Bombshell:
Report Indicates Lisa Page Testified Under Oath That FBI Had No Basis for
Mueller Investigation, by Tim Brown, 7/21/18,
The truth behind the Mueller probe is looking uglier
and uglier. Pursuing bogus accusations without foundation is the
very definition of a witch hunt.
Well,
that is quite an admission if true. The report comes from John Solomon
at The Hill, who wrote on the basis of sources that
heard Lisa Page's testimony concerning the texts that she and Peter Strzok
exchanged regarding President Donald Trump and alleged Russian collusion.
In
the midst of that testimony, Page confirmed what a text, which has long
intrigued many, actually meant by saying that it was Strzok referring to the
fact that the FBI had no basis for Robert Mueller's appointment and
investigation into the matter.
The
text that was allegedly deciphered by Page was transmitted on May 19, 2017 by
Peter Strzok.
“There’s
no big there there,” Strzok texted.
Solomon
reported at The Hill: It is no longer in dispute that they
held animus for Donald Trump, who was a subject of their Russia
probe, or that they openly discussed using the powers of their office to “stop” Trump from
becoming president. The only question is whether any official acts they took in
the Russia collusion probe were driven by those sentiments.
The Justice Department’s inspector
general is endeavoring
to answer that question.
For any American who wants an answer sooner,
there are just five words, among the thousands of suggestive texts Page and
Strzok exchanged, that you should read.
That passage was transmitted on May 19,
2017. “There’s no big there there,” Strzok texted.
The date of the text long has intrigued
investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion
between Trump and the Russia campaign.
Since the text was turned over to
Congress, investigators wondered whether it referred to the evidence against
the Trump campaign.
This month, they finally got the chance
to ask. Strzok declined to say — but Page, during a closed-door interview with
lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in
fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple
eyewitnesses.
The admission is deeply consequential.
It means Rosenstein unleashed the most awesome powers of a special counsel to
investigate an allegation that the key FBI officials, driving the investigation
for 10 months beforehand, did not think was “there.”
By the time of the text and Mueller’s
appointment, the FBI’s best counterintelligence agents had had plenty of time
to dig. They knowingly used a dossier funded
by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which contained uncorroborated allegations —
to persuade the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to issue a
warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page (no relation to Lisa
Page).
They sat on Carter Page’s phones and
emails for nearly six months without getting evidence that would warrant
prosecuting him. The evidence they had gathered was deemed so weak that their
boss, then-FBI Director James Comey,
was forced to admit to Congress after
being fired by Trump that the core allegation remained substantially
uncorroborated.
In other words, they had a big nothing
burger. And, based on that empty-calorie dish, Rosenstein authorized the buffet
menu of a special prosecutor that has cost America millions of dollars and
months of political strife.
Thomas
Lifson, writing at The American
Thinker, added:
Earlier reports indicated that Page has been
answering questions from the House Judiciary Committee quite frankly and
may even have cut a deal selling out her ex-lover Peter
Strzok over their professional misbehavior (and quite possibly worse) in
targeting the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump with the intelligence-gathering
tools of the FBI.
The truth behind the Mueller probe is
looking uglier and uglier. Pursuing bogus accusations without
foundation is the very definition of a witch hunt – President Trump's term for
Mueller's team of Hillary-supporters.
We don't know anything at all about the
activities of Utah U.S. attorney Peter Huber, who is investigating the potential abuse of U.S.
intelligence apparatus for political purposes. That is the proper
procedure for grand jury probes. But if Lisa Page is honestly
answering questions under oath for a congressional committee, she probably is
doing so in grand jury sessions, if summoned.
Comments
This might be the exit
strategy for the FBI and DOJ. This Witch Hunt fueled the Democrats for this
past year and Lisa Page’s testimony offers a way to let the FBI escape blame
and protect the Deep State. But it reveals that these government agencies
follow expensive, mindless, robotic processes to do their job.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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