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Old 02-07-2018, 03:13 PM
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Obama Tips Clinton Email Investigation?

So, FBI investigators knew that Obama was interested in the process and results of the Clinton email investigation. Interesting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ail-probe.html

Two months before the presidential election, Lisa Page wrote to fellow FBI official Peter Strzok that she was working on a memo for then-FBI director James Comey because Obama 'wants to know everything we're doing.'

Obama had said five months earlier during a Fox News Channel interview that he could 'guarantee' he wouldn't interfere with that investigation.

'I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line,' he said on April 10, 2016.


So who's lying? Comey? Lisa Page? Obama?
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Old 02-07-2018, 03:19 PM
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So who's lying? Comey? Lisa Page? Obama?[/QUOTE]

That's easy, always Trump, first and foremost.
Perhaps need to go west to find a dead horse.
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Old 02-07-2018, 03:33 PM
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Being informed about an investigation and intervening in it are two very different things. Rather than relying on a single text without context (cherry-picking again, are ya?), I'm content to wait on the forthcoming DOJ IG report of this very issue. As for Obama possibly telling a lie, what are your feelings about the 2,000 your Dear Leader has told in the past year?

If you are truly interested in a far more complete story about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the Wall Street Journal has a very deep dive into all of their texts, providing far more context than your breathless OP.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-...ges-1517589380

Lastly, you Trump lemmings have somehow bought into the notion that the grand total of any malfeasance by Obama, Hillary and Trump are a zero sum game. In other words, any crimes or unethical conduct by Hillary or Obama somehow obviate the need to investigate Trump's. It doesn't work that way. Hillary being crooked (she is IMHO) has no bearing on Trump's guilt for innocence of collusion, financial crimes or obstruction of justice.
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Old 02-07-2018, 03:39 PM
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Whell is jonesing for a job working for Devin Nunes, lol.

Anyone with an ounce of sense dreaded the idea of this idiot becoming president. FBI agents have plenty of sense, but should have known that their text messages would be subjected to scrutiny. Unfortunately, they can also be twisted into far more than they were meant to be by devious minds, to the delight of morons like Whell.
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Old 02-07-2018, 04:30 PM
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It was just common sense to be realistic about Trump's competence and qualification as a candidate for POTUS, based on his record and the public interest.
Being a successful populist demagogue doesn't somehow make him trustworthy POTUS material.
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Old 02-07-2018, 05:42 PM
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W(h)ell, waddya know? This text was indeed taken out of context and refers to Obama wanting to know about the Russia investigation, not the Hillary email investigation (which wasn't even ongoing at the time, whereas the Russia investigation was).

It’s simply not a plausible interpretation of the September 2, 2016 text exchange that Obama was seeking a briefing on the Clinton email investigation.

FBI Director James Comey closed the Clinton email investigation on July 5, 2016. It was not reopened until October. The same trove of text messages released Tuesday reveals that the FBI did not even become aware of additional emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop until September 28, 2016...

Citing anonymous "associates of the FBI employees involved," the Wall Street Journal is reporting the briefing was indeed about Russia, not Clinton.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-predecessors/

It seems Ron Johnson, like Devin Nunes, has sold his soul to his Dear Leader. Trump will likely soon run out of useful idiots in the House willing to destroy themselves to provide a smoke screen for their beloved Trumpenfuhrer.

I'm getting a little bored by this incompetent conspiracy by Trump and his minions to obstruct justice, though it is entertaining and is destroying the careers of some real low-lives (Nunes, Johnson, Jordan). It's also adding to the evidence of Trump and Co. conspiring to obstruct justice (and fool gullible lemmings like Whell).
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Old 02-07-2018, 06:01 PM
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Being informed about an investigation and intervening in it are two very different things. Rather than relying on a single text without context (cherry-picking again, are ya?), I'm content to wait on the forthcoming DOJ IG report of this very issue. As for Obama possibly telling a lie, what are your feelings about the 2,000 your Dear Leader has told in the past year?

If you are truly interested in a far more complete story about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the Wall Street Journal has a very deep dive into all of their texts, providing far more context than your breathless OP.
Breathless. That's funny. Speaking of context, to make your comment above you have to completely ignore Obama's own statement on his involvement / knowledge of the investigation. You also have to ignore the additional gravity within the FBI that comes with the knowledge that the POTUS is paying close attention to an investigation.
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Old 02-07-2018, 06:23 PM
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One of these days poor old Whell is going to start a thread that doesn’t get blown to bits by facts.

The score so far:
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Facts: 1,000
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Old 02-07-2018, 06:25 PM
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It has been leaked that Obama ordered Comey to wiretap the Trump tower. Nunes is now investigating this.

Also caught on video, Ivanka walking hand in hand with Quincy Jones into the Trump Tower. Trump is trying to get this video scrubbed.

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Old 02-07-2018, 06:49 PM
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One of these days poor old Whell is going to start a thread that doesn’t get blown to bits by facts.

The score so far:
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Facts: 1,000
It's part of the kid's charm. (grin)
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