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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

FBI knew ‘collusion’ was a nothing-burger, but kept fake scandal alive anyway

‘We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian intelligence officers].”

How much wasted time on pointless investigations could have been prevented had Peter Strzok, then one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence officials who was spearheading the Bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, said this publicly one month into President Trump’s term?

But no, it was a private note by Strzok, for consumption within the FBI, to debunk a Feb. 14, 2017, New York Times article. The news story, a compilation by five of the Times’s top reporters, working four unnamed sources (the usual “current and former American officials”), claimed that members of the Trump campaign had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials” before the 2016 election.

This was false. Just as important, the FBI knew it was false.

But we, the American people, only know that now, in 2020, because Strzok’s notes were finally made public on Friday.

The Times article centrally identified former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a key adviser in communication with Kremlin spies. Strzok, however, countered that the Bureau was “unaware of any calls with any Russian government official in which Manafort was a party.”

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

We all know this. When will OBAMA. BIDEN. Clinton. Brennan. Clapper. COMEY. Strok. Paige. Rice. SHIFF. NADLER. Lynch. Pelosi. The ENTIRE Mueller team. The other Jew ball AG who took over for sessions. They all should be going to jail.

Anonymous said...

Never, they are too well connected and the liberal hoard won't have it. It'll mean they were wrong.

Anonymous said...

The same is going on with the Epstein case,officials and elites covering for each other.

Anonymous said...

Time to shut down this boondoggle. No need for them anymore, Dillinger, Machinegun Kelly, Bonnie & Clyde are gone and booze, gambling are legal, and drugs are everywhere!

Anonymous said...

Flynn - CONVICTED

Papadopoulos - CONVICTED

Manafort - CONVICTED

Cohen - CONVICTED

Stone - CONVICTED

Pinedo - CONVICTED

Van der Zwaan - CONVICTED

Gates - CONVICTED

13 Russian Nationals - UNDER INDICTMENT

12 Russian Military Intel Officers - UNDER INDICTMENT

Konstantin Kilimnik - UNDER INDICTMENT

Anonymous said...

11;10.so what kanagroo court justice and All based on lies & deception. The real crooks will be getting theres soon. Are you that much of a fool to think the democrats are your savior?

Anonymous said...

hillary - NOT CHARGED

obama - NOT CHARGED

comey - NOT CHARGED

biden - NOT CHARGED

and the list goes on

Anonymous said...

And they should find out what agents knew about it and kept their mouth shut, by orders or not, and fire every one of them. And let the rest know that if it ever happens again there will be criminal charges.