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Home Front: Politix
Gowdy: Strzok And Page Need To Explain Anti-Trump 'Secret Society' texts
2018-01-23
[FOX] Reps. Trey Gowdy and John Ratcliffe join FNC's Martha McCallum to talk about another newly released text message between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. This time, Strzok implies a "secret society" of federal agents worked to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.
It's already been "explained." What we now need are believers.
"It is possible these text messages that are missing, perhaps they really were lost. Perhaps it is another strange coincidence," Ratcliffe said. "It is harder and harder for us to explain one strange coincidence after another."

"We know that Strzok and Page had an intense anti-Trump bias," he said. "And that's OK, so long as they check it at the door and do their job. We learned today in the thousands of text messages we have reviewed, that perhaps they may not have done that. We know about this 'insurance policy' that was referenced trying to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president."

Ratcliffe continued: "We learned today about information that in the immediate aftermath of his election, there may have been a 'secret society' of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI, to include Page and Strzok, working against him. I'm not saying that actually happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to explain the context."

Related at the Daily Caller: FBI Agents Allegedly Texted About ‘Secret Society’ The Day After Trump’s Election [VIDEO]
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#12  #2 Gowdy is a yappy dog. all bark, no bite.

This.
Posted by: charger   2018-01-23 13:07  

#11  da skulz
Posted by: newc   2018-01-23 12:10  

#10  I find it troubling that they are using Android instead of an I-Phone. Android is just not as secure.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-01-23 11:26  

#9  Oopsie!:

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2018-01-23 08:53  

#8  I wonder what The Love Birds™ will give up for their protective custody?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2018-01-23 08:18  

#7  Joe of the Jungle is an Olde Rantburger who hasn’t been around for a while. I’m glad he came back to us.

Yes indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-23 02:45  

#6  Joe of the Jungle is an Olde Rantburger who hasn’t been around for a while. I’m glad he came back to us.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-01-23 02:41  

#5  And no wonder President Trump 'took a pass' on visiting the opening of the new US Embassy in London.

I'm doubtful of NSA involvement. Unless he stumbled upon an internal rogue project, the DIRNSA's (Admiral Rogers) visit to Trump Towers would seem somewhat counter-intuitive.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-23 02:20  

#4  No wonder May has been acting so schizophrenic toward Trump.
Posted by: gorb   2018-01-23 02:12  

#3  The following was posted yesterday by someone with the screen name 'Joe of the Jungle.' I suspect he has well nailed it. I hope he continues to post his insights:

#4 Here is what we now know, per intelligence gleaned form federal law enforcement sources with insider knowledge of what amounts to a plot by U.S. intelligence agencies to secure back door and illegal wiretaps of President Trump’s associates:

Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.

To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.

The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.

GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.

The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.

Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.

After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.

By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.

The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle || 01/22/2018 12:49 Comments || Top||
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-23 01:11  

#2  Gowdy is a yappy dog. all bark, no bite.

Something about following true. Like Benghazi.
Posted by: newc   2018-01-23 01:09  

#1  By force if necessary, to ape a recent phrase.
Posted by: Raj   2018-01-23 00:54  

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