another deep state troll goin down Christopher Wray, you will be fired.

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Chris Wray's FBI continues to cover for Team Comey's Russia shenanigans

 

BY JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR

 

 

 The FBI is going to court to fight the public release of a small number of documents the State Department sent to agents from Christopher Steele, the British intelligence operative and Hillarious Clinton-paid political muckraker, during the 2016 election. 

Normally, such Freedom of Information Act cases don't merit public attention. This one does.

To hear the FBI tell it, the release of former Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Kavalec's documents is tantamount to giving up the keys to President Trump's nuclear briefcase, aiding the enemy or assisting terrorists.

"We know that terrorist organizations and other hostile or foreign intelligence groups have the capacity and ability to gather information from myriad sources, analyze it and deduce means and methods from disparate details to defeat the U.S. government's collection efforts," an FBI assistant section chief swore in an affidavitsupporting the request to keep the documents secret.

 

The FBI can't afford to "jeopardize the fragile relationships that exist between the United States and certain foreign governments," the FBI official declared in another dramatic argument against the conservative group Citizens United's requestto release the memos. 

And if that wasn't enough, the bureau actually claimed that "FBI special agents have privacy interests from unnecessary, unofficial questioning as to the conduct of investigations and other FBI business."

In other words, agents don't want to have to answer to the public, which pays their salary, when questions arise about the investigative work, as has happened in the Russia case

 FBI's July 10 court filing speaks volumes about Director Christopher Wray's efforts to thwart the public understanding of what really happened in the FBI's now-debunked Russia collusion probe.

Steele's contacts at State can't possibly be equated to the nation's most sensitive secrets. The same research he provided to State and the FBI in fall 2016 was being provided to Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and to the media.

In fact, Steele was fired from the FBI on Nov. 1, 2016, for leaking information. Any assumption of secrecy, privacy or classification is ludicrous. And a post-firing FBI analysis found most of Steele's dossier was either wrong, could not be corroborated, or simply was made up of public source internet information. In other words, it was garbage intelligence.

 

On its face, the FBI's behavior in the Citizens United case isn't about protecting national security secrets. It's about protecting the bureau's reputation from revelations its agents knew derogatory information about Steele and his work before they used his dossier to support a surveillance warrant targeting the Trump campaign and failed to disclose that information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

And that makes this court fight a waste of taxpayer dollars an unnecessary breach of public trust.

"Only through our litigation will the American people discover what the political operatives inside the Obama State Department and FBI were doing in 2016 with the fake Steele dossier before the FISA court," said David N. Bossie, the president of Citizens United.

 

To better illustrate the folly of the FBI's fight, let's examine one document the bureau is fighting to keep secret in its entirety.

It's a five-page memo that Kavalec downloaded from Steele from an internet storage site after meeting with him on Oct. 11, 2016. She sent it to then-FBI section chief Steven Laycock, now an assistant director, two days later.

The document, according to my sources who have seen it, lays out a theory that Steele and some liberals spread late in the 2016 campaign that unusual computer pings between a Trump Tower server and Alfa Bank in Russia might be a secret communication channel by which Trump and Vladimir Putin were hijacking the election.

The theory has been written about in the media. Kavalec downloaded the file from Steele via a commercial internet download service and transmitted it to Laycock on non-classified email. 

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who reviewed the document recently, wrote Attorney General William Barr last week saying the memo was "based on open source media reporting" and that the FBI's claim that revealing it would harm sources and methods is "completely unfounded."

In other words, it's not the stuff intelligence laws were designed to protect. 

Furthermore, the FBI investigated the theory and debunked it. Even the tight-lipped special counsel Robert Mueller went out of his way during testimony last week to say the Alfa Bank theory "is not true."

So if Mueller could talk about it and the information was transmitted in a non-classified manner, why would the FBI go to such lengths to fight its release?

My sources say it's because the State Department included notations on Steele's five pages of research strongly calling into question his Alfa Bank theories before sending it to the FBI. In other words, they challenged the veracity and quality of Steele's intelligence.

Under the FBI's human source rules, a U.S. government's negative assessment of an informer's information would constitute "derogatory information" that would have to be disclosed to the FISC if Steele's work was being used to support a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant.

Eight days after Kavalec sent Laycock her annotated version of Steele's Alfa Bank research, the FBI submitted to the FISC an application that won the agency permission to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The bureau did not include State's assessment. Instead, agents declared they possessed no derogatory information about Steele.  

Such shenanigans happened on the watch of fired FBI Director James Comey, whose band of merry agents included supervisors Peter Strzokand Andrew McCabe, both since fired for misconduct. 

Wray took over the FBI long after such misdeeds occurred. But for some reason, his team has fought relentlessly to keep information secret from Congress and the public about Team Comey's Russia case.

The House Intelligence Committee had to threaten it would issue a subpoena and go to court in summer 2018 before Wray gave up information about the bureau's mistakes in the Russia probe. The Senate Judiciary Committee has not received a response to at least six letters it sent requesting FBI information in the Russia case dating to 2017. 

Likewise, the FBI allowed text messages - some embarrassing - between Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to be destroyed during the probe, blaming a software glitch. The Department of Justice inspector general was able to recover some of those texts after an extensive effort.

And when Kavalec's documents were discovered recently, the FBI initially redacted the name of Laycock as recipient of the Steele information. It eventually released Laycock's name and acknowledged it was wrong to hide his identity.

"The FBI mistakenly asserted Exemptions 6 and 7C to redact the name of the FBI executive," the bureau sheepishly said in a footnote to its most recent court filing.

After Barr said he believed the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign, Wray questioned his boss's assessment in public. "It's not the term I would use," Wray told Congress. 

When the government gets stuff wrong, as it did in the Russia case on Comey's watch, transparency is the best panacea for restoring public trust. 

Claiming FBI agents have a privacy right to avoid facing hard questions, portraying public source documents as national secrets and doing the Muhammad Ali "rope-a-dope" dance to thwart disclosure is not an acceptable alternative. 

It's a lesson Chris Wray should learn, quickly.

[yota691]

Friday a coming!!! THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.. 🤣🤣 in 8×8 jail cell. I pity the Fool..

[MyLadiesDaddy]

LOOKING INTO THIS NOW

 

 

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FBI Director Wray hints that he considered resigning, restates belief in Russian election meddling

 

By Julia Ainsley

ASPEN, Colo. — FBI Director Chris Wray suggested on Wednesday that he has threatened to resign — and pushed back against President Donald Trump's recent comments that cast doubt on Russian interference in the election.

"My view has not changed, which is that Russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day," Wray told NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt at the Aspen Security Forum

Wray also reaffirmed his position backing the U.S. intelligence community's finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump told a reporter "no" when asked whether he believed Russia continued to target the United States — although White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later claimed that the president was simply saying "no" to more questions.

When asked if he had threatened to resign, Wray did not explicitly confirm that he had done so.

"There have also been stories that you threatened to resign. Have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources and methods or anything else when you said, this is a line?" Holt asked Wray

"I'm a low-key, understated guy, but that should not be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. I'll just leave it at that," Wray answered.

The FBI, which has been led by Wray for nearly a year following James Comey's dismissal, has been the target of criticism from Trump and congressional Republicans for its role in the probes into Hillarious Clinton's emails and Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election. Wray has stood up to pressure to fire senior FBI officials and refused to hand over some information related to the federal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election

 

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https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/07/31/fbi-director-goes-court-protect-document-previously-released-redacted-form-hmmm/

FBI Director Goes To Court To Protect Document Which Was Previously Released In Redacted Form; Hmmm

 

Kathleen Kavalec has become a familiar name to those of us who follow the Russia collusion probe on a daily basis. Kavalec served as the State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary. She met with dossier author Christopher Steele in October of 2016, ten days before the FBI submitted their first application to the FISA Court for a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Kavalec found a number of anomalies in Steele’s story and emailed the FBI two days later about her suspicions.

Kavalec’s email, and the documents attached to it, were publicly released several months ago in response to a FOIA request by conservative political advocacy group Citizens United, albeit in heavily redacted form. The group has filed a new FOIA request to obtain the documents in unredacted form and the FBI has gone to court to prevent that from happening.

The Hill’s John Solomon, a well-connected and highly regarded investigative reporter who follows this case closely, wrote that the FBI’s strenuous fight to keep these records private is “tantamount to giving up the keys to President Trump’s nuclear briefcase, aiding the enemy or assisting terrorists.” He added that, “normally, such Freedom of Information Act cases don’t merit public attention. This one does.

 

Why is the FBI fighting so hard to prevent the release of these documents? The FBI maintains, as they always do, they are concerned that sources and methods will be revealed. In a sworn affidavit, an FBI official claimed, “We know that terrorist organizations and other hostile or foreign intelligence groups have the capacity and ability to gather information from myriad sources, analyze it and deduce means and methods from disparate details to defeat the U.S. government’s collection efforts.”

In court, this official argued that “The FBI can’t afford to jeopardize the fragile relationships that exist between the United States and certain foreign governments.” He also claimed that “FBI special agents have privacy interests from unnecessary, unofficial questioning as to the conduct of investigations and other FBI business.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray has gone to great lengths to guard documents pertaining to their counter-intelligence investigation. Clearly, this information doesn’t include sources and methods or it wouldn’t have gone out to Clinton, the DNC and the media during the 2016 election season.

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Corrupt Deep State FBI has misplaced emails that would prove that Peter Strzok was lying to Congress last year about knowing about Hillarious Clinton’s emails being hacked by China.  Imagine that!

Last year representative Louie Gohmert from Texas interviewed corrupt cop Peter Strzok before Congress  about whether he remembered anyone mentioning that China was hacking Hillarious Clinton’s emails.  Strzok lied and said he didn’t remember which led Gohmert to call out his lying, especially about his affair with Lisa Page.  Gohmert said

How many times did you look so innocent into your wife’s eye and lie to her about Lisa Page?

The point that Gohmert was trying to make was that the FBI knew that China was hacking Hillarious’s emails but ignored it.  Instead the FBI selectively addressed whether Russia was hacking Hillarious’s emails and used this story to make up the fake Trump – Russia collusion narrative.

This past week Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch released information related to China spying on the US.  Fitton says in the video below at the 3 minute mark –

 

 

Take this as an educated guess that the notes [lost by the FBI] reference a discussion and a warning given by the IG of the Intelligence community to Peter Strzok who’s running the investigation effectively for the FBI at the time that the Clinton’s email system, namely Hillarious Clinton’s email server had likely been hacked in some way by the Chinese.  In a way that allowed them to get a copy of all the emails that were being sent and received.

The timing is, according to Louie Gohmert, about the same time, because he says the meeting took place in 2015.  And sure enough, the meeting that we’re referencing here was in August of 2015.  And Gohmert exposed that the investigator advises Strzok of an anomaly of Hillarious Clinton’s emails going to the private server.  Forensic analysis found out that all those emails except four of the 30,000 were going to an address that was not on her distribution list.  It was later reported that it was a Chinese state owned company that hacked Clinton’s email server.

The ICIG referred the Clinton email investigation to the FBI on July 6, 2015, just under a month before the meeting for which the notes were lost.

So the FBI has lost the notes from 2015 that show that dirty cop Peter Strzok, who oversaw Hillarious’s email investigation, was notified that China was spying on Hillarious.  Corrupt cop Christopher Wray’s FBI does not want the American public to see these notes and therefore his FBI is now saying that the notes are conveniently lost.

The fact that the FBI would ignore China spying on Hillarious’s emails was material to the Spygate story.  The FBI didn’t want to look into spying on Americans, they wanted to exonerate Hillarious Clinton and go on to frame candidate and President Trump on bogus Russia collusion lies.

Will the Deep State ever be cleaned up and brought to justice?

[nstoolman1]

Check with the NSA. The have everything.

[coorslite21]

4 hours ago, nstoolman1 said:

Check with the NSA. The have everything.

Yep.....     CL

[Pitcher]

They need to start sweating some of those FBI leaders, Mueller style.  Once they start indicting some of these criminals you will see others begging for deals to stay out of jail.  It’s coming.