Mueller dismisses top FBI agent in Russia probe for anti-Trump texts

7,604,875 Views | 49329 Replies | Last: 1 day ago by JFABNRGR
aggiehawg
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
aggie2812-2 said:

In aggiehawg we trust! Speaking truth as always.
How long is this thread now? Almost seven hundred pages? And I didn't even come into the thread for a several days after it started?

But how many times have I been revealed to be pretty close to being on the money in my instincts?

Not batting 1000 but every baseball team would want me for my average.
Mission Velveta
How long do you want to ignore this user?
As a daily reader and very rare poster in this thread. This is potentially a great day for our country. I appreciate everyone's contributions.
Rockdoc
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
MASAXET
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
aggiehawg said:

MASAXET said:

aggiehawg said:

Quote:

I was not arguing in any way the efficacy of team Mueller. But since you wanted to bring that up, you need to acknowledge that your entire argument regarding the Cohen guilty plea was through the SDNY and not the SCO. And I fail to see how the point that it "didn't lay a glove a Trump . . . despite what the MSM press breathlessly reported" is any negative reflection on the SDNY (or SCO's for that matter).
How naive of you. Or forgetful. Mueller made a specific criminal referral to SDNY. You really think that was about taxi medallions? And why would Mueller be looking into state/city taxi medallions during a probe into conspiracy with a foreign government probe? Because the Rooskis had a plan to take over NYC's cab service? Or better yet, it was the Rooskis who started Uber and Lyfft?

LOL. You are entertaining, Max.

You're all over the place. First, the reason for the referral is immaterial to the main point: there was a referral. That would negate the idea that anything wrong with the plea would look negatively on Mueller since he didn't handle the plea. Second, taking everything you say at face value: doesn't that justify the referral in the first place? If Mueller's probe is about potential conspiracy with a foreign government and he came across something that had nothing to do with that (such as taxi cab medallions as you reference), then referring it to the SDNY was the correct call. You seem to be complaining about him taking the correct course of action. I agree with you making fun of any absurd argument about the Russians being involved in the taxi issues, and it's a good thing the SCO's office did not try to make such an absurd argument in order to handle the taxi issues (because it didn't have anything to do with the Russians).

But enough of the random rabbit trail: why did you ignore the rest of my post? You know, the part we were actually discussing before the strawman?
Sigh. You really want to force me to say why? You are tedious, spinning and not worthy of much discussion on my part. You haven't followed the developments as they happened, haven't read the pleadings, have no clue to what you are referring. Uh, what? We were discussing one specific document (the Manafort information) and I specifically referenced citations within the document. How would I do that without having read the document?

I have tried to be non-confrontational with you despite your direct confrontations to me. You aren't presenting counter-arguments in other threads, choosing instead to personally attack me. Please point to any one personal attack I have posted against you. I will gladly apologize if I have done so but don't remember. All I have done is disagree with certain of your assertions. Unless you feel that anytime I disagree with one of your factual assertions (with support) that it amounts to a personal attack? Yeah, I read other threads and read your crap. I choose not to respond to your brand of Dem spin, nor do I flag you. Can you honestly say the same? Yes, I can say that I've never flagged any of your posts.

I really do not understand your unhealthy obsession with me. Maybe you want to hone your legal skills? I can't teach what comes naturally to me. Sorry. This is funny, but no I certainly don't come to texags or you to hone legal skills. However, I'm always open to be educated by someone if they can support their statement. And as I've said before, I would expect an attorney offering legal opinions to support such opinion. When I said conspiracy to commit an offense against the US is an actual crime to contradict your previous statement, I supported that with a citation. For some reason you appear to think that is an obsession or a personal attack?

Responses in bold
aggiehawg
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Rockdoc said:

Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
I was trying to be patient and nice. I have no problem with "Hawgsplaining" to those who are IANALs.

People who claim to be attorneys yet use Google to try to throw weird, irrelevant crap up try my patience.

Make no mistake, our justice system is not perfect, far from it. The rules are there to try to make it as close as possible. When the FBI/DOJ and the federal judiciary is willingly complicit (not to mention horribly educated in law school) to actively subvert and obstruct justice for purely political reasons? That is where we are.
MASAXET
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Rockdoc said:

Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
Do you mind showing me where I was corrected? I must have missed it.

Is this statement true or false: conspiracy to commit an offense against the US is a crime under the US Code?
Patentmike
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
MASAXET said:

Rockdoc said:

Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
Do you mind showing me where I was corrected? I must have missed it.

Is this statement true or false: conspiracy to commit an offense against the US is a crime under the US Code?
Define "against the United States".
PatentMike, J.D.
BS Biochem
MS Molecular Virology


Agnzona
How long do you want to ignore this user?
MASAXET said:

Rockdoc said:

Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
Do you mind showing me where I was corrected? I must have missed it.

Is this statement true or false: conspiracy to commit an offense against the US is a crime under the US Code?


I think Hillary conspiring with the Brits, Russians, DNC and Media to undermine a US election might just qualify.
aggiehawg
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
NM. Anger got the best of me.
RoscoePColtrane
How long do you want to ignore this user?
drcrinum
How long do you want to ignore this user?


Don't forget -- the above is supposed to be dropped this week too.
techno-ag
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Agnzona said:

MASAXET said:

Rockdoc said:

Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
Do you mind showing me where I was corrected? I must have missed it.

Is this statement true or false: conspiracy to commit an offense against the US is a crime under the US Code?


I think Hillary conspiring with the Brits, Russians, DNC and Media to undermine a US election might just qualify.
Lots of people have conspired against Trump.
Trump will fix it.
Rockdoc
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
MASAXET said:

Rockdoc said:

Lib lawyers don't like to be called out and corrected, especially when their bias outweighs their brains. But you knew that I bet!
Do you mind showing me where I was corrected? I must have missed it.

Is this statement true or false: conspiracy to commit an offense against the US is a crime under the US Code?
No I don't mind!
Bonfire1996
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
I'm here to tell you, they will not release anything self-damaging before the midterms. You guys think they care about a directive from the White House? They don't give a fuc what trump says. They have a protocol that they think they control. They will evade, deflect, delay, and finally claim national security will be compromised because of the sources and methods used to ensnare the very Russian collusion they were charged to investigate.
Wildcat
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
That's when you start firing people on national television.

techno-ag
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Bonfire1996 said:

I'm here to tell you, they will not release anything self-damaging before the midterms. You guys think they care about a directive from the White House? They don't give a fuc what trump says. They have a protocol that they think they control. They will evade, deflect, delay, and finally claim national security will be compromised because of the sources and methods used to ensnare the very Russian collusion they were charged to investigate.
You pretty much gotta do what the President's EO says to do. Or else.
Trump will fix it.
Mission Velveta
How long do you want to ignore this user?
Bonfire1996 said:

I'm here to tell you, they will not release anything self-damaging before the midterms. You guys think they care about a directive from the White House? They don't give a fuc what trump says. They have a protocol that they think they control. They will evade, deflect, delay, and finally claim national security will be compromised because of the sources and methods used to ensnare the very Russian collusion they were charged to investigate.
Wouldn't his people have access to the information? What stops Trump from just releasing it without their consent?

If he doesn't have direct access, what stops him sending the U.S. Marshall service to seize it? Or in a lesser nuclear option method, White House lawyers.

I mean all that would be extreme, but I don't see how they can stop him in the long run. He is the ultimate classification authority. Their power derives from his office to keep things classified or not.
Rockdoc
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
And what if trump already has the documents?
akm91
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Wildcat said:

That's when you start firing people on national television.


Doesn't Horowitz already have the un-redacted documents anyway?
Bonfire1996
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Rockdoc said:

And what if trump already has the documents?
I hope he does. He should release them via twitter. He should fire dozens of people at the DoJ and FBI yesterday. But he won't. And they know it, and therefore they will delay and deflect.
Wildcat
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
akm91 said:

Wildcat said:

That's when you start firing people on national television.


Doesn't Horowitz already have the un-redacted documents anyway?


If so, what are we talking about? Just put them out there.
Rockdoc
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
He probably had rather go through the correct channels, but if they refuse, BOOM!
akm91
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
I can't remember but I'm pretty sure Horowitz has all the text messages because he had to go to other agencies to get the tools/expertise to recover texts from database on the phones themselves that the FBI didn't know existed.

I don't know about the FISA application though.
fasthorse05
How long do you want to ignore this user?
I still think Hawg is dead on when she said, many moons ago, that Mueller will now use this as an obstruction charge.

I'm sure that's what WH legal guys have been stressing over for the last week. Now we'll see, because I think it's coming. I've wondered how few, even the guys on Fox, and other conservative outlets, haven't mentioned this.

Hate is how progressives sustain themselves. Without hate, introspection begins to slip into the progressive's consciousness, threatening the progressive with the truth: that their ideas and opinions are illogical, hypocritical, dangerous, and asinine.
This is backed by data.
tsuag10
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
akm91 said:

I can't remember but I'm pretty sure Horowitz has all the text messages because he had to go to other agencies to get the tools/expertise to recover texts from database on the phones themselves that the FBI didn't know existed.

I don't know about the FISA application though.
The only IG report that we have seen from him so far was his review of the HRC Email Investigation. I think his reports on FISA, etc. are either ongoing or just not released yet.
Rockdoc
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Mueller can write a report on obstruction but I don't think there's anything there. The libs and MSM will latch onto it, but nothing will come of it. They'll impeach him if they can find a way for any reason.
Mission Velveta
How long do you want to ignore this user?
fasthorses05 said:

I still think Hawg is dead on when she said, many moons ago, that Mueller will now use this as an obstruction charge.

I'm sure that's what WH legal guys have been stressing over for the last week. Now we'll see, because I think it's coming. I've wondered how few, even the guys on Fox, and other conservative outlets, haven't mentioned this.


He has already supposedly stated he can't charge a sitting President. So his only shot at stopping Trump is his report to the DOJ. Obstruction is a fairly tale IMO. Trump would be done with his first term before this could go through all the legal challenges required to charge him with anything. He has to know this. By then, all this crap has seen the light of day and Trump is clear to fire those in the DOJ protecting Mueller.

I'm not naive, I know this isn't the end of the fight, but it sure is a step in the right direction.
akm91
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
tsuag10 said:

akm91 said:

I can't remember but I'm pretty sure Horowitz has all the text messages because he had to go to other agencies to get the tools/expertise to recover texts from database on the phones themselves that the FBI didn't know existed.

I don't know about the FISA application though.
The only IG report that we have seen from him so far was his review of the HRC Email Investigation. I think his reports on FISA, etc. are either ongoing or just not released yet.
Page and Strzok were both involved with the HRC email investigation and their text messages were within Horowitz' purview. Looks like he has all of them, un-redacted.

Quote:

Horowitz said that while the initial process of obtaining Strzok-Page messages from the FBI was "easy," recovering the "We'll stop it" text proved "challenging." He also said that the painstaking process used to recover the message and others raises concerns about the FBI's text message retention system.

Horowitz said that the OIG's cyber forensic team obtained Strzok and Page's FBI phones in order to extract any missing text messages. The team then relied on an outside contractor that the agency frequently uses in order to see whether there were other forensic tools that could extract messages from the phones.

"They provided us with some additional tools, so we did a second extraction and gained more text messages," Horowitz testified.
The third step was an outreach to the Department of Defense to see if Pentagon experts had any other tools that could be used for the investigation.

"They gave us those tools and we used that and we extracted more text messages," said Horowitz.
The Aug. 8, 2016 Strzok text was discovered during a routine quality control check that the OIG conducted in early May, Horowitz said.

OIG's forensic examiners discovered "that the phone had a database on it that was actually also doing a collection of text messages," said Horowitz.

"They extracted those messages from the phone and found the second part of the August 8 text, 'No, no, We'll stop it.'"

"It turned out that the FBI wasn't aware that that database on there, which was supposed to be an operating function, was actually collecting data," explained Horowitz, who plans to release a report on the OIG's text message recovery process.
Example of FBI technical "expertise"
tsuag10
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG
Yes. That sounds right. Those are the texts that took them 4 tries to recover (perfectly normal, right?).
fullback44
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG

Some MAD Dems tonight...

Gotta tell you Dems, it gets worse after today, get some rest, it ain't getting any better !

drcrinum
How long do you want to ignore this user?

fullback44
How long do you want to ignore this user?
AG

James OKeefe is one bad dude... if I could come back to earth as someone else.. I would come as myself but have the balls of James OKeefe .. dude is nails, not scared of the deep state. Patriot

If Trump had bull balls hanging from his plane, they would look like James OKeefe Balls
RoscoePColtrane
How long do you want to ignore this user?
Panic is setting in, and this pencil neck is tweeting nonsense out of desperation.


Never take a hostage you aren't willing to shoot,
Remember, America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.
Code 7 10-42
RoscoePColtrane
How long do you want to ignore this user?
The new narrative



And the irony of this, Swallowswell "dared the President to declassify all the surveillance documents back in April 2017. Bluff Called



https://www.swalwellforcongress.com/swalwell_dares_trump_declassify_the_surveillance_documents
Never take a hostage you aren't willing to shoot,
Remember, America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.
Code 7 10-42
RoscoePColtrane
How long do you want to ignore this user?
Never take a hostage you aren't willing to shoot,
Remember, America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.
Code 7 10-42
First Page Last Page
Page 623 of 1410
 
×
subscribe Verify your student status
See Subscription Benefits
Trial only available to users who have never subscribed or participated in a previous trial.