{"id":31842,"date":"2017-10-27T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31842"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:16:46","slug":"why-the-fbi-and-the-department-of-justice-would-really-rather-not-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31842","title":{"rendered":"Why The FBI And The Department Of Justice Would Really Rather Not Talk To Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> posted an article this morning with a possible explanation as to why the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ)<\/a> are withholding information from Congress<\/a>. Evidently a lot of rather dubious actions that would have been buried had Hillary Clinton<\/a> been elected President are beginning to come to light.<\/p>\n

The explanation comes from a retired FBI agent. He explains:<\/p>\n

As a retired FBI Special Agent<\/a> with over two decades of experience in counterintelligence, I\u2019d like to make a point that Scott and Paul are surely aware of, but which it\u2019s useful to keep at the front of your mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott regularly refers to the Trump dossier as the \u201cRosetta Stone\u201d of the \u201cmuh Russia\u201d narrative. That\u2019s true, but it\u2019s helpful to go one step further. The real importance of the Trump dossier from a criminal law standpoint lies in the use it was put to for official government purposes. To understand that we need to know whether the dossier was used to justify the initiation of Full Investigations (FIs), according to the relevant AG Guidelines for National Security investigations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former agent explains the problem with that:<\/p>\n

The full relevance of these considerations can be seen from Scott and Paul\u2019s review of just how threadbare the dossier really was in terms of authentication. If it was used in applications to the FISC<\/a> with the knowledge that it was \u201coppo research\u201d and likely not credible, and if that knowledge was withheld from the FISC, I suspect we\u2019re looking at the real possibility of criminal conduct. And bear in mind that such applications (for FISA coverage relating to a candidate for President or a President-elect<\/a>) would have been approved only at the highest levels before submission to the FISC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To put two names to that process: James Comey<\/a> and Loretta Lynch<\/a>. If they knowingly deceived the FISC\u2013and that depends, as far as we can tell at this point, largely on how they may have used the \u201cdossier\u201d\u2013they\u2019re looking at serious criminal liability.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we have an example of the FBI and the DOJ being used for political purposes.<\/p>\n

The agent concludes:<\/p>\n

Investigations of the magnitude we\u2019re discussing necessarily include a fair number of people and the testimony of those other people would likely shed valuable light on the true nature of the process that was followed, who made the decisions, what was known about the credibility of information that was used to justify official actions, who really believed those justifications, the nature of coordination with other government agencies, etc. This is where the investigative rubber will hit the road.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This sort of political spying is the sort of thing that happens in dictatorships where leaders are grasping to hold on to power. I guess President Obama thought that the election of Hillary Clinton would be his third term as President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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