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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 15, 2019, 02:53:37 pm

Title: Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct begin
Post by: mystery-ak on May 15, 2019, 02:53:37 pm
Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct begins

By Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge | Fox News

A high-level dispute over which senior government officials pushed the unverified Steele dossier amid efforts to surveil the Trump campaign has broken out into the open again, after it emerged that Attorney General William Barr appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if the FBI and DOJ's actions were "lawful and appropriate."

Sources familiar with the records told Fox News that a late-2016 email chain indicated then-FBI Director James Comey told bureau subordinates that then-CIA Director John Brennan insisted the dossier be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference, known as the ICA.

Fox News was told that the email chain – not yet public -- referred to the dossier as "crown material," but it was not clear why this apparent code was used. On Tuesday night, former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News' "The Story with Martha MacCallum" that "Comey has a better argument than Brennan, based on what I've seen."

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Title: Re: Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct b
Post by: thackney on May 15, 2019, 02:57:50 pm
Quote from: mystery-ak on May 15, 2019, 02:53:37 pm
"crown material,"

Because it came from "the queen".
Title: Re: Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct b
Post by: andy58-in-nh on May 15, 2019, 03:05:07 pm
Quote from: thackney on May 15, 2019, 02:57:50 pm
Because it came from "the queen".

Not a bad guess, as a point of origin: Hillary Cersei Lannister Clinton.
Title: Re: Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct b
Post by: austingirl on May 15, 2019, 03:14:40 pm
They're both guilty of treason.
Title: Re: Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct b
Post by: Sanguine on May 15, 2019, 05:34:50 pm
I can only imagine the push-back from the swamp.  It's got to be incredible.