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Originally Posted by beastalamode
Of course, it shouldn't have to be even argued. Here's Susan Rice's house russia probe transcript: "General Flynn's focus was on China as our principal overarching adversary. He had many questions and concerns about China and when I sought to ellicit his perspective on Russia.....he downplayed his assessment of Russia as a threat to the United States. He called it overblown. He said they're a declining power, they're demographically challenged.....they're not really much of a threat, and then he reemphasized the importance of China....I had seen enough at that point and heard enough to be a little bit sensitive to the question of the nature of General Flynn's engagements with the Russians".
Yeah I saw this and I'm not familiar enough with rice to know for sure if she's actually that dumb. My assumption is that its an excuse to justify the actions they took.
There is a really concerning pattern here. We don't know everything but there is clear corruption. We don't know the extent and who else was involved etc but there's clearly some concerning points here
-Strzok text messages show clear hate for trump. ominous messages like "insurance policy" and "we'll stop him"
- documents show they had nothing and were about to close the case. Strzok moves to keep it open and goes after flynn
-documents show they went in to see flynn with an agenda. get him to lie or get him fired.
-comey acknowledges they strategically avoided typical protocol to pursue flynn at the WH
-IIRC they asked flynn about a phone call both parties knew was recorded. They were doing this to "catch him" in a "lie". They knew what was in the phone call. From my understanding this was a move you make to "get someone" vs investigate a situation
-The FBI lied to the FISA courts through both omission and by providing fraudulent documents.
- before the election hilary was lobbing russia mud at trump. It's like she had a talking point in her back pocket ahead of this. Just speculation but It does look calculated
- documents reveal that a bunch of "important people" showing up on msm to accuse trump of russian collusion admit they had nothing behind the scenes under oath
I'm sure I'm missing some points and counter points but there is just so much smoke here. We are sure that the FBI intentionally abused the fisa process with doctored documents from the fbi and that the entire russia probe produced nothing. There's a lot of smoke around the rest