Before you read this article, I want you to consider how the Democrats (particularly the Clintons) have avoided being held accountable for skirting the law in the past. Generally speaking, the playbook means keeping questions about whatever the scandal is in the news until everyone is sick of hearing about the scandal. At that point, when the answers begin to come out, everyone tunes out because they are totally bored with anything having to do with whatever behavior went on. That is exactly the playbook that is being used on the question of how the Russian-collusion investigation began and why members of President Trump’s campaign and transition team were under surveillance. Keep that in mind as you read the following.<\/p>\n
Today Breitbart<\/a> posted an article with the following headline, “Biden Present at Russia Collusion Briefing Documented in \u2018Odd\u2019 Susan Rice Email.”<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n In an action characterized as \u201codd\u201d last year by then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Rice memorialized the confab in an email to herself describing Obama as starting \u201cthe conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities \u2018by the book.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Grassley, in a letter to Rice, commented: \u201cIt strikes us as odd that, among your activities in the final moments on the final day of the Obama administration, you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual email purporting to document a conversation involving President Obama and his interactions with the FBI regarding the Trump\/Russia investigation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Grassley noted<\/a> the unusual timing of the email sent by Rice to herself more than two weeks after the January 5, 2017 White House meeting on the Russia investigation, but mere hours before she vacated the White House for the incoming Trump administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n The email, Grassley documented, was sent by Rice to herself on Trump\u2019s inauguration day of January 20, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf the timestamp is correct, you sent this email to yourself at 12:15 pm, presumably a very short time before you departed the White House for the last time,\u201d Grassley wrote<\/a> to Rice in a letter seeking clarification on a number of issues regarding the email and the Oval Office briefing at which Biden was documented as being present.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article cites a Washington Post article describing how few people were involved in the Trump\/Russia investigation:<\/p>\n The lengthy\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>article\u00a0<\/a>from 2017 detailed the closed circle of Obama administration officials who were involved in overseeing the initial efforts related to the Russia investigation \u2014 a circle than was narrowly widened to include Biden, according to the newspaper report.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the newspaper, in the summer of 2016, CIA Director John Brennan convened a \u201csecret task force at CIA headquarters composed of several dozen analysts and officers from the CIA, the NSA and the FBI.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The Post<\/em>\u00a0described the unit as so secretive it functioned as a \u201csealed compartment\u201d hidden even from the rest of the U.S. intelligence community; a unit whose workers were all made to sign additional non-disclosure forms.<\/strong><\/p>\n The unit reported to top officials, the newspaper documented:<\/strong><\/p>\n They worked exclusively for two groups of \u201ccustomers,\u201d officials said. The first was Obama and fewer than 14 senior officials in government. The second was a team of operations specialists at the CIA, NSA and FBI who took direction from the task force on where to aim their subsequent efforts to collect more intelligence on Russia.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The number of Obama administration officials who were allowed access to the Russia intelligence was also highly limited, the\u00a0Post\u00a0<\/em>reported. At first only four senior officials were involved, and not Biden. Those officials were CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey. Their aides were all barred from attending the initial meetings, the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is looking more and more like an attempted political coup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before you read this article, I want you to consider how the Democrats (particularly the Clintons) have avoided being held accountable for skirting the law in the past. Generally speaking, the playbook means keeping questions about whatever the scandal is … Continue reading Vice President Joe Biden was documented as being present in the Oval Office for a conversation about the controversial Russia probe between President Obama, disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior officials including Obama\u2019s national security advisor Susan Rice.<\/h2>\n