Quote (tagged4nothing @ Dec 10 2019 05:16pm)
Durham: there was a news article claiming Durham supported some specific results. it was more in response to that than anything.
1. one of those was being buried by McCabe as he withheld key evidence for months, waiting for the other investigation to end.
someone finally leaked out what was going on, and McCabe was forced to shuffle papers out. (this was also why Comey suddenly felt a need to update congress that there was an on-going investigation into Clinton. just before the election)
The second one was buried through Comey's FBI as they rushed out the decision while admitting they didn't take time to look at much of the evidence.
2. aspects of the Russia investigation were leaking before the election.
you can find lots of examples, but here is just one from a Sep. 23, 2016. (before election)
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-2142833. "trump"'s campaign and circle was being investigated well before the election. numerous news media leaks made sure we all knew about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_electionsComey also set-up president Trump on the Jan 6th. 2017 meeting where he was supposed to "update" the president. instead, he wrote down memo's of the conversation and released them to the press days later.
in short, this was everywhere before the election. Barr is not mistaken. even after the election, Trump was being set-up to establish a base for a continued investigation.
There's always accusations in the media... standard policy is for DOJ to not talk about ongoing investigations. And this wasn't swatting down an accusation, it was basically claiming that wrongdoing occurred related to the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, without any evidence presented. It seems like a nakedly political way to blunt the IG report's impact on the endless conspiracy theories.
1. The fact is that there were two ongoing investigations during the campaign into Hillary... and we knew about them during the campaign. McCabe authorized releasing information to the media regarding the Clinton Foundation case. We didn't know about the Russia investigation during the campaign.
2. Can you quote the part of the article where the investigation got leaked?
3. I don't see how this contradicts what I said. Trump wasn't being investigated until after he fired Comey.
Comey wrote memos because Trump is a pathological liar. It was wise for him and others involved in this stuff to write memos.
Quote (bogie160 @ Dec 10 2019 09:06pm)
They're discussing the need for the investigation in context of the "risk", Strzok's words, that Trump might win the election.
To your earlier point. In the midst of flagrant violation of FBI policy, I don't think either has the credibility to tell us what they really meant.
So they were debating whether to continue the meritless investigation? They considered closing it two weeks after opening?
They gave their reasons under oath as to what the text meant, and it's a much more reasonable explanation than what you've managed to theorize here.
Still waiting on an answer though... how was the investigation a fail safe? Play it out for us... cause the investigation absolved Trump and his campaign of conspiring and Trump is still in the White House. I've been told his presidency has been super successful.