Declassified Documents Show
FBI Used ‘Defensive’ Briefing In
2016 To Spy On Donald Trump
The Federalist,
by
Sean Davis
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/24/2020 4:33:47 AM
Newly declassified internal Federal Bureau of Investigation documents prove the top U.S. law enforcement agency used a so-called defensive briefing of the Trump campaign in 2016 to spy on and collect information about Donald Trump himself. The new documents, which are just the latest in a string of declassifications regarding the FBI operation to spy on the Trump campaign and later the Trump administration, detail the FBI’s attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself.
The documents were formally declassified by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on July 23 then provided
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/24/2020 5:36:16 AM (No. 488780)
This is Watergate on steroids.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 7/24/2020 6:46:24 AM (No. 488821)
All this exculpatory information which was presumably available to Muller and this witch hunt was allowed to go on for two years? What was it, a jobs bill?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
weejun 7/24/2020 6:58:51 AM (No. 488830)
Again one must ask the question: why is Wray still there? He has done NOTHING about this abuse of power within his agency.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/24/2020 7:17:50 AM (No. 488842)
It seems to me that Wray has a lot to answer for regarding the delay and/or shall I say coverup he has been involved in. He should have made some sweeping changes by now. Number One being the release of any all documents that he has regarding this matter. Clearly, he is not one who seeks justice or intends to right wrongs.
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How confident are we that these criminals must pay the extreme price for treason and espionage ??????
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pearson365 7/24/2020 7:58:53 AM (No. 488888)
Director Wray, like Comey before him, is apparently operating a secret police unit within the FBI for the benefit of the Democrats. Article makes clear that the FBI violated federal laws to both prevent Trump from becoming President and then tried to stage a coup against a duly elected President Trump for 3 years. And that the lack of criminal charges for operating this unauthorized force and hiding its activities from Congress and the WH means that the FBI is free to do it again.
While the Comey/Wray FBI was and probably still is the main unit for this secret police effort, the Bureau has been aided and abetted by the Democrat loyalists in the DoJ, CIA and State. What’s stunning is that not a single official who knew of this conspiracy against our Constitution has come forward. Some 100 to 300 former or current officials, and not one has exposed the conspiracy. Not even for a tell all book. A loyalty not even the Soviet’s KGB could claim.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/24/2020 8:04:17 AM (No. 488896)
Another day:
They say we're young and we don't know
We won't find out until we grow
Well I don't know if all that's true
'Cause you got me, and baby I got you
Babe
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gone2pot 7/24/2020 8:24:56 AM (No. 488925)
And because of this revelation, my purple unicorns told me there would be indictments before the election and not just threats by that courageous pants wetter, Senator Graham. I love my unicorns, especially when pink polka-dots appear over their purple fur and then they poop delicious Skittles. Yipppeee!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 7/24/2020 9:09:36 AM (No. 488991)
It is apparent that "Bull" Durham and AG Barr are delaying any findings until the "proper time". The question is when is the "proper time"? Is it a time that will help or hinder Trump's reelection? I'm of the opinion that the long delay in doing their jobs is to prepare a report that will not indicate any reasons for indictments. Mr. Wray is probably involved so that none of his "buddies" has to serve any time in prison. Another whitewash !!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rama41 7/24/2020 9:24:40 AM (No. 489012)
All these revelations are becoming more irrelevant any day. Maybe in the future, our grandkids can write books or theses based on what we've learned, assuming they've been authorized to do so.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/24/2020 9:57:04 AM (No. 489046)
Sooooo - - three-year-old FBI documents - - released yesterday by - - - - - - the DNI?
Ummm - - like - - shouldn't FBI documents be released by - - - - - - the FBI?
Fey Wray - - please explain why you still have a job.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 7/24/2020 10:11:22 AM (No. 489056)
Democrat Party: First in slavery, first in civil war, first in treason.
You've got to admit the Dems have an interesting history that makes a dynamite slogan.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/24/2020 10:19:22 AM (No. 489064)
It is beyond human comprehension that a political party would go this far to avoid its guilt in Spygate and to coverup its coverup of Spygate. But it comes down to a simple question: why do they do it? Answer: because they can. There have been no consequences for their actions... so far, anyway.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Luandir 7/24/2020 10:25:59 AM (No. 489067)
Indictments or this means nothing.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/24/2020 10:47:39 AM (No. 489080)
Yeah, well, interesting. Now, about wearing these masks...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Arby 7/24/2020 11:08:04 AM (No. 489095)
And the LSM continue their silent march. Perhaps a set of serious indictments will focus their attention.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
walcb 7/24/2020 11:11:18 AM (No. 489100)
What more needs to be done investigating Clinesmith. They have him nailed and still no charges.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
qr4j 7/24/2020 11:12:40 AM (No. 489102)
One often forgets that the FBI HAD to ensure that Hillary became president because, in part, it needed to protect its rear against investigations into the LOUSY handling of Benghazi. Obama and his buddy Hillary could not allow the truth to come out. And neither could that sack o' manure Comey.
All this Russian stuff was cooked up to protect and elect Democrats and the bureaucrats who did their bidding!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/24/2020 11:31:43 AM (No. 489126)
Spy? They used the briefing to investigate and try to set up, or entrap, the President. This was not a defense briefing for an incoming President. I have also noted that some of Trump's questions and answers have been leaked, but none of what the FBI agent told Trump, or said. The leak includes helpful suggestions that Trump's questions were foolish. I want a full transcript of the conversation, a copy of the FBI agents report to his superiors, along with all emails, text messages, correspondence, phone transcripts, and any other records related to this meeting, so that I can fully, and fairly, determine what the FBI did. Please discontinue partial leaks of prejudicial information, along with one sided narrative. Also, please discontinue refusals to release documents and other evidence, and redacting documents, so that no one can decipher them. This is DC fun and games, which I find repulsive, and insulting to the general public, who is paying for all of it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Foghorn 7/24/2020 12:10:02 PM (No. 489186)
I was a clear cut attempted coup, nothing more and nothing less. Everything the Democrats did was an effort to depose Trump and take the country. Barrack Obama moved the nation toward socialism further than President Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt ever did. Democrats should be proud, now you can slip demented Joe in there and control the country from the deep state.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/24/2020 12:37:08 PM (No. 489228)
The FBI should be disbanded. Their 17,000, 17,000!, agents should be retired and the ones that do not have enough time served sent as US Marshalls or border patrol agents to remote parts of our land. The FBI Associate Director Fein? was Deep Throat who brought down Watergate upon this country. Demolish the FBI D.C. building, which they don’t like anyway, and salt the land. We cannot forgive the evil rank and file of the FBI attempting to bring down our best President ever through a coup d’état. Jimmy Comey, Andrew McCabe, Cleinsmith, Joe Pientka III, Peter Strozk, Archey, James Baker, and Stephen M. Somma need to be indicted for conspiracy.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
slsusnr 7/24/2020 1:35:56 PM (No. 489316)
#13 The answer is in 1984. O'Brien explains to Winston Smith: it's power. Pure power. Nothing else.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
pensom2 7/24/2020 5:20:11 PM (No. 489561)
The released documents provide evidence that the FBI was intentionally trying to involve General Flynn so they could use him as a foil and claim he was in Russia's pocket, then claim a need to monitor all Flynn's communications with Trump.
Now, if President Trump had already pardoned General Flynn as many conservatives keep clamoring for, much of this new information might not have been provided, or may not have seemed appropriately crucial upon its declassification. Let Flynn and his superb counsel work all this out. Only if they fail should Trump pardon Flynn.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
judy 7/24/2020 5:20:52 PM (No. 489563)
The JD has been hiding this for years..thank you mr Ratcliffe!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/24/2020 5:33:38 PM (No. 489576)
A note to the dims - the end of your party is near. Doesn't look like your new name, the New Communist Party is going to work either. Chairman Obie has miscalculated.
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