Dan Bongino: These are the people who started phony Russia probe - and must answer for it

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Dan Bongino: These are the people who started phony Russia probe - and must answer for it

By Dan Bongino | Fox New

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's exhaustive probe has come to an end and to the surprise of few outside the mainstream media’s sphere of influence, there was no collusion after all. Those in the media who mindlessly pushed the narrative of Russian collusion in unison will likely face no consequences for being wrong – but perhaps those who started this mess will.

There are no figures in the Trump campaign who colluded with Russia – but there were at least five in the Obama administration who helped push the bogus narratives of collusion and obstruction, and they have plenty of questions to answer.



James Comey

In July 2016, the FBI opened a secretive counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election. In violation of protocol, the FBI did not inform Congress until March 2017. Inexplicably, FBI Director James Comey said it was because the investigation was “too sensitive,” but this is precisely why law enforcement informs Congress of new investigations.

The investigation was a sham from the beginning, as evidenced by many of those charged in connection to it, primarily Michael Flynn. While Flynn was charged with lying to the FBI, Comey would later tell Congress that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn didn’t think he was lying.

With that in mind, remember that one of Comey’s most disruptive leaked memos came from Feb. 14 in which he recorded Trump saying, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting [Michael] Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” The comment made it appear as if Trump was issuing an order to end the Russia interference investigation, even though this wasn’t the case – a point Comey later conceded. In testimony before Congress, he was asked if the president ever asked him to stop the FBI investigation, to which Comey replied, “Not to my understanding.”

Comey’s leaked memo had the effect he intended, as it fueled demands for a special counsel to replace the failing counterintelligence probe

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