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The FBI Didn’t Use An Informant To Go After Trump. They Used One To Protect Him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/18/if-the-fbi-used-an-informant-it-wasnt-to-go-after-trump-it-was-to-protect-him/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6ecedaeeb398
" President Trump and his allies are outraged at reports that the FBI used an “informant” to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign. “Really bad stuff!” the president tweeted early Friday. Supporters of the White House claim the FBI’s reported tactics were illegal. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has even subpoenaed the Justice Department for information on who the informant might have been; department and FBI officials say public disclosures of this kind could put sources in danger.
But Trump and his backers are wrong about what it means that the FBI reportedly was using a confidential source to gather information early in its investigation of possible campaign ties to Russia. The investigation started out as a counterintelligence probe, not a criminal one. And relying on a covert source rather than a more intrusive method of gathering information suggests that the FBI may have been acting cautiously — perhaps too cautiously — to protect the campaign, not undermine it."
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The media arm of the Democratic party have officially lost their minds. First, after spending the last 18 months denying that Trumps and his campaign were spied on, the NYTs runs a article detailing the extent of that surveillance. Obviously it was a attempt by most likely EX-DOJ / FBI officials to re-write the narrative prior to the release of new and incriminating information. That would most likely be IG Horrowitz report on the FBI / DOJ's handling of the Clinton E-mail investigation
The problem ( for them, not us ) is their attempt to get ahead of the coming storm backfired in epic proportion. Now predictably, they making it even worse...Hilarious ! Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of folks. Someone should tell WaPo and the NYTs that there is no way to spin this in their favor, no way to justify it, explain it away or to soften the blow. This was corruption on a massive scale that occurred at the highest levels of Govt, and media outlets were complicit
With no evidence whatsoever, the Obama DOJ / FBI under the pretense of a counter intelligence probe based off a fake collusion narrative, conducted extensive and covert surveillance on the opposition candidate and his campaign at the height of the 2016 election. It wasn't to protect Trump from Russians, it was part of a plan, a " insurance policy " to undermine and eventually take out a duly elected President and basically render null and void the votes of over 62 million Americans and it was put into effect almost immediately after the election
Trump was still President Elect when James Comey was given his " assignment " by Clapper to inform Trump of the more lurid allegations in the dossier. Comey was just looking out for the President, " protecting " him...:roll: As planned CNN leaked the meeting and the leaks didn't stop there as a complicit media continued to work with leakers in the IC, the CIA and FBI to PUBLISH anything that would legitimize the false collusion narrative. Now, its blowing up in the media's and Democrats faces and WaPo just made it worse with this ridiculous article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/18/if-the-fbi-used-an-informant-it-wasnt-to-go-after-trump-it-was-to-protect-him/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6ecedaeeb398
" President Trump and his allies are outraged at reports that the FBI used an “informant” to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign. “Really bad stuff!” the president tweeted early Friday. Supporters of the White House claim the FBI’s reported tactics were illegal. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has even subpoenaed the Justice Department for information on who the informant might have been; department and FBI officials say public disclosures of this kind could put sources in danger.
But Trump and his backers are wrong about what it means that the FBI reportedly was using a confidential source to gather information early in its investigation of possible campaign ties to Russia. The investigation started out as a counterintelligence probe, not a criminal one. And relying on a covert source rather than a more intrusive method of gathering information suggests that the FBI may have been acting cautiously — perhaps too cautiously — to protect the campaign, not undermine it."
:lamo :lamo :lamo
The media arm of the Democratic party have officially lost their minds. First, after spending the last 18 months denying that Trumps and his campaign were spied on, the NYTs runs a article detailing the extent of that surveillance. Obviously it was a attempt by most likely EX-DOJ / FBI officials to re-write the narrative prior to the release of new and incriminating information. That would most likely be IG Horrowitz report on the FBI / DOJ's handling of the Clinton E-mail investigation
The problem ( for them, not us ) is their attempt to get ahead of the coming storm backfired in epic proportion. Now predictably, they making it even worse...Hilarious ! Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of folks. Someone should tell WaPo and the NYTs that there is no way to spin this in their favor, no way to justify it, explain it away or to soften the blow. This was corruption on a massive scale that occurred at the highest levels of Govt, and media outlets were complicit
With no evidence whatsoever, the Obama DOJ / FBI under the pretense of a counter intelligence probe based off a fake collusion narrative, conducted extensive and covert surveillance on the opposition candidate and his campaign at the height of the 2016 election. It wasn't to protect Trump from Russians, it was part of a plan, a " insurance policy " to undermine and eventually take out a duly elected President and basically render null and void the votes of over 62 million Americans and it was put into effect almost immediately after the election
Trump was still President Elect when James Comey was given his " assignment " by Clapper to inform Trump of the more lurid allegations in the dossier. Comey was just looking out for the President, " protecting " him...:roll: As planned CNN leaked the meeting and the leaks didn't stop there as a complicit media continued to work with leakers in the IC, the CIA and FBI to PUBLISH anything that would legitimize the false collusion narrative. Now, its blowing up in the media's and Democrats faces and WaPo just made it worse with this ridiculous article