GOP probes put new focus on Obama State Department

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republicans have former President Obama’s State Department in their crosshairs as they question whether FBI and Justice Department investigations into President Trump were tainted by political bias and influence from key figures in Hillary Clinton's orbit.

Congressional Republicans have signaled that they are looking at whether the State Department, then run by John Kerry, passed along information from Clinton’s allies that may have been used by the FBI to launch an investigation into whether the Trump campaign had improper contacts with Russia.

A highly redacted criminal referral from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offers new clues about the GOP probes.

In the referral, Grassley writes that former British intelligence official Christopher Steele crafted a memo in addition to the infamous dossier of opposition research on Trump funded first by the conservative Washington Free Beacon website and then by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Grassley has referred Steele to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation, alleging that he lied to the FBI about his contacts with the media.

The memo, dated Oct. 19, was given to Steele by a contact at the State Department and was based on information provided by “a friend of the Clintons,” Grassley said.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/372431-gop-probes-put-new-focus-on-state?rnd=1517872117/?userid=229233

[chuckstevens]

1. This is BULL SHIT!

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Steele went into hiding because he feared retaliation

from Russian-leveraged operatives, and here we are CHUCK.

[Freethinker65]

3. The Trump Russia connection began before the campaign with $$$$ for Trump's developments

Does Trump really want the GOP to go there?

Let's just release all of the info on Trump's businesses, his tax returns, information on his "foundations" prior to when he announced his candidacy. Let's see who he was palling around with. How did he become introduced to Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Russian oligarchs willing to lend him $$$$ when no US banks would.

Subpoena that information and Trump will suddenly resign for health and family reasons....and that is before the campaign even started.

Steele began digging around quite late in the game. Foreign intelligence corroborated many aspects of the dossier.

[world wide wally]

4. How deep is Grassley in with the Russians?

[MiniMe]

5. The Steele dossier was started by the repukes during the primaries

To try to stop the Donald.