Mueller´s report looks bad for Obama
CNN,
by
Scott Jennings
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/20/2019 5:56:16 AM
The partisan warfare over the Mueller report will rage, but one thing cannot be denied: Former President Barack Obama looks just plain bad. On his watch, the Russians meddled in our democracy while his administration did nothing about it. The Mueller report flatly states that Russia began interfering in American democracy in 2014. Over the next couple of years, the effort blossomed into a robust attempt to interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration knew this was going on and yet did nothing. In 2016, Obama´s National Security Adviser Susan Rice told her staff
Scott Jennings, a former CNN writer...
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No, this isn´t right. Obama told the Russians to "cut it out" when he found out about their activities.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cobieone 4/20/2019 8:39:42 AM (No. 39671)
#2 is absolutely correct. We can all assume Russia (and Soviet Union) has meddled in every presidential election in our history. Shouldn´t surprise anyone. But the Dems are using this narrative to cover up the biggest scandal in US political history, and we would be fools to fall for it. This is a Zero administration scandal unlike anything we have ever seen and our Justice Dept better get to the bottom of it!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rusino 4/20/2019 8:45:02 AM (No. 39675)
Just wondering how long Scott Jennings remains at CNN! Great article, An Illumination!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/20/2019 9:07:15 AM (No. 39676)
Perhaps the theory of WHY it was allowed, to help the Iran deal go through, is correct.
But later, the dems are expert at blaming others for their crimes. Why not hang it all on Trump? Hillary wins and no one really knows except that Trump is a confirmed bad guy.
Except, despite all their sneaky tricks, Trump won. OK, double down and continue to attack. Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Yates. Rice. ... Mueller. It ALL failed.
Yes, BO was complicit in allowing the rather hapless Russian interference that has gone on forever.
BUT, the real crimes of BO are to have his administration spy on a political opponent and use counter intelligence tricks to undermine his presidency. These above mentioned losers are BO´s crew. It was coordinated. BO KNEW about it and sanctioned it. Maybe the WH planned it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/20/2019 9:12:59 AM (No. 39652)
When an article begins with the idiotic statement that Russia meddled in our democracy, I quit reading. Someone at CNN, if anyone there actually knows, should tell Scott that we are not a democracy. If a reporter or politician can’t get that fact correctly, I figure the rest of the article will be garbage.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
walcb 4/20/2019 9:16:11 AM (No. 39655)
The way I see it is the Mueller report could have been written to find Trump or someone in the Trump circle guilty of "collusion" and/or guilty of obstruction, but they didn´t. I think they were stopped or blocked and the only logical person who could do this was Barr.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/20/2019 9:21:44 AM (No. 39660)
Leave it to the clueless boobs at CNN to get it completely wrong - - again.
1. There was NO Russian government "interference" in our elections - - NONE. All we have is speculation about their intent - - but no evidence of any active, meaningful steps. The entire narrative was a creation of Little 0bie and his vicious henchmen, Brennan and Clapper - - as part of their treasonous spying cabal.
2. 0bie was NOT ´focused"on the Iran agreement. He was intent on betraying our country for the benefit of his co-islamists.
Yes - - things look bad - - very bad - - for Little 0bie and all of his corrupt cronies. Most will be serving long jail stretches - - but CNN has no idea why.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/20/2019 9:51:19 AM (No. 39656)
Obama, and the rest of the democrats, didn´t care about Russian meddling. Hillary was going to win and Russia had a lot to offer.
A lot of money had already flowed from Russia to the Clintons and there was much more to be had. Obama had mysteriously become a millionaire, other democrats now owned vacation homes, yachts, airplanes, and more.
Pelosi had the services of the Air Force at her disposal, to fly back and forth to California. The perks of government service just kept increasing, the work week was 2 1/2 days, nobody got much done, except feathering their own nest.
Taxpayers were lied to with a straight face, while they were being robbed by the government. Jobs, and much of industry, was disappearing. Sold to the Chinese, Russians, and anyone else with the price of playing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sw penn 4/20/2019 9:58:41 AM (No. 39661)
Wonder what a $25 million dollar/2 year investigation
into Mexican election meddling would discover?
Would the "Oh! So Pious!" dems support that?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/20/2019 10:06:44 AM (No. 39677)
Ok, I´ll say it again. AG Barr, revoke Obie´s passport and make sure he can´t leave the country to run from this. He has some splaining to do.
CNN, nobody forced Obie to collude with Putie. He and Billary did it all by themselves. I still want to know McCain´s role and why he just happened to be bringing back from Europe a copy of the dossier.
By the way, Jennings, there is another error in your piece. In the second paragraph, you refer to the USA as "our democracy". We are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
gone2pot 4/20/2019 10:10:49 AM (No. 39673)
If you read the first seven sentences of the Mueller report, you´ll see that the FBI took the DNC AND the DNC´s cyber team´s "we were hacked by the Russians" hook line and sinker without any evidence other than the words of the DNC. The FBI KNOWS the DNC was NOT hacked by Russians because they have access to the exact same forensic evidence we have that has been available for over one year. The hack outside of the DNC offices was impossible due to the DNC hard drive to data collector speeds. No wireless system at that time could handle the download speeds as the evidence (wow, evidence, that´s a novel word, no?) from the meta data proves. Yet, Mueller accepts as fact the DNC´s words that they were hacked by Russians because their contracted cyber investigators and NOT the FBI said so.
For over three years now, all the articles, pundit interviews, Congressional committees, opinion pieces have one hundred percent ignored the facts. The dossier, that was the ONLY reason for the FISA warrant that started the investigation IS fake and was KNOWN to be fake for all four FISA warrants by everyone involved INCLUDING the FISA judges, and that the metadata proves that Russians hacking the DNC was physically and scientifically impossible. Everything else, (like Jennings´ article) is a smoke screen including the Mueller report to confuse.
This nation keeps calling for Danger Close fire support and will be surprised when it actually happens but we certainly deserve it because out of abject stupidity, we certainly beg for it every day.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/20/2019 11:23:54 AM (No. 39658)
EVERYTHING that Obama did looks bad for Obama. He was a clueless and shoddy third world style leader and he and his meddling wife and surrogate mother thought that we were a bunch of uneducated kenyans. The joke´s on him.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/20/2019 11:30:45 AM (No. 39662)
Obama did his best and he failed. Imagine a lightweight like GWB being faced with an internal coup by the FBI and the major intel agencies and a terrorist state like Iran getting billions of dollars at the same time to jump start their nuclear weapons program. He would have messed up his skivvies every time the phone rang.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/20/2019 11:39:11 AM (No. 39654)
#13, your recap should be sent to every member of Congress.
And, every media member.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/20/2019 11:48:47 AM (No. 39665)
The Russians have always “meddled” in the affairs of other countries, at least as far back as when the British were in India. There is no reason to believe those covert activities by Russia are going to stop, when it comes to future US election activities as long as the Russians believe they will be successful. As the internet is now being used, the internet has effectively given the Russians a new tool, essentially a cyber visa into the USA, where up to now the Russians have had the ability to sow misinformation into USA politics that has put the leftist and liberal Democrats into a political tailspin, using that Russian “meddling” to 24/7 politically attack President Trump.
You can safely bet that the Russians have to be laughing their butts off at the amount of success they achieved in that respect. Now it is up to the USA to secure the electoral processes so that they cannot be sabotaged in the future through foreign espionage.
As far as former President Obama and his Administration are concerned, not only did they not take any effective action to rebut or stop the Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election, but they also failed to brief President Trump and his crew as to what the Russians were up to.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/20/2019 12:05:24 PM (No. 39664)
Don Surber includes Jennings’s piece in his column. Clearly underwhelmed, he has this to say at one point:
He gives Obama a good alibi for doing nothing.
and this at another:
That gives Obama too kind a pass.
Obama used Russian interference as an excuse to spy on Donald Trump. The way it was done tells me they had done this before because Susan Rice was way too casual in talking about unmasking private citizens whom national security wiretapped.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/04/what-did-obama-know-when-did-he-know-it.html
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kdog 4/20/2019 12:07:41 PM (No. 39668)
This editorial is a smoke screen. The Obama Administration used our DOJ and intelligence assets to spy on a Presidential candidate AND undermine a follow-on Administration. To say they´re fault was they didn´t do enough to stop "meddling" is really quite funny, as though theirs were sins of omission rather than crimes of commission.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
P51DMustang 4/20/2019 12:52:18 PM (No. 39669)
Its comforting to know that everything that Stinky touches turns to Crap.
We just have to wait for O´Bumbler´s team to realizes that they need to cut a deal with the prosecutor to save their backside.
No one wants to do time for Herself or dipstick Obama.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
VietVet68 4/20/2019 1:10:51 PM (No. 39666)
I hate to say it but there´s no hope left for the collusion crowd in DC, Hollywood and the left wing media. In as much as they have no hope left to rid themselves of the bad orange man I´m mixing up a special bath of collusion coolaide that will be made available at stands in Beverly Hills, CNN HQ and on the steps of the Capitol.
It´s the least they can do to save us from their perpetual whining.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/20/2019 1:32:58 PM (No. 39663)
The Russians did not hack theDNC. Assange explained many times that the data came from non-governmental sources. It was Seth Rich as we are all informed. The Russians had a 10-15 people playing around in the Internet. Not too different to what many of us did at Lucianne to try to convince the NeverTrumper opinion here, Timber Queen being the most effective. The Russians spent a total of $100,000 in Facebook ads, which is to say nothing. All this is accepted by Mueller as a grave threat. It was nothing compared to the Democrat voter fraud. Hussein is responsible for Spygate, as is the CIA, FBI, MI6, Australia’s Foreign Office. They should all pay for their crimes.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
sherlock1 4/20/2019 2:57:36 PM (No. 39670)
Even if the "Russia interfered" fantasy is conveniently believed, can anyone seriously compare the influence of a couple hundred thou in Facebook ads purchased by Russians, with the constant drumbeat of "Democrat good, Republican bad!" pumped out from the sewage plant called the American media 24x7, in EVERY election? Ha! Get serious!
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Well Obama did tell Russia that he could help them more after his second election was in the can.
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Investigate the Kenyan fraud!
Indict the Kenyan fraud!
Convict the Kenyan fraud!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 4/20/2019 7:23:38 PM (No. 39653)
The dems are so unAmerican - they make me feel ill. Why can´t they just support Trump, recognize the election was real, and work for USA instead of trying the "silent" coup. They look silly and bit unbalanced. Excuse me, very unbalanced.
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