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US Gov Officials Responsible For TRUMP/RUSSIA Investigations ---Are Helping To Protect Trump (Original Post) kpete Feb 2017 OP
K&R... spanone Feb 2017 #1
Comey is one of the people they have enlisted. DURHAM D Feb 2017 #2
Is that info coming from the white house or independently? shraby Feb 2017 #5
Or you asking about the meeting at the WH? DURHAM D Feb 2017 #7
A full-throated call out for an independent commission to take over the investigation shraby Feb 2017 #3
Comey needs to be put under oath...and questioned...and fired. Demsrule86 Feb 2017 #4
Obama should have fired his ass. dalton99a Feb 2017 #9
You should never have someone like Comey in that role...Obama Demsrule86 Feb 2017 #10
Seems to be necessary? kentuck Feb 2017 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2017 #8
It's easy to get discouraged. Sessions is corrupt. Comey is corrupt. The GOP leadership is corrupt. Eyeball_Kid Feb 2017 #12
They ride over laws with impunity BSdetect Feb 2017 #11
Flip Flop Flip MedusaX Feb 2017 #13
Good meta analysis, thanks. n/t Qutzupalotl Feb 2017 #15
knr triron Feb 2017 #14
Time for an independent special prosecutor. roamer65 Feb 2017 #16
kick for visibility triron Feb 2017 #17
kick again triron Feb 2017 #18
knr triron Feb 2017 #19

DURHAM D

(32,609 posts)
2. Comey is one of the people they have enlisted.
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 11:33 AM
Feb 2017

How come the press is not talking about his trip to the WH to discuss the ongoing investigation? Does he meet with drug lords and mobsters to give them an update on what the FBI has found?

shraby

(21,946 posts)
5. Is that info coming from the white house or independently?
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 11:37 AM
Feb 2017

If it's just the WH lying again that's a zebra of a different stripe.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
3. A full-throated call out for an independent commission to take over the investigation
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 11:35 AM
Feb 2017

is warranted. No ifs ands or buts.

Demsrule86

(68,556 posts)
10. You should never have someone like Comey in that role...Obama
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 11:49 AM
Feb 2017

thought Comey was honest but he was corrupt.

kentuck

(111,092 posts)
6. Seems to be necessary?
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 11:38 AM
Feb 2017

The Trump White House has created a bias in the FBI and the Congress with their pressure upon them.

Response to kpete (Original post)

Eyeball_Kid

(7,431 posts)
12. It's easy to get discouraged. Sessions is corrupt. Comey is corrupt. The GOP leadership is corrupt.
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 12:04 PM
Feb 2017

Bannon has taken over two branches of government. Trumpy complies and his pleased with Bannon's advances. Sessions won't investigate or prosecute Flynn, he won't recuse himself, and he's definitely working for Trumpy's survival.

THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAS NO INTEGRITY! And the GOP in Congress is just as corrupt.

And who cares? Eh? The Dems, and especially the DWS DNC, has destroyed themselves, so they have no effective voice.

If we get out of this situation with the Constitution intact, we'll call it a miracle.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
13. Flip Flop Flip
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 12:14 PM
Feb 2017

When you compare multiple articles on this topic, from various dates & entities, you find the Classic Trumpian disinformation tactic at work

Comey secretly briefs Senate Intel Committee
Press reports meeting but no content of the discussion is available for release...

WH says they have "talked" to top intelligence who say Russia constant contact stories are false/ overstated...

Leak reveals WH contacted FBI after a meeting to get story squashed in media ... FBI refuses

WH says FBI made first contact to Priebus By phone

WH then says that the original timeline (after meeting) is actually correct

Then WH says McCabe (FBI) initiated discussion after meeting ... and Priebus naturally responded by asking if there was anything FBI could do to notify media...

Then story is leaked that WH went to Nunez & Burr to ask them to debunk story in media ... Nunes' committee was not briefed by Comey, so he has different background info & tells media what WH wants him to
Burr has been briefed... he tells media he has been in contact with WH about Russia

FBI has said nothing

The WH is feverishly trying to re-focus attention away from "constant contact with Russia"
By getting it conflated with the (separate) Flynn investigation ... and it is probably because they fear Flynn gave the Cohen Ukrainian sealed envelope to
FBI...

Since there are at least 3 separate Russia investigations going on it is in WH best interest to twist all 3 into 1 for media purposes.... that way if any 1 of 3 is not proven explicitly.. then WH can say No evidence of Russian influence... as a blanket way to delegitimize validity of any future reports regarding proof related to different Russian influence investigations....

Bottom line... until a concrete event (jail/resignation/ 25th/etc) occurs, we really won't ever know who all the players are and on which side of the truth they stand.

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