…got his start in the FBI’s dirty Boston Office.
Mueller is guilty of framing people and withholding exculpatory evidence in the past. Why should we think he’s not doing the same thing now?
Saturday-morning update]
Lee Smith has a pretty comprehensive description of everything that was going on.
[Saturday-evening update]
Related: Watch Kimberly Strassell dismantle the WaPo “fact checker” on Bruce Ohr.
As an aside, Twitter threads have become a way of routing around the limitations of first the 140, then 280-character limit of the medium, to turn them effectively into blog posts, at which one can jump in at any time.
In October, the bureau also used the Clinton-financed Steele dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page – which allowed it to monitor his communications and those of anyone on the Trump team with whom he was in contact.
It also allows the intelligence community to monitor communications several degrees of separation away from Page. So someone who talked to Page but then also whoever talked to that person and so on.
This looks like a CIA opp, especially since a lot of it happened overseas. That puts Brennan in the picture but since the State Department, NSA, and DOJ were all involved, that points to the only place that can order all of these departments to work together, the oval office.
I just don’t have time in my life to read all of Kim Strassel’s post. It probably is all necessary, considering the efforts of outlets like the WaPo to continue selling the lie that is the Steele Dossier. To this day, nobody has been able to independently verify anything in that dossier. The WaPo isn’t being duped, they are acting as accomplices.
For me, the Lee Smith article is the interesting one. According to his narrative, these alleged efforts at entrapment stopped once the FBI started investigating Trump. If so, that implies some sort of collaboration between the FBI and these outside parties. And it strikes me that such collaboration would likely be felony illegal.
A smoking gun here would be evidence of communication between these other parties and the FBI, including inside information on ongoing FBI investigations. Perhaps that is something to look for?