Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Glaring Injustice -- FBI and Mueller Go After President Trump and His Family while Hillary, Bill, and Obama and His Hoods Walk Free

COLLUSION, COLLUSION -- AND CORRUPTION. Look no farther than the Obama presidency and his chief henchmen. • • • LISA PAGE TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPT LAYS IT ALL OUT. BizPac Review reported on Wednesday that "Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under oath Obama’s DOJ ordered no charges against Hillary." BPR reporter Tom Tillison wrote : "The more we learn the more we realize that collusion and obstruction of justice may have actually occurred...under the Obama administration. Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted last year under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Loretta Lynch-run Justice Department not to charge Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information. That’s according to Representative John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican, who cited transcripts of her private testimony in July 2018 before a joint task force of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees to make the remarkable assertion. Ratcliffe tweeted : 'Lisa Page confirmed to me under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information.' ” • Here is the Ratcliffe-Page exchange during her testimony : "Ratcliffe : 'So let me if I can, I know I’m testing your memory, but when you say advice you got from the Department, you’re making it sound like it was the Department that told you: You’re not going to charge gross negligence because we’re the prosecutors and we’re telling you we’re not going to -- ' Ratcliffe said. 'That is correct,' Page replied, before he could finish his sentence. ' -- bring a case based on that,' Ratcliffe then added." • The Washington Examiner elaborated on what led up to that moment : "Responding to a question from Representative John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, Page testified the FBI, including Comey, believed Clinton may have committed gross negligence. 'We, in fact -- and, in fact, the Director -- because, on its face, it did seem like, well, maybe there’s a potential here for this to be the charge. And we had multiple conversations, multiple conversations with the Justice Department about charging gross negligence,' she said. Page further testified the DOJ put a stop to that : 'The Justice Department’s assessment was that it was both constitutionally vague, so that they did not actually feel that they could permissibly bring that charge.' The specific statute being referenced, 18 U.S. Code § 793, deals in part with 'gross negligence' in the handling of national defense information, which Clinton came under scrutiny for possibly violating." • That’s when Ratcliffe asked if the decision not to charge Clinton was a direct order, as quoted above. • We all remember vividly that disgraced former FBI Director James Comey essentially cleared Clinton at a July 5, 2016, press conference, when he announced that she had been “extremely careless” in handling classified information -- altering the language so as to not use the term “grossly negligent,” which could have criminal implications. Later, we learned that Page’s lover, Peter Strzok, reportedly made that edit that led Comey to insist that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Hillary Clinton. AND, we also cannot forget that the previous month then-Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton had their infamous meeting on a Phoenix tarmac -- and allegedly talked about "grandchildren." • As the Washington Examiner noted, Lynch refused to recuse herself from the case, saying that she would accept Comey’s decision on what charges to bring against Clinton -- which is a direct contradiction from Page’s testimony that the DOJ made the call. Page also revealed in her testimony that the text between her and Strzok mentioning an “insurance policy” against Donald Trump was a reference to the Russian collusion investigation. • • • REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS ENTERS HE PAGE TESTIMONY INTO THE HOUSE RECORD. Representative Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican, took to the House floor to enter the transcripts of Page’s testimony into the congressional record, explaining it was from an investigation in the previous Congress that has since been closed. The Washington Times reported on Tuesday that : "Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok went into special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation thinking it might end in impeachment and advance his career, former paramour Lisa Page told congressional investigators last year, according to a transcript released Tuesday. Ms. Page also said decisions to allow former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aides to sit in on her FBI interview in 2016, and not to pursue gross negligence charges against her for her secret emails, were made by the Justice Department. She identified two lawyers at the department who she said made that decision. Transcripts from two interviews that the House conducted with Ms. Page were released by Representative Doug Collins, [currently] the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee. He entered the transcripts into the Congressional Record and released them over the reluctance of the Justice Department, which he said had been slow-walking their publication. Last week, Collins released a transcript from Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department official who passed the salacious anti-Trump 'Steele Dossier' into the government’s hands. Mr. Collins said the interviews give a picture of a small cabal at the FBI and Justice Department that was intent on trying to thwart the election of President Trump and then worked to investigate him once he was in office. 'The American people deserve to know what transpired in the highest echelons of the FBI during that tumultuous time for the bureau,' Mr. Collins said Tuesday. • Lisa Page was a lawyer working for then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe during the time in question. She was having an affair with Strzok, a lead FBI agent on some of the key investigations involving Mrs. Clinton and Trump. According to the transcripts, Page said she considered the investigation of Mr. Trump to be more serious than the one about Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of top-secret information : “The Clinton investigation was whether she mishandled classified information. That’s important. It matters, but it does not matter like a person associated with a presidential campaign receiving and potentially accepting, which we didn’t know, obviously, but the risk that somebody had received and accepted an offer of assistance from Russia, which I view as our sort of most treacherous adversary,” Page testified. • Page and Strzok exchanged thousands of text messages, including a number that suggested severe bias against Donald Trump from early on. In one series of texts from August 2016, they viewed their roles investigating Mr. Trump as prophetic, as the transcript shows : “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” Page texted Strzok. During her House interview, she confirmed that the “menace” was Donald Trump. • Page told the House committees that didn’t necessarily mean he wanted to find something, but he did have his eye on career advancement and a major takedown of a President would help that. “If it’s going to end in impeachment, that’s kind of a big deal,” she said. “I mean, put aside who it is, put aside how we feel about it. You know, that’s monumental. People who are on Watergate are still known as somebody who was on Watergate.” She insisted that was NOT an attack on Mr. Trump : “It’s about being on an unbelievably kick-ass team and being a part of, you know, something impressive,” she testified. • Peter Strzok ultimately was part of the team and worked for special counsel Mueller until the anti-Trump texts came to light. Mueller then removed Strzok from the team and he was fired by the FBI last summer. Page left the bureau months earlier. • The video of Representative Collins entering in the House record the Page testimony is available at < https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins/status/1105505372574502914 >. Representative Collins also tweeted : "Today, the link https://dougcollins.house.gov/page will be placed in the record so the American people can read the transcripts of Lisa Page's interviews before the Judiciary Committee. • BizPac Review noted that : "The question of the day was asked by conservative Hollywood actor James Woods, who tweeted: “Is it just me or does anyone find this to be rather disturbing? Why isn’t a special prosecutor investigating this...?” Woods was referring to a tweet by Representative Ratcliffe : "@RepRatcliffe Lisa Page confirmed to me under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information." • • • DID LORETTA LYNCH LIE TO CONGRESS? In a long article published on Tuesday, WND wrote : "Ex-Attorney General Loretta Lynch famously announced confidently, when that little matter of her meeting with the husband of an FBI investigation target came up, that she would let the FBI decide whether Hillary Clinton was charged for her 'extremely careless' handling of classified national secrets. That, now, is being questioned. The Washington Examiner reported that Lisa Page, a former FBI lawyer, testified to Congress last year that bureau officials, including then-FBI Director James Comey, 'discussed Espionage Act charges against Hillary Clinton, citing ‘gross negligence,’ but the Justice Department shut them down.' The transcripts, just released, came from Page’s testimony to a task force of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees last July. Its revelations are surprising. 'This goes back to the FBI’s ‘Midyear Exam’ investigation, which looked into whether Clinton committed crimes when she sent and received classified information on her unauthorized private email server while serving as Secretary of State. Comey cleared Clinton of all charges in a press conference on July 5, 2016,' the report said. The report explained, 'Page told the committee that the FBI ‘did not blow over gross negligence.' Representative John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, questioned her, and Page responded that the FBI, including Comey, thought Clinton may have committed gross negligence : 'We, in fact...had multiple conversations, multiple conversations with the Justice Department about charging gross negligence,' she told members of Congress. But she said the DOJ, then run by Lynch, stopped all that....Ratcliffe wanted it to be clear : 'When you say advice you got from the department, you’re making it sound like it was the department that told you: ‘You’re not going to charge gross negligence because we’re the prosecutors and we’re telling you we’re not going to.' Page : 'That’s correct.' " • BUT, the thing is that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch didn't mention any of that. She said she would defer to the FBI on whether to charge Clinton. RealClearPolitics that reported last year : “In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she does not recall ‘concerns being raised’ by then-FBI Director James Comey when the investigation into the Hillary Clinton private email scandal was categorized as a ‘matter.’ Comey later publicly testified before Congress that he felt ‘queasy’ being told to use that terminology to describe how the Justice Department of handling the problem.' • • • BIAS -- PURE ANTI-TRUMP BIAS. Page and Strzok exchanged thousands of text messages discussing their opposition to President Trump, and what they could do if and when he was elected. Those text messages oozed BIAS. The Washington Examiner wrote : “Page’s testimony raises further questions related to the decision not to charge Clinton with any crimes, including gross negligence, following a lengthy FBI investigation into her email practices that potentially put classified information at risk. After the revelation that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac in June 2016, while Hillary Clinton was running for President, Lynch refused to recuse herself from the case while also saying she would accept Comey’s decision on what charges to bring against Clinton. But Page’s testimony indicates that DOJ had shut the door on gross negligence.” • • • DEAR READERS, thus, "Gross Negligence" became "Extremely Careless" -- not a chargeable offense. AND, Hillary was off the hook, scott free, even though the FBI obviously knew she had committed the crime of "gross negligence" in using her unsecured and hidden private server for classified information and materials while Secretary of State. • WND even reported in 2018 that the infamous tarmac meeting was set up in advance by the Secret Service and FBI. That is noteworthy because Bill Clinton was meeting privately with Lynch while his wife was under investigation for mishandling classified information. • WHERE IS THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR for these crimes of the Obama administration?? So far, only the security clearances of John Brennan and Hillary Clinton have been revoked. Where is the Attorney General investigation and grand jury for these probable crimes of Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton, Jim Comey, Susan Rice, John Brennan, Jim Clapper, and -- who knows -- Barack Obama. WHERE ??? • Chris Christie, who has always been my first choice for Attorney General, said on March 1 inan article about the recent Michael Cohen testimony before the now Democrat-majority House Oversight Committee that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee did not do enough to protect President Donald Trump while questioning his former attorney Michael Cohen during a public hearing. Christie told Fox News : "We Republicans need to defend the President on substance. They dropped the ball on the President." Rather than focusing on proving Cohen was a liar, the congressmen should have been asking him direct questions, said Christie. Meanwhile, Cohen's testimony brought a "whole bunch" of additional witnesses that the House can bring in, including Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and the President's children. Christie says : "What he said was concerning to me about the way the process will work. He was in constant contact with the Southern District of New York in that he believes the President committed other crimes, but he can't talk about it because he is working with the Southern District of New York. This why I said all along the Southern District is much more worrisome than Mueller. They have no restriction on what they can look at." • Christie, always a savvy prosecutor, could be considering what may be coming next in the war against President Trump -- rumors are floating that newly appointed Attorney General Bill Barr has told special Counsel Mueller that he can indict President Trump's three adult children, Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka, and Jared Kushner. More on that later this week. • The injustice is blaring -- Hillary, Bill, Loretta, the FBI / DOJ criminal gang, Obama White House insiders, and perhaps Obama himself, are walking free while the entire federal justice apparatus is systematically destroying essentially innocent members of President Trump's family, and are still aimed at the President himself. Just how much can Americans take before they rise up ???

2 comments:

  1. Process. We must be as attentive to the the “Process” of trials the outcome of the trials. Has the specific law been up held is as important to the Rule of Law as to how the legal information is collected and handled. The defense of any law is as important as the end of the trial numbers are.

    The conclusion of any trial is no more important to the society as is the correctness as the collection of the arguable information that guides the trial.

    Law is a big umbrella - no part can have hole in it or else everyone gets wet.

    Or as a friend of mine believe.

    ???

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  2. Exactly. Even if we right the methodology down the road when times lends itself to more level grounds, in our Republic it will get corrected, and the system will be healed and continue to move on.

    If a guilty or not guilty is rendered with fallacious facts argued it must and will be corrected so the Rule of Law is propped up straight again.

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