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2018-04-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

DOJ: Key FBI Brass Flip on McCabe & Comey; High-Level Officials Testify Against Fired FBI Chiefs, Set Stage for Grand Juries

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The FBI egg may, I say again 'may' be beginning to crack but there are numerous other quite interesting facets.

Notice the general absence in any of these discussions regarding foreign signals collection and of one particularly key US Gov't, intelligence community figure ?

Yes, that would be the Director National Security Agency (DIRNSA), Admiral Mike Rogers. I have suspected for some time that he holds the keys to the Trump Towers communications monitoring. I'll go one step further and suggest that it was NOT done by US Intelligence (USI) but rather UK's GCHQ. They really are some of the best in the business, and Trump Towers is only a 5 minute walk from the UK Consulate in NYC.

I suspect (have no proof) that someone in NSA approached Admiral Rogers with evidence of foreign monitoring of Trump Towers and a presidential candidate, and Rogers took it from there. Strong legal prohibitions prevent NSA and the military from collecting on US Citizens (EO12333). Obviously the same rules do not apply to the FBI which has access to FISC (and a 94% monitoring approval rate).

It is interesting to note that no one has asked Admiral Rogers why he did not take the issue of foreign signals collection to President Obama instead of going directly to Donald Trump.

Notice also that lack of discussion regarding the role of Carter Page. Page is a USN Academy graduate and intelligence officer. Very little discussion of Page's former FBI associations, or his truncated tenure on the Trump campaign staff. If the Bureau believed Page to be a threat to national security or an agent of Russian intelligence, what has changed since his departure from the Trump campaign staff? Why the sudden loss of interest in Carter page ?

Let's hope some, if not all of these questions are eventually revealed in the days and weeks ahead.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-27 01:50|| 2018-04-27 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe J. Sessions is not so sleepy. Maybe he is an accomplished actor in political theater?

Sessions plays 4-D chess.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-27 08:55|| 2018-04-27 08:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's hope some, if not all of these questions are eventually revealed in the days and weeks ahead.

Let's hope the above is not just wishful thinking promoted by Kabuki theater.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-27 10:56|| 2018-04-27 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 We keep hearing these hopeful stories, and never anything comes from them. Remember that IG's report which was supposed to back up Nunes? Where'd it go? It should have been out by now. Likewise this disinformation.

This is just distraction by the DOJ while they let Comey and McCabe get away. Why would they turn on their own? The DOJ investigating the DOJ?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-04-27 12:50|| 2018-04-27 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Come on Herb, how about a little optimism ?

(Can't believe I actually typed that)

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-27 12:54|| 2018-04-27 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Must be the cynical, paranoid brand of herb.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-27 14:47|| 2018-04-27 14:47|| Front Page Top

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