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Mon Jun 18, 2018, 12:19 PM Jun 2018

Salon article regarding IG Report - Gets down to the gritty about FBI leaking.

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1- Good chronicle of how Giuliani was involved prior to the election, bragging about leaks from the FBI that would harm Hillary's presidential run.

2- Comey changes the direction of the election two days later by leaking information on Hillary, but this move was probably influenced by higher ups in the FBI who hated Hillary.

3- Then Bret Baier claims that his FBI sources leaked that Hillary would be indicted after the election, a claim he would later retract, saying that his FBI sources were wrong. No retraction will matter, since the idea has spread through the minds of Trump supporters like an aggressive cancer.

In sum, we have hard right agents in the FBI who are leaking information in order to turn presidential elections. Why are they still there?

Here’s what’s buried beneath that FBI report: How rogue agents sabotaged the Clinton campaign
There was no FBI conspiracy against Trump. But agents loyal to Rudy Giuliani were eager to sink Hillary Clinton

Baier had to apologize for that report later, admitting that his supposed FBI sources "were wrong. But it was already out in the ether: Trump made it a central theme of his rallies, which were carried live by the networks so millions of people could hear them. As Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC when asked if Trump would correct his claims, "Well, the damage is done to Hillary Clinton. No matter how it's being termed, the voters are hearing it for what it is, a culture of corruption."

It seems to have worked exactly as "someone" hoped it would.

Last Friday night, House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes, R-Calif., once again proving that he's a few pecans short of a fruitcake, did it again. He told Laura Ingraham that he had received leaks from Trump-supporting FBI agents as well:

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/18/heres-whats-buried-beneath-that-fbi-report-how-rogue-agents-sabotaged-the-clinton-campaign/

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Salon article regarding IG Report - Gets down to the gritty about FBI leaking. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jun 2018 OP
Is Salon still home base for H A Goodman and his friends? I haven't clicked comradebillyboy Jun 2018 #1
No idea. Baitball Blogger Jun 2018 #2
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