Post by Portiaami on May 24, 2020 11:34:36 GMT
The day Obama triggered Obamagate
By Jack Cashill
www.wnd.com/2020/05/day-obama-triggered-obamagate/
When the final chapter is written on Obamagate, historians will look to the April 10, 2016, as the day President Barack Obama triggered the eponymous coup.
Leading from behind as was his wont, Obama was never so far behind that he could not see what was to come. From time to time he showed his hand, starting with an April 10, 2016, appearance on a Fox News Sunday morning show with Chris Wallace.
Speaking of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's non-secured emails, Obama said what now reads like a punch line to a joke, "I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case."
Promptly subverting that guarantee, Obama denied Clinton had risked national security and dictated the case's outcome: "She has acknowledged − that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails, that she has owned, and she recognizes."
Obama had reason to protect Hillary. An indictment increased the odds the White House would fall into enemy hands. If FBI Director James Comey and his colleagues were uncertain of Obama's will before that appearance, they no longer were.
The task fell to the now notorious Peter Strzok, the FBI's lead investigator on the Clinton email case – codename "Midyear Exam" – to align the FBI's messaging with that of the White House.
It was Strzok who changed the language in an earlier draft by Comey from "gross negligence" – the exact words in the Espionage Act – to "extremely careless," the wording Obama introduced in April.
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By Jack Cashill
www.wnd.com/2020/05/day-obama-triggered-obamagate/
When the final chapter is written on Obamagate, historians will look to the April 10, 2016, as the day President Barack Obama triggered the eponymous coup.
Leading from behind as was his wont, Obama was never so far behind that he could not see what was to come. From time to time he showed his hand, starting with an April 10, 2016, appearance on a Fox News Sunday morning show with Chris Wallace.
Speaking of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's non-secured emails, Obama said what now reads like a punch line to a joke, "I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case."
Promptly subverting that guarantee, Obama denied Clinton had risked national security and dictated the case's outcome: "She has acknowledged − that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails, that she has owned, and she recognizes."
Obama had reason to protect Hillary. An indictment increased the odds the White House would fall into enemy hands. If FBI Director James Comey and his colleagues were uncertain of Obama's will before that appearance, they no longer were.
The task fell to the now notorious Peter Strzok, the FBI's lead investigator on the Clinton email case – codename "Midyear Exam" – to align the FBI's messaging with that of the White House.
It was Strzok who changed the language in an earlier draft by Comey from "gross negligence" – the exact words in the Espionage Act – to "extremely careless," the wording Obama introduced in April.
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