I
cannot even begin to keep up with everything that is happening.
CrossTalk: #ReleaseTheMemo
DOJ
warns release of House Intel memo on FBI, Clinton campaign could
‘harm national security’
©
Andrew Harrer / Global Look Press
RT,
25
January, 2017
The
Justice Department has called on the chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee to let the FBI view before release a secret
memo alleging to show political bias within the department.
With
the House Intelligence Committee saying it is in the preparation
stages of releasing a 4-page memo, which purports to show collusion
between the Obama administration, the FBI, and the Clinton campaign
against Trump and his team, the DOJ has said releasing the memo would
be “extraordinarily reckless.”
“We
believe it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to
disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and
the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the
[committee] of the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing
investigations that could come from the public release,” Assistant
Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote in a letter to Rep. Devin Nunes
(R-CA). “Indeed, we do not understand why the Committee would
possibly seek to disclose classified and law enforcement sensitive
information without first consulting with the relevant members of the
Intelligence Community.”
Others
issues thought to be contained in the memo, which thus far has only
been viewed by House members, involve the so-called ‘Steele
dossier,’ a controversial document prepared by former MI6 spy
Christopher Steele that made a series of unverified claims against
Donald Trump. One of the more shocking allegations put forward in the
dossier was that Trump had paid prostitutes urinate on a bed at the
Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow where former US President Barack Obama
and his wife Michele had once stayed.
The
memo will also likely focus on the email correspondences between two
FBI staff members, Peter Strzok and his mistress, lawyer Linda Page,
both of whom expressed strong reservations for Trump.
Strzok,
who served as Chief of the Counterespionage Section during the FBI’s
investigation into Clinton’s use of her personal email server, at
one point referred to Trump as a “douche” and an “utter idiot.”
Strzok
was abruptly removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia
probe earlier this year after the DOJ began investigating his
seemingly biased messages.
The
Strzok-Page story lay dormant until this month when new revelations
showed that at least five months’ worth of electronic text messages
between Strzok and Page had disappeared.
This
week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC),
and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin
Nunes (R-CA) commented on the lost texts, saying: “The omission of
text messages between December 2016 and May 2017, a critical gap
encompassing the FBI’s Russia investigation, is equally concerning.
Rather than clearing up prior FBI and DOJ actions, these recently
produced documents cause us to further question the credibility and
objectivity of certain officials at the FBI.”
WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE: If you lie to the FBI, you get locked up. If FBI officials lie, they should suffer the same fate #ReleaseTheMemo
Fox
News’ Sean Hannity, citing DOJ sources, reported Wednesday on his
news program ‘Hannity’ that the Justice Department has started
recovering some of the missing texts between the FBI officials.
Meanwhile,
as the rhetoric over the secret memo heats up, the Democrats appear
determined to steal the Republicans’ thunder, saying they too are
in the process of putting together a secret memo.
We’re watching the biggest political witch hunt in American history be exposed right in front of our eyes. #ReleaseTheMemo
“Regrettably,
it has been necessary for Committee Democrats to draft our own
memorandum, setting out the relevant facts and exposing the
misleading character of the Republicans’ document,”said the
panel’s top Democrat, Adam Schiff, “so that members of the House
are not left with an erroneous impression of the dedicated
professionals at the FBI and DOJ.”
Finally,
Trump, when asked if he would agree to being interviewed by Mueller
in the ongoing ‘Russiagate’ investigation, said he is “looking
forward” to the opportunity, and willing to do it “under oath.”
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.