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FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying

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FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying​


https://www.realclearinvestigations..._to_significant_wrongdoing_beyond_spying.html
April 12, 2019 ~ By Eric Felten
Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”
The spying, which Barr vowed to investigate, is not the only significant possible violation of investigative rules and ethics committed by agents, lawyers, managers, and officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice. A catalogue of those abuses can be found in recently released testimony (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5790356/EW-Priestap-Interview-Transcript.pdf) that ex-FBI official Edward William Priestap provided to Congress in a closed-door interview last summer.... Priestap’s testimony took place on June 5, 2018. The questioning, by congressmen and House committee staff, focused on whether the FBI had applied the same rigor to the Clinton investigation that it had to the Trump probe.... The transcript (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5790356/EW-Priestap-Interview-Transcript.pdf) the public can read today contains not only those questions and Priestap’s responses, but also the tell-tale redactions of anxious bureaucrats. One thing that is very clear is that the Sharpie brigades at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice really, really didn’t want anyone to know where Bill Priestap was a week into May 2016.
It was over breakfast on April 26 in London that the mysterious Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud, told young Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Five days later, on May 1, Papadopoulos had drinks with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in a London bar where he shared this piece of gossip/intel. And, of course, London is home to the author of the anti-Trump “dossier,” Christopher Steele.


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This has gone on for years, during which not ONE of the “good FBI people” Sean Hannity prattles on about chose to come forward and blow the whistle.
They truly love their pensions more than country.
It saddens me to see this laid out so clearly and factually, because it is not a story developed by a major news organization, but rather by the Real Clear Group, which is not so small, but no where near the heft and reputation of news outfits of the past.
The current major news organizations, by ignoring and burying this story do a enormous, unrecoverable damage to themselves all on the altar of their Left Wing politics. It is sad to see such giants become ghouls and specters of their former mighty selves. Then again, maybe it was all an illusion... But that's a horse of another color...Still, I really do believe there were bold, honest and truth-seeking journalists in every major organization then, but they are no more.
I wish just a few would reconsider steering their ships into the rocky shores.
To Summarize:
"So what did we learn from Bill Priestap’s compendious and revealing testimony?
  • We learned that the FBI and Justice targeted and took action against Trump.
  • We learned that the FBI, according to Priestap, is incapable of securing a FISA warrant with information that isn’t credible, although the judge’s approval of the warrant means by definition that the information is credible.
  • We learned that the FBI believes political interference in an investigation can be proper as long as the bureau isn’t acting purely politically.
  • We learned that the FBI did send at least one asset to do to the Trump campaign an activity that even the bureau would call “spying” — if it were done by foreign operatives.
  • We learned that the origins of the Trump-Russia tale will never be fully understood until the part played by British intelligence is made clear."
 
FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying​


https://www.realclearinvestigations..._to_significant_wrongdoing_beyond_spying.html
April 12, 2019 ~ By Eric Felten
Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”
The spying, which Barr vowed to investigate, is not the only significant possible violation of investigative rules and ethics committed by agents, lawyers, managers, and officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice. A catalogue of those abuses can be found in recently released testimony (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5790356/EW-Priestap-Interview-Transcript.pdf) that ex-FBI official Edward William Priestap provided to Congress in a closed-door interview last summer.... Priestap’s testimony took place on June 5, 2018. The questioning, by congressmen and House committee staff, focused on whether the FBI had applied the same rigor to the Clinton investigation that it had to the Trump probe.... The transcript (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5790356/EW-Priestap-Interview-Transcript.pdf) the public can read today contains not only those questions and Priestap’s responses, but also the tell-tale redactions of anxious bureaucrats. One thing that is very clear is that the Sharpie brigades at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice really, really didn’t want anyone to know where Bill Priestap was a week into May 2016.
It was over breakfast on April 26 in London that the mysterious Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud, told young Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Five days later, on May 1, Papadopoulos had drinks with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in a London bar where he shared this piece of gossip/intel. And, of course, London is home to the author of the anti-Trump “dossier,” Christopher Steele.


~~~~~~
This has gone on for years, during which not ONE of the “good FBI people” Sean Hannity prattles on about chose to come forward and blow the whistle.
They truly love their pensions more than country.
It saddens me to see this laid out so clearly and factually, because it is not a story developed by a major news organization, but rather by the Real Clear Group, which is not so small, but no where near the heft and reputation of news outfits of the past.
The current major news organizations, by ignoring and burying this story do a enormous, unrecoverable damage to themselves all on the altar of their Left Wing politics. It is sad to see such giants become ghouls and specters of their former mighty selves. Then again, maybe it was all an illusion... But that's a horse of another color...Still, I really do believe there were bold, honest and truth-seeking journalists in every major organization then, but they are no more.
I wish just a few would reconsider steering their ships into the rocky shores.
To Summarize:
"So what did we learn from Bill Priestap’s compendious and revealing testimony?
  • We learned that the FBI and Justice targeted and took action against Trump.
  • We learned that the FBI, according to Priestap, is incapable of securing a FISA warrant with information that isn’t credible, although the judge’s approval of the warrant means by definition that the information is credible.
  • We learned that the FBI believes political interference in an investigation can be proper as long as the bureau isn’t acting purely politically.
  • We learned that the FBI did send at least one asset to do to the Trump campaign an activity that even the bureau would call “spying” — if it were done by foreign operatives.
  • We learned that the origins of the Trump-Russia tale will never be fully understood until the part played by British intelligence is made clear."

Huh. Literally nothing you just posted in based in reality.
 
Huh. Literally nothing you just posted in based in reality.

Well, you are correct...if your reality is the one spun up by the media.

If your reality includes actual testimony from the likes of Priestap, Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Lisa Page, Papawhatshisface...and others...if your reality includes various unredacted and redacted documentary evidence...if your reality includes timelines...then yeah, everything he posted...and much more...IS reality.

btw, it'll suck when reality slaps you upside the head, as it tends to do.
 
Well, you are correct...if your reality is the one spun up by the media.

If your reality includes actual testimony from the likes of Priestap, Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Lisa Page, Papawhatshisface...and others...if your reality includes various unredacted and redacted documentary evidence...if your reality includes timelines...then yeah, everything he posted...and much more...IS reality.

btw, it'll suck when reality slaps you upside the head, as it tends to do.

Can't wait! Look forward to it.

Esp. since the testimonies that you cite do not back up the claims of the asinine OP.

It'll be fun when this all falls apart and you squawk that you never believed it in the first place.
 
Can't wait! Look forward to it.

Esp. since the testimonies that you cite do not back up the claims of the asinine OP.

It'll be fun when this all falls apart and you squawk that you never believed it in the first place.

Have you read the testimonies? How about Papawhatshisface's testimony? Do you know what he said about Mifsud? Wait...do you know what he said about that $10,000 that Mueller was interested in? Oh...how about Nellie Ohr? Have you read her testimony? Do you know what she said about her Ham Radio license?

Go ahead...tell me what you know.
 
Have you read the testimonies? How about Papawhatshisface's testimony? Do you know what he said about Mifsud? Wait...do you know what he said about that $10,000 that Mueller was interested in? Oh...how about Nellie Ohr? Have you read her testimony? Do you know what she said about her Ham Radio license?

Go ahead...tell me what you know.

Surely have. It's how I know you have zero idea what you're babbling about.

Again, looking forward to you disowning this and running from it when it all falls apart.
 
Surely have. It's how I know you have zero idea what you're babbling about.

Again, looking forward to you disowning this and running from it when it all falls apart.

Cool. Then tell me what you know about those things I mentioned. Start with Papawhatshisface.

Heck, just talk about the $10,000.
 
Cool. Then tell me what you know about those things I mentioned. Start with Papawhatshisface.

Heck, just talk about the $10,000.

What would be the point of attempting rational discussion with w/a conspiracist w/no honest interest in the topic?

You're not fooling anyone but yourself here.
 
What would be the point of attempting rational discussion with w/a conspiracist w/no honest interest in the topic?

You're not fooling anyone but yourself here.

LOL!!

You don't know, do you? You have absolutely NO IDEA what $10,000 I'm talking about? You don't know that money was the subject of a good portion of the testimony, do you?

Dude...you just busted yourself.

You are dismissed.
 
LOL!!

You don't know, do you? You have absolutely NO IDEA what $10,000 I'm talking about? You don't know that money was the subject of a good portion of the testimony, do you?

Dude...you just busted yourself.

You are dismissed.

Newp. I'm well aware of it and the fact that he told the feds he got it from... wait for it... A SPY!!!! It's also wholly irrelevant to any of this.

Your conspiracy bull**** remains just that: conspiracy bull****.

Dude, you just busted yourself.

You are dismissed.
 
Huh. Literally nothing you just posted in based in reality.

^ You claim William Barr isn't the Attorney General and that he never said the Trump campaign was spied on! I suppose you think Hilary Clinton is president too. :lamo
 
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Newp. I'm well aware of it and the fact that he told the feds he got it from... wait for it... A SPY!!!! It's also wholly irrelevant to any of this.

Your conspiracy bull**** remains just that: conspiracy bull****.

Dude, you just busted yourself.

You are dismissed.

LOL!!

You just busted yourself...again.

I don't know what "testimony" you think you read, but he didn't tell any feds that he got it from a spy. Heck, he didn't even tell the Congressmen that he got it from a spy.
 
^ You claim William Barr isn't the Attorney General and that he never said the Trump campaign was spied on! I suppose you think Hilary Clinton is president too. :lamo

Yeah...Tanngrisnir lives in his own little world...and he calls it reality.
 
LOL!!

You just busted yourself...again.

I don't know what "testimony" you think you read, but he didn't tell any feds that he got it from a spy. Heck, he didn't even tell the Congressmen that he got it from a spy.

LOL! The hell he didn't. Thanks for trumpeting from the rooftops, yet again, that you have no clue what you're talking about and don't care to.

Papadopoulos Told Feds He Received $10,000 From Foreign National He Believed Was A Spy | The Daily Caller

Dude, you just busted yourself again.

You are dismissed.
 
^ You claim William Barr isn't the Attorney General and that he never said the Trump campaign was spied on! I suppose you think Hilary Clinton is president too. :lamo

Yawn. Way to miss the point, as always, right on time and blissfully unknowingly.
 
LOL! The hell he didn't. Thanks for trumpeting from the rooftops, yet again, that you have no clue what you're talking about and don't care to.

Papadopoulos Told Feds He Received $10,000 From Foreign National He Believed Was A Spy | The Daily Caller

Dude, you just busted yourself again.

You are dismissed.

Sorry, that article has nothing to do with his testimony to Congress.

Heck, you don't even know if that court filing from Mueller was telling the truth.

Wait...does this mean you believe Mueller now? You should be careful about doing that.
 
Can't wait! Look forward to it.

Esp. since the testimonies that you cite do not back up the claims of the asinine OP.

For over two years you've been posting up false claims that Trump colluded with the Russians. You failed miserably in your effort to destroy Trump. You Lost and Trump Won.

It'll be fun when this all falls apart and you squawk that you never believed it in the first place.

I'll tell you, it's been more than fun seeing your world of deception being destroyed in front of your eyes.
 
Sorry, that article has nothing to do with his testimony to Congress.

Heck, you don't even know if that court filing from Mueller was telling the truth.

Wait...does this mean you believe Mueller now? You should be careful about doing that.

It does have to do with the $10,000 that you knew nothing about and lied about.

Dude, you just busted yourself again.

You are dismissed.
 
For over two years you've been posting up false claims that Trump colluded with the Russians. You failed miserably in your effort to destroy Trump. You Lost and Trump Won.

A laughable lie. There was collusion, but nothing the Mueller thought would amount to a criminal conspiracy charge. Why talk about what you don't undertand? Is there a point to that?
I'll tell you, it's been more than fun seeing your world of deception being destroyed in front of your eyes.

So you have fun seeing things that aren't there?

Explains quite a lot.
 
Yawn. Way to miss the point, as always, right on time and blissfully unknowingly.

He claimed exactly everything in the message he quoted is false. The message claimed that Barr is attorney general.
 
A laughable lie. There was collusion, but nothing the Mueller thought would amount to a criminal conspiracy charge. Why talk about what you don't understand? Is there a point to that?

Really Prove it.
 
Really Prove it.

Here's how it's going to go:

Tanngrisnir: How can I? Barr refused to release the report and it's all there. Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump...

After the report is released:

You: OK, prove it now.

Tanngrisnir: It's a cover up I tell ya'... A cover up! There was collusion... Orange man bad... Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump... Trump...
 
Really Prove it.

Asked and answered innumerable times here.

We know that Manafort handed of private internal polling data from the Trump campaign to someone with known ties to the GRU for no discernible reason.

We know the Donnie Jr. took a meeting with others with a woman with known ties to the GRU.

We know that Donnie Jr. was working with Assange who was know to be directly working with the GRU.

Since you have no idea what you're talking about, yet again, why talk?
 
Asked and answered innumerable times here.

We know that Manafort handed of private internal polling data from the Trump campaign to someone with known ties to the GRU for no discernible reason.

We know the Donnie Jr. took a meeting with others with a woman with known ties to the GRU.

We know that Donnie Jr. was working with Assange who was know to be directly working with the GRU.

Since you have no idea what you're talking about, yet again, why talk?

Your telling me Mueller missed all that evidence you claim to have in his investigation to prove Trump Russia collusion. You and Adam Schiff will take this beating to a pulp by Trump to your grave.
 
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