Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Here's a good one!

EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say
Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a "lack of candor," McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. 
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe's previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.
So Andrew McCabe, second in charge of the FBI authorized a criminal probe into Jeff Sessions. Why? Because Al Franken didn't understand the difference between a Senator meeting with a foreign Ambassador about general political issues, and a campaign worker meeting with high level Russian government officials about the election.

But Hillary Clinton, who declared under oath about a dozen times that she did not send, receive, or house classified information on her personal server was never subjected to any sort of criminal probe for any such misleading of congress.

This is EXACTLY the sort of partisanship and bias that existed under the James Comey run FBI. Good riddance to both of them. At least they can make all sorts of money using the PT Barnum theory about a liberal willing to buy their book sucker being born every minute.

27 comments:

Indy Voter said...

Absolutely. Under no circumstances should a nominee to become the nation's too law enforcement official ever be investigated for potential perjury after making demonstrably false statements while under oath.

Loretta said...

Nonsense.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.

Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told.

I find it amusing that Sessions was unaware of the McCabe investigation into lying in testimony to the Senate.

Your descent into the Secret Society theory that the FBI was politically motivated to investigate the the President's investigation into the Russian intervention into the election, and his possible collusion. The President has been pursuing a progam to discredit FBI @DOJ. You have signed on.

cowardly king obama said...

"I find it amusing that Sessions was unaware of the McCabe investigation into lying in testimony to the Senate. "

Maybe it was just McCabe's "insurance policy"

Funny how he didn't have time to look into Lerner or Comey or Holder or Clapper or Brennan or ...

Anonymous said...

We need to continue to hear from Hillary.

“He has undermined the office and used it to enrich himself and his family. Disregarded laws, ethical standards, has been undermining the institutions from the free press to the judiciary.”

She added, “He’s crossed into a territory of behavior and actions that are unpredictable, that are erratic, that are undermining the stability of the global order.” Hillary Clinton

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

During his confirmation in January 2017, Sessions told the Senate committee that he had not been in contact with anyone connected to the Russian government about the 2016 election. He also said he was "not aware" of anyone else affiliated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government ahead of the election.

Two months later, after a Washington Post report disputed what Sessions told Congress, the attorney general acknowledged he had met the Russian ambassador twice during the presidential campaign, but insisted none of those interactions were "to discuss issues of the campaign."

Sessions "made no attempt to correct his misleading testimony until The Washington Post revealed that, in fact, he had at least two meetings with the Russian ambassador," Leahy and Franken said in a statement at the time. "We know he would not tolerate dishonesty if he were in our shoes."

Sessions called any suggestions that he misled lawmakers "false."

Nevertheless, charges subsequently brought by Mueller raised more questions over Sessions' testimony to Congress.

In November, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos admitted to federal authorities that during the campaign he was in frequent contact with Russian operatives about setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Papadopoulos pitched the idea to Sessions and Trump at a meeting of the then-candidate's foreign policy team in March 2016.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-fired-fbi-official-authorized-criminal-probe-sessions/story?id=53914006

That's what triggered the whole thing. It was not the dossier .

Anonymous said...




That's what triggered the whole thing. It was not the dossier .


really alky?

just a few weeks ago you assured us that it was papadopoulos doing his 'shitfaced roger' impersonation in a london bar that started it all.

now it's sessions.

good grief son, keep your bullshit straight.


Anonymous said...

Alky Called for the out right firing of Comey, that was right up to the Point Trump did it, now Alky is calling for the firing and criminal charges of Sessions.

Anonymous said...

The President has been pursuing a progam to discredit FBI @DOJ.


alky, the president has simply been doing what many of us have been - acknowledging the complete incompetence and corruption at the FBI. it was the FBI's own actions that discredited it.

it's like pointing out that you're a raging alcoholic. that statement is hardly discrediting. it's simply a statement of fact.





Anonymous said...




In this case, the appointment of a special counsel has done more harm than good. It has politicized our justice system beyond repair. The FBI deputy director has been fired for leaking and lying. His testimony appears to be in conflict with that of the former FBI director as to whether the leaks were authorized. Messages by high-ranking FBI agents suggest strong bias against Trump. A tweet by the former CIA director reveals equally strong negative views of the president. Perhaps these revelations prove nothing more than that law enforcement and national security officials are human and hold political views like everyone else.

But these views are not supposed to influence their decisions. In our age of hyperpartisanship, the public has understandably lost confidence in the ability and willingness of our leaders to separate their political views from their law enforcement decisions. This is not all attributable to the appointment of the special counsel, but the criminalization of political differences on both sides of the aisle has certainly contributed to the atmosphere of distrust in our justice system.


http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/379372-trump-is-right-the-special-counsel-should-never-have-been-appointed#.WrL2vG1mksc.facebook


Anonymous said...




in this weeks episode of "what started the russia investigation?" we explore the madcap comedy of jeff sessions and his january 2017 testimony to a senate committee. watch as sessions makes a mockery of his confirmation hearing which triggered a secret investigation of ol' J. Beauregard by those titans of honesty and integrity - our very own FBI.

co-starring patrick "leaky" leahy from vermont; a senator who's so old he farts dust, and that award winning asshat and SNL alum, FORMER senator and kirsten gillibrand's squash partner al "the molester" franken.

Loretta said...

"in this weeks episode of "what started the russia investigation?""

Excellent.

C.H. Truth said...

Indy and Roger both miss the point.

It's not that Sessions was investigated.

It's that Hillary was not.


Neither of you can make any sort of honest case as why what Sessions stated was realistically a more blatant perjury case than what Clinton stated.

Anonymous said...



Neither of you can make any sort of honest case as why what Sessions stated was realistically a more blatant perjury case than what Clinton stated.

it's not that they can't. it's that it doesn't serve their agenda, which is the removal of trump by any means - legal or illegal - necessary.

the TDS is so strong with those two it burns.

wphamilton said...

Neither of you can make any sort of honest case as why what Sessions stated was realistically a more blatant perjury case than what Clinton stated.

Clinton's testimony was more blatant perjury, except that Clinton was too "unsophisticated" to understand what was and wasn't classified or sensitive, and Sessions might have been expected to know that meeting with Russian Ambassadors would be instances of contact with the Russian Government, at least in the context of the questioning.

Personally, I'd be willing to cut Sessions at least as much slack for being "unsophisticated" as Hillary. But both should have been held accountable.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In November, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos admitted to federal authorities that during the campaign he was in frequent contact with Russian operatives about setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Psapadopoulos pitched the idea to Sessions and Trump at a meeting of the then-candidate's foreign policy team in March 2016.

The drunken conversation was the trigger.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The investigators found nothing sufficient to trigger an investigation into the dossier and other unsubstantiational evidence.

These are almost exclusively Republicans.

You don't get it. wp and I do.

Anonymous said...

I think Trump and his staff should be treated like Obama/Hillary Administration and Staff.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

John Dowd, one of Donald Trump’s top personal lawyers, stepped down Thursday from the president’s legal team just days after calling for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to be shuttered.

“John Dowd has been a valuable member of our legal team and we will continue our ongoing cooperation with the office of special counsel regarding this inquiry,” Jay Sekulow, another member of the Trump legal team, said in a statement to POLITICO.

Story Continued Below


Sekulow declined to address how the Trump legal team would be organized going forward. Dowd had been spearheading negotiations with Mueller for a potential interview with the president, while Sekulow handled public communications.

Trump earlier this week added to the legal team former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova, another bulldog lawyer who argued earlier this year that Trump had been framed by the Justice Department and FBI “with a falsely created crime.”

Anonymous said...

Alky we have you telling us the Hillary fictional novel she paid a "ghost" writer to produce, is Factual.

Anonymous said...

Alky give us the US Criminal Statues that Nazi Mueller is using?

Loretta said...

"John Dowd, one of Donald Trump’s top personal lawyers, stepped down Thursday"

Will you be spamming every thread with this FIVE more times today?

C.H. Truth said...

WP...

Sessions was asked if he met with any Russian officials in reference to the 2016 election.

He wasn't asked (in the context of the question) whether he (as a Senator) met with a Russian Ambassador.

To suggest that this is the equivalent to Hillary saying she didn't send or receive classified information from/on her personal server is absurd. Even if you are gullible enough to believe that Clinton didn't know that what she was doing was wrong.

wphamilton said...

That sounds a lot like the hand-waving excuses the Clintonista's were so fond of.

Sessions was affiliated with the Trump Campaign. He met with Russian Ambassadors. Unless he was as stupid as Hillary claimed to be, he'd know that those kinds of meeting were precisely what he was being asked about. The two are very equivalent in that respect.

Where they differ is that Clinton was denying criminal behavior, while Sessions was denying something that might be politically uncomfortable.

PNC said...

Sessions SHOULD be prosecuted. He's a criminal, not to mention a leftist.

wphamilton said...

Sessions had no business being the Attorney General, but a criminal and a leftist, not hardly. What crime other than following the administration policy of lying about everything regarding Russia?

Anonymous said...

When Crazy Leftist Rosanne Barr takes you to the woodshed you know how fucked up you are.

"Kimmel said he was “shocked” that for someone as socially liberal as herself would support Donald Trump.

“I’m still the same! You all moved,” Barr shot back. “You all went so f–kin far out, you lost everything. I mean seriously, a lot of your audience, including me… a lot of us, no matter who we voted for, we don’t want to see our president fail, you know? Because we don’t want Pence.”

She then pressed Kimmel about whether he wanted the vice president as our president.

“You want Pence for the frickin president?” Bar asked.

“Oh, no,” Kimmel responded.

“Then you zip that f**kin lip!” Barr demanded.

“This is kinda what the show is like, by the way,” Kimmel chuckled.

Barr told Kimmel that one of her daughters was “weeping” after the election and she told her to “just chill!”

“Try to think positive for like why people wanted a change,” Barr elaborated. “It’s up to the people, here’s my two cents damn it, it’s up to us to make this government work, no matter who’s president. It’s up to us to do our jobs as citizens and if we don’t like something, you know, let them know you don’t like it and then you’ve got another election in two years. Get out there and vote. Change it if you don’t like it.”