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#BREAKING: @AmbassadorRice’s team confirms to #FoxNews that she was directed by White House Counsel to write the Jan 20, 2017 memorandum documenting an Oval Office meeting in which President Obama & National Security officials discussed #MichaelFlynn.
— Gillian Turner (@GillianHTurner) May 20, 2020
Everyone knows that note-to-self CYA emails you write at the direction of a lawyer, weeks after the event allegedly being memorialized, is the Gold Standard as regards candor and truthfulness.
Right?
But wait, you should ignore that, because partisan Democrat operatives Bill Kristol and Literal Nothing Tim Miller declare that Obamagate is a “conspiracy theory” and that the email Rice admits she was directed to write by Obama’s in-house shyster proves that everything was in fact done “by the book.”
“The scandal is the Trump administration trying to weaponize America’s foreign policy and intelligence agencies to gain advantage in a presidential election…again.” https://t.co/4GpVmvf5KO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 20, 2020
So wait: If it’s an improper, illegal act for government agencies to investigate someone’s poltiical rivals…
Wasn’t the entire Russiagate hoax investigation improper and illegal?
It’s not? Oh, that weaponization of the IC and FBI against a political opponent was just and proper, because Drumpf because Different Rules for Democrats.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi strikes again.
These people are literally taking money from the same Democrat Deep-Pocket Donor class that fills the coffers of the DNC.
UPDATE:
2) The position of President Obama and Susan Rice is that the White House was unaware of any FBI investigation of Flynn (or the Trump campaign); nor did they have any involvement in directing it to take place.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
3) A day prior to this meeting, DNI James Clapper briefed President Obama on the nature of the call between Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Michael Flynn.
Clapper received raw “intelligence cuts” about the call from FBI Director Comey & used them to brief President Obama. pic.twitter.com/WE9FMaKV7t
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
4) When James Clapper walked directly into the White House with “intelligence cuts”, from the FBI to share with President Obama, it’s likely the legal team around Obama -specifically including Kathryn Reummler- went bananas.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
5) In this context doofus Clapper -with his FBI cuts in hand- just infected the White House with direct knowledge of an ongoing FBI investigation of the incoming administration. In that briefing Clapper removed their carefully assembled plausible deniability. pic.twitter.com/LFuD2L1Dcc
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
6) Worse… if anyone should later question FBI Director Comey about it, Comey would say (honestly) he knew Obama was briefed on it because he provided a paper trail.
WH counsel Ruemmler would have immediately identified the White House exposure.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
7) That sets up the need for Obama and Rice to organize the pull-aside meeting the following day January 5th.
White House needs to put the issue on Comey. Hence Obama telling Comey "by the book" but don't tell me anything. pic.twitter.com/peIyCTQ6Kh
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
8) The problem at that point (post meeting) was the risk of it being Obama's word -vs- James Comey.
Comey had records, a paper trail, for his escape; the White House did not.
It's a he said/he said risk.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020
9) So WH Attorney Kathryn Ruemmler tells Susan Rice to create an extemporaneous record of the conversation, in case things go sideways later on.
Rice writes the 'memo to file' with objectives for content provided by Ruemmler.
/END pic.twitter.com/S7F6hHJEO6
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 20, 2020