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That's a good question. Sometimes I am hired to "find" electronically stored information from bankrupt companies so that an audit of workers comp or liability policies can be done. And I never hack anything.
So how would they "find" emails without hacking them in response to Trump's comment?
(1) By looking in their own files because maybe they already hacked her email server. Or got them from someone who did? Or from someone who leaked them?
(2) by asking her, her friends, and her business associates. Maybe they have a copy of the stuff on her server. We know that one such person did in fact have a copy of the emails. Or maybe they know where the server itself is or where there is a cop[y of the data.
(3) by asking other police and intelligence agencies. The NYPD wound up with a copy of the emails. They wouldn't share the emails with the Russian government, but then again they're the perfect example of how you "find" emails without doing any hacking.
That’s a bit of a stretch there.
Speaking of stretches, maybe when Obama told Putin he’d have more flexibility after the election he was really referring to taking up Yoga classes.
Or maybe when China disappears dissenters, they really hire Chris Angel to mindfreak the Chinese population.
What is appalling is how conservatives can still call for this investigation to be shutdown. How they can truly suggest that there isn’t a single shred of evidence that the President of the US is potentially compromised. I promise you guys, we on the left would call for an investigation of our own if such information were coming out. All we’re asking you to do is open your eyes.
"law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation"
So, the coup leaders, the same people that came up with the "insurance policy" against an election result they didn't approve of, became concerned?
Clinesmith sent a number of pro-Clinton, anti-Trump political messages over the FBI’s computer system, which the report said “raised concerns about potential bias” that may have impacted the investigation. Meadows said Clinesmith was among five FBI officials Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz referred for investigation after additional anti-Trump messages surfaced. All five worked on the Clinton case, accounting for one-third of the 15 who were assigned to the investigation. One was Peter Strzok, who was kicked off the special-counsel team last year and escorted from the FBI headquarters building Friday as part of internal discipline proceedings. He and his mistress, Lisa Page, who left the bureau last month, also supervised the Trump-Russia investigation. The IG report said Page texted Strzok in August 2016, after Trump won the GOP presidential nomination, fretting, “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok replied. Horowitz testified that the FBI was withholding the names of the other rogue agents from Congress and the public because “they work on counterintelligence” and can’t be exposed. But Meadows argued that other agents for the FBI’s office of legal counsel, and are no longer in “counterintelligence,” as the FBI claimed.
The IG report also stated that the opinions of these FBI agents did not affect anything. And yes, the very same FBI became concerned about Trump's Russia love. Thankfully, they investigated.
But not a critic of Putin and Russian, our foreign adversity? That's one of the many reasons the FBI went after him. Remember, they needed compelling evidence to open the investigation in the first place. Looks like it wasn't hard to find.
President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladi*mir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said.
Trump did so after a meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also attended by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned of Trump’s actions when a White House adviser and a senior State Department official sought information from the interpreter beyond a readout shared by Tillerson.
The constraints that Trump imposed are part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries.
The IG report also stated that the opinions of these FBI agents did not affect anything. And yes, the very same FBI became concerned about Trump's Russia love. Thankfully, they investigated.
The IG's report actually found a lot of bias. His report stated that he didn't find any documented evidence that bias caused a particularly investigatory decision, which basically means he didn't find any decisions made clearly in service of Hillary's candidacy. He didn't find a memo that says, "Witness lied, but we want to Hillary to win, so whatevs." But he devoted whole sections of his memo to bias and said it cast a cloud over the entire investigation.
And then, there's even an asterisk over that, considering Mueller authorized Peter Strzok's and Lisa Page's texts to be wiped clean and the IG wasn't given access to all of them.
I have to question either your common sense to write something like that
Story today that Trump has deliberately stopped his translators and other State Dept people from creating formal documentation of his one to one meetings with Putin and others
He DELIBERATELY took notes from his translator at Helsinki and prevented that person from writing up the discussion between Trump and Putin...
WHY would a President do that???
It is a LEGAL requirement for those notes to be transcribed and kept as part of the permanent record ---
To me that alone is enough to file articles of impeachment against Trump
And that is not the only time he has done it
And I refresh people's memories that Kushner tried to create a PRIVATE line of secure communication with the Russians before the inaugaration so that Trump could have a direct line to Putin w/o using US operated communications equipment...
They have got a Jones to talk to the Russians w/o anyone knowing what they are saying
They might CLAIM it is because of previous leaks and trying to create a rapport with Putin
But get real---
We all know Trump has a history of crooked dealings
And this is just one way of CYA so what he is talking about doesn't get revealed as the criminal/tratorous act it is...
And NO I don't want to be friends with Russia--
Russia is just as likely to invade its "friends" as its enemies...
A group of unelected bureaucrats sat in a room and decided the 'wrong' person has been elected.
They just didn't want him; they wanted the other candidate.
So they launch their own investigation, and the liberals whoop with joy.
The New York Times, unaware of the legal implications for the above unelected bureaucrats, ran the story thinking that it was proof of wrongdoing by The President.
Teh Stoopid is great with liberals and their self appointed unelected Guardians of The Election Process.
You love those "alternative facts".
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