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    If the FBI suspects a foreign adversary is attempting to influence a Presidential election with the assistance of one of the campaigns, do you want them to ignore it?

    This isn't like Watergate where Nixon was looking for a strategic edge. This is potential hostile action by a foreign power. I would want that investigated regardless of who it benefitted, wouldn't you?
    We’ll find out, eventually.

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    Russia collusion with Trump is a conspiracy theory.
    I told you exactly my feelings on that.

    your conspiracy theory

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    I told you exactly my feelings on that.

    your conspiracy theory
    Lol all you want. Truth will come out.

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    CYA

    But, in hindsight, not helpful.
    you think an email to oneself covers their ass?

    your honor, i'm not guilty... as proof, i have an email to myself.

    you really think that's what the national security adviser thought she was doing?

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    We’ll find out, eventually.
    Strategic edge by losing the election so they could go into Operation Insurance which is what?

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    We’ll find out, eventually.
    What kind of strategic edge do you believe they were looking for, if you don't believe they were genuinely looking into foreign interference?

    What information were they trying to gather by specifically targeting Russian/Trump Campaign contacts?

    This is a pretty serious accusation, so I'm sure you have this thought out in detail.

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    Lol all you want. Truth will come out.
    What truth are you saying will come out, Darrin?

    Because your conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense.

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    What truth are you saying will come out, Darrin?

    Because your conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense.

    I realize that you try to pose this theory as a 9/11 truther or pizzagate conspiracy, but you know I’m neither of those.

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    I realize that you try to pose this theory as a 9/11 truther or pizzagate conspiracy, but you know I’m neither of those.
    You have a conspiracy theory, Darrin.

    What truth are you saying will come out?

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    What kind of strategic edge do you believe they were looking for, if you don't believe they were genuinely looking into foreign interference?

    What information were they trying to gather by specifically targeting Russian/Trump Campaign contacts?

    This is a pretty serious accusation, so I'm sure you have this thought out in detail.

    There’s a right and wrong way to do it.

    A right way to establish Russian hacking of DNC is to seize the server, for example.

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    You have a conspiracy theory, Darrin.

    What truth are you saying will come out?
    Just THE truth

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    There’s a right and wrong way to do it.

    A right way to establish Russian hacking of DNC is to seize the server, for example.
    What's your conspiracy theory about that, Darrin?

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    BREAKING: E-mails Show FBI Brass Discussed Dossier Briefing Details With CNN


    New e-mails show former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was surprisingly knowledgeable about CNN's understanding of and deliberation about a dossier briefing given to Donald Trump days before CNN ever reported on the matter.


    Newly revealed e-mails show that former Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) deputy director Andrew McCabe was keenly aware of CNN’s internal understanding of a secret briefing about the infamous Steele dossier, days before CNN published any stories on the matter. The e-mails, which were obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), also reveal that top officials used coded language to refer to the salacious and unverified allegations made by Steele.

    Former FBI director James Comey briefed then-President-Elect Donald Trump on January 6, 2017, on at least one unproven allegation contained in Steele’s dossier, which was jointly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. CNN broke the story about the dossier briefing on January 10, 2017, touching off a firestorm of hysteria that culminated in not just the firing of Comey by Trump, but the eventual appointment of Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Robert Mueller.

    Comey claimed that he was compelled to brief Trump on the dossier because “CNN had [it]” and was “looking for a news hook.”

    Hours before Comey briefed Trump, FBI chief of staff James Rybicki e-mailed staff that Comey “is coming into HQ briefly now for an update from the sensitive matter team.” Just as the same officials dubbed the Clinton e-mail investigation the “mid-year exam” and the anti-Trump counterintelligence investigation “Crossfire Hurricane,” they also used various phrases using “sensitive” to refer obliquely to the dossier.

    Two days after the briefing, on January 8, 2017, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who earlier this year was fired and then referred for criminal prosecution by the DOJ inspector general for repeatedly lying about media leaks, wrote an e-mail to top FBI officials with the subject, “Flood is coming.”

    “CNN is close to going forward with the sensitive story,” McCabe wrote to Comey, Rybicki, and two others. “The trigger for them is they know the material was discussed in the brief and presented in an attachment.” He did not detail how he came to know what CNN’s “trigger” was for publishing the dossier briefing story.

    Although the January 10 story from CNN also claimed that Trump was presented with a two-page summary of the dossier, which was not part of the official intelligence community assessment given to Trump, Comey himself later claimed that he did not give the two-page do ent to Trump, raising questions about whether McCabe himself was a source for CNN’s assertion that Trump had been given the entire two-page do ent during the briefing.

    Shortly after sending his e-mail to Comey and other FBI officials, McCabe e-mailed then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and her deputy, Matthew Axelrod. McCabe used the subject line “News” in his e-mail to the DOJ officials.

    “Just as an FYI, and as expected,” McCabe wrote, “it seems CNN is close to running a story about the sensitive reporting.” It is not clear how McCabe came to be so familiar with CNN’s understanding of the dossier, its briefing, or how close CNN was to reporting on the matter.

    In a Monday letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, Sen. Johnson, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, asked the director to provide a list of all members of the “sensitive matters team” referenced by Rybicki in his January 6 e-mail. Johnson also requested that Wray provide all details about how FBI officials “first learned that media outlets, including CNN, may have possessed the Steele dossier.”

    To date, there is no public evidence that the FBI ever investigated the leaks to media about the briefing between Trump and Comey. When asked in a recent interview by Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier, Comey scoffed at the idea that the FBI would even need to investigate the leak of a secret briefing with the incoming president.

    “Did you or your subordinates leak that?” Baier asked.

    “No,” Comey responded. “I don’t know who leaked it.”

    “Did you ever try to find out?” Baier asked.

    “Who leaked an unclassified public do ent?” Comey said, even though Baier’s question was about leaking details of a briefing of the incoming president, not the dossier. “No,” Comey said.

    Johnson requested a response from Wray by 5:00 p.m. on June 4.

    Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.

    http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/21/...g-details-cnn/

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    There’s a right and wrong way to do it.

    A right way to establish Russian hacking of DNC is to seize the server, for example.
    There's no right way to spy on a Presidential campaign to gain a strategic edge. You now seem to have shifted into a procedural argument against the steps the FBI took to investigate Russian interference, which sort of contradicts your earlier statement that this is another Watergate.

    Were they investigating Russian interference or were they spying on the campaign to gain a strategic edge?

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    Going from milquetoast conservative talking points to full-on right wing conspira . Republican Walter White becomes Alt-Right Heisenberg before our eyes

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    What's your conspiracy theory about that, Darrin?
    IG reports will come out soon for you to read. You can stop asking what my “conspiracy theory” is about. Your schtick is tired.

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    There's no right way to spy on a Presidential campaign
    Again, we agree.

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    BREAKING: E-mails Show FBI Brass Discussed Dossier Briefing Details With CNN


    New e-mails show former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was surprisingly knowledgeable about CNN's understanding of and deliberation about a dossier briefing given to Donald Trump days before CNN ever reported on the matter.
    Why wouldn't the FBI know about the media at that point?

    What's the conspiracy theory now?

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    Just keep asking what the “conspiracy theory” is

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    IG reports will come out soon for you to read. You can stop asking what my “conspiracy theory” is about. Your schtick is tired.
    It's your conspiracy theory, Darrin.

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    Just keep asking what the “conspiracy theory” is
    You all have them, ty as they are.

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    Just keep asking what the “conspiracy theory” is
    It's your conspiracy theory, Darrin.
    Wash, rinse, repeat

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    Wash, rinse, repeat
    You can't deny it, Darrin.

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    There’s a right and wrong way to do it.
    There's no right way to spy on a Presidential campaign to gain a strategic edge.
    Again, we agree.
    Huh? What do you mean by "do it" then?

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