“POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.”
Keep that line in mind when anyone talks about the FBI investigating former Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and beyond.
It’s what Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer texted then-boyfriend FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok amid the 2016 campaign. We tend to dismiss Page as “Strzok’s girlfriend.” But she was far more than that. Comey’s deputy was Andrew McCabe. McCabe’s right hand was Page. What’s more, Page was the FBI’s White House liaison during the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump investigations. And her message to Strzok, a top soldier in the war against Trump: “POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.”
That president, of course, was Barack Obama. And he wasn’t talking about their canoodling.
When Fox News broke the story last week about a criminal investigation into Brennan and Comey, their sources used the word “conspiracy.” Unraveling what that means would take a whole book. But let’s talk about one incident:
On Jan. 6, 2017, Comey headed to Trump Tower to brief the president-elect on the Steele Dossier. This now-infamous dossier had been compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, alleging all sorts of Trump-Russia connections, including sordid tales involving hookers in Moscow hotel rooms. CNN had the dossier story but did not have the “hook” it needed to run with the story. Comey briefed Trump on the trashy elements in the dossier.
Almost by the time Comey got back to his limo, the meeting was leaked to CNN. CNN magically had their hook, and “Russia, Russia, Russia” was born.
What didn’t the FBI director do? Bother to tell Trump that he, the CIA, and Obama knew the dossier was nothing more than tabloid trash. Comey also didn’t bother to tell Trump the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative had been concocted by Clinton’s campaign … in part to deflect from her own Russia-connected scandals. (Uranium One, anybody?) As John Solomon of Just the News reported Sunday, Special Counsel John Durham in a classified annex to his report “described how the Obama administration knew before the Russia collusion probe targeting Trump was opened that Hillary Clinton had personally approved a project to gin up a bogus Russia scandal against her GOP opponent.”
Why didn’t Comey tell Trump these two crucial facts? Because telling Trump the truth would make it a one-day story. And truth was the farthest thing from Comey’s mind.
Had Comey gone rogue? Hardly.
One day earlier, on Jan. 5, 2017, America’s true day of insurrection, Obama held an Oval Office meeting to discuss the Trump-Russia business. In the room: Comey, Brennan, Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Trump-hating DOJ figure Sally Yates and top adviser Susan Rice. They discussed limiting what they would tell Trump about the Trump-Russia “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. They talked about how to get incoming National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. They talked about how to use Crossfire Hurricane against the new president.
Again, we now know that they knew the Trump-Russia story was as bogus as one of Kamala Harris’ accents. They knew the FISA warrants used to spy on Trump were as flimsy as a Kim Kardashian bikini.
Did Obama order the sabotage of Trump? I’ll ask you this: If you knew the Steele Dossier was trash, and you suddenly saw stories claiming it was true, damaging your successor, damaging the country, wouldn’t you be on the horn immediately to Trump? Of course you would. And if, by some miracle, the POTUS who wanted to know everything wasn’t told anything, once you did find out the truth, wouldn’t you be outraged that you had been lied to? Wouldn’t you join Trump in wanting the heads of Comey, Brennan, and Clapper? Not a peep out of Obama,
Solomon revealed that the new FBI investigation goes far beyond Comey and Brennan. It’s probing the “grand conspiracy” “to meddle in three U.S. elections to the benefit of Democrats and the detriment of President Donald Trump.” It covers the 2024 lawfare against Trump; 2020’s 51 top intelligence officials, including Brennan and Clapper, falsely declaring Hunter laptop was Russian misinformation; all the way back to the tanking of the Clinton email investigation in 2016.
This brings us back to Page. In April 2016, Obama publicly floated the idea that Hillary should escape prosecution because she never would have “intentionally harmed” national security. (That’s not the legal standard.) Jump to May 4, 2016. Hillary has just clinched the Democratic nomination. Strzok texted Page, “Now the pressure really starts to finish [“Mid-Year Exam,” the code name for the Clinton investigation.]” Page responded: “It sure does. We need to talk about follow up call tomorrow.”
According to White House logs, Page scheduled a meeting at the White House for the following day hosted by Christopher Fonzone, deputy assistant and counsel to Obama. Do we know what they talked about? We have an excellent idea. Why? Because by day’s end, the Washington Post was reporting from “U.S. officials close to the matter” that the DOJ was likely not to charge Clinton because investigators found “scant evidence that the leading Democratic presidential candidate intended to break classification rules.”
Just as Obama had floated. A few weeks later, Comey made it official. The White House mission to end the case to help Hillary’s campaign was accomplished.
If the FBI is building a mob-like RICO case, they must have in their sights the capo-di-capi: The POTUS who wanted to know everything the FBI was doing.
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