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Botany

(70,449 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:18 PM Dec 2019

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The IG's report was going to be their "fire wall." So much for that.

“Clearly, there was a legitimate, factual basis; in fact the FBI had a moral imperative to begin this investigation,” Blumenthal said. In particular, he said the inspector general had rebutted claims that Trump campaign advisers were illegally surveilled or entrapped, or that political motive was “in any way a factor.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-general-report-trump-russia-investigation/2019/12/09/d5940d88-184c-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html

Thanx to DUer elleng for posting this. It really is her world and we just live in it.

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The IG's report was going to be their "fire wall." So much for that. (Original Post) Botany Dec 2019 OP

FBI is exonerated Wednesdays Dec 2019 #1

Not that Bill Barr cares. Watch him double down on stupid. muntrv Dec 2019 #2

"Watch him double down on stupid." Botany Dec 2019 #4

I stomached about 5 minutes of Fox and Fox Biz channel this AM Botany Dec 2019 #3

Wednesdays

(17,321 posts)

1. FBI is exonerated

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:29 PM

Dec 2019

Breaking per CNN

muntrv

(14,505 posts)

2. Not that Bill Barr cares. Watch him double down on stupid.

Reply to Wednesdays (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:30 PM

Dec 2019

Botany

(70,449 posts)

4. "Watch him double down on stupid."

Reply to muntrv (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:33 PM

Dec 2019

Link to tweet

Botany

(70,449 posts)

3. I stomached about 5 minutes of Fox and Fox Biz channel this AM

Reply to Wednesdays (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:32 PM

Dec 2019

And both were pushing the I.G.'s report will be a bombshell and that is why "they" (the Dems)
were holding their hearings today. So much for that.

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