Saturday 26 September 2020

'Trump Was Right' About FBI Scramble to Assemble Russia Evidence After 2016 Win | Newsweek

 Wow! and this is Newsweek, no lover of Trump.... There’s a lot that’s very dodgy in the predicate to the Trump/Russia Collusion narrative. I remember seeing Trump’s tweet at the time, alleging Obama spying on him and thinking he’s paranoid. But turns out he’s right. More will come out about they way the FBI went about the Crossfire Hurricane project, and how sleazy it was, entrapping definitely innocent people like Carter Page. 

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee involved in the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn claimed that President Donald Trump "was right" while discussing a 2017 intelligence briefing regarding the Russia probe, according to a court filing.

The federal court documents, filed by Michael Flynn's lawyers in the U.S. District Court of Columbia on Thursday, included text message conversations between FBI staffers about former President Barack Obama's intelligence briefing on January 5, 2017. One unnamed FBI employee asked another "What's the word on how [Obama's] briefing went?"

"Don't know but people here are scrambling for info to support certain things and it's a mad house," the FBI colleague replied. "Trump was right. Still not put together... Why do we do this to ourselves. What is wrong with these people. Read the rest