Operation Boomerang AG Barr's Investigation of Acts of Treason by Federal Employees

[B-Man]

CLINTON EMAILS, CONTINUED

 

Last week The Hill’s John Solomon reported yet another twist in the FBI’s investigative nonfeasance in the Clinton email case. The report comes in Solomon’s excellent column “The road not taken: Another FBI failure involving the Clintons surfaces.” Solomon reports that “Johnson and Grassley have been unable to get answers for a year, even from Attorney General William Barr, about whether the FBI intends to look at critical evidence it skipped back in 2016.”

 

Solomon’s column is based on an August 14 memo by majority committee staff to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson. As Solomon explains, the Senate staff memo “lays out just how egregious the FBI’s decision was in 2016.”

 

Senator Grassley has posted the August 14 staff memo and attachments here. The three-page memo is self-explanatory.

 

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Solomon comments, in short: “Now we learn the FBI willfully chose to ignore highly classified evidence in the Clinton email case and has stonewalled Congress for a year on whether it intends to reexamine that evidence. It’s exactly that sort of behavior that leaves many Americans wondering whether there are two systems of justice inside the FBI — one for the Clintons, and one for the rest of the country.”

 

 

 

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[TakeYouToTasker]

 

[B-Man]

More:

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

NOPE..........

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

IF THEY DO, I HOPE THEY RAID HIS HOUSE AT 4AM LIKE THEY DID WITH PAUL MANAFORT: 

 

Prosecutors Near Decision on Whether to Indict Andrew McCabe. 

 

Perp-walking him off a live CNN set is also acceptable.

 

 

 

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[Deranged Rhino]

[Golden Goat]

Could the discussions be about immunity or reduced charges for testifying against bigger fish? Depending on the fish, I could get behind that.

[DC Tom]

8 hours ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

 

 

[Cinga]

40 minutes ago, Golden Goat said:

Could the discussions be about immunity or reduced charges for testifying against bigger fish? Depending on the fish, I could get behind that.

It could have.... before he signed with CNN but now all bets are off!

[Deranged Rhino]

1 hour ago, Golden Goat said:

Could the discussions be about immunity or reduced charges for testifying against bigger fish? Depending on the fish, I could get behind that.

 

Not sure, but I would be surprised if such a deal were offered prior to being indicted. Someone needs to be the first one to go down in SpyGate to start the domino effect. I expected Comey, but McCabe is a better start because his domino knocks over stacks in not just the FBI and DOJ, but in Langley as well. 

Edited August 27, 2019 by Deranged Rhino

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

DOJ INSPECTOR GENERAL PREPARING SEPARATE REPORT ON COMEY

 

Byron York reports that Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, is preparing a report on the conduct of fired FBI Director James Comey. This report will be separate from Horowitz’s larger report on the DOJ’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe.

According to Byron’s sources, the separate report on Comey will deal with his handling of several memos he wrote memorializing conversations with President Trump. Byron observes:

Comey’s memos were, at the least, confidential FBI documents, and at most, in some cases, classified. Comey told Congress that he sent some of the memos to a friend for the purpose of being leaked to the New York Times. Comey hoped media reports would set off a firestorm that would ultimately result in the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Trump-Russia matter.

 

Which they did, to Trump’s detriment and, I would argue, the country’s.

 

 

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[Deranged Rhino]

(Whenever someone gives me a date, I roll my eyes internally -- but) The beltway is expecting to Comey report to drop tomorrow. It's 65 pages, per multiple people. The fact that the page count is being talked about (again, not just in media but by people I speak with) says to me that it's already been out and in circulation (Comey's read it). No charges expected, despite referrals by the OIG. 

 

We'll see. 

(People claiming to have read it/worked on it say to me it's going to be damning)

[Hedge]

 

 

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My sources tell me President Trump is putting the finishing touches on a White House initiative to declassify documents that have remained hidden from the public for far too long.

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But my reporting indicates three sets of documents from the Obama years should be declassified immediately, too, because they will fundamentally change the public’s understanding of history and identify ways to improve governance.

The first includes the national security assessments that the U.S. intelligence community conducted under President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning the Russia nuclear giant Rosatom’s effort to acquire uranium business in the United States.

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Sources who have seen these classified assessments tell me they debunk the last administration’s storyline that there were no national security reasons to oppose Rosatom’s Uranium One purchase or Vladimir Putin’s successful efforts to secure billions of dollars in new nuclear fuel contracts with American utilities during the Obama years. 

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A second body of documents crying out for declassification is Obama’s private correspondence with Iranian leaders — in particular, the Oct. 7, 2014, cable he penned to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, setting the terms for the controversial Washington-Tehran nuclear deal reached in early 2016.

My sources tell me that letter conflicts with what the Obama administration was telling the American public as it tried to sell the deal politically, and it shows a level of courtship, concession and trust with Tehran that exceeded the U.S. intelligence assessments at the time.

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The final Obama-era tranche that requires declassification concerns Hillary Clinton’s email controversy — a highly classified set of documents that FBI agents identified as important and necessary in the investigation into whether she violated the law by transmitting classified emails on her unsecured private server. 

As I wrote last week, the agents never got to review those documents in 2016 before then-FBI Director James Comey unilaterally decided not to seek criminal charges against Mrs. Clinton.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog in 2018 provided Congress a classified annex explaining how the FBI intended to examine that secret evidence, but never did. Sources who have seen the annex say it contains explosive revelations about what really happened with Clinton’s emails and the national security concerns that her conduct raised.

 

 

[Prickly Pete]

3 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

(Whenever someone gives me a date, I roll my eyes internally -- but) The beltway is expecting to Comey report to drop tomorrow. It's 65 pages, per multiple people. The fact that the page count is being talked about (again, not just in media but by people I speak with) says to me that it's already been out and in circulation (Comey's read it). No charges expected, despite referrals by the OIG. 

 

We'll see. 

(People claiming to have read it/worked on it say to me it's going to be damning)

 

Well, everything's already been damning....I'm all damned out.

But unless someone is charged, and convicted, no one that isn't following this stuff closely will know, and any partisans will just blow it off as Trump noise.

 

If it's damning, but Comey still won't be charged, who will? 

 

Who from among the Anti-Trump team has been charged and put on trial?

 

 

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

4 minutes ago, OJ Tom said:

If it's damning, but Comey still won't be charged, who will? 

 

The assumption is that he will be charged, just not for leaking/perjury which the report will cover. He'll be charged for the FISA abuse (which are the bigger charges to begin with). Whether that happens as a result of Horowitz's FISA report referrals or from Durham's investigation remains to be seen. I suspect the latter. 

 

7 minutes ago, OJ Tom said:

Who from among the Anti-Trump team has been charged and put on trial?

 

So far only Greg Craig.

 

Funny how that's rarely covered in the establishment media. His trial is happening now.

[4merper4mer]

7 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

(Whenever someone gives me a date, I roll my eyes internally -- but) The beltway is expecting to Comey report to drop tomorrow. It's 65 pages, per multiple people. The fact that the page count is being talked about (again, not just in media but by people I speak with) says to me that it's already been out and in circulation (Comey's read it). No charges expected, despite referrals by the OIG. 

 

We'll see. 

(People claiming to have read it/worked on it say to me it's going to be damning)

Damning with no charges.  What a shock.

5 hours ago, Hedge said:

 

 

 

 

12th

 

[snafu]

9 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

(Whenever someone gives me a date, I roll my eyes internally -- but) The beltway is expecting to Comey report to drop tomorrow. It's 65 pages, per multiple people. The fact that the page count is being talked about (again, not just in media but by people I speak with) says to me that it's already been out and in circulation (Comey's read it). No charges expected, despite referrals by the OIG. 

 

We'll see. 

(People claiming to have read it/worked on it say to me it's going to be damning)

 

So Comey’s going on another road trip to tweet contemplative photos?

Where to this time?

 

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

1 hour ago, snafu said:

 

So Comey’s going on another road trip to tweet contemplative photos?

Where to this time?

 

 

...maybe Rikers......it's "all inclusive"......

 

James Comey violated FBI policies with memos on Trump discussions, IG report says

By Gregg Re | Fox News   Published 16 mins ago

 

A scathing inspector general report released Thursday said that fired FBI Director James Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and retaining memos documenting discussions with President Trump.

For Comey, who has cultivated the image of a by-the-book and irreproachable leader since his termination in 2017, the review shined a harsh light on his decisionmaking in the final, beleaguered weeks of his tenure at the head of the nation's top law enforcement agency.

The inspector general's separate, broader review of potential intelligence community surveillance abuses remains ongoing. Earlier this month, it emerged that IG Michael Horowitz had referred Comey's case to the DOJ for a possible criminal prosecution, but that lawyers opted against bringing charges -- with one source telling Fox News it "wasn't a close call."

Comey admitted to Congress in June 2017 that, after he was fired, he purposefully leaked several memos through an intermediary to ensure that a special counsel would be appointed. The media firestorm that followed the leak proved a watershed moment that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-inspector-general-says-comey-violated-policies-with-memos-documenting-private-conversations-with-trump

 

 

 

[Wacka]

5 hours ago, snafu said:

 

So Comey’s going on another road trip to tweet contemplative photos?

Where to this time?

 

Hopefully not to a country that has no extradition  treaty with the US.