Dems and the media characterizing the DNI/DOJ investigation into the actions of Comey and McCabe's FBI as old news unworthy of coverage often cite the Durham Report as the final word on the subject.
Two things: 1) They mischaracterize the Durham Report conclusions by...
...repeating over and over that "Durham made no recommendations for FBI policy or regulation reforms" while studiously ignoring his far more damning conclusion and recommendation that all the FBI had to do was stop breaking the rules already in place and follow their creed...
...to enact "reform" across the organization:
2) They also fail to mention that Comey, McCabe and many of the principals with the first-hand, eye-witness information vital to the conduct a full investigation refused to participate:
So Durham wasn't the final word - he only got second-hand information about the actions and decisions of Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Strzok, et al. This investigation - this Strike Force - will assumedly include subpoenaed interviews of all above.
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Why was it so important to Brennan, Comey, McCabe, et al. to bust through layer upon layer of standard investigative and analysis protocol to convince the public that "Putin had a clear preference for Trump and aspired to help him win"?
Why not keep the assessment within...
...the lines of vetted, verified or verifiable evidence and simply report that Russia was attempting to sew doubt and discord into our election process through hacks and fake Facebook-centric influence operations?
If their goal, as they often state, was to alert the country...
...to these tactics (as they did in the joint DNI/DHS statement in October 2016), why was it so important to take the next step and claim it was all in service of Putin's desire for Trump to win?
The answer is simple: It's because they were desperate to tie Trump to Russia...
Memo to @charlie_savage and everyone else scrambling to minimize/discredit the hacked emails showing that Hillary approved the Russian hoax, the FBI knew it, and AG Lynch was reassuring the Hillary campaign that she was riding herd on the investigation and wouldn't let it...
...hurt Hillary: @Comey has publicly acknowledged that the reason he chose to usurp the DOJ and hold his infamous press conference laying out Hillary's email crimes but declining to prosecute (not his call) was the existence of the latter hacked email showing Lynch's...
...communications with Clinton's political director Amanda Rentoria - according to Comey, although he and the FBI didn't believe the emails to be legitimate, he feared that the potential exposure of those emails to the public would negatively affect public confidence in the...
Here's another little teeth-grinder to add to the mix.
Remember when Comey, Clapper and Brennan set the hook for the media to publicize the Steele dossier they'd been sitting on by including it in the ICA and briefing it to Trump on January 6th, 2017?
And, in order to...
...set the plan in motion one or more "national intelligence officials with knowledge" of that meeting had to alert their preferred media contacts the deed had been done? (NB: Brennan and Clapper's NYT Oped carefully parsed their refrain from leaking PRIOR to the election.)
Well all of that good work not only got the ball rolling for the endless vilification of Trump and his administration as Russian tools for about 3 years but it also gave @petestrzok a great idea. 'Let's use the fake dossier we implanted in an official intelligence product with...
So am I correct in my understanding - after reading both of the releases from DNI - that the SINGLE SOURCE of the ICA's analysis that Putin: 1) ordered an operation to interfere in the election; 2) preferred Trump; and 3) ordered the hacking of DNC and transmittal of hacked...
...data to WikiLeaks was twice-removed hearsay information verbally relayed by Oleg Smolenkov to none other than John O. Brennan hisownself, the reporting, substance, reliability and sourcing of which did not meet the standard for publication as an intelligence product, only...
...to be dug out of his notebook (or imagination) and formally introduced into the system as intelligence reports worthy of CIA collection and analysis standards AFTER Donald Trump surprised Clinton, Obama, Brennan, Comey, Clapper and Co. by winning the election and AFTER all...
If someone would've suggested a month ago that Donald Trump would solve the raging debate and dissension over financial/material support to Ukraine with a deal that makes both sides happy, how loudly would that person have been mocked?
It should be the leading story on every...
...broadcast, in every newspaper and on every news website. Half the country was dead set against continued support, the other half (and all of NATO/Europe) 100% vested in the criticality of that support.
Trump's deal ensured that the support would continue to flow, American...
...munitions and military materiel companies would continue production and NATO/Europe would pay for it.
Did anyone - on either side - expect that? Did anyone in the Biden administration even attempt to work out an arrangement that would bridge the divide between fiscal...
Pretty safe to say by any measure and by anyone doing the measuring - love him or hate him, @realDonaldTrump has engineered a series of actions, policies and initiatives which have resulted in a remarkable number of positive results for the U.S. and the world in a very short...
...period of time. Conservatives see it and appreciate it, while Dems/media do everything they can to downplay or distract from it, but it is nonetheless remarkable.
Not discussed nearly enough - the energy and vigor of this Biden-aged man. Not a word or story from mainstream...
...media - either on its own or in comparison to Biden's schedule and personal engagement in each issue - of the whirling dervish energy of the old man running the country.
The SCOTUS rulings, policies, military decisions, tax and spending initiatives, tariffs, border...