Leaked Texts Suggest Coordination Between Obama White House, CIA, FBI And Dems To Launch Trump-Russia Probe | Zero Hedge
Description: Leaked texts between Strzok and Page "strongly" suggest coordination between the White House, the "independent" CIA and FBI, and Democrat Harry Reid; if confirmed this would "contradict" the Obama administration's claims of non-involvement.

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# Leaked Texts Suggest Coordination Between Obama White House, CIA, FBI And Dems To Launch Trump-Russia Probe

Congressional investigators looking into the origins of Special Counsel Mueller's Russia probe believe they've found a smoking gun that could justify the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether the Obama administration exerted undue influence over the FBI.

A series of text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ lawyer Lisa Page have revealed the involvement of Denis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff, John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in helping create an atmosphere of paranoia that gave them the political cover to launch the Russia probe back in the summer of 2016.

Denis McDonough

The investigators who leaked the information to Fox said the texts between Strzok and Page "strongly" suggest coordination between the White House, two independent intelligence agencies, and a Democratic Congressional leader. That would "contradict" the Obama administration's claims of non-involvement.

The texts tell of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe being concerned with "information control," and suggest a plot to leak details of the FBI's incipient investigation to both the White House and Reid. Brennan also became involved in agitating for an investigation, though his agency was supposed to be operationally separate from the FBI.

> Page texted Strzok on Aug. 2, 2016, saying: "Make sure you can lawfully protect what you sign. Just thinking about congress, foia, etc. You probably know better than me."

> A text message from Strzok to Page on Aug. 3 described former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as being concerned with "information control" related to the initial investigation into the Trump campaign. According to a report from the New York Times, Brennan was sent to Capitol Hill around the same time to brief members of Congress on the possibility of election interference.

> Days later, on Aug. 8, 2016, Strzok texted Page: "Internal joint cyber cd intel piece for D, scenesetter for McDonough brief, Trainor [head of FBI cyber division] directed all cyber info be pulled. I’d let Bill and Jim hammer it out first, though it would be best for D to have it before the Wed WH session."

> In the texts, "D" referred to FBI Director James Comey, and and "McDonough" referred to Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, the GOP investigators said.

One of Fox's sources said the information was "concerning" enough to justify launching an independent probe into the FBI's role in launching the Trump investigation.

> "We are not making conclusions. What we are saying is that the timeline is concerning enough to warrant the appointment of an independent investigator to look at whether or not the Obama White House was involved [in the Trump-Russia investigation]," a GOP congressional source told Fox News.

Naturally, coordination between political appointees at the White House and DOJ investigators would cast doubt on the entire Russia probe, Fox's sources said.

> The following day, Aug. 30, 2016, Strzok texted Page: "Here we go," sending a link to the Times report titled, "Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote and seeks FBI inquiry."

The texts also detail the Bureau and Brennan's role in feeding information to Reid, which inspired him to write a letter to the FBI demanding an investigation be launched. That letter was later leaked to the press. The Reid letter, Fox said, provided political cover for the bureau when it tried to justify launching an investigation into Trump as early as July 2016.

In other words, the FBI was well-versed in how to strategically use "leaks" to manage information control and wash its hands over any potential collusion allegations... with the exception of course of the texts that reveal how the plot was hatched in the first place.

The question now is whether McCabe, who was fired two weeks ago, will be called in to testify on these stark allegations.

One thing is for certain: The texts provide the clearest sign yet into the Obama administration's role in helping get the Russia probe off the ground in an attempt to roadblock Trump's administration, all the while Obama chose to do nothing about reports of Russian attempts at election interference.

We imagine we'll hear more about this in the coming days.

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Uchtdorf Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:24 Permalink

And nobody goes to jail...

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Adolph.H. Uchtdorf Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:28 Permalink

There was a time when working in intelligence agencies meant one had to be intelligent.

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No longer.

And the merry go round goes round, and the little Vladimir smiles mischievously.

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Beam Me Up Scotty Adolph.H. Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:29 Permalink

This IS the INSURANCE POLICY!!! They come up with this bullshit Russia collusion story, so if Trump happens to win, because he's beat up on everyone else in the primaries, they can use this to keep him from gaining power. They launch an investigation, then a special counsel is appointed, and its all just drag, delay, and obfuscate until the 2018 mid terms. The Fed pulls the rug out from the stawk market, and the democrats get the house back. Impeachment proceedings start. You think Trump can get things done then? Worst case scenario, they wound him even worse than he already is and he loses in 2020.

Hillary is still not in prison, and she and the criminals around her aren't even under investigation. THE INSURANCE POLICY IS WORKING EXACTLY AS PLANNED!!!

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JohnGaltUk Beam Me Up Scotty Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:38 Permalink

Q = trust the plan

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ThinkerNotEmoter JohnGaltUk Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:40 Permalink

Jeff Sessions says "BULLSHIT!!! Dear Leader Obama and agencies shall NOT be investigated because they did nothing wrong. No Special Council needed. Move along, people."

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SWRichmond ThinkerNotEmoter Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:42 Permalink

Clearly, Lisa Page was / is working for the Republicans. "I will fuck you as long as you let me text you a trail of incriminating information". My God, this is incredible. Was she sucking his soul out through his dick?

Men: zip it, for Christ's sake.

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BaBaBouy SWRichmond Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:44 Permalink

All Stink, All SWAMP, Nothing Surprises me Anymore ...

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com BaBaBouy Thu, 03/29/2018 - 10:45 Permalink

Patience grasshopper.

Aristotle once observed, "one swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day."

What goes around, comes around.

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ZENDOG whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:05 Permalink

Gotta call BS on this one......Sessions will not do shit.....and neither will anyone else.

Nothing will be done....nothing but Traitors to the rule of law in our fed gov.

Traitors.

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com ZENDOG Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:11 Permalink

I feel your pain Zen, and you are most likely correct, but, I'm a believer in the laws of Karma. I wish instant Karma would apply just this once.

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Hotapplebottoms whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:02 Permalink

isn't it just great how the left wing communists are the one's bitching about russia. priceless trump, you jews should definitely keep covering these stories, it makes you look so smart.

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JRobby Hotapplebottoms Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:34 Permalink

Impossible that something like this could bring the Deep State down?

Accept that you live under fascism / corporate oligarchy or lock magazines in.

These are the choices we are down to.

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Fish Gone Bad JRobby Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:37 Permalink

Even if all the heads of various 3 letter agencies were terminated, the state is forever. The next ones will unfortunately be the same.

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macholatte ZENDOG Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:22 Permalink

Nothing to see here. Move along.
– Jeff Rosenstein

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GunnyHerd whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:06 Permalink

I'm making over $12k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Jobzon3.com%3Ab8eR_DQLwGRPVGtFv…

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com GunnyHerd Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:12 Permalink

I'd say you nailed it.

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Chupacabra-322 whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:17 Permalink

This entire bogus Investigation is nothing more than a smoke screen being used to shield the obvious Treason & Sedition engaged in by Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths Hillary Clinton, John Breanan, James Clapper, Lynch, Rice & Obama.

The entire Surveillance Infrastructure Is & was being used for one thing. .. To build blackmail 'Control Files' on thousands if not millions of Americans. ... An Extortion Tool. .. NOTHING legal about it.

This is the biggest Criminal, Treasonous, Seditious Intelligence Political Espionage Operation of our lifetime. Same spying tactics used decades by MI6 / British Intelligence. Only difference being, it’s the first of its kind “Information Highway” Spy Ring utilizing an expanded Surveillance Infrastructure. The Constitutional ramifications of this are gargantuan.

This entire Criminal Deep State Intelligence Operation was data mining formuling the first of its kind Parallel Construction Case consisting of a Criminal Deep State CIA, FBI, DOJ Scripted False Narrative / PsyOp With the objective ousting a sitting President via a soft coup.

Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Psychopath at Large George Bush Jr. instituted the Criminal Surveillance infrastructure.

Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopath at Large Barack Obama expanded it exponentially.

However, Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths Obama, Clinton, their minions Brennan & Clapper along with GCHQ used the intelligence apparatus to go after their political enemies. Morphing the Criminal Intelligence Agencies into a Tyrannical Lawless Political Police Surveillance State.

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CatInTheHat Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:24 Permalink

THIS!!!^^^^

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Stan522 CatInTheHat Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:28 Permalink

This all means jack shit until we see "perp" walks and off to jail they all go.....

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com Stan522 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:32 Permalink

Like a 4-hour news cycle. I wonder what it will be like when we're on a 1.5 second news cycle?

How far off is that, considering we're (not me) already on a 1.5 second image flash program?

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Joe Davola whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:45 Permalink

When emoji's take over as the only means of communication - everything will be thumb's up/down, happy/sad faces, etc. Good reason to get rid of the Department of Education - who will need reading comprehension anymore.

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com Joe Davola Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:32 Permalink

I suppose your are correct about that. It is my hope that I won't be around to witness that event.

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tmosley Stan522 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:05 Permalink

If/when that happens, will you remember it a week afterwards, or will you go back to hating Trump and blackpilling everyone constantly like the rest of the peanut gallery has after every single accomplishment has been made public?

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Stan522 tmosley Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:33 Permalink

I don't HATE.... Lib's hate and I am not a Lib.....

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topspinslicer Stan522 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:47 Permalink

If you are human you hate -- it's okay to hate those who do evil

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:26 Permalink

Dood! I love reading your posts.

Sometimes, I imagine, who are these people posting and why aren't they my neighbors?

Sometimes, I imagine, who are these people posting and why aren't they my range targets?

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jin187 Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:16 Permalink

So do you have a special filter that capitalizes words as you type, or do you actually remember to manually capitalize everything that's not a helping verb?

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onewayticket2 jin187 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:32 Permalink

Jin187 needs her safe space and comfort animal....

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Thought Processor onewayticket2 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:03 Permalink

I'm sure they'll be in jail shortly.

Seriously though everyone is now looking for justice to prevail. If the whole justice system is corrupt and is no longer functional then what? Do we live in a Banana Republic? And or, has it always been one? (those are rhetorical questions for normies as most here know that the answers are, ie; 1. we do and 2. yes, mostly).

No wonder they're pushing gun control so hard in here.

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GeezerGeek jin187 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:50 Permalink

Anyone using more than one finger to type has no problem with using the Shift key when appropriate/desired. The time differential is marginal.

Anyone with a decent education knows when capitalized letters are proper, and anyone who can't remember shouldn't be posting anyway, unless they're the ghost of ee cummings.

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Fish Gone Bad jin187 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:49 Permalink

+1 That is pretty funny.

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RafterManFMJ Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:35 Permalink

It’s time that I confess, so that the deep state holds no blackmail power over me

1. I bought a Michael Bolton album one time. I may have been high

2. I would probably f7ck Chris Evans, if the situation demanded it

3. I hold weekly ‘shelter in place’ exercises - but as a secret excuse to stay at home and not spend money.

4. It’s probably pure bullshit, but can’t stop reading QAnon

5. Can’t stand kimchi; know it’s good for my digestion but damn, I cannot choke it down. Sticking with sauerkraut

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shovelhead RafterManFMJ Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:32 Permalink

Homemade Kimchee is better than pb&j for a snack. Just have to turn down the heat a bit, gringo style and shitcan the fish sauce. That stuff will gag a maggot. I chop up some shrimp.

Michael Bolton will also gag a maggot.

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Grimaldus RafterManFMJ Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:37 Permalink

Throw some kimchee out in the back yard. Not an animal on the planet will eat it.

Grimaldus

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iLoveMisesToPieces Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:03 Permalink

Spot on. Laughable to even consider parsing through the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day, much less generate any intelligence. But when you know exactly what you're looking for, things become much easier.

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MK13 Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:42 Permalink

Well good. Now sit back and enjoy bitches because matrix once up, ain't going down.

And once we aproach midterms, likelihood of anyone getting orange suited go away while impeachment hearings start. See, that was easy.

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gaoptimize Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:23 Permalink

I don't know if I've ever been this angry. This will be the reason/justification behind whatever comes next. I am instinctively a happy-go-lucky nice guy, the sort who never would, never could let an insulting remark escape his lips. A very gentle man. But THIS has made me angry and deplorable. I resent that almost as much as the treason and sedition itself.

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X30X Chupacabra-322 Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:56 Permalink

..........................THEY being just Some of theirBETTERattributes!

LOL.

Regards.

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Government nee… GunnyHerd Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:43 Permalink

I dunno about a future of professional sucking dick. There is a fierce new gonorrhoa strain which is unfazed by antibiotics. . . .

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/untreatable-super-gonorrhe…

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com Government nee… Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:53 Permalink

Bots man. Bots are the future of professional dick sucking.

Suck your dick and make you a hamburger afterwards.

Who's going to trust their wives or girlfriends and visa versa.

The small head Trumps the big head too often.

(enjoying using Trumps in this context)

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Anonymous_Bene… Government nee… Thu, 03/29/2018 - 11:56 Permalink

Antibiotics? Meh.

Colloidal silver treats anything as long as it's applied effectively. And you can make it yourself for next to nothing. Just use distilled water, 2 .999 silver leads, one per lead from a 12v 300ma charger with the end snipped off..throw in a fish tank bubbler and give it a couple hours and you have pure colloidal silver in the 10-30ppm range depending how long you run it. Check for the Tyndall effect to give rough estimate of how much silver is in the water. Don't run it too long or the particles will agglomerate and make it less effective.

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com Anonymous_Bene… Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:00 Permalink

Colloidal silver can cause serious side effects. The most common is argyria, a bluish-gray discoloration of the skin, which is usually permanent. Colloidal silver can also cause poor absorption of some drugs, such as certain antibiotics and thyroxine (used to treat thyroid deficiency).

I keep CS along with one hundred other remedies in my medicine cabinet.

Antibiotics, such as,Fluoroquinolones (FQs) or quinolones for short, ruined my life.

https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2016/05/12/new-fda-warning-for-popular-…

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jmack Anonymous_Bene… Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:59 Permalink

I am sure there are zero hedgers that rub bars of silver on their dicks, but I dont think it is for medicinal purposes.

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tiwimon jmack Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:46 Permalink

But the top 1%'ers rub with gold...

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Bulgars GunnyHerd Thu, 03/29/2018 - 14:58 Permalink

There was coordination due to the evidence provided.. FBI can not act on its own on something like this

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GUS100CORRINA whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:01 Permalink

Leaked Texts Suggest Coordination Between Obama White House, CIA, FBI And Dems To Launch Trump-Russia Probe

My response: HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE DO WE NEED TO INDICT, ARREST, PROSECUTE and JAIL EVIL DOERS!!!!!!

The ABOVE headline suggests following crimes were committed ...

TREASON and SEDITION

ELECTION FRAUD

MONEY LAUNDERING

MURDER (Seth Rich and Others)

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

RACKETEERING

THEFT

Need I say more????? Let's get on with the FORMAL HANGINGS!!!! My patience is wearing thin!!!

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whatswhat1@yahoo.com GUS100CORRINA Thu, 03/29/2018 - 12:07 Permalink

Add tar & feather, Pillory, burning at the stake, water boarding, beheading, and stoning to draw large, paying audiences.

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voting machine whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:07 Permalink

Piano wire Mussolini style !!

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voting machine whatswhat1@yahoo.com Thu, 03/29/2018 - 13:08 Permalink

Piano wire Mussolini style !!

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