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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 10, 2019, 02:49:20 pm
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Collusion
IG Report Shows Comey Lied To Congress About FBI Investigation Of Trump Campaign
Not only did the Obama administration’s FBI target the Trump campaign in the heat of the 2016 presidential election, but it used an intelligence briefing of Trump to gather ‘evidence’ on him.
By Margot Cleveland
December 10, 2019
Soon after Monday’s release of the 476-page inspector general’s report on the Carter Page FISA applications and aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, former FBI Director James Comey took to Twitter to promote his op-ed in the Washington Post.
“So it was all lies. No treason. No spying on the campaign. No tapping Trumps [sic] wires. It was just good people trying to protect America,†Comey tweeted, with a link to his opinion article that demanded “those who attacked the FBI for two years should admit they were wrong.â€
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/10/ig-report-shows-comey-lied-to-congress-about-fbi-investigation-of-trump-campaign/
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That’s not what Comey is saying. He’s in public in interviews saying the IG report clears him and the FBI of all the conspiracy theories. And, of course, the media lapdogs proclaimed in headlines and breaking news that they concur.