Posted by moy23 on 12/5/2017 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Buh bye conyers!!!

Interesting that you think an elected official should be removed from office if he has a history of sexual harassment allegations.

Fired Mueller aide was key player in Clinton email probe

Catherine Herridge reports on Peter Strzok's role in the FBI investigation before he was removed from the Special Counsel over anti-Trump tweets.

EXCLUSIVE – Two senior Justice Department officials have confirmed to Fox News that the department's Office of Inspector General is reviewing the role played in the Hillary Clinton email investigation by Peter Strzok, a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI who was removed from the staff of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III earlier this year, after Mueller learned that Strzok had exchanged anti-Trump texts with a colleague.

A source close to the matter said the OIG probe, which will examine Strzok's roles in a number of other politically sensitive cases, should be completed by "very early next year."

The task will be exceedingly complex, given Strzok's consequential portfolio. He participated in the FBI's fateful interview with Hillary Clinton on July 2, 2016 – just days before then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was declining to recommend prosecution of Mrs. Clinton in connection with her use, as secretary of state, of a private email server.

In his FBI position, Strzok also enjoyed liaison with various agencies in the intelligence community, including the CIA, then led by Director John Brennan.

Key figure

House investigators told Fox News they have long regarded Strzok as a key figure in the chain of events when the bureau, in 2016, received the infamous anti-Trump "dossier" and launched a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the election that ultimately came to encompass FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign associate.

The "dossier" was a compendium of salacious and largely unverified allegations about then-candidate Trump and others around him that was compiled by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The firm's bank records, obtained by House investigators, revealed that the project was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has sought documents and witnesses from the Department of Justice and FBI to determine what role, if any, the dossier played in the move to place a Trump campaign associate under foreign surveillance.

Strzok himself briefed the committee on Dec. 5, 2016, the sources said, but within months of that session House Intelligence Committee investigators were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was purportedly obstructing the House probe into the dossier.

In early October, Nunes personally asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein – who has overseen the Trump-Russia probe since the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions – to make Strzok available to the committee for questioning, sources said.

While Strzok’s removal from the Mueller team had been publicly reported in August, the Justice Department never disclosed the anti-Trump texts to the House investigators. The denial of access to Strzok was instead predicated, sources said, on broad "personnel" grounds.

When a month had elapsed, House investigators – having issued three subpoenas for various witnesses and documents – formally recommended to Nunes that DOJ and FBI be held in contempt of Congress. Nunes continued pressing DOJ, including a conversation with Rosenstein as recently as last Wednesday.

That turned out to be 12 days after DOJ and FBI had made Strzok available to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting its own parallel investigation into the allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Contempt citations?

Responding to the revelations about Strzok’s texts on Saturday, Nunes said he has now directed his staff to draft contempt-of-Congress citations against Rosenstein and the new FBI director, Christopher Wray. Unless DOJ and FBI comply with all of his outstanding requests for documents and witnesses by the close of business on Monday, Nunes said, he would seek a resolution on the contempt citations before year’s end.

“We now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make [FBI] Deputy Director [Andrew] McCabe available to the Committee for an interview,” Nunes said in a statement.

"We now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make [FBI] Deputy Director [Andrew] McCabe available to the Committee for an interview."

- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

Early Saturday afternoon, after Strzok’s texts were cited in published reports by the New York Times and the Washington Post – and Fox News had followed up with inquiries about the department’s refusal to make Strzok available to House investigators – the Justice Department contacted the office of House Speaker Paul Ryan to establish a date for Strzok’s appearance before House Intelligence Committee staff, along with two other witnesses long sought by the Nunes team.

Those witnesses are FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and the FBI officer said to have handled Christopher Steele, the British spy who used Russian sources to compile the dossier for Fusion GPS. The official said to be Steele’s FBI handler has also appeared already before the Senate panel.

The Justice Department maintained that the decision to clear Strzok for House interrogation had occurred a few hours prior to the appearance of the Times and Post stories.

In addition, Rosenstein is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 13.

The Justice Department maintains that it has been very responsive to the House intel panel's demands, including private briefings for panel staff by senior DOJ and FBI personnel and the production of several hundred pages of classified materials available in a secure reading room at DOJ headquarters on Oct. 31.

Behind the scenes

Sources said Speaker Ryan has worked quietly behind the scenes to try to resolve the clash over dossier-related evidence and witnesses between the House intel panel on the one hand and DOJ and FBI on the other. In October, however, the speaker took the unusual step of saying publicly that the two agencies were "stonewalling" Congress.

All parties agree that some records being sought by the Nunes team belong to categories of documents that have historically never been shared with the committees that conduct oversight of the intelligence community.

Federal officials told Fox News the requested records include “highly sensitive raw intelligence,” so sensitive that officials from foreign governments have emphasized to the U.S. the “potential danger and chilling effect” it could place on foreign intelligence sources.

Justice Department officials noted that Nunes did not appear for a document-review session that his committee’s ranking Democrat, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., attended, and once rejected a briefing by an FBI official if the panel’s Democratic members were permitted to attend.

Sources close to the various investigations agreed the discovery of Strzok’s texts raised important questions about his work on the Clinton email case, the Trump-Russia probe, and the dossier matter.

“That’s why the IG is looking into all of those things,” a Justice Department official told Fox News on Saturday.

A top House investigator asked: “If Mueller knew about the texts, what did he know about the dossier?”

Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, said: “Immediately upon learning of the allegations, the Special Counsel’s Office removed Peter Strzok from the investigation.”

Carr declined to comment on the extent to which Mueller has examined the dossier and its relationship, if any, to the counterintelligence investigation that Strzok launched during the height of the campaign season.

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Posted by strikeout26 on 12/5/2017 2:51:00 PM (view original):
He hasn't failed yet. He's actually looking pretty good with the upward trends in the economy. The left wrote him off as a failure before he had even taken office, which to be fair the right did the same with Obama.

Yep. Trump has been doing a great job so far. Libs are so focused on rhetoric and fake news, instead of actions and results.

see, that's the thing. He's doing a great job IN YOUR OPINION. Many people do not share that opinion. Does not make them right. Does not make you right. But just because you think he's doing a great job, it doesn't meant everyone thinks he is doing a great job.

When you try to please everyone you please no one. Obama's biggest mistake was not understanding this concept. Trump doesn't give a **** if a bunch of libs in NY and CA don't like him and think he's doing a terrible job. He never had those electoral votes in the first place.

that is part of the problem right there. Trump is president of the United States, including the "libs in NY & CA", not just the people who supported him and his rich friends. He is supposed to do what is best for the country, not just the people he likes and makes money off of.

MORE STUFF

More Anti-Trump Messages Reportedly Sent By Members Of Mueller's Team: "A Lot More Is Going To Come Out"

Days after it emerged that former Special Counsel investigator Peter Strzok was fired from Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia probe in August for sending anti-Trump text messages to his mistress while the two were working together on the Clinton email investigation, Sara Carter of Circa told a Fox News panel that there are more anti-Trump messages sent by Mueller's team floating around.

Carter previously emerged as one of the handful of people to review documents obtained by an undercover FBI informant embedded in the Russian uranium industry. Appearing on Hannity's show Monday night, Carter was asked about rumors of more anti-Trump sentiment expressed by Mueller's team:

Sean Hannity: I’m hearing rumors all over the place Sara Carter that there are other anti-Trump text-emails out there. And we know about them.

Sara Carter: I think you’re hearing correctly Sean and I think a lot more is going to come out. In fact, I know a lot more is going to come out based on the sources I’ve spoken to.

Tangentially, it has been widely reported that Mueller's special counsel is stacked with investigators who have donated to Obama, Clinton or other Democrat causes. As Jessica McBride reported in Heavy:

• Andrew Weissmann: Weissmann is a Barack Obama and Democratic campaign donor, according to federal records. “Weissmann, who led the Enron investigation, previously gave $2,300 to Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008 and $2,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2006
• Jeannie Rhee: donated $5,400 to Hillary Clinton in 2015 and 2016, according to FEC records. The records show she gave $2,500 each to Obama for America and Obama Victory Fund 2012 in 2011
• Andrew Goldstein: According to Fox News, “Goldstein contributed a combined $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012”
• Greg Andres: FEC records show that Andres has donated at least $2,700 to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• James Quarles: Donated thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He has also donated money recently to other Democrats, including Friends of Chuck Schumer and two other Democrats. He has a lengthy donation history dating back years. He did donate to two Republicans over the years, however.
• Elizabeth Prelogar: A former law clerk to Justics Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagen, gave $250 to Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to FEC records. She also gave $500 total to Obama for America and the Obama Victory Fund 2012.
• Brandon Van Grack: gave small amounts to ActBlue, an effort to raise money for Democrats, and to a Democratic candidate for Congress in 2012. In 2008, he gave about $286 to Barack Obama.
• Rush Atkinson: donated $200 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
• Kyle Freeny: In 2012, Freeny gave $300 to Obama. In 2008, Freeny also gave $250 to Obama, FEC records show.

To review: veteran FBI agent Peter Strzok, working under James Comey, headed up both the Clinton email investigation and the Trump-Russia probe before Mueller's special counsel was created to take the reigns. Strzok - who was responsible for changing the FBI's opinion of Clinton's mishandling of classified info from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless," - had an extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page while the two were working on the Clinton "matter." During the investigation, Strzok sent Page anti-Trump / pro-Clinton text messages, which resulted in the dismissal of both Strzok and Page from Mueller's Trump-Russia probe. Strzok now works in the FBI's HR department.

Strzok's conduct during the Clinton email investigation and any other politically charged cases he's worked on, are now being investigated by the DOJ's Office of Personel Management the results of which, per Sara Carter of Circa, will be coming out in December and January.

Moreover, as we reported earlier today, House Speaker Paul Ryan accused the DOJ and FBI of "stonewalling" the House Intelligence Committee's wide-ranging subpoena related to the "Trump dossier," along with the fact that the FBI appears to have willfully tried to conceal the reason for Strzok's reassignment from the committee.

Meanwhile, upon being blindsided with this information and publicly embarrassed, Intel committee chairman Devin Nunes was understandably less than pleased.

In a statement issued Sunday, Nunes announced a serious escalation: His committee, he said, is preparing to hold Andrew McCabe and assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in contempt for the DOJ's failure to comply with Nunes's subpoena. He also accused the FBI and the DOJ of willfully refusing to comply with an Aug. 24 subpoena in part by refusing the committee's request "for an explanation of Peter Strzok's dismissal from the mueller probe."

“By hiding from Congress, and from the American people, documented political bias by a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia collusion probe and the Clinton email investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to thwart Congress’ constitutional oversight responsibility. This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele dossier. At this point, these agencies should be investigating themselves.

“The DOJ has now expressed—on a Saturday, just hours after the press reports on Strzok’s dismissal appeared—a sudden willingness to comply with some of the Committee’s long-standing demands. This attempted 11th-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ’s disingenuousness and obstruction. Therefore, I have instructed House Intelligence Committee staff to begin drawing up a contempt of Congress resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Unless all our outstanding demands are fully met by close of business on Monday, December 4, 2017, the committee will have the opportunity to move this resolution before the end of the month."

It now appears that the FBI will have even more explaining to do as evidence of additional anti-Trump bias among members of Mueller's investigation appear to be on the horizon...

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Posted by moy23 on 12/5/2017 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Buh bye conyers!!!

Interesting that you think an elected official should be removed from office if he has a history of sexual harassment allegations.

unless its Trump, of course, because Donald can do no wrong.

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Posted by strikeout26 on 12/5/2017 2:51:00 PM (view original):
He hasn't failed yet. He's actually looking pretty good with the upward trends in the economy. The left wrote him off as a failure before he had even taken office, which to be fair the right did the same with Obama.

He’s riding Obama’s economy.

Nope. You can't have 8 years of mediocrity and then when a new admin comes in and rolls back your damaging regulations still get credit for a boost after you've left. Obama's economy failed. As I've said, had Obama's economy progressed throughout his tenure then he could take credit, but it didn't.

You have blinders on.

We have given you facts that support mediocrity. I'm not going to repost them, but you are more than welcome to go back through the pages and find them. You have supplied nothing that is an indicator of economic growth under Obama that is anywhere close to other post-recession recoveries. I don't have blinders, I have facts.

Who is this "we" you're referring to?

As I said before, growth was slower for Obama than it was for Reagan because Reagan was able to spend significantly more (relative GDP) than Obama was.

Don;t be dumb and act like the growth we're seeing now has anything to do with Trump. I promise that if the economy was tanking, you and moy and all the other MAGA cult members would be running around rightfully blaming Obama because his last fiscal year just ended and the economy is not a Ferrari the starts and stops on a dime. The thing is a giant tanker that actually moves long after the input was made.

S&P over the last 5 years:



The growth isn't because of Trump.

Here's GDP over the last ten years:

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Posted by moy23 on 12/5/2017 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Buh bye conyers!!!

Interesting that you think an elected official should be removed from office if he has a history of sexual harassment allegations.

Using taxayer money to pay off settlements... I DEFINITELY have an issue with that.

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Posted by bad_luck on 12/5/2017 5:28:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 12/5/2017 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Buh bye conyers!!!

Interesting that you think an elected official should be removed from office if he has a history of sexual harassment allegations.

Using taxayer money to pay off settlements... I DEFINITELY have an issue with that.

That's how the rules were set up. It's wrong, but it's not like Conyers came up with that arrangement.

He should be removed from office. Moore shouldn't be eligible for the Senate. Trump should be removed from office.

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Posted by strikeout26 on 12/5/2017 2:51:00 PM (view original):
He hasn't failed yet. He's actually looking pretty good with the upward trends in the economy. The left wrote him off as a failure before he had even taken office, which to be fair the right did the same with Obama.

Yep. Trump has been doing a great job so far. Libs are so focused on rhetoric and fake news, instead of actions and results.

see, that's the thing. He's doing a great job IN YOUR OPINION. Many people do not share that opinion. Does not make them right. Does not make you right. But just because you think he's doing a great job, it doesn't meant everyone thinks he is doing a great job.

When you try to please everyone you please no one. Obama's biggest mistake was not understanding this concept. Trump doesn't give a **** if a bunch of libs in NY and CA don't like him and think he's doing a terrible job. He never had those electoral votes in the first place.

that is part of the problem right there. Trump is president of the United States, including the "libs in NY & CA", not just the people who supported him and his rich friends. He is supposed to do what is best for the country, not just the people he likes and makes money off of.

He is doing what's best for the country. Libs just don't know what's best for this country and that's why Trump ignores them.

Wages are FINALLY going up, in particular blue collar wages.
ISIS is FINALLY dwindling.
GDP is FINALLY over 3%
Manufacturing jobs are FINALLY up.
Illegal border crossing is FINALLY going down.
Your 401k has skyrocketed.

Are those not great things for the American people?

WHAT ABOUT FLYNN?

Don't you think he was dealing with RUSSIA for YEARS while with the OBAMA Administration? Did OBAMA know what he was up to? Why did he warn TRUMP to stay away from him?

I don't know what Flynn did under Obama or tried do by day 18 in the new TRUMP administration. I suspect he was trying to get money in more than an unethical fashion. I admire his service but now he's worried his son will get dragged into this plus he's already broke because of lawyers. So he has to surrender. I have no pity for him. Let's see what happens.

However......I do know he was set up by the FBI. It was pre-planned long before Trump took office and I'm sure Obama had a hand in it. Here's what happened.

The answer to why did Flynn talk to the FBI, according to Sara Carter, Flynn didn’t know that he was being interviewed. Now, here are the details. Sara Carter writing yesterday, According to another source with direct knowledge of the January 24th FBI interview of Flynn, Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director under Comey, contacted Flynn by phone at the White House.

Flynn was at the White House on January 24th, he gets a call from McCabe, number two at the FBI. “White House officials had spent the ‘earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing training and security measures associated with their new roles [as part of the transition] so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had called,’ the source said.

“McCabe told Flynn ‘some agents were heading over (to the White House) but Flynn thought it was part of the routine work the FBI had been doing and said they would be cleared at the gate,’ the source said. ‘It wasn’t until after they were already in (Flynn’s) office that he realized he was being formerly interviewed. He didn’t have an attorney with him.'”

That’s Sara Carter’s story on how the Flynn — in other words, there was deception. The number two guy at the FBI calls Flynn, the FBI’s been at the White House all week working on new stratagems and new policies relating to security and so forth with the new administration. MaCabe says, hey, the FBI’s coming back in, and Flynn says, fine, we’ll clear ’em at the front gate. They come into his office and the official interview begin. He was not told that it was an official interview. He was not told anything. So he had no lawyer there. He didn’t even suspect.

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Posted by bad_luck on 12/5/2017 5:28:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 12/5/2017 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Buh bye conyers!!!

Interesting that you think an elected official should be removed from office if he has a history of sexual harassment allegations.

Using taxayer money to pay off settlements... I DEFINITELY have an issue with that.

That's how the rules were set up. It's wrong, but it's not like Conyers came up with that arrangement.

He should be removed from office. Moore shouldn't be eligible for the Senate. Trump should be removed from office.

There's no PROOF of any wrongdoing for Moore or Trump.

You libs love to label people guilty before they are even tried. Darren Wilson, The Freddie Gray cops, the Eric Garner cop, etc.

You've been wrong EVERY time.

They were right about DUKE LaCross.

OH WAIT!

They weren't.

NEVERMIND.

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Posted by bad_luck on 12/5/2017 5:28:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 12/5/2017 4:18:00 PM (view original):
Buh bye conyers!!!

Interesting that you think an elected official should be removed from office if he has a history of sexual harassment allegations.

Using taxayer money to pay off settlements... I DEFINITELY have an issue with that.

That's how the rules were set up. It's wrong, but it's not like Conyers came up with that arrangement.

He should be removed from office. Moore shouldn't be eligible for the Senate. Trump should be removed from office.

There's no PROOF of any wrongdoing for Moore or Trump.

You libs love to label people guilty before they are even tried. Darren Wilson, The Freddie Gray cops, the Eric Garner cop, etc.

You've been wrong EVERY time.

Trump has paid sexual harassment settlements.

Moore's accusers are credible and their stories have been corroborated.