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# "Flood Is Coming": New Comey-McCabe Emails Suggest CNN And FBI Coordination Over Steele Dossier

Several new strings have been tacked across the corkboard in the rapidly unraveling 2016 election scandal. Recently obtained FBI emails shed light on what appears to have been high-level coordination between the FBI and CNN surrounding the release of the infamous "Steele" dossier.

In an April leak of the Comey memos, we learned that the former FBI Director briefed then-President-Elect Donald Trump on the dossier on January 6, 2017 after he wrote in a memo that various news outlets - "CNN in particular" - were "looking for a news hook," and would soon be reporting on it.

“I said media like CNN had [the dossier] and were looking for a news hook,” Comey wrote of his interaction with Trump.

CNN, on the other hand, considered Comey's meeting with Trump to have legitimized the document - making it their journalistic responsibility to report on it.

Thus - any coordination between the FBI and CNN surrounding its report on the Steele dossier is highly relevant, since the Jan. 10, 2017 release of the dossier by Buzzfeed immediately after CNN's report - along with the subsequent firing of James Comey on May 9, prompted the launch of special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation.

CNN's bombshell report on Jan. 10 of last year includes a claim that Comey gave Trump a two-page summary of the dossier - which Comey denies. Regardless, the fact that CNN knew about the Comey-Trump briefing and a specific claim about a two-page memo begs the question; who leaked to CNN?

New FBI emails obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) provide a look behind the scenes surrounding Comey's briefing of Trump, as well as what was discussed after the CNN report - suggesting that former Deputy director Andrew McCabe - who was fired for leaking to the press, had specific knowledge of CNN's plans to publish.

> Hours before Comey briefed Trump, FBI chief of staff James Rybicki e-mailed staff that Comey “is coming into HQ briefly now for an update from the sensitive matter team.” Just as the same officials dubbed the Clinton e-mail investigation the “mid-year exam” and the anti-Trump counterintelligence investigation “Crossfire Hurricane,” they also used various phrases using “sensitive” to refer obliquely to the dossier.

> Two days after the briefing, on January 8, 2017, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who earlier this year was fired and then referred for criminal prosecution by the DOJ inspector general for repeatedly lying about media leaks, wrote an e-mail to top FBI officials with the subject, “Flood is coming.” -The Federalist

“CNN is close to going forward with the sensitive story,” McCabe wrote in an email to Comey, Rybicki, and two others. “The trigger for them is they know the material was discussed in the brief and presented in an attachment.” McCabe does not reveal how he knew CNN’s “trigger” was Comey's briefing to Trump.

McCabe shot off a second email shortly thereafter to then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates along with her deputy, Matthew Alexrod, with the subject line "News."

“Just as an FYI, and as expected,” McCabe wrote, “it seems CNN is close to running a story about the sensitive reporting.” Again, how McCabe knew this is unclear and begs investigation.

In a Monday letter to FBI director Christopher Wray, Sen. Johnson, chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, provides a timeline of events which correspond to the newly obtained FBI emails, and asks the agency to provide a list of all the members of the "sensitive matter" team referenced in Rybicki's January 6 email.

Johnson also wants to know when FBI officials "first learned that media outlets, including CNN, may have possessed the Steele dossier. "

As The Federalist notes, "To date, there is no public evidence that the FBI ever investigated the leaks to media about the briefing between Trump and Comey. When asked in a recent interview by Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier, Comey scoffed at the idea that the FBI would even need to investigate the leak of a secret briefing with the incoming president."

> “Did you or your subordinates leak that?” Baier asked.

> “No,” Comey responded. “I don’t know who leaked it.”

> “Did you ever try to find out?” Baier asked.

> “Who leaked an unclassified public document?” Comey said, even though Baier’s question was about leaking details of a briefing of the incoming president, not the dossier. “No,” Comey said.

Johnson's letter can be seen below. He has requested a response by Wray no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 4.

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tmosley Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:12 Permalink

Wonder how many ZH commenters are on their payroll?

I would guess five.

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BullyBearish tmosley Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:13 Permalink

jared kushner...is that you?

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nope-1004 BullyBearish Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:15 Permalink

Comey is a bold-faced liar with much to hide.

Had he not sold out to team Clinton, his life would probably be spared.

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bamawatson nope-1004 Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:16 Permalink

smarmy-faced

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???ö? bamawatson Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:18 Permalink

not a dossier, but pure faussier fuckery by projecting MI6 kleptokrats

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Shitonya Serfs ???ö? Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:24 Permalink

This tells you everything you need to know about the CNN/Clinton partnership:

https://youtu.be/BdXtIJNNVZM

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JimmyJones Shitonya Serfs Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:29 Permalink

Yeah, operation Mockingbird in full effect.

CiaNewsNetwork

Update:

So I clicked your link and started watching. at 12:36 - 12:45 guess who's name they drop, its Michael Caputo , the same one I believe that is currently being featured in the news reporting on the 2nd spy in the Trump Campaign. https://www.newsmax.com/politics/michael-caputo-trump-aide-2016-preside…

Absolutely nuts, this is crazy, this is without a doubt spy vs spy we are witnessing going down. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXtIJNNVZM&feature=youtu.be The footage in this video is from 1992. Michael Caputo is "playing" being a reporter.

Wikipedia "He served as director of media services on the campaign for president George H.W. Bush in the 1992 United States presidential election."

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Chris2 JimmyJones Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:24 Permalink

This is the end of the Bush Dynasty who has owed every prez since GHW tried to kill Reagan. They won't go without a big battle.

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dark pools of soros Chris2 Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:31 Permalink

Barbara is dead and old George is shitting in his sweatpants

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Rex Andrus Chris2 Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:44 Permalink

They blackmailed everybody they didn't kill or rob. Everybody hates them, especially their own crews. The Bush brats won't last. There have been worse incoming for decades.

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Fish Gone Bad JimmyJones Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:33 Permalink

+1 much appreciated.

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JimmyJones Fish Gone Bad Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:42 Permalink

welcome, when I heard the name I said to myself "you got to be kidding me".

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Rex Andrus JimmyJones Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:45 Permalink

Criminal collusion. Hang them all.

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Think for yourself Shitonya Serfs Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:30 Permalink

First time i'm glad to see Homeland Security sicked on somebody.

Seriously, if The Psychopaths That Be understood that integrity is actually self-serving (it serves all from self to others), we'd see them being quite serious about prosecuting corruption.

Tiny bonus; it might also be necessary to our general survival as a species, as an ecosystem, and as individuals. Just saying...

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y3maxx Think for yourself Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:34 Permalink

Who will be the first sacrificial lamb, by way of suicide nail gun to the back of the head, slipping off a roof, or blown up in a Tesla crash?

2/

and who will be the first to suddenly depart the USA for parts unkown?

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wildbad y3maxx Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:49 Permalink

CNN...FBI..why do they even bother to spell them differently?

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Countrybunkererd wildbad Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:07 Permalink

Different black budgets?

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Arnold y3maxx Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:50 Permalink

Obama Spent $700 Million Promoting Homosexuality Overseas — and Bought Ill Will

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/22189-obama-s…

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Kassandra y3maxx Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:07 Permalink

Are any of these people driving Teslas?

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Chupacabra-322 Kassandra Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:15 Permalink

March 29, 2018: Ep. 687 Another Bombshell Revelation

“I’ve already told you there was some White House Involvement in this. Now how do we know that? What we learn in Sara’s piece according to her sources, is that there was a meeting in August of 2016. Between a lead FBI investigator by the name of Jonn Moffa. He had a key role by the way folks, in the Hillary exoneration letter. Remember the speech by Jim Comey? That exonerated Hillary. They laid all this stuff out and then said, oh..and by the way, we’re not going to prosecute.”

“So this is an upper level manager in the FBI. Follow the time line here. This’ll be quick. In August, early August he meets with the White House Chief of Staff. Dennis McDonough to talk about this case, against Trump. Against the Trump Team & probably about Hillary too.”

“White House Chief of Staff. You’re now a breath away from the President of the UNITED STATES. Moffa meets McDonough in August. Why is this time line August of 2016. Why is this significant? Because what happens in August of 2016 too?”

“John Breanan. Aaaaa Joe! What did we say that the master of puppets here might be John Breanan. Again, on the Don Bongino show. Yep! John Breanan, in August of 2016. What does he do? He waltz’s his butt up to Capital Hill and gives a briefing to the gang of eight there....Harry Reid included. About this case. Includes in the briefing which is highly likely based on the letter Reid produces just days later. Briefs them in the Dossier. He said he know nothing about in December. Which is after August. So, in August. Just to be clear about what we’re talking about.”

“For those Liberals out there that listen to the show. That think the White House has no attachment to this scandal at all. In August of 2016. Senior high level managers at the FBI. Who had a role in drafting the exoneration letter for Hillary Clinton. Meet with White House Officials. The White House Chief of Staff. A stone throws away from the President. In that very same month. The President’s CIA Director. A noted Political Hack. And, a lair in John Breanan. Brief members of the Senate & the Congress. On a Dossier. He claims he knew nothing about. And, just days after that briefing. Harry Reid fires off a letter to the FBI requesting that they investigate Trump. Of which, by the way, right after that. Strzok texts Lisa Paige. “Here we go.” Insinuating in the text that this was all planned the whole entire time. “

https://saraacarter.com/new-documents-suggest-coordination-by-obama-white-house-cia-and-fbi-in-trump-investigation/

https://www.bongino.com/march-29-2018-ep-687-another-bombshell-revelation/

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corporatewhore Chupacabra-322 Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:31 Permalink

It's crazy how these things get cobbled together when no one claps for a speech given in New Hampshire.

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Dewey Cheatum … y3maxx Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:29 Permalink

Don't forget barbell to the neck, day before testifying..while catching a workout.

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847328_3527 Dewey Cheatum … Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:30 Permalink

This would help explain why CNN is so unreasonably vehemently far left and anti-Trump.

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CJgipper Dewey Cheatum … Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:43 Permalink

With a weight 1/3 of what the guy is capable of.

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Theta_Burn ???ö? Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:55 Permalink

Demo dossier v2.0 should squash this..

Everyday a little closer to that happy ending... say, wheres that hat with the demo career losers names' in it, to go on the shit talk trail on how it's every patriotic Americans duty to vote out/resist/disagree with/lie about/leak about...The Don

All this new info., imagine what they managed to scrub, probably why the heat has been turned up on Assange. the demo dunces have been given ample rope, let the wreckage commence.

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Chupacabra-322 Theta_Burn Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:16 Permalink

May 22, 2018: Ep. 725 It’s Worse Than They’re Letting On

“A target of the Mueller probe gave an explosive interview to Laura Ingraham last night about the Obamagate spying scandal. I also address some of Ben Shapiro’s questions about the Trump investigation.”

“Folks the operation to take down Trump. Please Keep this crystal clear. I’m going to relate this back to the leaks but you’ll understand where I’m going with this in a second.”

“Was not a Democrat only Operation. Please understand this. It was an Establishment GOP Operation as well. Why do you think there are predominate GOP Senators. Not a verbal type O. Senators, GOP Senators. Who are now freaking out. Now that the identity of the source used to intersect the Trump Campaign & entrap them Stephan Halper is starting to leak out in press reports. Why do you think they’re freaking out?”

“Have you looked at Halper’s resumé? Oh, he was employed by the Bush Administration, the Reagan Administration? Yea. FACT!”

“This was not Democratic Only Operation.”

-Don Bongino

https://www.bongino.com/may-22-2018-ep-725-its-worse-than-theyre-letting-on/

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Ghost of Porky bamawatson Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:18 Permalink

The trial will be held on a helicopter.

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Nunyadambizness Ghost of Porky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:33 Permalink

We can only hope...

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The Dreadnought Ghost of Porky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:15 Permalink

Or hopefully, above one...

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CJgipper Ghost of Porky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:43 Permalink

There will be no trial. The game is to run the clock out now.

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OneStinkyDinky bamawatson Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:18 Permalink

None of the dossier has been discredited btw ... most of it corroborated in fact

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???ö? OneStinkyDinky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:20 Permalink

/s

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JRobby ???ö? Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:24 Permalink

The thing about the way dams break is.................

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JimmyJones JRobby Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:31 Permalink

Exponentially increases over time

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Countrybunkererd JimmyJones Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:36 Permalink

JR and JJ, you brought a big smile to my face. I would almost break into song "you light up..." but that would be weird and stuff.

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Beatscape Countrybunkererd Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:49 Permalink

Sensors indicate significant and growing fissures in the deep state force field. Arm all photon torpedoes and aim for the cracks.

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chunga Beatscape Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:25 Permalink

"The needs of a few outweigh the needs of the many."

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jsgibson JRobby Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:09 Permalink

"Watch the water"

- Q

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curbjob jsgibson Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:19 Permalink

..and def don't drink it.

"Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt says the agency will move to regulate as "hazardous" a type of harmful chemical found in the drinking water of millions of Americans, calling it a "national priority"

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doublesharp jsgibson Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:32 Permalink

Whatever happened to Q? Been dark since May 15th?

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phaedrus1952 doublesharp Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:44 Permalink

Posting furiously, actually.

Qanon.pub has running posts.

8chan qresearch board has comprehensive input.

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pparalegal OneStinkyDinky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:30 Permalink

2 + 2 = 5, and not 4. Because, whatever says the Party, it is true: they create the truth. Right stinky?

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curbjob pparalegal Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:36 Permalink

Is this story the reason why CNN and the Associated Press were kicked out of the EPA conference today ?

.. or was this story created as a result of them being booted ??

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JoseyWalesTheOutlaw curbjob Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:42 Permalink

They didn't have room for liars....Scott booted their azz OUT

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curbjob JoseyWalesTheOutlaw Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:51 Permalink

"Scott booted their azz OUT"

I bet that was expensive ?

Here's the problem celebrating when only 2 hasbara news outlets get excluded from a government agency press conference; in 36 months team blue could be doing the ejecting, and then it will probably be your kool aid bottle that gets poured out.

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Never One Roach curbjob Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:09 Permalink

Meuller better add a top notch lawyer to his team... like Eric Schneidermann.

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curbjob Never One Roach Tue, 05/22/2018 - 16:14 Permalink

I don't know if there's a lawyer alive in our solar system that's any match for this attorney general ... there's a literal felled forest of deep state operatives lying in his wake as he boldly goes where no AG has gone before ...

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onewayticket2 OneStinkyDinky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:34 Permalink

"When did you stop beating your wife?"

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Nunyadambizness OneStinkyDinky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:35 Permalink

Are you still on crack? Put the pipe down and step away from the keyboard s l o w l y...

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Arctic Frost OneStinkyDinky Tue, 05/22/2018 - 15:45 Permalink

That’s about the hundreth time I’ve seen an ani-Trumper state, Most of the dossier has been corrbaorated. However, I have yet to see one of them say EXACTLY what was collaborated. NEVER, EVER, NOT ONE SINGLE TIME.

Then one has to wonder exactly WHO is supposed to have collaborated these “things”? The Russians? Are we supposed to believe that Mueller and company are now working with the Russians to investigate if anyone has been working with the Russians?

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