Heres why Comey may have stayed silent on the Russia probe before we voted and it should terrify

[applegrove]

by Elizabeth Preza at Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/heres-why-comey-may-have-stayed-silent-on-the-russia-probe-before-we-voted-and-it-should-terrify-trump/

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A two month-long investigation by the publication revealed that FBI agents likely feared exposing an ongoing operation against “an organized crime network headquartered in the former Soviet Union.” This Russian mob “is one of the Bureau’s top priorities,” spans several decades, and is intricately linked with associates of Trump and businesses the president owns.

As the report notes, federal officials were intent on protecting an FBI source—a convicted criminal with deep links to the organized crime network—upon whom the bureau came to rely for information. Some federal officials “were so involved in protecting this source” they later became a part of his personal defense counsel; upon his conviction government attorneys urged for “extreme leniency” toward this man.

The article further reveals that among the many details Comey was unable to discuss during his Mar. 20 testimony to Congress was the fact that “for more than three decades the FBI has had Trump Tower in its sights,” monitoring its occupants’ deep ties to organized crime networks. According to the report, one former Trump Organization adviser, Felix Sater, fits the bill for the FBI’s source into the Russia-based crime ring.

Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer, is a convicted felon; in 1998, he was charged in a massive $40 million stock fraud scheme involving members of the Genovese and Bonanno families. According to the Miami Herald, shortly thereafter, Sater “began spying for the CIA” and a “was able to track down a dozen Stinger missiles equipped with powerful tracking devices on the black market.” In return for buying the missiles, Sater avoided jail time. According to WhoWhatWhy, separate legal filings on Sater’s behalf indicate “he ‘reported daily’ to the FBI for many years.”


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[Girard442]

1. Commenters on Rawstory are asking...

...you wouldn't compromise your investigation to prevent a psychopath taking charge of our nuclear arsenal? What's the point of investigating?

[Loki Liesmith]

2. FBI agents are territorial

And they all thought Clinton would win anyway

[brush]

6. Nah, if that were so there wouldn't have been an Oct. 28 letter.

Any sentient being would know that letter would shift the election to trump—and that includes Comey.

If he wanted to keep his trump investigation under wraps all he had to do was keep quiet and take control over his rogue agents.

Comey failed miserably at both.

[Mr. Ected]

3. This was a decades-long investigation. I'm sure the FBI needed to protect its assets. Priority #1.

I still firmly believe that the Trump cancer will be surgically excised from the body politic and the IC will be at the center of it all.

The next group that needs to be shown the door are the rogue FBI agents in New York that played footsies with Rudy Giuliani.

[canetoad]

4. Spot on.

Have you read this article from January?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9

Information presently public and available confirms that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director James Comey into interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential election. This conspiracy was made possible with the assistance of officers in the New York Police Department and agents within the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All of the major actors in the conspiracy have already confessed to its particulars either in word or in deed; moreover, all of the major actors have publicly exhibited consciousness of guilt after the fact. This assessment has already been the subject of articles in news outlets on both sides of the political spectrum, but has not yet received substantial investigation by major media.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Bookmarking. Hadn't seen that article. It needs to get more run.

[Girard442]

8. This is like an undercover agent refusing to alert anyone to the impending 9/11 attacks...

...because he didn't want to blow his cover.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. So which is it? Per Louise Mensch, Comey wanted to go public, but Obama stopped him? So now....

the story is that Comey & the FBI were protecting a valuable asset? If this is true, then President Obama got beat up this week for nothing.

[applegrove]

9. I know. I put stuff up because they are possibilities. We'll know when

we know.

[jmg257]

10. Why would releasing info on a Russian / trump election collusion have to involve Sater?

[applegrove]

11. Maybe Trump has been under investigation alot longer than any of us

thought? Maybe?

[ProudLib72]

12. From how the article reads

Sater is/was the lynchpin in their investigation. One thought would be that intelligence wanted to collect more information or was in the middle of collecting new information leading up to the election, and they didn't want their biggest source to be compromised in any way. I'm willing to bet Russia would have immediately guessed Sater was the one working with intelligence. He would have been toast, and they would have known where to cover their tracks.

[jmg257]

13. Ah makes sense - he had been an FBI informant for years.