nortex97 said:
hbtheduce said:
hbtheduce said:
Sarge 91 said:
hbtheduce said:
Without a recording that is all speculation. Is it possible? Sure. But I think there might be some confirmation bias that "Obama was the bad guy, who ordered all this". Comey has plenty of motive and this email is evidence against Comey.
I am guessing Comey might say differently.
Just get the slime balls to start pointing at each other, That is the first step toward flipping them.
Completely agree. Comey might refute this email. I just think its only speculation that Obama clearly ordered Comey to take these actions. If he was smart, he would have ONLY insinuated and left the interpretation up to Comey. Kinda like when Lynch only insinuated that Comey needed to let Clinton off the hook, I think there is a clear pattern that Comey would go "above and beyond" to keep his hold on power, laws be damned.
Comey is a dirty cop who hated Trump. I don't think he would need a direct order from Obama to entrap flynn. I also can see the logic that this Rice email was CYA, But CYA doesn't mean its a lie.
Quoting myself to adjust my thoughts. Its looking like I was incorrect.
With the new information that the office of WH Counsel were the ones who directed Susan Rice to write this email several weeks later. That makes it less likely that Rice was accurately recounting events.
In fact, it brings in the possibility that she was provided and ordered to write this email by Obama. Because this fabrication was meant to hide a possible crime (spying on american citizen without a warrant), just this action in itself might be criminal. What WH lawyer was dumb enough to take on this task?
I'm honestly shocked that Obama administration was this brazen.
They were really very panicked on their very last day. Unmasking Trump's kids, directing the WH counsel compose a defective non-contemporaneous recollection as an official record, frowning in the Rose Garden etc. I think there was some realization from Team Jarrett that they really had failed completely, and the dream of finding 'something' to stop Trump was an unmitigated disaster (as it remains to this day), despite their lawlessness.
After January 20th, didn't most of these players have access to raw signals intelligence due to the EO Obama signed. Supposedly, the EO allowed raw signals intelligence to be shared between the FBI,, the NSA, and CIA.
Since so many participants in this caper were still employed by these three agencies, I suspect there was quite a bit of unmasking or spying done AFTER the inauguration that wasn't done by Mueller's team.