@CBS_Herridge @CBSNews Key take away from this email is that Obama was indeed overseeing the Counterintelligence investigation, and Obama was looking for an excuse to hide the investigation from the incoming administration, to keep it going. That's what the 1/4 meeting was about.
@CBS_Herridge @CBSNews If the investigation, which had turned up zero evidence, had ended gracefully on Inauguration day, it would have been a controversial decision, possibly a scandal, but an election year story. By choosing to continue the fruitless investigation into the new Administration and...
@CBS_Herridge @CBSNews take proactive steps to hide it from them to do so, it was essentially a coup d'etat at that point. That decision, to keep it going, was likely made at the 1/5 meeting. And beginning inauguration day it would be up to the "stay behind" plotters to make it work.
@CBS_Herridge @CBSNews That's why on Inauguration Day Susan Rice felt so compelled to write this email to herself about a meeting weeks before.
