This article didn't age well. Peter Strzok's own handwritten notes, released this week, clearly show there was no criminal predicate for an investigation of Trump or the Trump campaign by the FBI - but they pushed ahead anyway with James Comey, among others, lying to the FISA Court about the "evidence" the FBI had regarding Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. The c h i t is going to hit the fan sometime before Labor Day - so get ready...

Lol, here we are, Labor Day, Petey! Now, who's chit is hitting the fan? Turns out Rosenstein was playing both sides, Strzok and the FBI and Mueller as special counsel, off each other. Enough evidence for a criminal probe into Trump-Russia financing that each side thought the other was doing. Turns out neither were.

Pure bull****. Did you see Strzok on CBS this morning...? Strzok was asked directly what the basis - i.e. the criminal predicate - was for the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign and Strzok replied, "George Papadopoulos told someone that the Trump campaign had received an offer from Russia to give Trump Hillary's hacked emails". But the problem with that statement is there WAS no "offer" from Russia. It was Joseph Mifsud who told Papadopoulos that "the Russians" had Hillary's emails and that Mifsud could put Papadopoulos in touch "with the Russians" if he wanted the emails. And HOW did Papadopoulos meet Mifsud...? Well, the FBI's legal attaché to the UK contacted Papadopoulos just days after Papadopoulos joined the Trump campaign and told him that Mifsud would like to meet him. Starting to see the big picture here...? Mifsud fed that information about Hillary's emails to Papadopoulos so that Australian diplomat Alexander Downer could then contact Papadopoulos and ask him about "the Russians having Hillary's emails". Once he had George on the record Downer passed that information to the US embassy in London who contacted the FBI. The whole thing was a set up to justify an "investigation" - i.e. spying - on the Trump campaign. Period. And it was ALL done on the orders of Obama. And how do we know that Obama ordered this "investigation"...?

"The WH (White House) is running this..."

Text from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page

Peter Strzok's texts show a real disdain for the American public and their supposed lack of intelligence. What did he call them? Oh yeah, "smelly Walmart shoppers". Well, those smelly Walmart shoppers aren't buying Peter Strzok's bull**** story - and neither are US Atty John Durham or AG Bill Barr...

Problem with your version of the narrative is that it ignores the other pieces of the puzzle, of which the Papadopoulos portion is merely one. Carter Page being on the counterintel radar since 2013 b/c of a Russian SVR recruitment effort being another, before the FBI discovered Page's extensive Russian networking in 2016. Of course, that was already after: Fall 2015: Michael Cohen begins plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow; November 2015: Ivanka Trump connects Cohen to Russian athlete’s wife (Dmitri Klokov) who offers to broker a Trump/Putin meeting; January 2016 — November 2016: Russian social media executive (Konstantin Sidorkov) offers to help Trump campaign; February 2016: Araz Agalarov sends letter expressing “great interest” in Trump campaign; Spring 2016: Paul Manafort shares polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik
; April 27, 2016: Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner meet with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak; May 2016: Trump Jr. dines with Russian banking official, Viktor Torshin; June 2016: Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort meet with Russians at Trump Tower in Manhattan...etc, etc. Faced with all this, with known Russian operatives, you're basically arguing that American national security should've just 'looked the other way' as a political campaign showed every sign that multiple members of that campaign were talking to foreigners about influencing an American election. That's simply not believable. Had the political parties involved been reversed, it's simply not credible that the GOP wouldn't have DEMANDED every stone be unturned, process-and-protocol-be-damned, in pursuit of such 'traitorous conduct' by the 'Democrat Party'. I mean, have you forgotten the 4 years and 8 committees that investigated Benghazi (not a single indictment)? The 7 years investigation into Fast & Furious? The 2 years of IRS Targeting? Every single one claimed what you claim "Obama ordered...". None ever came up with any evidence. Meanwhile, by 2019, the Mueller investigation had put 5 people in the Trump campaign behind bars based on evidence brought to a grand jury and after a trial. I'll be putting your claim here, into that same pile of failed "Obama ordered..." claims. Either every GOP investigation was incompetent, or Democrats are supremely good criminals, or there never was anything credible there to begin with. I'm going with the latter.

You poor fool. Carter Page was a CIA "operational contact" for years - which the FBI hid from the FISA Court. And these two texts PROVE Obama was in charge of the FBI's investigation of Trump...

"The POTUS wants to know everything we are doing...."

Text from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok

"The WH (White House) is running this...."

Text from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page

Any questions...?

Oh Petey...you've been saying stuff like this for years.

Joyce luv ya like a sister and enjoy your appearances on news casts. But I fear you too have drunk the denial kooll-aid of what we are really facing. Justice has been totally subsumed and politicized by Nazis bigots via the Federalist Society and a treasonous alliance with Russia. There are no 'judicial ethics' or 'rule of law'. BolshevikBarr and the Fascist Five are willfully blind to bigotry and usury and serve only the oligarchs.

I want this SOB in jail

Barr's refusal to investigate Trump's continuing obvious abuse of office and subsequent obstruction of the Congressional investigation is grounds for impeachment on it's own. His blatantly political investigation of the FBI should probably buy him some jail time.

Bottom line is...they DID spy...call it an "investigation" or whatever....based on a phony "dossier" bought and paid for by the DNC and Hillary. And altering a FISA application by a "low level" DOJ lawyer is a CRIME. Leaving out the fact that Mr. Page was a CIA asset shows criminal intent.....they all should be prosecuted

You're a liar just like Trump.

The IG report proves Barr was right

Amazing, now we know it's a fact, Trump's campaign was spied on. Illegal surveilance , Horowitz words, was used against Page, using a phony dossier that Steele made up , and paid for by Hillary. Using Page as a conduit, and the two hop rule, anyone talking, emailing, texting Page, was also spied on, going forward, and Backwards. Biggest scandal since Watergate, and much worse, Obama using the FBI and CIA to spy on Trump , is criminal!

All foam, no beer.

When you lie, repeatedly, to a judge that is a crime

Low-level? No. The guy was the top FBI attorney. And Richard Painter is a joke and a FNG nutcase! Talk about lies!

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Run back down to the basement and fix your tinfoil tiara princess.

Biden was reinforcing American policy in the region, esp. in terms of Ukraine's corrupt chief prosecutor. It was US policy, not Biden's.

He didn’t. You moron.

so you at least agree that they weren't spied on then?

well that took forever............... your apology is accepted........

And the award for velcro shoes were invented for me goes to? AOC reduces carbon footprint. Congratulations you are officially dumber than a turnip with fewer ethics and morals. Kindly go drown yourself in the nearest unflushed taco bell toilet.

The Dumbfuckery you spew is laughable.

trumps was not spied on little guy!!!

Lying on a FISA application is what you consider to be a demonstration of professionalism by experts? That’s unethical acts by hacks! Lol

Repuke lies under oath, online Russian trolls, pretending to be American Repukes, defend him.

Not surprisingly the white evangelical Christian Republican party of 'law and order' doesn't support 'law and order' when it comes to investigating or providing oversight on their white evangelical Christian Republican politicians.

I'm not a fan of Barr's recent actions, but to impeach him on that statement would be ridiculous. For one thing, he was pretty new on the job, and may not have known that much. For another thing, he said "I think," so it's his opinion. It's also semantics-- "spying on the campaign" vs spying on an individual or individuals involved with campaign.
Yes, as AG, he should have been more careful with his words, and if the IG report doesn't show anything illegal, then he will have egg on his face, but that's all.

IMO, he should have never been confirmed, since that letter he wrote showed clear bias in favor of POTUS, but he's not going to prison. The most that will happen is he'll be forced to resign, but even that is pretty doubtful.

I hear ya, but I'm (mostly) a realist.

I won't support any politician that is not actively seeking to put EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the Trump admin and family AND republican leadership. Every single one deserves the death penalty with the ban against cruel and unusual punishment lifted.

World needs both I guess. Carry on, my friend.

This is Barr's second go around as AG ~ previously served in Bush #41 Administration so he he should be "aware" of how he speaks or answers question posed to him.

Trumpturds are scared. They know they are done.

Oooh look it's another Trumpian treason monkey a prolific subspecies of the ferret headed orange shitgibbon.

Go back to your sandbox and play with your Tonka trucks. The grown-ups are talking.

Donnie's been manufacturing BS from the day he was born, and as long as it was kept within the confines of his 'business empire' only those too stupid or greedy to be warned off by the stench of his humbuggery got hurt.
These days, anyone who falls for his mendacious claptrap and uses it to oppress others deserves not only excoriation but jailing.
William Barr is such a person.

Another Trumpian treason monkey a prolific subspecies of the ferret headed orange shitgibbon

Anti American piles of crap like you need to stop spreading your lies. Until then good , decent Americans will be calling you out on your horseshit.