Ron Johnson Walks Back FBI 'Secret Society' Claim

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Source: dailybeast/REUTERS



REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday walked back his comments claiming that there is a “secret society” among the Department of Justice and the FBI to undermine the Trump administration. The allegations were based on a text exchange between two FBI agents that are accused of anti-Trump bias. On Wednesday, however, Johnson claimed he did not know “what they meant” in the exchange,.......

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-johnson-walks-back-fbi-secret-society-claim

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The fool now says "............his committee—the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs—will now focus on “the Clinton email scandal.”

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GOP senator claims to have informant alleging secret anti-Trump meetings

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/370397-gop-senator-claims-to-have-informant-on-secret-anti-trump-meetings


By Jonathan Easley - 01/23/18 07:27 PM EST


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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) says that a whistleblower has told Congress about secret meetings between FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials who allegedly gathered to discuss ways to undermine President Trump following his victory in the 2016 election.

Johnson's comments come after House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said two FBI agents accused of anti-Trump bias made reference in text messages to a “secret society” within the FBI and DOJ in the aftermath of Trump’s election.

Speaking Tuesday on Fox New Channel’s “Special Report,” Johnson, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he has an informant to back those claims up.

“The secret society — we have an informant talking about a group holding secret meetings off-site,” Johnson said.

“We have to continue to dig into it,” he added. “This is not a distraction. This is biased, potentially corruption at the highest levels of the FBI.”






JOHNSON, A WISCONSIN US SENATOR MADE A FOOL OF HIMSELF!!

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[Iliyah]

1. The Secret Society is called the Republican Party.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Now it's a 'Secret Society'. They're running outta material.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I was going to say

that the secret society was those Trump supporters that gave Rudy Giuliani that information on Comey looking into the clinton emails again.

[Botany]

13. No double secret probation

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[Wordilocks]

29. HAHAHAAAAAAA

[Pachamama]

30. You beat me to it....

I was saying that earlier to my teen daughter today and she didn't get it....had to tell her about Animal House....

She laughed and got it immediately....She also said that if somebody looked at her texts between her friends and her boyfriend and took every single thing they said in a text literally, that she would have been arrested for things like "I need a Prom dress and can't afford it....better plan to rob the bank or steal some cash because I am broke"....

I think we should all start referring to it as the Double Secret Probation Society....

We can be founding members....

[mopinko]

15. the putin caucus.

[C_U_L8R]

2. First rule of secret society is you don't talk about secret society

This must be driving the Trumpkopfs bonkers. Who got to Johnson??? What if there's a secret society within the secret society? Hey did anyone notice that there are seven letters in FOX NEWS. You know what else has seven letters... RUSSIAN !!!! ZOMG !!!!! Someone call Hannity !!

[gopiscrap]

27. if you didn't notice, Hannity has seven letters also

[GeoWilliam750]

32. And "letters" has seven letters

OMG!!!

OMG!!!

OMG!!!

[gopiscrap]

38. it's a conspiracy

[madaboutharry]

3. There is no "informant"

Ron Johnson made it up.

What the f*** is wrong with these idiots?

[Fred Sanders]

8. The informant is Foxxx News...so all lies and speculation to feed The Base.

[Leghorn21]

4. Walter Shaub, former Director of Office of Ethics adds,

Link to tweet

?s=17

[Freethinker65]

5. This fool beat Feingold?

[justhanginon]

12. Which makes one wonder how gd stupid Wisconsin voters are.

After listening to Senator Johnson I guess the answer is rather self evident.

[mopinko]

16. hate radio is big.

and disgusting.
and people believe it.
and they think they are using their heads.

[riversedge]

20. yes, agree. It blares throughout WI. 24/7

[mopinko]

24. yeah. wpr is great, but strictly a political for the most part.

w the exception of one or 2 shows, like diane ream, it is all classical music and gardening tips.
and of course the carefully massaged npr news shows.
pity.

[riversedge]

34. I like Science Friday

[FakeNoose]

7. Probably there are a lot of FBI agents who hate Cheeto's guts

...but they're not allowed to say it or they'd be fired. So Senator Johnson isn't doing them any favors by mentioning it. He should just STFU. However it's also true that many of those same agents would have done anything before the election to help get Cheeto elected, so which is worse? Rooting for him then, or hating him now? You could say the same thing about a lot of disappointed Repukes.

[gibraltar72]

10. Once broadcast to the

tinfoil hat society via Trump TV it is taken as gospel. I'm glad he's now returned to sanity and si looking into Clintons e mails. Jesus Christ what's wrong with these people.

[haele]

11. Objective acheived for Johnson and the GOP slime pit constiuancy...

He got "proof" of this horrible Deep State organization out in the public as "a desperate whistleblower".
So now, the Reich-Wing can claim he was forced to backtrack because George Soros, the Illuminati, the Alien Watchers, and the Secret Liberal conspiracy are working to kill or enslave all the hard-working, morally correct conservatives/Christians while they create a sexually explicit, tree-hugging, rainbow colored, latte-sipping and quiche eating plutocracy to bring down Gawd's wrath on them.

He's a true hero being silenced by The Man, donchaknow...?

Haele

[Moostache]

31. My thoughts exactly ... damage is done, mission accomplished for Johnson.

His role was merely to do what Fox and the Right Wing Nut bags always do...inflame the base, run the narrative off the rails with suggestions of "someone" looking "negate the will of the people" and then no matter how bat-shit insane the theory, the sheeple listening/watching are too lathered up to bother asking themselves "is this even remotely plausible?"

The base gets their daily fix of disinformation and reinforcement of the persecution complex and rationale thought and truth get slimed in the pit of false equivalency and "what about...isms". I just can't believe how successful it has been. This nation - IF we survive - has got to de-program about 34% of the total population from literally having been brain washed for decades now...it really is a crisis for the concept of self-rule and democratic republic system of governance in general.

Can the will of the people become so subverted and programmed that it becomes irretrievable? We are testing those limits right now...

[StevieM]

14. So they'll investigate phony scandals rather than real ones. (eom)

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The "Secret Society" is Ghouliani's crew in NY

Remember the GOP always "projects".

[awesomerwb1]

18. Too late. These idiots throw this wild stuff out there for Faux to pick up

then Faux runs with it and the uninformed gobble it up. They never get to see any retractions or corrections.

It's just their modus operandi.

[riversedge]

19. MORE from bumbling idiot Johnson!

Title should read--Foxnews and Johnson's made up secret society!




https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/fbi-secret-society-analysis/index.html


The FBI's 'secret society,' explained
Chris Cillizza

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 2:19 PM ET, Wed January 24, 2018

(CNN)Conservative media is aflame of late with talk of a "secret society" within the FBI which has as its goal the undermining of Donald Trump's presidency. The existence of this secret organization is evidence, they argue, of a Deep State conspiracy against Trump. This is a story as big as Watergate, they say.................................


........On Tuesday, again on Fox, Gowdy said that Ratcliffe had found the text on Monday night -- and added that he wasn't sure exactly what "secret society" was referring to. "Now, I have no clue what that means because it was not the phraseology I used," said Gowdy.
Enter Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, also on Fox on Tuesday, who suggested that the phrase "secret society" referred to something quite specific.

"What this is all about is further evidence of corruption, more than bias," Johnson said. "Corruption of the highest levels of the FBI. The secret society -- we have an informant talking about a group that was holding secret meetings off-site."

Then this morning, on -- wait for it -- Fox -- Johnson seemed to back off that claim somewhat. "The term 'secret society' comes from Strzok and Page," he said. "All I said when I read that, it didn't surprise me, because, you know, we are the committee that whistle-blowers come to to talk about all kinds of problems throughout the federal government."

Pressed by the Fox anchor on his claim about off-site meetings of this "secret society," Johnson said this: "I, you know, I have heard, you know, from somebody who has talked to our committee, that there -- there is a group of individuals in the FBI that was holding secret, off-site meetings. And you know, again, that Strzok and Page calling it a certain term, I'm just saying, off-site meetings."

Where is this White House in all of this? "We have not discussed any secret societies and I couldn't speak to their existence, either," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday.

Here's what we know:...............

[LudwigPastorius]

25. "Off-site meetings..."

Poker games?

Beers and wings at the local sports bar?

Holy Shit! Illumiati!!! Gaaaah!!!

[marble falls]

21. Now if we can only get him to walk it all the way back and follow it all the way up his butt hole.

[Jopin Klobe]

22. Ron Johnson Walks Back ...

... 'cause he's a backwards kinda guy ...

[dchill]

23. Tail Gunner Joe arises!

[UpInArms]

26. He needs to go on Faux Snews and tell it out loud

And then he needs to stfu

[chelsea0011]

28. What's the password?

[Dem4eva]

33. He's such a creeper...

reminds me of the albino in 'stick'...an old Burt Reynolds movie:

&t=16s

What a bunch of absolute SHIT heels the Repugs are: trumpler, adolph pence, lyin' Ryan, Turtle McConnell, Benedict Nunes....just a treasure trove of treasonous ass wipes.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

35. who didnt have bias against trump?! Incl our very own Ron Johnson and much of repub party - so

then they make a pact with devil after the nomination and pretend he was their guy all along - puh leeze.

[Dem4eva]

36. well yeah, cuz....

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[riversedge]

37. Tweety covering this. Making fun of Johnson as is the panel.

[Cryptoad]

39. Secret Society,,,,,,,

do they have a secret handshake?, Maybe the Masons have taken over the Gubermint! So Mote it Be!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Basically he's a dick