Against Trump.

    Just what did two FBI agents, both of whom ended up on Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe, mean by having an “insurance policy” against a Donald Trump victory? Mueller later removed Peter Strzok when the text messages emerged from their private communications, and Lisa Page had left the probe earlier on her own, but the claim appears to reference a plan in August 2016 to use the power of the FBI to attack a newly elected president. Politico reports that Senate Judiciary chair Chuck Grassley wants answers from Rod Rosenstein ASAP:

    “The limited release of 375 text messages between Mr. Peter Strzok and Ms. Lisa Page indicate a highly politicized FBI environment during both the Clinton and Russia investigations,” Grassley wrote in a letter to deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to lead a criminal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

    In on one August 2016 exchange in which Strzok mentions a conversation in “Andy’s office,” which probably means FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.

    “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Sztrok wrote to Page. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…”

    Grassley asked Rosenstein to provide any additional materials that might shed light on the meaning of that message. In recent public testimony, DOJ officials, including Rosenstein, have declined to divulge more context or details about the significance of the texts, deferring to an ongoing inspector general investigation of the FBI’s handling of a 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

    We expect officials — especially in law enforcement — to execute the duties of their offices properly and without favor, and to abide by the results of elections even when the result cuts across their own preferences. This text exchange took place three months before the election and at least appears to reference a high-ranking FBI official as part of a conspiracy to react to one candidate’s election. That makes the context of the other text messages much more interesting, too; it points to a motive that has nothing at all to do with law enforcement.

    Grassley wants to know just what was meant by the “insurance policy.” This exchange took place in August 2016, not long after the now-infamous Steele dossier came to the FBI’s attention. According to the timeline established prior to the exposure of the Strzok-Page texts, Steele brought the dossier to the FBI in early July 2016, which opened an investigation later the same month — just a week or two before Strzok’s texts. At some point, the FBI attempted to pay Steele for his work and did, in fact, reimburse him to some extent, as the Washington Post reported in February.

    What role, exactly, did Strzok play in these actions? ABC News noted in September — when his departure emerged but not the reason for it — that he had been “chief of the FBI’s counterespionage section.” That would strongly suggest that Strzok was involved in the FBI’s management of the dossier, if not in charge of it. Was the attempt to pay Steele for continuing to work on the dossier the “insurance policy” that Strzok references? Was Andrew McCabe part of that plan?

    In the end, the FBI didn’t find much corroboration for the dossier and didn’t release it during the campaign. However, someone leaked it to a number of media outlets after the election, with Buzzfeed publishing it in full — and getting reamed by other media outlets for doing so. Nevertheless, its release helped build momentum for the “Russian collusion” probe that has resulted in months of political instability and controversy.

    All of this could be a coincidence … but Grassley isn’t making that assumption. Neither should Rod Rosenstein. Grassley has a set of specific questions for Rosenstein to answer:

    Accordingly, please answer the following no later than December 27, 2017:
    1. On what date did you become aware of the text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page and on what date were they each removed from the Special Counsel’s office?
    2. Are there any other records relating to the conversation in Andrew McCabe’s office shortly before the text described above on August 15, 2016? If so please produce them to the Committee.
    3. Please provide all records relating to Andrew McCabe’s communications with Peter Strzok or Lisa Page between August 7, 2016 and August 23, 2016.
    4. What steps have you taken to determine whether Mr. Strzok, Mr. Page, and Mr. McCabe should face disciplinary action for their conduct?
    5. My understanding is that the Inspector General’s current investigation is limited to the handling of the Clinton email matter only. What steps have you taken to determine whether steps taken during the campaign to escalate the Russia investigation might have been a result of the political animus evidenced by these text messages rather than on the merits?
    6. Has the Department identified the referenced “that phone” Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page used to discuss Secretary Clinton? What steps has the Department taken to review the records on this other phone that allegedly “can’t be traced.” If none, please explain why not? If steps have been taken, please detail them and provide all records reviewed.
    Question 5 is the big enchilada. Did the FBI really have reason to buy the dossier from Steele on the basis of legitimate counterespionage? Or did Strzok just decide he wanted an “insurance policy” to get Hillary Clinton elected?

    https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12...etter-explain-strzoks-insurance-policy-trump/
     
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