Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under questioning from Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe last summer that "the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information," the congressman alleged in a social media post late Tuesday, citing a newly unearthed transcript of Page's closed-door testimony.
This is either a "bombshell" or the worst kept secret in Washington. Page was basically asked to clarify the watered down political rhetoric provided to the committee and admitted to the committee that the DOJ had demanded that they would not bring a case against Hillary Clinton for negligence.
In other words, the FBI could recommend charges or even arrest her, but the DOJ was not going to follow through on charges. It also means that James Comey was probably less than honest when he gave his spiel to the American public.
A cat may have 9 lives, but a Clinton has at least 9 get out of jail free cards.
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stand-down on Clinton email prosecution, GOP rep says
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Another fucking nothing burger.... Keep crying in your beef as 3 years of Howdy Gowdy BS yield less than nothing!!!!!!!
Benghazi next!
The Deep State of theology has blinded you.
In addition to the clinton crime family, including huma and cheryl mills, i'm trying to figure out which of the senior 0linsky regime officials DO NOT deserve to either die in prison or hang for treason.
Follow orders again.
The just revealed FBI Agent Lisa Page transcripts make the Obama Justice Department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine. Hopefully, justice will finally be served. Much more to come!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1105805989545021440?s=19
hey there, alky.
what's the latest from the kos-suckers today?
without mail order to prop you up i see your descent into madness is just about complete.
Next up
Whitewater!
Lock her up!
alky,
the FBI is so fucked up, i'm not even sure i believe the college fraud accusations against those hollywood twats.
on the other hand, i guess it is good to see those fucksticks reduced to dealing with shit that doesn't really matter. the important things are beyond their corrupt grasp.
quite the irony.
some parents are charged with lying, cheating and paying graft.
just like comey, mccabe, strzok, and page did with their coup attempt and the $$$ they paid for the steele dossier.
LOL.
In addition to the trump crime family, lost all its assets to a RICO seizure....
Fixed it for you ass breath....LOL>OOLOL
Here you go rrb
Follow orders!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
The Deep State Conspiracy theory has destroyed what little grey matter you had!
the FBI is so fucked up, i'm not even sure i believe the college fraud accusations against those hollywood twats.
Follow orders!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Roger
Let's turn this around...
What if the current DOJ told the FBI and/or Special Counsel that it would not bring any charges against Donald Trump regardless of what the FBI found?
Wouldn't you suggest that was some sort of obstruction of justice?
Just curious...
No, because I believe what ever the Muller investigation finds.
I'm not insane like you have become.
MyballsMarch 13, 2019 at 8:36 AM
So now we learn that the Obama DOJ stopped Hillary from being prosecuted. AG Lynch. One wonders what Bill said to her in that secret meeting to intimidate her so.
Great question.
Inflation is so quiet . Again proving Chicken Little Alky knows as much as Ozone Cortez about all things Economic.
The Obama-Clinton scandal machine keeps chugging along.
Lordie how we as a nation dodged the bullet known as hillary.
sorry alky, but any rational and clear thinking individual who was paying attention to the FBI BEFORE the palace coup attempt had little faith in their integrity to begin with.
after this latest round of bullshit they're a laughingstock. they're recruiting like mad and can't attract new agents. gee, i wonder why...
The tight US job market is making it hard for the FBI to fill its ranks. And now it will spend more than a million dollars to advertise its openings for special agents.
Applicants for the agency’s signature position dropped from a peak of 68,500 in 2009 to 11,500 last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Bureau officials recently told the Journal they need roughly 16,000 applications to net 900 new agents, a number the FBI says it has not met for “several” years.
The FBI will ease certain requirements to expand the pool of potential recruits. And it will double the amount it spends on advertising this year, up from the $600,000 it did in 2018.
https://qz.com/1564750/how-the-fbi-hopes-to-finally-fill-its-many-open-positions/
my son is eminently qualified. when i mentioned it to him he laughed so hard i thought i was going to need to perform CPR on him. if he HAD expressed interest i'd forever wonder how i failed him as a parent.
The "insurance policy" was the holder/lynch "Cross fire hurricane" fabricated clusterfuck.
No, because I believe what ever the Muller investigation finds.
So you didn't believe what the FBI and Comey found, huh?
So you didn't believe what the FBI and Comey found, huh?
i think he's still holding out hope that mueller will validate what the FBI and comey found.
with a shitstain like weissman involved i can see why he'd feel that way.
You have him in a corner.
The Muller investigation has been very closed up since it started the investigation into the Russian interference into the election.
I will say one thing that I am certain, is that if they found the candidate Trump and or President Trump committed crimes, you will not believe anything about it.
Well Roger...
According to you, it would be okay if Barr just told Mueller that it didn't matter what he found, because he was not going to charge Trump anyways.
Since you seem completely okay with the Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton?
Where did this come From?
"The claim that Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton was invented by the FBI "?
The claim that Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton was invented by the FBI and found no evidence to support the allegations. I believe them.
Roger, that doesn't make sense.
It's the FBI who is now on record as having several people (including James Comey) who believed Clinton should be charged with negligence. This was the FBI under Obama and Loretta Lynch (not under Trump) that had decided she should face charges (or at the very least many people within the FBI felt she should face charges).
We now know based on sworn testimony that Attorney General Lynch told the FBI that they were not going to charge Clinton with any crimes.
The FBI then altered the language of their document to remove the term "gross negligence" from the report.
All of this, oddly Roger... happened after Lynch met privately and secretly with Bill Clinton to (of course) discuss grandchildren?
If you replaced these names with Trump and his associates you would have had your head explode by this point, as you would be besides yourself with anger at the obvious Obstruction of Justice.
The claim that Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton was investigated by the FBI and found no evidence to support the allegations. I believe them.
But you on the other hand, if they found the candidate Trump and or President Trump committed crimes, you will not believe anything about it.
I believe both.
I don't have cognitive dissonance, but you do.
investigated
Spelling correction
You're digging up bullshit from 10 years ago.
Lynch met privately
You have to be kidding.
You bitched about not seeing Trumps College Transcript.
"The claim that Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton was investigated by the FBI and found no evidence to support the allegations."
Lol, ok, your making shit up.
"Lynch met privately" Alky
She was on the clock.
And Bill must've intimidated the hell out of her.
One thing is clear. None of them expected to be exposed due to Trump winning the election.
The claim that Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton was investigated by the FBI and found no evidence to support the allegations.
Really? Because sworn testimony being released shows the opposite.
Can you provide us with some sort of evidence of this so called "investigation" conducted by the FBI?
Manifort gets 3.5 more years
More lies from the asshole in chief you suck on....
Donald Trump has claimed without providing evidence that people are leaving New York “in record numbers” because they are upset at the state’s investigations into his family business.
“New York State and its Governor, Andrew Cuomo, are now proud members of the group of PRESIDENTIAL HARASSERS,” Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday evening. “No wonder people are fleeing the State in record numbers. The Witch Hunt continues!”
The president’s criticism of Mr Cuomo came in an apparent response to a New York Times report that New York attorney general Letitia James’ decision to issue subpoenas to two banks for documents related to a number of Trump hotel projects.
The request to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank was prompted by congressional testimony last month of Mr Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who told lawmakers his ex-client fraudulently inflated his assets in financial statements.
The civil probe adds to the growing number of legal dangers for the president, who is also under investigation for alleged campaign finance violations and possible links to Russia.
Mr Trump later shared a tweet from the Republican National Committee, which claimed Ms James was “proven to have a vendetta” against the billionaire after she described him last year as an “illegitimate president”.
“All part of the Witch Hunt Hoax. Started by little Eric Schneiderman & Cuomo. So many leaving New York!” Mr Trump added. Mr Schneiderman is the former New York attorney general.
Really? Because sworn testimony being released shows the opposite.
Funny if information is being released....how do you know it is opposite? I'm sure you have a link for the being released testimony.....dayum you must be clairvoyant....
The Obama family personal tennis instructor was busted in the college admissions fraud scandal. Let's see if anyone implicates Obama by association like they would if it were the trumps.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has handed down her sentence to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. She sentenced him to 73 months in prison, and 30 months of the sentence she imposed will overlap with his Virginia sentence of just under four years. With the 47-month sentence in the Virginia case, Manafort's total sentence is 90 months, or 7.5 years.
The heavily redetracted testimony doesn't support your opinion.
It's available on Breitbart.
I knew it.
NYT Frank Bruno is trying to tie Trump to the admissions scandal because Kushner's father once made a donation to Harvard.
Anonymous Myballs said...
The Obama family personal tennis instructor
Which again proves you are an idiot of major magnitude.....Maybe you can tell us if this means anything to any one but you!!!!!BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Let's see if anyone implicates Obama by association like they would if it were the trumps.
To answer your stupid question......you did asshole!!!!!
When will dems in congress say to charge former AG Lynch with obstruction of justice? They want trump charged for far less.
Paul Manafort indicted by NY prosecutors after federal sentencing
The claim that Obama administration DOJ protecting Clinton was investigated by the FBI and found no evidence to support the allegations.
Really? Because sworn testimony being released shows the opposite.
Can you provide us with some sort of evidence of this so called "investigation" conducted by the FBI?"CHT
Roger ran.
Roger ran.
No numb nutz....ch the liar ran......his post....not a single fact......idiot...try to keep up goat fucker....LOLOLOL
If you actually read what this story from Faux News. There is no evidence of a deep state of.
House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Tuesday released hundreds of pages of transcripts from last year's closed-door interview with ex-FBI attorney Lisa Page, revealing new details about the bureau's controversial internal discussions regarding an “insurance policy” against then-candidate Donald Trump.
Page first entered the spotlight in December 2017, when it was revealed by the Justice Department inspector general that she and then-FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok exchanged numerous anti-Trump text messages. The two were involved in the FBI’s initial counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 election, and later served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
LISA PAGE TESTIMONY: COLLUSION STILL UNPROVEN BY THE TIME OF MUELLER'S SPECIAL COUNSEL APPOINTMENT. BUT THE INVESTIGATION BEGAN AFTER THE PRESIDENT FIRED JAMES COMEY.
Among their texts was one concerning the so-called "insurance policy." During her interview with the Judiciary Committee in July 2018, Page was questioned at length about that text -- and essentially confirmed this referred to the Russia investigation while explaining that officials were proceeding with caution, concerned about the implications of the case while not wanting to go at "total breakneck speed" and risk burning sources as they presumed Trump wouldn't be elected anyway.
Further, she confirmed investigators only had a "paucity" of evidence at the start.
THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT HE WOULD WIN THE ELECTION. BUT THEY HAD SUBSTANTIAL CONCERNS IF HE WON.
MORE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T FIND SHIT.
Then-Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., kicked off that section of questioning by asking about the text sent from Strzok to Page in August 2016 which read: “I want to believe the path you threw out in Andy’s [McCabe's] office—that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take the risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
The former FBI lawyer explained how the FBI was trying to strike a balance with the investigation into the Trump campaign—which agents called “Crossfire Hurricane.”
LISA PAGE 'COOPERATIVE,' 'CREDIBLE,' LAWMAKERS SAY AFTER 5-HOURS CLOSED-DOOR SESSION
“So, upon the opening of the crossfire hurricane investigation, we had a number of discussions up through and including the Director regularly in which we were trying to find an answer to the question, right, which is, is there someone associated with the [Trump] campaign who is working with the Russians in order to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton,” Page said. “And given that it is August, we were very aware of the speed and sensitivity that we needed to operate under.”
Page continued that, “if the answer is this is a guy just being puffery at a meeting with other people, great, then we don’t need to worry about this, and we can all move on with our lives; if this is, in fact, the Russians have coopted an individual with, you know, maybe wittingly or unwittingly, that’s incredibly grave, and we need to know that as quickly as possible.”
Page explained that the text message reflected their “continuing check-in” as to “how quickly to operate.”
“[W]e don’t need to go at a total breakneck speed because so long as he doesn’t become President, there isn’t the same threat to national security, right,” Page explained, while saying that if Trump were not elected president, the bureau would still investigate.
“But if he becomes President, that totally changes the game because now he is the President of the United States,” Page told lawmakers. “He’s going to immediately start receiving classified briefings. He’s going to be exposed to the most sensitive secrets imaginable. And if there is somebody on his team who wittingly or unwittingly is working with the Russians, that is super serious.”
Page made clear, though, that those involved did not think Trump would beat Clinton: “So this reflects: Let’s be reasonable, let’s not, you know, throw the kitchen sink at this because he’s probably not going to be elected, and so then we don’t have quite as horrific a national security threat than if we do if he gets elected.”
Page also spoke to how little information the bureau was starting with, saying the FBI “knew so little” about whether the allegations were “true or not true,” and had "a paucity of evidence because we are just starting down the path" of vetting the allegations.
She later said that all they needed was an allegation, and claimed “it is entirely common, particularly in a counterintelligence investigation, that you would only have—you would have a small amount of evidence” in launching a probe.
The transcripts were released as Mueller continues his investigation, which Trump assails as a "witch hunt" on a regular basis but could have an impact on where congressional Democrats go with their own investigations -- or whether they pursue impeachment, something House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come out against for the time being.
Page, who served a short detail on Mueller’s team, returned to her post at the FBI in 2017, and ultimately left the bureau in May 2018. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team after the texts were discovered and was reassigned to the FBI’s Human Resources Division before being fired in August 2018.
Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe, meanwhile, recently said he did not recall ever discussing the "insurance policy" with Strzok or Page.
Scott as usual disappeared!
This is very important is the person who wrote this story, very clearly edited it to appear as he wanted.
“And given that it is August, we were very aware of the speed and sensitivity that we needed to operate under.” what is missing?
Page continued that, “if the answer is this is a guy just being puffery at a meeting with other people, great, then we don’t need to worry about this, and we can all move on with our lives; if this is, in fact, the Russians have coopted an individual with, you know, maybe wittingly or unwittingly, that’s incredibly grave, and we need to know that as quickly as possible.”
But unwillingly he contacted his point.
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