Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 8:03:10 GMT
There was plenty of THERE there: conservatism.freeforums.net/board/153/russian-connections
TRUMP: And remember this, they spied on my campaign and they got caught. Let’s see now what happens. We must reclaim our independence from the Left’s repressive mandates. Americans are exhausted trying to keep up with the latest lists of approved words and phrases. And the ever-more restrictive political decrees.
This is a reference to the Russia investigation, which examined contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Trump calls the investigation, which was opened by the FBI in July 2016 and eventually taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a "witch hunt," and he has accused the Obama administration of spying on his campaign.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined that the FBI had a proper basis to open the investigation, and he found no evidence of political bias in the bureau's decision to do so. Horowitz did, however, find significant problems with the FBI's handling of surveillance of Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
www.npr.org/2019/12/09/785525132/justice-department-watchdog-report-on-russia-investigation-due-monday
Horowitz also determined that the FBI used what are known as confidential human sources to approach Page and two other Trump campaign advisers to try to determine what they knew about Russia's hacking of Democratic emails. Those efforts were consistent with FBI policy, Horowitz said, and he found no evidence of political bias in the decision to use them.
Ryan Lucas
NPR Justice Correspondent
TRUMP: And remember this, they spied on my campaign and they got caught. Let’s see now what happens. We must reclaim our independence from the Left’s repressive mandates. Americans are exhausted trying to keep up with the latest lists of approved words and phrases. And the ever-more restrictive political decrees.
This is a reference to the Russia investigation, which examined contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Trump calls the investigation, which was opened by the FBI in July 2016 and eventually taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a "witch hunt," and he has accused the Obama administration of spying on his campaign.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined that the FBI had a proper basis to open the investigation, and he found no evidence of political bias in the bureau's decision to do so. Horowitz did, however, find significant problems with the FBI's handling of surveillance of Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
www.npr.org/2019/12/09/785525132/justice-department-watchdog-report-on-russia-investigation-due-monday
Horowitz also determined that the FBI used what are known as confidential human sources to approach Page and two other Trump campaign advisers to try to determine what they knew about Russia's hacking of Democratic emails. Those efforts were consistent with FBI policy, Horowitz said, and he found no evidence of political bias in the decision to use them.
Ryan Lucas
NPR Justice Correspondent