[ April 19, 2024 ]
Let the indictments begin! President Trump has held back for too long. Years of political persecution, Russian collusion fictions, harassment, attrition and tens of millions of dollars – all because the Democrat party of treason lost the election. It’s time for rule of law.
Lisa Page admitted Obama DOJ ordered stand-down on Clinton email prosecution, GOP rep says
By Greg Re: Fox News, March 13, 2019:
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under questioning from Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe last summer that “the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information,” the congressman alleged in a social media post late Tuesday, citing a newly unearthed transcript of Page’s closed-door testimony.
Page and since-fired FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, who were romantically involved, exchanged numerous anti-Trump text messages in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, and Republicans have long accused the bureau of political bias. But Page’s testimony was perhaps the most salient evidence yet that the Justice Department improperly interfered with the FBI’s supposedly independent conclusions on Clinton’s criminal culpability, Ratcliffe alleged.
“So let me if I can, I know I’m testing your memory,” Ratcliffe began as he questioned Page under oath, according to a transcript excerpt he posted on Twitter. “But when you say advice you got from the Department, you’re making it sound like it was the Department that told you: You’re not going to charge gross negligence because we’re the prosecutors and we’re telling you we’re not going to —”
Page interrupted: “That is correct,” as Ratcliffe finished his sentence, ” — bring a case based on that.”
Th document dump was part of a major release by House Judiciary Committee Republicans, who on Tuesday released hundreds of pages of transcripts from last year’s closed-door interview with Page, revealing new details about the bureau’s controversial internal discussions regarding an “insurance policy” against then-candidate Donald Trump. Fox News has previously reviewed portions of Page’s testimony.
Responding to the transcript revelations, Trump on Wednesday tweeted: “The just revealed FBI Agent Lisa Page transcripts make the Obama Justice Department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine. Hopefully, justice will finally be served. Much more to come!”
The just revealed FBI Agent Lisa Page transcripts make the Obama Justice Department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine. Hopefully, justice will finally be served. Much more to come!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2019
Page also testified that the DOJ and FBI had “multiple conversations … about charging gross negligence,” and the DOJ decided that the term was “constitutionally vague” and “had either never been done or had only been done once like 99 years ago,” and so “they did not feel they could sustain a charge.”
Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page and fired FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok exchanged anti-Trump text messages during their time at the bureau. (AP, File)
In July 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey publicly announced at a bombshell press conference that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in handling classified information, but insisted that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against her.
Federal law states that “gross negligence” in handling the nation’s intelligence can be punished criminally with prison time or fines, and there is no requirement that defendants act intentionally or recklessly.
Originally Comey accused the former secretary of state of being “grossly negligent” in handling classified information in a draft dated May 2, 2016, but that was modified to claim that Clinton had merely been “extremely careless” in a draft dated June 10, 2016.
Comey also said that “although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
He added that “prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges,” including “the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.”
WATCH: GOP REP, ON ‘HANNITY,’ SLAMS ‘CORRUPT TRIUMVERATE’ OF PAGE, STRZOK, COMEY
Comey took the unusual step of holding a press conference and announcing the FBI’s purportedly independent conclusions because then-Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch was spotted meeting secretly with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac as the probe into Hillary Clinton, which Lynch was overseeing, continued.
https://twitter.com/RepRatcliffe/status/1105658231198765057
Comey’s conclusion that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Clinton has become the subject of significant debate in recent weeks. It was revealed last month that FBI’s top lawyer in 2016 thought Hillary Clinton and her team should have immediately realized they were mishandling “highly classified” information based on the obviously sensitive nature of the emails’ contents sent through her private server.
And he believed she should have been prosecuted until “pretty late” in the investigation, according to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before congressional committees last October.
Strzok and Page were involved in the FBI’s initial counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 election, and later served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Among the texts between the two was one concerning the so-called “insurance policy.” During her interview with the Judiciary Committee in July 2018, Page was questioned at length about that text — and essentially confirmed this referred to the Russia investigation while explaining that officials were proceeding with caution, concerned about the implications of the case while not wanting to go at “total breakneck speed” and risk burning sources as they presumed Trump wouldn’t be elected anyway.
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Further, she confirmed investigators only had a “paucity” of evidence at the start. Comey, last December, similarly acknowledged that when the FBI initiated its counterintelligence probe into possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government in July 2016, investigators “didn’t know whether we had anything” and that “in fact, when I was fired as director [in May 2017], I still didn’t know whether there was anything to it.”
Then-Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., kicked off that section of questioning by asking about the text sent from Strzok to Page in August 2016 which read: “I want to believe the path you threw out in Andy’s [McCabe’s] office—that there’s no way he gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take the risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
The former FBI lawyer explained how the FBI was trying to strike a balance with the investigation into the Trump campaign—which agents called “Crossfire Hurricane,” in a nod to a Rolling Stones song.
“So, upon the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, we had a number of discussions up through and including the Director regularly in which we were trying to find an answer to the question, right, which is, is there someone associated with the [Trump] campaign who is working with the Russians in order to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton,” Page said. “And given that it is August, we were very aware of the speed and sensitivity that we needed to operate under.”
Page continued that, “if the answer is this is a guy just being puffery at a meeting with other people, great, then we don’t need to worry about this, and we can all move on with our lives; if this is, in fact, the Russians have coopted an individual with, you know, maybe wittingly or unwittingly, that’s incredibly grave, and we need to know that as quickly as possible.”
Page explained that the text message reflected their “continuing check-in” as to “how quickly to operate.”
“[W]e don’t need to go at a total breakneck speed because so long as he doesn’t become President, there isn’t the same threat to national security, right,” Page explained, while saying that if Trump were not elected president, the bureau would still investigate.
“But if he becomes president, that totally changes the game because now he is the President of the United States,” Page told lawmakers. “He’s going to immediately start receiving classified briefings. He’s going to be exposed to the most sensitive secrets imaginable. And if there is somebody on his team who wittingly or unwittingly is working with the Russians, that is super serious.”
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25 Comments
5 years ago
Well, well, well, the truth regarding Hillary’s evading prosecution was by Obama’s ordering a stand-down from an indictment. No one is shocked on this site or others not warm and fuzzy with those of the Democrat Klan. Lisa Page’s owning up to this injustice is likely merely scum floating on the surface of the fathomless, toxic swamp.
The inner-workings of the Democrats party’s corruption is likely fathomless, much more profound than one may suspect. The Democrats and their enablers are as thick as thieves, a criminal and treasonous enterprise of utter deceit and hypocrisy. Will the likes of Obama, Clinton suffer from the consequences of their criminality? A rhetorical question, moreover, the FBI, others of this lawlessness have proven to be untouchables. Ironically, the ceaseless attacks, and scrutinizing of Trump’s presidency came up with naught. Will the FBI and others afford the same efforts of scrutinization on the Democrats deities, Obama or Clinton? One can guarantee it will not come to pass.
5 years ago
this year is turning out to be the year of the boomerang, trump will be vendicated after fake investigation ends and team obama will be indicted.
5 years ago
Reply to
brock marks
I hope so. He has been through allot. All he has been trying to do is straighten out our country.
Even the GOP attacks him and blocks him as much as possible. It’s a disgrace.
5 years ago
Reply to
brock marks
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5 years ago
This goes on all the time in socialist Venezuela
– tyrants usually do ‘selective prosecutions’
– where the innocent face trumped-up charges
– if they oppose the tyrant
– and the guilty go free if the tyrant favors them
– e.g., The head of the Venezuelan electric power authority
– turned up dead after the blackout started last Thursday
– no investigations, no charges, the case is now forgotten
5 years ago
The GOP knew this LAST SUMMER and what did these lying weasels do with it?
Nothing!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You mean like when it could have made a difference for the Oct. vote? It really is a meaty question, and is truly a case of “obstruction of justice” by a sitting President. But I’ve moved on, what’s on TV tonight.
5 years ago
Pamela Geller! more of this strength in performance of your anti jihad duties is going to bring attention to you by swamp creatures.
We wish any enemy of yours …’ have a good time in Hell!..’.. Continue please. The American corruption feeds American Jihad.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dan Roley
She can and continues to do circles around the swamp critters.
She is strong. She is very special and loved.
5 years ago
5 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
According to then Obama controlled AG, Lorestta Lynch, it’s just another “matter”.
Stand down.
5 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Every American that still truly cares about the country, who looks upon that list, ought to first cry at the demise of their once great nation. For this to be perpetrated, the culpability of so many high ranking personnel within trusted, judicial organizations and related offices, would have to be so wide spread, knowing it, would break the heart of every patriot, of every soldier who fought and every parent who lost a loved one fighting. And as felix points out, the purposeful delay on this information, allowed the taking of Congress by the Undemocrats, and the election of numerous Muslims to high office. Great job America – your toilet is calling.
5 years ago
Oh yeah, there was someone working with the Russians. Hillary, Obama and Commey.
5 years ago
Thank you Geller for exposing the vile, filthy and corrupt criminals in the Wash DC swamp. Hoping this will explode into widespread indictments, prosecution and prison time.
5 years ago
When with the rule of law be applied for all citizens in America? Only when they run out of money.
5 years ago
This testimony should not be a shock to anyone who understands how the swamp operates and most especially the vermin that infest the DOJ and the FBI. They routinely take orders from the Commiecrats and their Republican allies to ignore charges against the most systematic abusers of the public trust and to focus on minor players such as Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. The offices of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan,Lehman Brothers, AIG,Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s who organized,planned and executed the huge mortgage fraud were never charged while a small number of lesser players were charged.The DOJ and the FBI are one big swamp mafia needs to be cleaned out, replaced and completely reorganized,but that will not be done until the government finally collapses under the 200 Trillion of debt and unfunded liabilities Congress and he swamp have burdened us with.
5 years ago
So when can we expect Killary, Obama and their minions to be brought up on charges?
5 years ago
I hope so
5 years ago
This is TREASON… #JUSTICECOMING #MAGA #WWG1WGA 
5 years ago
Tell us something we don’t know.
5 years ago
The material facts surrounding this unprecedented scandal (as revealed within this article) will either lead to the inevitable prosecution of the Obama cabal or will, simply, signal just how woefully incorrigible and irredeemable our nation’s politics and legal system have become.
While my suspicions and instincts are inclined to conclude the latter, I will withhold judgment until I see more from the courts, Attorney General Barr and Congress-hoping that truth and justice will prevail.
5 years ago
The ROT starts at the top! Trump needs to call for Obama’s records to be UNSEALED! That way, idiots who voted for him twice, will know what the REST of us know! He is NOT an American!! I remember seeing his white grandmother on national TV before the ’08 election! She said she was IN THE ROOM, IN KENYA when he was born. She tragically died 2 weeks later (no doubt silenced on purpose!. But I distinctly remember her saying that! How in the HELL could he be elected to the highest office of the land when the TRUTH was out there!
5 years ago
A kenyan mindle age offering to marry madaam LISA or any other American.
5 years ago
Here is a novel idea. How about creating a Department of Justice where the rule of law and Constitution can be applied to those Washington D.C. criminals????
