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originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: underwerks
I guess the opposite of that would be an unelected intel community giving someone they know is a criminal a pass.
Is that what you’re supporting? Or should they investigate the Trump admin if certain people are known to be dirty? Should everyone just pledge allegiance to Trump first and foremost?
Hahahaha!
Yeah if I am against the intel community acting to slander and remove an elected president, then clearly I must be for the intel community covering up for an elected official.
well clearly that is not the case.
Ironically it turns out that the same people cheering for intel community to leak and lie to congress and to smear a president are the same ones that cheered for them looking the other way in investogations into hillary.
Oh and anything to say on the OP?
You ok with clapper lying to congress and with him setting up thr briefing with trump to leak it to cnn to smear him?
I assume you are very angry about this, so I figure this will give you a chance to voice that.
Not a lot to be angry over. Lmao.
I just find it funny you obviously want to let unelected intel people give someone a pass on criminality because they’re the president. Or are you now saying that Trump should be investigated if the intelligence community knew something?
Just trying to get your views straight.
originally posted by: Nickn3
Before congress, James Clapper denied that the NSA was spying on American citizens and our allies until Edward Snowden exposed them.
So clapper tells cnn about the dossier and wants cnn to run the story on the dossier, he tells comey to brief trump on it, comey tells trump that cnn has the story but is just looking for a reason to run it, details of comeys breifing are leaked to cnn (no doubt by clapper), cnn then runs the story that clapper wanted all along using the fact the trump was briefed on it to give them legitimacy in running it.
This is proof that people at the highest level of the intel community were actively trying to bring down trump.
originally posted by: Stevenjames15
a reply to: Grambler
Did you ever think that the reason is because those at the top levels of intelligence already knew how much of a criminal and grifter Trump was and is? I do.
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: underwerks
I guess the opposite of that would be an unelected intel community giving someone they know is a criminal a pass.
Is that what you’re supporting? Or should they investigate the Trump admin if certain people are known to be dirty? Should everyone just pledge allegiance to Trump first and foremost?
Hahahaha!
Yeah if I am against the intel community acting to slander and remove an elected president, then clearly I must be for the intel community covering up for an elected official.
well clearly that is not the case.
Ironically it turns out that the same people cheering for intel community to leak and lie to congress and to smear a president are the same ones that cheered for them looking the other way in investogations into hillary.
Oh and anything to say on the OP?
You ok with clapper lying to congress and with him setting up thr briefing with trump to leak it to cnn to smear him?
I assume you are very angry about this, so I figure this will give you a chance to voice that.
Not a lot to be angry over. Lmao.
I just find it funny you obviously want to let unelected intel people give someone a pass on criminality because they’re the president. Or are you now saying that Trump should be investigated if the intelligence community knew something?
Just trying to get your views straight.
And here we have it folks!
I hope that everyone can see this.
No questions about the op, no denying that the sitting director of national intelligence and the sitting head of the fbi worked to set up trump to leak a classified briefing and details of the dossier to cnn to smear trump.
Just a claim that if I am somehow against this, then I must be for wanting the intel community to ignore crimes by trump.
This is the type of people that are anti trumpers.
They will totally cheer ignore or make excuses for the higher ups at the intel community trying to sabotage trump, because they dont like trump.
To respond to your accusation underwerks;
I would like the intel community and investigators to do their jobs no matter who is preisdent. That means if they are worried crimes are committed, they investigate them, not leak to cnn, then setup a breifing, then leak the detaikls of that briefing to cnn to smear trump, and then get a job at cnn and lie about it to congress.
I know that that must seem strange to you; what do you mean there are people that want the intel community to act legally and impartially no matter who is president?
But yes, there are those of us that dont want to weaponized the intel community to help our people and sabotage the others.
Such a radical opinion to an anti trumper!
originally posted by: Boadicea
originally posted by: Stevenjames15
a reply to: Grambler
Did you ever think that the reason is because those at the top levels of intelligence already knew how much of a criminal and grifter Trump was and is? I do.
And did you just stop thinking right there? Because if they "knew," then they "know" and have the proof... where is it?
The public has a right to know too, so they either need to put up or shut up. And if they do in fact "know," but won't put up and won't shut up, then they're just twisting and manipulating the facts and the truth for their own benefit and agendas.
Or they don't know squat, but are still twisting and manipulating the facts and the law and the investigation process for their own agenda... and therefore their own benefit. As the OP explained so well with the very facts and truths that the intel agents were playing fast and loose with.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Grambler
So clapper tells cnn about the dossier and wants cnn to run the story on the dossier, he tells comey to brief trump on it, comey tells trump that cnn has the story but is just looking for a reason to run it, details of comeys breifing are leaked to cnn (no doubt by clapper), cnn then runs the story that clapper wanted all along using the fact the trump was briefed on it to give them legitimacy in running it.
This is proof that people at the highest level of the intel community were actively trying to bring down trump.
1. Where do you get that Clapper "wants CNN to run a story on the dossier?" Wouldn't it make more sense that what was referred to is him being questioned about the dossier? This is January of 2017 mind you.
2. Where are you coming up with Clapper told Comey to do anything, let alone brief Trump?
3. The whole "CNN was looking for a 'news hook'" thing was Comey's opinion that he gave to Trump on Jan 6 and then memorialized in a memo. Think that through.
The theory here is that Comey was part of a conspiracy to brief Obama and Trump so that Clapper could leak the details of the briefing to CNN et al so that... BuzzFeed would have a reason to publish the dossier? (the actual quote from the memo is, "I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook")
- Why would he say anything like that to Trump if he was part of a conspiracy to then leak the details of the briefing?
- Where does BuzzFeed fit into this? If the conspiracy was to give CNN an excuse to publish the dossier, why was it BuzzFeed who published it 4 days later with no reporting by CNN of the dossier in the interim?
- Why would Comey memorialize that "news hook" statement? To give Trump defenders something to point to and scream "it was all a setup!" ?
- Ironically, it was Jake Tapper, reporting the day BuzzFeed published the dossier, that the Michael Cohen allegation was believed to be invalid and that it actually referred to another Michael Cohen. Literally the only reporting CNN did about the details of the dossier was undermining the dossier. In fact, the allegation about Cohen in Prague is the only part of the dossier that Trump supporters have been able to point to as debunked.
It doesn't add up unless you ignore all the far more plausible scenarios and really are looking for some reason to tie Clapper to Comey to CNN to BuzzFeed with the dossier and say, "Ah ha! I knew it! It was all a setup!"
More plausible:
Reporters from multiple outlets already had the dossier and some had been briefed by Steele directly in September or October. They were trying to figure out what if anything the government was doing with it, if it had been verified, etc.
So like reporters do for everything, they're calling everyone and trying to get information.
Just as Comey says, the dossier is out there and instead of letting Trump get blindsided (a whole different conspiracy!), he briefs him on the more salacious details of the dossier which refer directly to Trump.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
By these standards of "proof" your adopting here, Trump should be removed from office and imprisoned along with half his campaign staff. After all, the facts are that many of them were having conversations with Russian officials, quite a few of them lied about and the Russians interfered in the election to benefit Trump.
Hell, we've got emails where Don Jr agrees to meet with what he's told is a Kremlin operative, to receive dirt from the Russian government about Clinton as part of the Russian government's efforts to help his father's campaign. That's in black and white, plain as a day.
And he met with the woman. How do we know what they really discussed? After all, he with daddy's oversight, flatly lied to the American people about what the meeting was about. Right?
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: underwerks
I guess the opposite of that would be an unelected intel community giving someone they know is a criminal a pass.
Is that what you’re supporting? Or should they investigate the Trump admin if certain people are known to be dirty? Should everyone just pledge allegiance to Trump first and foremost?
Hahahaha!
Yeah if I am against the intel community acting to slander and remove an elected president, then clearly I must be for the intel community covering up for an elected official.
well clearly that is not the case.
Ironically it turns out that the same people cheering for intel community to leak and lie to congress and to smear a president are the same ones that cheered for them looking the other way in investogations into hillary.
Oh and anything to say on the OP?
You ok with clapper lying to congress and with him setting up thr briefing with trump to leak it to cnn to smear him?
I assume you are very angry about this, so I figure this will give you a chance to voice that.
Not a lot to be angry over. Lmao.
I just find it funny you obviously want to let unelected intel people give someone a pass on criminality because they’re the president. Or are you now saying that Trump should be investigated if the intelligence community knew something?
Just trying to get your views straight.
And here we have it folks!
I hope that everyone can see this.
No questions about the op, no denying that the sitting director of national intelligence and the sitting head of the fbi worked to set up trump to leak a classified briefing and details of the dossier to cnn to smear trump.
Just a claim that if I am somehow against this, then I must be for wanting the intel community to ignore crimes by trump.
This is the type of people that are anti trumpers.
They will totally cheer ignore or make excuses for the higher ups at the intel community trying to sabotage trump, because they dont like trump.
To respond to your accusation underwerks;
I would like the intel community and investigators to do their jobs no matter who is preisdent. That means if they are worried crimes are committed, they investigate them, not leak to cnn, then setup a breifing, then leak the detaikls of that briefing to cnn to smear trump, and then get a job at cnn and lie about it to congress.
I know that that must seem strange to you; what do you mean there are people that want the intel community to act legally and impartially no matter who is president?
But yes, there are those of us that dont want to weaponized the intel community to help our people and sabotage the others.
Such a radical opinion to an anti trumper!
Again, Lmao.
I get you think you’re involved in some grand fight against the forces of evil with Trump as a savior but get real. Government is corrupt, all of it. Has been, will be. Including the people you are cheerleading for. That’s how it all operates.
I just can’t force myself to act surprised by any level of corruption coming from the government. From either side. Of course you’ll label that as whatever you want to just to try to get a win for your team, but I’d hope most people see through that. Maybe not.
You said “I would like the intel community and investigators to do their jobs no matter who is president.” Yet still want them to give the president total control of the investigation into himself..
Anyways, it’s really interesting having someone who isn’t me tell me who I am. How could you ever be wrong?
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Grambler
- There's zero evidence that Clapper influenced Comey's briefing *at all*.
First, Comey claims that briefing the president-elect was the brainchild of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
“I said there was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the [president-elect] about alone or in a very small group,” Comey wrote. More on that in a bit.
“I then executed the session exactly as I had planned,” Comey noted before going into details of what he claimed he told the president-elect. He wrote that he told him about the now-infamous prostitute pee-pee videotape claims contained in the dossier. Then he wrote:
“I said I wasn’t saying this was true, only that I wanted him to know both that it had been reported and that the reports were in many hands. I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook. I said it was important that we not give them the excuses to write that the FBI has the material or [REDACTED] and that we were keeping it very close-hold. He said he couldn’t believe they hadn’t gone with it. I said it was inflammatory stuff that they would get killed for reporting straight up from the source reports.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Grambler
And what are the pro-Trumpers doing? Grasping at anything as "proof" of a plot against Trump? Come on. Here's the "proof" again:
1. In testimony we don't have, Clapper apparently admitted to talking to Jake Tapper and possibly other journalists in the early part of January about the dossier.
“Evaluated in context, Clapper denied leaking classified information, while acknowledging that, as DNI, he engaged in legitimate discussion of unclassified, non-intelligence information with Tapper,” they concluded.
2. James Comey told Trump at a briefing that the media "like CNN" had the dossier and was looking for a "news hook."
3. Somebody leaked to Jake Tapper that Trump and Obama had been briefed about the dossier while being briefed about Russian interference.
4. Hours after the CNN story, BuzzFeed publishes the dossier.
That's the gist of it right? From that, a whole "Trump was set up!" narrative is spun:
CNN coerced Clapper into coercing Comey into briefing Trump so that Clapper could leak to CNN that the dossier came up in the briefing so that BuzzFeed could publish the dossier and as a reward for giving BuzzFeed a reason to publish the dossier, CNN hired Clapper as one of their many ex-government/ex-politician analysts.
- The whole idea that anyone was looking for a reason to publish the dossier is Comey's opinion which he conveniently told Trump and then memorialized, despite being part of this grand convoluted conspiracy to get the dossier published — because he's a moron who hates himself.
already dealt with in previous post.
- There's zero evidence that Clapper influenced Comey's briefing *at all*.
- CNN didn't actually report any details of the dossier so none of this makes any sense unless BuzzFeed and CNN were in cahoots to get BuzzFeed website traffic. I take that back, CNN reported on a single allegation from the dossier, saying it was believed to be false and given pro-Trumpers their single best claim that parts of the dossier had been debunked.
- What about publishing the dossier was supposed to lead to Trump's downfall? Pee pee tape memes? Lmao.
What part do "pro-Trumpers" not get? If the "deep state" and the "highest levels of the intelligence community" wanted to do Trump in. If that was their goal and they were committed enough to orchestrate grand conspiracies — it wouldn't be some dumb # like "bro let's get this dossier published, that'll do it!" — they would straight up fabricate intelligence, statements from Trump, interviews, whatever.
It always amazes me the cognitive dissonance people have when it comes to "them" and "they" — the puppeteers, whatever — on the one hand they're supposedly pulling off false flags involving scores of people and nobody ever leaks about it, they're poisoning Russian turncoats in the UK to frame Russia, etc etc but when it comes to Trump, they're trying to take him down with: a FISA warrant for Carter Page that turned up nothing actionable and a conspiracy to get a dossier published that everyone admits is unverified.
I will admit this is your strongest argument because its the only thing we dont have admitted proof that it was clapper.
We know clapper leaked details of the dossier to cnn. We know he lied to congress about that. We also know that he told comey that cnn was looking for a hook to run with the story (that he leaked to them) and so comey should brief trump. We know that then after the briefing, someone leaked the details of that breifing to cnn.
Because cnn (and buzzfeed for that matter) needed a way to legitimize the story before they would run it. Just saying their is oppo research that trump has hookers pee on a bed isnt a great story. But saying that this story is so worrisome that Trump and Obama had been briefied on it is a more legitimate one. SO comey who wanted the story out along with clapper briefed trump, not on important things such as people in trumps team may be russian spies, but just about the pee allegatiopns.
and viola, days later buzzfeed and CNN have the angle they need to run the story.
Because it may have took time for details of the briefing to be leaked. Clapper admits he told Other people not just cnn about the dossier. Someone, as both cnn and buzzfeed reported, leaked the breifing to them.
SO yes, both cnn and buzzfeed, who had details of the dossier, along with other outlets, waited to run with iot until it was leaked to them that Trump had been brieded on it.
I dont get the question? Why would comey write a book? To make money I guess.
Comey admitted what he told trump. I assume he knows that if he lied about what he told trump, trump could call him on that.
Why would comey make that up if its not true?
I said I wasn’t saying this was true, only that I wanted him to know both that it had been reported and that the reports were in many hands. I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook. I said it was important that we not give them the excuse to write that the FBI has the material or REDACTED and that we were keeping it – I very close-hold. He said he couldn’t believe they hadn’t gone with it. I said it was inflammatory stuff that they would get killed for reporting straight up from the source reports.
Has nothing to do at all with the OP. Cnn and tapper knew that clapper leaked the details of the dossier to him, yet allowed him to come on their network and say he never leaked details of the dossier to anyone when they knew that was a lie, and then gave him a job.
No it makes perfect sense.
Yes you are conveniently ignoring that clapper now admits after he lied about it to congress that he told CNN and others details of the dossier.
No offense, but you apparently didnt even know that comey has fully admitted that Clapper told him to brief trump about the pee allegations because he said CNN was sitting on the story and looking for a hook to run it.
Clapper who told CNN about the dossier, tells comey to brief trump on the dossier because cnn is looking for a hook to run it,
and then someone high in the intel community (clapper) leaks the details of that vriefing to cnn
who then use it as the hook to run the story they have been looking for. I have no idea how you can ignore this.