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Nellie Ohr Testimony Confirms Her Work for the CIA

Nellie Ohr, the wife of former high-ranking Justice Department (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr—both of whom played pivotal roles in the FBI’s investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign—worked for the CIA as an independent contractor for as long as six years.

Ohr was hired as a researcher by Fusion GPS—the company hired by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to produce the now-infamous Steele dossier—in 2015.

She conducted open-source research into members of the Trump campaign for Fusion GPS—which describes itself as a commercial research and strategic intelligence firm—that may have been used in the Steele dossier. She also provided her husband with a USB stick containing all her research from her time at Fusion GPS to pass on to the FBI in late 2016 after she had officially left the firm.

Prior to her work for Fusion GPS, Ohr worked for an internal open-source division of the CIA named Open Source Works from 2008 to at least June 2010; it appears likely that she remained in that role until 2014.

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Op zondag 17 maart 2019 23:49 schreef dellipder het volgende:

Deposition Reveals Late Senator McCain’s Role in Spygate Scandal

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According to a transcript of Steele’s deposition unsealed Thursday, Gubarev’s lawyer asked Steele what information he had gathered on Gubarev or his companies, Webzilla and XBT Holdings. Gubarev sued Steele and BuzzFeed News for defamation for publishing what he claims are false allegations that he hacked Democrats.

Steele responded to the lawyer, Evan Fray-Witzer, by citing a July 28, 2009, article published at CNN’s iReports website.

Fray-Witzer pointed out to Steele that CNN’s iReports articles “are nothing more than any random person posting things on the Internet.”

Steele said he was not aware of that.

“No, I, obviously, presume that if it is on a CNN site that it has some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site,” said Steele, who admitted the iReports article was the only open source research he did on Gubarev.

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Old CNN website was source of unvetted 'random' info used by author of anti-Trump dossier, docs reveal

[...] Steele was asked during the deposition how he verified allegations about Gubarev's companies and whether he found “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla,” according to the newly released transcripts of the deposition.

“We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport,” Steele said.

But CNN iReport, which appears to be no longer active -- though archives remain accessible online -- states that it’s a “user-generated site” and warns that “the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked or screened before they post.”

“The stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked or screened before they post.”
— CNN iReport disclaimer

Even the site’s banner included the slogan “Unedited. Unfiltered. News.”

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New Texts Show the Obama White House May Have Been Briefed About Spying on the Trump Campaign

Fox News just released a bombshell report about the extent of FISA abuse at the FBI during the 2016 presidential election.

The first big news details how a DOJ official issued reservations about going forward with surveillance on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The individual cited that the source behind the FBI's justification for doing so, British Spy Christopher Steele, was biased. The FBI kept pushing for it anyway and were eventually successful. Text messages between former FBI attorney Lisa Page and fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tell the story. From the report:

The most significant Page-McCabe communications made plain the DOJ's worries that the FISA application to surveil Trump aide Carter Page was based on a potentially biased source -- and underscored the FBI's desire to press on.

Fox News is told the texts were connected to the ultimately successful Page application, which relied in part on information from British ex-spy Christopher Steele – whose anti-Trump views are now well-documented – and cited Page’s suspected Russia ties. In its warrant application, the FBI assured the FISA court on numerous occasions that other sources independently corroborated Steele's claims but did not clearly state that Steele worked for a firm hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Next, while Page and McCabe are refusing to clarify, it appears the Obama White House may have been directly briefed on the matter.

On Oct. 14, 2016, Page again wrote to McCabe, this time concerning a meeting with the White House.

“Just called," Page said to McCabe. "Apparently the DAG [Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates] now wants to be there, and WH wants DOJ to host. So we are setting that up now. ... We will very much need to get Cohen’s view before we meet with her. Better, have him weigh in with her before the meeting. We need to speak with one voice, if that is in fact the case.” ("Cohen" is likely then-Deputy CIA Director David Cohen.)

McCabe responded within the hour: "Thanks. I will reach out to David." On Oct. 19, Page wrote to McCabe that the "meeting with WH counsel is finally set up."

Neither Lisa Page nor McCabe responded to Fox News' inquiries as to whether the meeting was designed to brief the White House on the FISA application or some other matter.

The Obama White House has denied knowing anything about surveillance or spying on the Trump campaign or any American citizen.

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Op dinsdag 26 maart 2019 15:06 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Ik vind het onvoorstelbaar dat mensen persisteren in leugens verspreiden, dat het Steele dossier een product is dat betaald werd door Republikeinen en dat de special counsel werd ingesteld omdat James Comey memo's via Daniel Richman naar The New York Times lekte.

Wat wel klopt en al een tijdje publiekelijk toegankelijke informatie is , is dat de Washington Free Beacon via Paul Singer Fusion GPS in 2015 inhuurde voor opposition research voor meerdere presidentskandidaten, waaronder Donald Trump, maar de diensten van Fusion GPS werden beëindigd in mei 2016 toen Trump de Republikeinse nominatie te pakken had. bron

Mark Elias, advocaat van Perkins Coie, huurde Fusion GPS in april 2016 tot eind oktober 2016, enkele dagen voor de verkiezingsdag in namens de Hillary Clinton campagne en de DNC. bron bron

In juni 2016 huurde Fusion GPS Orbis Business Intelligence het inlichtingenbedrijf van Christopher Steele in. bron bron

Nadat Jeff Sessions op 2 maart 2017 zichzelf verschoonde van de lopende Rusland-onderzoek was er niemand van de nieuwe Trump-regering die toezicht hield op de activiteiten van de DoJ en de FBI. bron
Op 26 april 2017 werd Rod Rosenstein aangesteld als de nieuwe Deputy Attorney General. bron
In deze periode kwam de toenmalige FBI-directeur James Comey onder toenemende druk te staan als gevolg van zijn acties in de aanloop van de verkiezingen, met name die betrekking hadden op de afhandeling van de Hillary Clinton e-mailcontroverse. bron bron
Op 9 mei 2017 schrijft Rod Rosenstein de aanbevelingsbrief om FBI-directeur James Comey te ontslaan. Comey wordt dezelfde dag ontslagen. bron
Op 11 mei 2017 praat president Trump over het lopende Rusland-onderzoek in het interview met Lester Holt van NBC.

“Look, look, let me tell you. As far as I’m concerned, I want that thing to be absolutely done properly,” the President said. “When I did this now I said, I probably, maybe will confuse people, maybe I’ll expand that, you know, lengthen the time because it should be over with, in my opinion, should have been over with a long time ago. Cause all it is, is an excuse but I said to myself, I might even lengthen out the investigation but I have to do the right thing for the American people. He’s the wrong man for that position.”

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Donald Trump and Lester Holt on James Comey firing

Ergens tussen 15-16 mei 2017 lekte James Comey via Daniel Richman zijn memo's naar The New York Times. bron
Comey verklaarde later dat hij dit deed met de intentie om een special counsel onderzoek af te dwingen. bron

Op de ochtend van 16 mei suggereerde Rod Rosenstein tegen de acting director van de FBI Andrew McCabe dat hij in het geheim gesprekken met de Amerikaanse president zou opnemen. bron
Het desbetreffende artikel van The New York Times was gebaseerd op de memo's van de inmiddels ontslagen McCabe.
Rosenstein heeft in een officiële verklaring de beschuldigingen ontkend. bron
De vermeende opmerkingen van Rosenstein vonden plaats in een meeting waarin Andrew McCabe het ministerie van Justitie wilde bewegen om een onderzoek te openen naar de Amerikaanse president.
Dezelfde dag had president Trump een meeting met Robert Mueller. bron
Er werd gesuggereerd dat dit een verkennende gesprek voor de functie van FBI-directeur was, maar dit is vrij onwaarschijnlijk.
Mueller had reeds deze positie bekleed van 2001-2013 en dit was al twee jaar langer dan de gebruikelijke ambtsperiode voor deze topfunctie. bron

Op 17 mei 2017, dus een dag na de meeting tussen Trump en Mueller en een dag na de ontmoeting van Rosenstein en McCabe stelde Rosenstein Robert Mueller aan als special counsel.
Wat hiermee feitelijk gebeurde is dat de controle over het Rusland-onderzoek verschoof van de FBI, Andrew McCabe en Peter Strzok naar Mueller.
Het special counsel onderzoek viel onder de autoriteit van Rosenstein en elke uitbreiding daarvan kon alleen doorgang vinden met de toestemming van Rosenstein.

The Battle Between Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe

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So until election day, the “working group at Langley” was trying to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign and wasn’t coming up with any. But Brennan didn’t want his efforts to go to waste, so he leaked to Senator Harry Reid the existence of the counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign.
He couldn’t leak any damning findings from that probe because there weren’t any. But he could inflict political damage by getting Reid to tell the press darkly of the probe’s existence. He also got Reid to write a public letter to Comey about the probe, which was designed to deepen the FBI’s reliance on Hillary’s paid dirt-digger, Christopher Steele.
Reid, as a reliable Democratic hack in the tank for Hillary, went along with Brennan’s scheme, but he felt manipulated enough by Brennan that he complained to Corn and Isikoff about Brennan’s odd intensity — an “ulterior motive” that Reid sensed in Brennan.”

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Op vrijdag 29 maart 2019 14:49 schreef dellipder het volgende:
De leider van de minderheid in de House Judiciary Committee, Doug Collins heeft andermaal een transcriptie van een Congres getuigenverklaring vrijgegeven, deze keer van Nellie Ohr.

Nellie Ohr Interview Transcript 10.19.18

Nellie Ohr is de vrouw van Bruce Ohr de voormalig vierde man in de hiërarchie van de DoJ.
Ohr werd ingehuurd door Glenn Simpson van Fusion GPS om tegen eind 2015 oppositieonderzoek naar Donald Trump uit te voeren. Het werk van Nellie Ohr werd gebruikt door Christopher Steele bij het samenstellen van het Steele dossier en vervolgens gedeeld met de DoJ en de FBI om president Trump politiek te beschadigen.
Nellie Ohr behaalde haar bul in Russische geschiedenis en literatuur aan Harvard University en promoveerde op geschiedenis aan Stanford University.
Ze spreekt vloeiend Russisch, gaf les aan het Vasser college en was een Russische specialist aan het Wilson Center. Ohr werkte ook freelance voor onderzoeks- en vertaalprojecten met betrekking tot Russische wetenschap en technologie. bron bron

Nellie Ohr werkte zes jaar op freelance basis voor de CIA. bron
Ze vertegenwoordigde de “Open Source Works”-werkgroep van de CIA in een 2010 rapport over internationaal organiseerde criminaliteit samen met haar Bruce Ohr en Glenn Simpson.

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Deze achtergrond was voor Fusion GPS een motivatie om Nellie Ohr in te huren, naast een nog duidelijkere reden van de DoJ-connectie van haar man, die zich in een positie bevond om Fusion GPS te voorzien van informatie over Donald Trump dat verzameld werd door de Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten.

Nellie Ohr verklaart dat zij Fusion GPS-eigenaar Glenn Simpson benaderde voor een baan.

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Met deze bekentenis wordt het mogelijk, misschien waarschijnlijk dat de inlichtingeninformatie die door Nellie Ohr werd ingebracht afkomstig was van de CIA als onderdeel van het witwassen van inlichtingeninformatie.
Het werk van Ohr werd bezorgd aan Christopher Steele, die het materiaal daar waar hij kon voorzag van een tweede verificatie, daarna stelde hij het samen als een officieel inlichtingendossier en vervolgens werd dit bestand geretourneerd aan de FBI.
Deze stijl en manier van werken komt overeen met wat al bekend is over de CIA en haar gebruik van buitenlandse inlichtingenbronnen (GCHQ, FVEY, etc.) tegen kwetsbare medewerkers van de Trump-campagne om hen in opspraak te brengen en de indruk te geven die nodig was om het contra-inlichtingenonderzoek op te starten dat nu bekend staat als Crossfire Hurricane. bron

Met het resultaat van het special counsel Robert Mueller, de concluderende samenvatting van procureur-generaal William Barr en het vrijgeven van alle documenten inzake het Russia collusion delusion onderzoek (zoals het EC-document, FISA-applicaties, FD-302's, et cetera) kunnen consequenties omvatten voor (actoren in) meerdere landen. bron bron

Het lijkt er sterk op dat Nellie Ohr Glenn Simpson benaderde voor een betrekking bij Fusion GPS en haar rol bij het bedrijf onderzoek te doen naar leden van de Trump-campagne was, dat gebruikt werd in het Steele dossier.
Ohr's connectie met de CIA zou kunnen duiden dat Fusion GPS als een maskering werd gebruikt om corrupte CIA-broodkruimels te voeden aan Christopher Steele, die deze vervolgens compileerde tot het beruchte dossier.
Nellie Ohr's communicatie met officials binnen de overheid en de inlichtingengemeenschap hierover zou een enorm risico zijn, omdat de NSA grote hoeveelheden data verzamelt en opslaat.
Haar vergunning voor een korte band radio, die op 23 mei 2016 wordt verleend -dat precies in de tijdlijn valt waarin de Clinton-campagne officieel Fusion GPS inhuurde voor oppositieonderzoek- is de communicatiewaarborg. bron
Dit is bovendien in dezelfde periode wanneer NSA-directeur Micheal Rogers FISA-misbruik ontdekt en de toegang tot de NSA-database voor overheidscontractanten permanent blokkeert. bron
Vanuit de Office of Inspector General is op 29 januari jongstleden een kleine inkijk gegeven over zijn review van deze ongeautoriseerde toegang. bron

Oud CIA-directeur John Brennan bracht de informatie over het bestaan van een contra-inlichtingenonderzoek in de politieke arena via Harry Reid.
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The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt

The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes.

Now that Robert Mueller’s 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the original goal of its mandate—evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government to sway the 2016 election—and now that thousands of once-sealed government documents will likely be released in unredacted form, those who eagerly assumed the role of the hunters may become the hunted, due to their own zealous violation of the nation’s trust and its laws.

Take Lying

Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimonies cannot be reconciled with those of his own deputy director Andrew McCabe. He falsely testified that the Steele dossier was not the main basis for obtaining FISA court warrants. On at least 245 occasions, Comey swore under oath that he either did not know, or could not remember, when asked direct questions about his conduct at the FBI. He likely lied when he testified that he did not conclude his assessment of the Clinton illegal email use before he had even interviewed Clinton, an assertion contradicted by his own written report. I guess his credo and modus operandi are reflected in the subtitle of his recent autobiography A Higher Loyalty: “Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”

Andrew McCabe currently is under criminal referral for lying to federal investigators about leaking to the media. He and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein each have accused each other of not telling the whole truth about their shared caper of trying to force President Trump out of office by invoking the 25th Amendment.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has admitted to lying under oath to Congress—and since lied about his earlier admission of that lying. His recent sworn congressional testimony of not having leaked information about the Steele dossier to the media is again likely to be untrue, given that Clapper had admitted to speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper about the dossier’s contents. CNN, remember, would in turn go on to hire the mendacious Clapper as an analyst. And once on air, Clapper would insist that Trump was both a Russian asset and thus guilty of collusion crimes greater than those of Watergate. Lies. All lies.

Former CIA Director John Brennan has admitted to lying under oath to Congress on two occasions. He may well face further legal exposure. When he lost his security clearance, he repeatedly lied that Trump was guilty of collusion, however that non-crime is defined. And as the Mueller probe wound down, Brennan with pseudo-authority and trumped-up hints of phony access to secret intelligence sources deceitfully assured the nation that Trump within days would face indictment—perhaps along with his family members.

Brennan in 2016 also reached out to foreign intelligence services, primary British and Australian, to surveille and entrap Trump aides, as a way of circumventing rules preventing CIA monitoring of American citizens. And he may well have also reverse-targeted Americans, under the guise of monitoring foreign nationals, in order to build a case of so-called Trump collusion.

Finally, Brennan testified to Congress in May 2017 that he had not been earlier aware of the dossier or its contents before the election, although in August 2016 it is almost certain that he had briefed Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on it in a spirited effort to have Reid pressure the FBI to keep or expand its counterintelligence investigation of Trump during the critical final weeks of the election.

Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin likely also lied to FBI investigators when they claimed they had no knowledge while working at the State Department that their boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was using an illegal private email server. In fact, they had read her communications on it and actually inquired about its efficacy.

Samantha Power, the former U.N. ambassador, in her last year in office requested on more than 260 occasions to unmask names of Americans monitored by the government. Yet Power later claimed that most of these requests were not made by her. And yet she either does not know or does not cite who exactly used her name to make such requests during the election cycle. In any case, no one has come forward to admit to the improper use of Power’s name to request the hundreds of unmaskings.

Susan Rice, the former Obama national security advisor, could have made a number of unmasking requests in Power’s name, although she initially denied making any requests in her own name—a lie she immediately amended. Rice, remember, repeatedly lied on national television about the cause and origins of the Benghazi attack, denied there were cash payments for hostages in the Iran deal, misled about the conduct of Beau Bergdahl, and prevaricated over the existence and destruction of weapons of mass destruction in Syria.

Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr did not tell the truth on a federal written disclosure required by law when he omitted the key fact that his wife Nellie worked on Christopher Steele’s Fusion GPS dossier. Ohr’s testimony that he completely briefed key FBI officials on the dossier in July or August 2016 is not compatible to what former FBI attorney Lisa Page has testified to concerning the dates of her own knowledge of the Steele material.

Take Foreign Collusion

Christopher Steele is a foreign national. So are many of the Russian sources that he claims he had contacted to solicit dirt on Donald Trump and his campaign aides. In fact, John Brennan’s CIA, soon in consultation with the FBI, was used in circuitous fashion to facilitate surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign through the use of foreign nationals during the 2016 campaign.

Foreigners such as Maltese professor Josef Mifsud, and former Australian minister for foreign affairs Alexander Downer and an array of intelligence contractors from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) mysteriously met with minor Trump aide George Papadopoulos and others. It is likely that to disguise American intelligence agencies’ efforts to besmirch, surveille, and leak to the press damaging unfounded rumors about the Trump campaign that John Brennan enlisted an entire cadre of foreign nationals. And it is likely to be the most egregious example of using non-U.S. citizens to affect the outcome of an election in our history. If there is a crime of foreign collusion—a conspiracy of U.S. officials to use foreigners to interfere with an American election—then Brennan’s efforts are the textbook example.

Take Leaking

Many of the names unmasked by requests from Samantha Power and Susan Rice were leaked illegally to the media. James Comey himself leaked confidential memos of presidential conversations to the press; in at least one case, the memo was likely classified.

Former FBI general counsel James Baker is currently under criminal referral for improperly leaking classified documents. He seems to have been in contact with the media before the election and he may have been one of many FBI officials and contacts, along with Christopher Steele, that reporters such as David Corn, Michael Isikoff, and Julia Ioffe anonymously referenced in their pre-election published hit pieces on Russian collusion—all the result of the successful strategies of Fusion GPS, along with some in the FBI, to seed unverified anti-Trump gossip to warp the election. Andrew McCabe also is under criminal referral both for leaking classified information and then lying about it.

In a fashion emblematic of this entire sordid mess, the always ethically compromised James Clapper in January 2017 had leaked the dossier to Jake Tapper of CNN and likely other journalists and then shortly afterwards publicly deplored just this sort of government leaking that had led to sensational stories about the dossier.

Take Obstruction of Justice

A number of FBI and Department of Justice high ranking employees such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, and Sally Yates all signed off on FISA warrants to surveille Carter Page without apprising the courts that they knew that their chief evidence, the Steele Dossier, was unverified, was paid for by Hillary Clinton, and was used in circular fashion as the basis for news accounts presented to the court. Nor did the Justice Department and FBI officials apprise the FISA justices that Christopher Steele had been terminated as a FBI source.

No one believes that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch just happened to meet Bill Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac and confined their conservations to a variety of topics having nothing to do with Hillary Clinton—at a time when Lynch’s Justice Department was investigating her. Note the meeting was only disclosed because a reporter got a tip and arrived on the scene of the two adjoining Lynch and Clinton private jets—which suggests that the only thing Lynch and Clinton regretted was being found out. Few believe that Lynch had recused herself as she promised, given her strict oversight of the sort of language Comey’s FBI was allowed to use in its investigation of Clinton.

Take Conflict of Interest

Andrew McCabe never should have been in charge of the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton, given that just months earlier his wife had been the recipient of $675,000 in campaign cash donated by Clinton and Democratic Party-affiliated political action committees. And the apology of a “time line” that suggests conflicts of interest like McCabe’s expired after an arbitrary date is specious. McCabe knew his spouse had been a recent recipient of Clinton-related money, knew that he had substantial influence on the fate of her email investigation, and hoped and assumed that she was likely to be the next president of the United States quite soon.

Rod Rosenstein never should have been appointed acting attorney general in charge of oversight of the Mueller investigation. He knew Mueller well. In circular fashion, he had drafted the rationale to fire Comey that had prompted the Mueller’s appointment. He had signed off on a FISA warrant request without apprising the court of the true nature of the Steele dossier’s origins and nature. He had met shortly before the Mueller appointment with acting FBI director Andrew McCabe to investigate the chance of removing Trump under a distortion of the 25th Amendment. So, in essence, Rosenstein had been one of the catalysts for McCabe to investigate removing Trump for his own part in the removal of Comey and then in Orwellian fashion joined McCabe’s efforts.

Comey deliberately leaked a classified memo of a presidential conversation, in which he had misled the president about his actual status under FBI investigations, in order to cause enough media outrage over his firing to prompt the hiring of a special counsel. That gambit succeeded in the appointment of his own longtime associate Robert Mueller, who would be charged to investigate “collusion,” in which Comey played an important role in monitoring the Trump campaign with the assistance of British national Christopher Steele.

Robert Mueller did not need to appoint a legal team inordinately Democratic, which included attorneys who had been either donors to the Clinton campaign, or had been attorneys for Clinton aides, or had defended the Clinton Foundation. And he certainly should not have included on his investigative team that was charged with adjudicating Russian collusion in the 2016 election both Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissman, Obama Justice Department officials, who had been briefed by Bruce Ohr before the election on the nature of the Steele dossier and its use of foreign sources.

It will be difficult to unravel all of the above lying, distortion, and unethical and illegal conduct.

The motives of these bad actors are diverse, but they share a common denominator. As Washington politicos and administrative state careerists, all of them believed that Donald Trump was so abhorrent that he should be prevented from winning the 2016 election. After his stunning and shocking victory, they assumed further that either he should not be inaugurated or he should be removed from office as soon as they could arrange it.

They further reasoned that as high and esteemed unelected officials their efforts were above and beyond the law, and rightly so, given their assumed superior wisdom and morality.

Finally, if their initial efforts were predicated on winning not just exemption from the law, but even promotions and kudos from a grateful President Hillary Clinton, their subsequent energies at removing Trump and investing in the collusion hoax were preemptive and defensive. Seeding the collusion hoax was a way either of removing Trump who had the presidential power to call them all to account for their illegality, or at least causing so much media chaos and political havoc that their own crimes and misdemeanors would be forgotten by becoming submerged amid years of scandal, conspiracies, and media sensationalism.

And they were almost—but so far not quite—correct in all their assumptions.

Barr says he'll release the Mueller report — with a caveat

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Every page of the confidential report provided to Attorney General Barr on March 22nd, 2019, was marked “May contain material protected under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6-e,” a law that protects confidential grand jury information – and therefore could not be publicly released. Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the Attorney General decided to release the report’s bottom line findings in his conclusions immediately – without attempting to summarize the report – with the understanding that the report itself would be released after the redaction process.

DOJ fights back against Mueller report, Barr media coverage