When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

Washington Free Beacon;

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton approved a plan during the 2016 campaign to feed false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion to the media, her campaign manager said Friday.

Testifying to a federal court in the trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, Robby Mook noted that Clinton signed off on a scheme to send journalists data about possible links between Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank. The effort was successful, as a news outlet just days before the election published a story that alleged covert connections between Trump and the bank. The allegation has since been debunked, with the FBI finding there was not a nefarious link between Trump and Alfa Bank.

Mook’s testimony is the first confirmation that Clinton was involved in the decision to give the Trump-Alfa Bank story to journalists. Mook said that campaign leaders “weren’t totally confident in” the allegations and wanted to share them with reporters to investigate further. Mook said he discussed the strategy with Clinton, who okayed the plan.

Slate on Oct. 31, 2016, published a report that said a team of anonymous computer researchers had discovered that Trump’s real estate company, the Trump Organization, had a secret communications channel with Alfa Bank. Unmentioned in the story was that the computer researchers were collaborating with Sussmann and other political operatives working for the Clinton campaign.

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25 Replies to “When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal”

  1. Golly, and people dump on me for using the word stupid to describe my fellow man. Sorry folks, no special pronoun coming from this old “white” guy.

  2. But President Trump is a Russian spy!
    I said so…so, it must be true.
    Believe me…Ops tripped with my shot of booze.

    HEY DEPLORABLE, HOLD MY SHOT!
    I just fired another Aide who pissed me off.

  3. Lock her up!

    Durham may fail to successfully prosecute any of the big fish. However, he is getting the story out and even some Democrats will be forced to understand the events.

    1. Slinging dirt in a political campaign isn’t a crime.

      However …

      Enlisting the FBI to aid and abet your efforts sure the hell is! Sussmann, shushmann … where are the FBI officials who signed off on this ? Where is the top echelon of the FBI in leg irons? Doing the perp walk?

      It’s also not legal to deliberately and maliciously slander your political opponent by simply making-up LIES about him … no matter how many seemingly legitimate go-betweens you employ to spread the LIES. The media shouldn’t insulate HER. An ex-British Spy shouldn’t insulate HER. The FBI shouldn’t insulate HER … and Sussmann sure as hell shouldn’t insulate HER.

      1. Swearing in a dossier as “verified intelligence” to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, four times at least, should be a crime.
        Apparently, for Comey, Hillary and others, a sudden lapse of memory, even about the most obvious details, is akin to an alibi.
        When their October surprise failed, thanks partly to the Comey surprise, they all joined forces to frame Trump for Russia collusion.
        What Hillary did and what she lied about Trump doing are not crimes themselves, but Hillary gets to sweat out a DC acquittal.
        One must wonder though, does Durham have his own October surprise, set to spring a trap on miscreant DeMarxists?
        We’ve known for years they all lied and knew their cohorts were lying to them, but played along, imho, to the point of criminality.
        It’s not the same as proving it. I wish Durham well, He should subpoena Mueller to explain how his “investigators” missed this.
        But they were sure to jump on the illegal hack of a perfectly appropriate Flynn discussion with a Russian, leveraging his son.
        He’s suing them for $50 million because the shredded his rights to counsel along with rule of law to get him. Now he gets them.
        At the end of this day we’ have documentation proving what anyone with a brain not anchored in collectivism already knew.
        These ruthless power lusting malevolent mendactics will stop at nothing to have their way over us.
        Like Obama said, if people have the facts, they’ll come to the right conclusion. Yes, their fiction as facts. What did he know/

    2. Doubt it. Democrats are very well practiced at pretending not to know things. Even when the evidence is overwhelming

  4. They are pissing on us because they know they can. Nobody is going to do any time over this.

  5. Judge Cooper

    ‘The groom was Christopher Reid Cooper. “As an undergraduate at Yale,” the Washington Post reported, in an article that referred to the groom as a “well connected rookie,” “Cooper’s roommate and close friend was John Rice, brother of President Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice.”
    Cooper, nicknamed “Casey,” wrangled a spot on Obama’s transition team and got a big thank you from the president for his efforts: a judgeship.’

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/05/17/durham-trial-you-cant-unsee-all-the-potential-conflicts-of-interest-in-the-russia-collusion-case-in-d-c-n1598568

  6. The deep state 2 party system that appoints people to our (their) courts and government agencies.. What did you expect when push came to shove?.. Law and order??.. Well that’s a crappy left wing show on TV.. No such thing exists for the elites..

  7. Nobody did not know it was pure B.S. But they kept on spying and they kept on broadcasting lies. They still do.

  8. Hillary Clinton should have to reimburse the USA for the cost of the Robert Mueller investigation.

    Because of her Machiavellian machinations , $32 Million of tax payer money was wasted investigating on something that she well knew did not exist.

    Also, now that it is confirmed she was involved, Trump should sue her for defamation.

  9. I wonder how often they spoke about this before the “request” was made. Knowing that they would be exposed by someone..

  10. I seem to recall that the “team of anonymous computer researchers” were working on a contract for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment at the time. I haven’t seen Durham comment on that link yet. LTG Flynn also accused that office of leaking his email.

  11. “Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton approved a plan during the 2016 campaign to feed false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion to the media. . .” A plain, straightforward statement. And undeniable I think, even by the Old Bag.

    In fact, it was obvious almost immediately that the Old Bag and her campaign were the sponsors of the whole Pee-Pee Dossier/Russia-Collusion disinformation campaign. She was the first politician in our history to launch a KGB-style disinformation campaign against an opponent — a new low, and a sobering milestone.

    1. wrongo.
      the clintonites learned it from reading up on the 70s Watergate.

  12. If you have been following this from the start then you know that there is a whole can of worms about to be opened. Brennan briefed Obama about Hillary’s plan. So this was from the very start a backhanded attempt at a coup to keep Trump out of the Oval Office and allow Obama through Hillary to ‘fundamentally change America’. The plan was interrupted by Trump. The 2020 election fraud was the do or die decision to protect all of the players involved in the failed Democratic coup to get Hillary into the Oval Office. Putting the corrupt Biden in the White House was the only way to try and cover this failed plan of the Democrats. It is now up to the courts to try and reinstall stability to the Republic, should they fail, and it appears that they will, the George Floyd riots will be like a Sunday school picnic.

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