More Anti-Trump Messages Reportedly Sent By Mueller's Team: "A Lot More Is Going To Come Out"

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More Anti-Trump Messages Reportedly Sent By Members Of Mueller's Team: "A Lot More Is Going To Come Out"

Days after it emerged that former Special Counsel investigator Peter Strzok was fired from Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia probe in August for sending anti-Trump text messages to his mistress while the two were working together on the Clinton email investigation, Sara Carter of Circa told a Fox News panel that there are more anti-Trump messages sent by Mueller's team floating around.



Carter previously emerged as one of the handful of people to review documents obtained by an undercover FBI informant embedded in the Russian uranium industry. Appearing on Hannity's show Monday night, Carter was asked about rumors of more anti-Trump sentiment expressed by Mueller's team:

Sean Hannity: I’m hearing rumors all over the place Sara Carter that there are other anti-Trump text-emails out there. And we know about them.​

Sara Carter: I think you’re hearing correctly Sean and I think a lot more is going to come out. In fact, I know a lot more is going to come out based on the sources I’ve spoken to.​

The clip is below:




Tangentially, it has been widely reported that Mueller's special counsel is stacked with investigators who have donated to Obama, Clinton or other Democrat causes. As Jessica McBride reported in Heavy:

  • Andrew Weissmann: Weissmann is a Barack Obama and Democratic campaign donor, according to federal records. “Weissmann, who led the Enron investigation, previously gave $2,300 to Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008 and $2,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2006
  • Jeannie Rhee: donated $5,400 to Hillary Clinton in 2015 and 2016, according to FEC records. The records show she gave $2,500 each to Obama for America and Obama Victory Fund 2012 in 2011
  • Andrew Goldstein: According to Fox News, “Goldstein contributed a combined $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012”
  • Greg Andres: FEC records show that Andres has donated at least $2,700 to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
  • James Quarles: Donated thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He has also donated money recently to other Democrats, including Friends of Chuck Schumer and two other Democrats. He has a lengthy donation history dating back years. He did donate to two Republicans over the years, however.
  • Elizabeth Prelogar: A former law clerk to Justics Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagen, gave $250 to Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to FEC records. She also gave $500 total to Obama for America and the Obama Victory Fund 2012.
  • Brandon Van Grack: gave small amounts to ActBlue, an effort to raise money for Democrats, and to a Democratic candidate for Congress in 2012. In 2008, he gave about $286 to Barack Obama.
  • Rush Atkinson: donated $200 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
  • Kyle Freeny: In 2012, Freeny gave $300 to Obama. In 2008, Freeny also gave $250 to Obama, FEC records show.
To review: veteran FBI agent Peter Strzok, working under James Comey, headed up both the Clinton email investigation and the Trump-Russia probe before Mueller's special counsel was created to take the reigns. Strzok - who was responsible for changing the FBI's opinion of Clinton's mishandling of classified info from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless," - had an extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page while the two were working on the Clinton "matter." During the investigation, Strzok sent Page anti-Trump / pro-Clinton text messages, which resulted in the dismissal of both Strzok and Page from Mueller's Trump-Russia probe. Strzok now works in the FBI's HR department.

Strzok's conduct during the Clinton email investigation and any other politically charged cases he's worked on, are now being investigated by the DOJ's Office of Personel Management the results of which, per Sara Carter of Circa, will be coming out in December and January.

Moreover, as we reported earlier today, House Speaker Paul Ryan accused the DOJ and FBI of "stonewalling" the House Intelligence Committee's wide-ranging subpoena related to the "Trump dossier," along with the fact that the FBI appears to have willfully tried to conceal the reason for Strzok's reassignment from the committee.

Meanwhile, upon being blindsided with this information and publicly embarrassed, Intel committee chairman Devin Nunes was understandably less than pleased.

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In a statement issued Sunday, Nunes announced a serious escalation: His committee, he said, is preparing to hold Andrew McCabe and assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in contempt for the DOJ's failure to comply with Nunes's subpoena. He also accused the FBI and the DOJ of willfully refusing to comply with an Aug. 24 subpoena in part by refusing the committee's request "for an explanation of Peter Strzok's dismissal from the mueller probe."

“By hiding from Congress, and from the American people, documented political bias by a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia collusion probe and the Clinton email investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to thwart Congress’ constitutional oversight responsibility. This is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele dossier. At this point, these agencies should be investigating themselves.

“The DOJ has now expressed—on a Saturday, just hours after the press reports on Strzok’s dismissal appeared—a sudden willingness to comply with some of the Committee’s long-standing demands. This attempted 11th-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ’s disingenuousness and obstruction. Therefore, I have instructed House Intelligence Committee staff to begin drawing up a contempt of Congress resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Unless all our outstanding demands are fully met by close of business on Monday, December 4, 2017, the committee will have the opportunity to move this resolution before the end of the month."​

It now appears that the FBI will have even more explaining to do as evidence of additional anti-Trump bias among members of Mueller's investigation appear to be on the horizon...
 
Spike Trader said:
Yes , it's shocking that people donated $200 to Clinton and $300 to Obama.
More...

Did they give any money to a Republican also? Remember when Donny was excusing himself saying he like any smart operator gave to both sides.

Of course the guys know this and don't give a damn about reason. :)
 
Obvious questions:

1. How is Rod Rosenstein still employed as number two at DOJ?

2. Why hasn't there been a special counsel appointed to look into now obvious FBI/DOJ corruption?

3. Ditto with regard to illegal unmasking of Trump campaign intercepts and use of faked Fusion dossier as justification for warrant?

4. Why no prosecution for DNC evading campaign finance law?

5. How much longer until Trump shuts down Mueller investigation? Now would seem to be a good time, as embarrassing details about bias emerge and Mueller appears to have abandoned the initial investigation in favor of a fishing expedition.
 
6 Questions That Mueller Should Answer About The Anti-Trump Russia Investigator

Posted By Chuck Ross On 9:57 AM 12/05/2017 In | No Comments



Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office is remaining tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the summertime firing of Mueller team member Peter Strzok.

The former counterintelligence official was exposed over the weekend for exchanging anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text messages with his mistress, an FBI lawyer who also worked on Mueller’s all-star investigative unit.

The revelation has caused shockwaves because of Strzok’s central importance to the FBI’s two highest profile investigations: the Clinton email probe and the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign.

The scandal is not likely to go away soon, especially as the details of Strzok’s work on both of those FBI investigations come to light.



Strzok’s misconduct poses the first legitimate setback to Mueller’s investigation, which kicked off in May and has secured two indictments and two guilty pleas against Trump associates.

If Mueller wants to maintain the integrity of his investigation, he should answer six questions about Strzok.

Why was Strzok’s demotion kept secret for nearly four months?

Strzok’s departure from Mueller’s team was first reported on Aug. 17 by ABC News. But the explanation for the personnel change remained a mystery for months, until The New York Times and Washington Post reported about Strzok’s text messages over the weekend. Strzok is now working in the FBI’s human resources division.


Mueller’s office had refused in the interim to comment on Strzok’s departure. That didn’t change this week as the special counsel’s office has refused to provide details about Strzok.

Are Strzok’s activities an optics problem or something much worse?

Strzok is far from the only Mueller team member who appears to have overt political leanings. It has been well documented that numerous Mueller prosecutors have donated to Democratic political candidates, including Clinton and Barack Obama.

But for some reason, Strzok’s private comments are of greater concern to Mueller than some of his prosecutors’ political activity.

It could be that Strzok’s text messages are so beyond the pale that Mueller could not ignore them. It could also be that Strzok’s foundational role on the Trump-Russia unit threatens to sully the integrity of the entire investigation.

Strzok was on the ground floor of the Russia investigation when it was opened at the end of July 2016.

CNN reported that Strzok, who before his demotion was the No. 2 counterintelligence official at the bureau, signed the documents that officially opened the probe. (RELATED: Anti-Trump Text Messages Show Pattern Of Bias On Mueller’s Team)

In his top role, Strzok would have been directly involved in the shaping of the investigation. He also would likely have been one of the first FBI officials to come into contact with the infamous Steele dossier, a salacious but uncorroborated document that bears significantly on the collusion narrative.

Former British spy Christopher Steele began working on the dossier in June 2016 after being hired as a sub-contractor by the Clinton campaign and DNC. He briefed an FBI acquaintance on early July 2016. The New York Times has reported that the information made it to the Russia investigation team — led by Strzok — several weeks later.

It is also likely that Strzok was involved in applying for and obtaining a secret surveillance warrant against Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser who is accused in the dossier of colluding with the Kremlin.

Federal officials obtained the warrant in September 2016.

Page, who has vehemently denied the allegations in the dossier, told TheDC over the weekend that he is “curious…whether [Strzok’s] fingerprints” are on his warrant.

Did Strzok take part in the interview with dossier author Christopher Steele?

Perhaps one of the more important events in Mueller’s investigation is an interview conducted with Steele.

According to reporting from October, Mueller investigators interviewed Steele somewhere in Europe at some point in the summer.

The timing of that interview has taken on new significance amid the Strzok news. It is not known whether he took part in that interview, though there is a strong possibility that he did, given his central role in the investigation.

It is also not known when the FBI and Strzok became aware that Steele was working as a sub-contractor for the Democrats.

Why did the Strzok story leak a day after Flynn’s guilty plea?

The curious timing of the leak about Strzok is hard to ignore. The story hit a day after Flynn accepted a guilty plea for lying to the FBI earlier this year about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition period.

The obvious question is whether Mueller, the Justice Department, or the Justice Department’s inspector general waited until after the Flynn plea to disseminate the story about Strzok knowing that the revelations would have hurt prosecutors’ position at the negotiating table with Flynn’s lawyers.

Another question is whether Flynn and his legal team were aware of the Strzok development when they agreed to the plea deal with Mueller’s team.

Flynn’s lawyer, Robert Kelner, declined comment on Monday.

What’s up with this CNN report published just after Flynn was fired?

A CNN report published back on Feb. 16 suggests that Strzok did not believe that Flynn intentionally lied in his Jan. 24 FBI interview about his contacts with Kislyak.

CNN reported that though Flynn changed his story during the FBI interview, he would not be charged because he convincingly claimed that he had misremembered certain aspects of his conversations with Kislyak. (RELATED: Strzok Interviewed Michael Flynn)

Whether Strzok indeed did believe that Flynn was not lying is a question that Congress might want to ask.

Strzok also conducted interviews in the Clinton email probe with Clinton and several of her top aides. Two Clinton aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, appear to have given misleading statements about what they knew about Clinton’s server. But contrary to what happened with Flynn, neither Abedin nor Mills faced legal ramifications for those statements. (RELATED: Clinton Aides Went Unpunished After Making Misleading Statements In Interview With Embattled FBI Agent)

Did Mueller ask the FBI and DOJ to prohibit Strzok from being interviewed by congressional investigators?

The FBI and DOJ have for months ignored requests from the House Intelligence Committee to interview Strzok. California Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the committee, blasted the agencies over the weekend for “stonewalling” his requests to interview Strzok as well as FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

According to the Washington Examiner, Nunes and the Committee submitted five separate requests to interview Strzok. The agencies finally agreed to make Strzok available after the reports were published about his text messages.

But the stonewalling raise the question of whether Mueller asked the DOJ and FBI to keep Strzok from meeting with the committee.

Nunes has threatened to hold the agencies in contempt of Congress if they don’t soon provide access to Strzok and certain documents related to the dossier.

FBI Director Christopher Wray is likely to be pressed on many of the above questions on Thursday, when he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.

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“I want the American people to know this truth: The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong. And the FBI is, and always will be, independent.”
Me (June 8, 2017)

— James Comey (@Comey) December 3, 2017

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino torched Comey in response:

Yes, the working men & women of the FBI are patriots. I’ve worked with many of them during my time as a federal agent. You on the other hand are a dishonest political hack who decimated America’s faith in blind justice. History will judge you and it will NOT be pretty.

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 4, 2017
 
The point isn't whether you gave only $200 to a political candidate, but that you are supposed to be impartial in your quest for justice, and these donations imply that you cannot be.

It's really simple.

A businessman giving to both sides to support his ventures in business and a senior DOJ official giving to one side, and then investigating the other doesn't amount to the same thing. At all. On any planet.
 
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