Transcripts of Lisa Page’s closed-door testimony in July 2018 were released Tuesday by Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) on Tuesday, which included the following exchange with Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX):
Lisa Page confirmed to Rep. John Ratcliff, under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information.
According to recently unsealed testimony we now know President Obama was briefed and made aware of the dossier in Jan. 2017 1-1/2 wks before the inauguration. The 1st 33-pgs of the dossier was delivered to the FBI by John McCain via his aide David Kramer in Dec 2016. — Catherine Herridge
The transcripts with Lisa Page also indicate that Peter Strzok had no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia prior to the launch of the FBI and special counsel investigations into the matter.
All charges against Flynn, Papadopoulos, and Stone should be dismissed with prejudice. Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Rosenstein, and Ohr should immediately be charged, as should Adam Schiff, Glen Simpson, and Chris Steele.
Loretta Lynch needs to be questioned by DOJ OIG as to why she let Hillary off the hook after a private tarmac meeting with Hillary’s husband, Lynch’s former boss who was responsible for Lynch’s career.
Page confirmed that the Department of Justice led by Attorney General Loretta Lynch had “multiple conversations” about charging Clinton with gross negligence but noted that it would be a rare decision.
“[T]hey did not feel they could sustain a charge,” she said, referring to the Department of Justice.
Paul Plante says
I am frankly amazed that there is anyone in this country who think that the so-called “Department of Justice” is really concerned with “justice.”
It is nothing more than a political hack-o-cracy.
It has the power to determine who gets to skate, as was the case with Hillary Clinton, and who gets to get brought up on false and rigged charges.
It does not deserve to be called a department of “justice,” for true justice does not reside there.
Paul Plante says
A much more fitting and suitable name for the so-called “Department of Justice” would be “Corrupt Politicians’ Federal Bureau of Protection.”
Carla Jasper says
Amen. If that happens, I will buy large amounts of lottery tickets. If the country can finally see justice done, maybe I my luck has changed as well.
Stuart Bell says
When Obama, or whatever his real name is, loses the protection of the National Security Letter that has protected him from background investigations, he’ll find himself in front of a military court, facing a life in prison.
Yes, Barry Soetoro will find himself relegated to punk status in a prison general population, and there he’ll live Happily Ever After!
Ed Coet says
WHAT ALL AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S ALLEGED SAP COMPROMISE–MAJ ED COET, USA (RET)
[COURTESY: CAPT Les Horn, USN (Ret)]
My name is Ed Coet. I am a retired US Army Intelligence Officer. In my last job in the army I was the Chief of the Human Intelligence Branch for the US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. In that capacity I was also the Designated Program Manager for a Special Access Program (SAP) like the SAP that Hillary Clinton is alleged to have compromised in the most recent State Department Inspector General report to congress and which has been widely reported in the news. Here is what I personally know about SAP’s and what I can attest to in an unclassified forum:
1. The names of each SAP are themselves classified Top Secret because the information within the SAP are far and above Top Secret.
2. SAP’s are so sensitive that even people who have security clearances giving them access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartment Information (TS SCI), an enormously high security clearance level, cannot have accesses to a SAP’s unless they receive a special indoctrination into the SAP based on an operational “must know” that exceeds all other “need to know” standards.
3. Being “read on” for a SAP is far more then acknowledging in writing that you have been briefed on the SAP. It is an in-depth “indoctrination” into the given SAP, and each SAP is itself compartmented separately from other SAPS. Having access to one SAP does not give you access to another SAP, and in fact rarely does. Only a tiny handful of people have knowledge of all SAP’s. SAP’s are the most stringently compartmented and protected information in the entire US government.
4. Unlike Top Secret SCI which is maintained in highly secure Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilitates (SCIF’s) managed by specially trained Special Security Officers (SSO’s) at various levels of command, every single SAP is managed by an individually designated Program Manager for each individual SAP covering an entire theater of operations. In other words, SAP Program Managers are far fewer in number than there is SSO’s. SSO’s are not cleared to even know about SAP’s or to maintain information about them in their already enormously secure SCIF’s. How SAP’s are secured cannot be discussed because of the sensitive beyond Top Secret nature in which it is done.
5. Unlike individuals with the highest Top Secret SCI access security clearances, who must undergo a special background information with periodic “bring-up” background investigation, those tiny few who have access to SAP’s must also endure periodic polygraph tests in addition to the most comprehensive of special background investigations. I used to have to schedule four-star generals and admirals to be polygraphed in order for them to maintain their access to my SAP. Many generals and admirals who obviously have the highest security clearances still did not rate being indoctrinated into my SAP. In fact, they didn’t even know the SAP existed.
6. Compromise of a SAP is the single most dangerous security violation that can ever happen to the USA. Even the enormously damaging revelations of the Edward Snowden’s TOP Secret SCI security compromise does not reach the level of a SAP compromise.
7. To put SAP information in to an unsecure sever like Hillary Clinton’s unsecure server is a class one felony that could, in some cases, result in life in prison. That is because such a compromise is so dangerous that it could and likely will result in the death of people protected by and within the scope of the SAP.
As a former SAP Program Manager I believe it is inconceivable that if it is verified that Hillary Clinton’s server actually had SAP information on it that she could possibly escape indictment and criminal prosecution. As hard as it is to imagine, that would even be worse then electing to not prosecute a mass murdering serial killer because even they could not inflict as much damage on our country as the compromise of a SAP. Compromise of a SAP not only could — but without doubt would — cause serious damage to our national security.
If it is true that Hillary Clinton had SAP information on her unsecure server, whether it was marked or not, you can be sure that the FBI will strongly recommend that charges be brought against Hillary Clinton and continue in an exhaustive investigation to trace back to every single person that had even the tiniest role in this unbelievable security compromise.
If the Attorney General, through “prosecutorial discretion,” elected not to prosecute this crime, I believe congress would have no alternative but to impeach her, and the FBI would then have no choice but to conduct a criminal investigation of her for a deliberate cover up –- so grave is this security violation.
If President Obama were to pardon Hillary Clinton for a compromise of this magnitude he would render himself in the historical record as an “enemy of the state,” and could himself face criminal prosecution –- so grave is such a security compromise. Nobody, not even the POTUS could gets away with something like this in our system of government. If anyone could escape persecution for compromising a SAP, we are deep trouble as a nation. No president who loves this country and is true to his oath would ever allow anyone, not even his or her closest and most loved relative, to get away with a SAP compromise. It is simply unimaginable that this could ever happen.
If the ongoing investigation finds that Hillary Clinton compromised a SAP, then we all should know with certainty, regardless of political persuasion, that she is entirely unfit to hold public office of any kind let alone President of the USA — and ALL Americans should never tolerate it. Compromising a SAP is an absolute “disqualifier” for public office and access to our nations most sensitive information – period.
ED COET
Major, US Army (Retired)
Paul Plante says
Sadly, Sir, and thank you for your service and welcome home, you served in a military capacity for a nation that sets no standards of fitness for its elected public servants, all the way up to president.
There are no disqualifications to running for and serving as president, even if one is a felon.
Eugene Debs ran for president while in federal prison on sedition charges, as I recall.
Given that, Hillary Clinton is as fit as a felon like Eugene Debs to run for and hold public office here in the land of no standards whatsoever.
But perhaps there is cause for hope for the future, anyway, and this according to none other than the “AUTHORITATIVE VOICE OF INSIDE THE BELTWAY” the Washington Post, in their article “‘I’m not for impeachment,’ Pelosi says, potentially roiling fellow Democrats” by Mike DeBonis and Rachael Bade on 11 March 2019, where it looks like Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is finally ready to take the bull by the horns and step up to the plate to impose real fitness standards on American presidential candidates, or at least the Democratic ones, as follows:
Asked if he was fit to be president, she countered, “Are we talking ethically?”
“Intellectually?”
“Politically?”
“What are we talking here?”
When a reporter said all, she said he was not.
“All of the above.”
“No.”
“No.”
“I don’t think he is,” she said.
“I mean, ethically unfit.”
“Intellectually unfit.”
“Curiosity-wise unfit.”
“No, I don’t think he’s fit to be president of the United States.”
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That is what I am for, myself – make them prove they are fully qualified in every way mentioned by Nancy Pelosi there, including ethically fit, and there Hillary Clinton would be disqualified, right at the get-go, and intellectually fit, which would disqualify New York State’s favored entry Kirsten “Tina the Parakeet” Gillibrand, and curiosity-wise fit, and finally, politically fit.
Like assessing whether a full colonel is fit to wear a general’s stars.
Otherwise, what we are stuck with is a multiplicity of Democrat platforms such as this one proposed as the Democrat platform for 2020 by “Tina the Parakeet” Gillibrand in an article in The Hill entitled “Gillibrand backs federal classification of third gender: report” by John Bowden on 17 February 2019, as follows:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) reportedly said she would support for federal recognition of a third gender Friday at a campaign event in New Hampshire.
The senator, who is running for president in 2020, told a room of LGBTQ activists that she would support a third designation of “X” at the federal level for those not identifying as a man or woman, according to CBS News.
“Yes,” Gillibrand said when asked if she would support such a designation at the federal level, according to CBS, which noted that she received applause from activists for her quick answer.
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Hillary Clinton is very much a huge fan of Kirsten Gillibrand.
Jack Trump says
I cannot thank Capt. Horn and Ed Coet enough for putting this together so precisely. Their experience points out, in my opinion w/o prejudice, what has really gone on here. As they stated, IF Ms. Clinton has done what has been widely reported, then we have all been witness to the worst attack on freedom and integrity from the highest offices of our own government. It sadly has been appearing to me for quite some time now, that the greatest threat to America is not Russia, China or Rocket Man. Our biggest problem is The Enemy Within. I cannot prove it, but I do believe, that these criminals that are assisting the accusations and coverup of Ms. Clinton, is all being bought and paid for by The Clinton Foundation $. Just where did it all go ? Did all these people conspire w/Ms. Clinton and risk their careers and futures because they all love and respect her policies so much ? Or is it just slightly possible that they were each swayed by a few million dollars ? The Russian Hoax. Read the book
Blue Hoss says
HEAR!!!!!
HEAR!!!!!!!!