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    I see you're not familiar with oversight.
    They were given the do ents they were after and yet they are still crying about not having more. Do they want the whole library going back to the founding fathers or what?

    Oversight does not en led congress to know who's getting investigated or when said investigation should end.

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    Just wait till they demand an investigation of the oig because they didn’t get desired results.

    Investigate the investigation of the investigations

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    Just wait till they demand an investigation of the oig because they didn’t get desired results.

    Investigate the investigation of the investigations
    That makes no sense. “They” didn’t call for the OIG investigation happening now.

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    That makes no sense. “They” didn’t call for the OIG investigation happening now.
    What are they calling for then?

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    lmao

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    Why did Susan Rice issue a stand down order?

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    That makes no sense. “They” didn’t call for the OIG investigation happening now.
    then when THAT investigation clears the OIG, you'll want to investigate those people that investigated the investigator (OIG) of the original investigation.

    and so on.

    you'll be dreaming of throwing clinton in prison for the rest of your life tbh

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    Why did Susan Rice issue a stand down order?
    dunno.

    maybe because Obama wanted to avoid looking like he was interfering in the election.

    later on, congressional Republicans more or less demanded Obama shut up about it and he did until after the election.

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    What did Peter Strzok do?

    As former top FBI official Peter Strzok faces congressional requests to testify, it's worth examining who he is.

    Strzok is the subject of what I see as one of the most damaging conclusions in the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general report: As the nation's top FBI counterespionage official, he indicated "a willingness to take official action to impact [Donald Trump's] electoral prospects."

    Specifically, while working on the Hillary Clinton classified email investigation in August 2016, Strzok wrote that he and unnamed others would "stop" Trump from getting elected. He shared his intentions with at least one other FBI official, attorney Lisa Page.

    Strzok isn't just any rank-and-file guy spouting off in one ill-advised email. His fingerprints were on every FBI investigation that stood to impact Clinton's presidential candidacy or to hurt Trump before and after the 2016 election.


    He was chief of the FBI's Counterespionage Section and number two in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. He led the team of investigators in the Clinton classified email probe and led the FBI investigation into alleged Russian interference in the election. He was involved in the controversial anti-Trump "Steele dossier" used, in part, to obtain multiple secret wiretaps. He was the one who interviewed Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI only to later learn that agents reportedly didn't think he'd lied. And Strzok was the "top" FBI agent appointed to work on the team of special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate alleged Trump-Russia collusion.

    The earth-shattering finding on Strzok by the inspector general (IG) confirms a citizenry's worst fears: A high-ranking government intel official allegedly conspired to affect the outcome of a U.S. presidential election.

    It's also directly relevant to the FBI investigations of Trump-Russia collusion, which the IG did not examine in this report. There are multiple allegations of FBI misbehavior in that inquiry, including conspiracies to frame Trump, and improper spying on Trump associates. Investigating those allegations takes on an added sense of urgency with news that the FBI's top counterespionage official expressed willingness to use his official position against a political enemy.


    Yet, for all of that, Strzok is still collecting a salary, courtesy of taxpayers, at the FBI Human Resources Department. And here's the chilling part: If it weren't for the IG's investigation, requested by Congress, he'd likely still be helping lead special counsel Mueller's investigation of Trump today.

    An attorney for Strzok reportedly says Strzok is willing to answer calls to testify to Congress because he "thinks that his position, character and actions have all been misrepresented and caricatured and he wants an opportunity to remedy that."


    The IG says he cannot be certain that all of Strzok's text messages were recovered; Strzok has said his texts were not nefarious and his investigations were always fair. Here's a small sampling of texts and timeline notes (full timeline here):

    Aug. 8, 2016:


    FBI Attorney Lisa Page, who also worked on Special Counsel Mueller's team: "[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"

    Strzok: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."

    Aug. 15, 2016:

    Strzok: "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office - that there's no way [Trump] gets elected - but I'm afraid we can't take that risk ... It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40."

    Late August 2016:

    Reportedly working for the FBI, Professor Stefan Halper, a reputed one-time CIA operative, meets with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis, offering his services as a foreign-policy adviser, according to the Washington Post. Halper would later offer to hire Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.

    Somewhere around this time, the FBI initiates a new wiretap against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to CNN, which extends at least through early 2017.

    September 2016:

    Former British spy Christopher Steele, hired by private research firm Fusion GPS to investigate the Trump campaign, becomes an FBI source and uses Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr as a point of contact. Steele tells Ohr that he's "desperate" that Trump not get elected.

    President Obama warns Russia not to interfere in the U.S. election.

    Sept. 2, 2016:

    FBI attorney Lisa Page texts Strzok that "[President Obama] wants to know everything we're doing."

    Nov. 3, 2016:

    Page texts Strzok: "The [New York Times] probability numbers are dropping every day. I'm scared for our organization."

    March 14, 2017:

    Page texts Strzok: "Finally two pages away from finishing ["All the President's Men"]. Did you know the president resigns in the end?!"

    Strzok:"What?!?! God, that we should be so lucky."



    May 22, 2017:

    Strzok texts about "unfinished business" that he "unleashed" with the Clinton classified email probe and states: "Now I need to fix it and finish it." He also refers to the special counsel probe, which hadn't yet begun in earnest, as an "investigation leading to impeachment" but also states he had a "gut sense and concern there's no big 'there' there."

    The IG's report found that:



    - Strzok showed bias in his decision to prioritize the Trump-Russia investigation over the Clinton probe.

    - His texts "potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made [re: Clinton and Trump-Russia probes] were impacted by bias or improper considerations," "appeared to mix political opinions with discussions about" the Clinton classified email probe, and included "statements of hostility toward then candidate Trump and statements of support for candidate Clinton.

    - "Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the [Trump]-Russia investigation, which was not a part of this review."

    - Strzok had a "biased state of mind but, even more seriously ... a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects" and demonstrated behavior "an hetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice."



    - He brought "discredit" to himself, "sowed doubt about the FBI's handling" of the Clinton classified email probe and "impacted the reputation of the FBI."

    - The damage "extends far beyond the scope" of the Clinton probe and "goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence."

    - He showed "extremely poor judgment" and "a gross lack of professionalism."

    - He used personal digital accounts for FBI business.

    If you're still not sure what to think, read the IG report for yourself: https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download.


    http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...mpression=true

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    What did Peter Strzok do?

    As former top FBI official Peter Strzok faces congressional requests to testify, it's worth examining who he is.

    Strzok is the subject of what I see as one of the most damaging conclusions in the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general report: As the nation's top FBI counterespionage official, he indicated "a willingness to take official action to impact [Donald Trump's] electoral prospects."

    Specifically, while working on the Hillary Clinton classified email investigation in August 2016, Strzok wrote that he and unnamed others would "stop" Trump from getting elected. He shared his intentions with at least one other FBI official, attorney Lisa Page.

    Strzok isn't just any rank-and-file guy spouting off in one ill-advised email. His fingerprints were on every FBI investigation that stood to impact Clinton's presidential candidacy or to hurt Trump before and after the 2016 election.


    He was chief of the FBI's Counterespionage Section and number two in the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. He led the team of investigators in the Clinton classified email probe and led the FBI investigation into alleged Russian interference in the election. He was involved in the controversial anti-Trump "Steele dossier" used, in part, to obtain multiple secret wiretaps. He was the one who interviewed Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI only to later learn that agents reportedly didn't think he'd lied. And Strzok was the "top" FBI agent appointed to work on the team of special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate alleged Trump-Russia collusion.

    The earth-shattering finding on Strzok by the inspector general (IG) confirms a citizenry's worst fears: A high-ranking government intel official allegedly conspired to affect the outcome of a U.S. presidential election.

    It's also directly relevant to the FBI investigations of Trump-Russia collusion, which the IG did not examine in this report. There are multiple allegations of FBI misbehavior in that inquiry, including conspiracies to frame Trump, and improper spying on Trump associates. Investigating those allegations takes on an added sense of urgency with news that the FBI's top counterespionage official expressed willingness to use his official position against a political enemy.


    Yet, for all of that, Strzok is still collecting a salary, courtesy of taxpayers, at the FBI Human Resources Department. And here's the chilling part: If it weren't for the IG's investigation, requested by Congress, he'd likely still be helping lead special counsel Mueller's investigation of Trump today.

    An attorney for Strzok reportedly says Strzok is willing to answer calls to testify to Congress because he "thinks that his position, character and actions have all been misrepresented and caricatured and he wants an opportunity to remedy that."


    The IG says he cannot be certain that all of Strzok's text messages were recovered; Strzok has said his texts were not nefarious and his investigations were always fair. Here's a small sampling of texts and timeline notes (full timeline here):

    Aug. 8, 2016:


    FBI Attorney Lisa Page, who also worked on Special Counsel Mueller's team: "[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"

    Strzok: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it."

    Aug. 15, 2016:

    Strzok: "I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office - that there's no way [Trump] gets elected - but I'm afraid we can't take that risk ... It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40."

    Late August 2016:

    Reportedly working for the FBI, Professor Stefan Halper, a reputed one-time CIA operative, meets with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis, offering his services as a foreign-policy adviser, according to the Washington Post. Halper would later offer to hire Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.

    Somewhere around this time, the FBI initiates a new wiretap against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to CNN, which extends at least through early 2017.

    September 2016:

    Former British spy Christopher Steele, hired by private research firm Fusion GPS to investigate the Trump campaign, becomes an FBI source and uses Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr as a point of contact. Steele tells Ohr that he's "desperate" that Trump not get elected.

    President Obama warns Russia not to interfere in the U.S. election.

    Sept. 2, 2016:

    FBI attorney Lisa Page texts Strzok that "[President Obama] wants to know everything we're doing."

    Nov. 3, 2016:

    Page texts Strzok: "The [New York Times] probability numbers are dropping every day. I'm scared for our organization."

    March 14, 2017:

    Page texts Strzok: "Finally two pages away from finishing ["All the President's Men"]. Did you know the president resigns in the end?!"

    Strzok:"What?!?! God, that we should be so lucky."



    May 22, 2017:

    Strzok texts about "unfinished business" that he "unleashed" with the Clinton classified email probe and states: "Now I need to fix it and finish it." He also refers to the special counsel probe, which hadn't yet begun in earnest, as an "investigation leading to impeachment" but also states he had a "gut sense and concern there's no big 'there' there."

    The IG's report found that:



    - Strzok showed bias in his decision to prioritize the Trump-Russia investigation over the Clinton probe.

    - His texts "potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions they made [re: Clinton and Trump-Russia probes] were impacted by bias or improper considerations," "appeared to mix political opinions with discussions about" the Clinton classified email probe, and included "statements of hostility toward then candidate Trump and statements of support for candidate Clinton.

    - "Most of the text messages raising such questions pertained to the [Trump]-Russia investigation, which was not a part of this review."

    - Strzok had a "biased state of mind but, even more seriously ... a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects" and demonstrated behavior "an hetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice."



    - He brought "discredit" to himself, "sowed doubt about the FBI's handling" of the Clinton classified email probe and "impacted the reputation of the FBI."

    - The damage "extends far beyond the scope" of the Clinton probe and "goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence."

    - He showed "extremely poor judgment" and "a gross lack of professionalism."

    - He used personal digital accounts for FBI business.

    If you're still not sure what to think, read the IG report for yourself: https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download.


    http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...mpression=true
    So he didn't actually do anything wrong besides meanie texts.

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    All they have are texts that everyone agrees were unprofessional and gave the appearance of bias.

    Unfortunately people like TSA have spent so much free time trying to build this up as a conspiracy bigger than 911 and Watergate combined that they have deluded themselves into thinking that anti-Trump texts mean anti-Trump work. They'd believe a toll booth operator who sent a " DJT" text is a threat to block a Presidential motorcade from passing. It actually has chilling free speech implications which they would surely bukkake themselves over if the parties in this scandal were reversed.

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    ^has no idea what is going on

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    ^has no idea what is going on
    What's going on, Chris?

    Let everyone know what's going on.

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    What's going on, Chris?

    Let everyone know what's going on.
    What were you confused about?

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    What were you confused about?
    Question pending, Chris.

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    Question pending, Chris.
    I need clarification so I can give an honest answer. What were you confused about?

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    You said this:
    ^has no idea what is going on
    So what's really going on?

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    I need clarification so I can give an honest answer. What were you confused about?
    You need clarification on what you need to explain yourself?

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    You said this:
    So what's really going on?
    What were you confused about?

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    You need clarification on what you need to explain yourself?
    Question pending.

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    Question pending.
    Your stupidity trending.

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    What were you confused about?
    You're the one that is confused.

    You have no idea what is going on.

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    Your stupidity trending.
    You dodging questions and logging off trending.

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    You're the one is confus d.

    You have no idea what is going on.
    Do what?

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    Your stupidity trending.

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