(Daily Signal)—“POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.”
Keep that line in mind when anyone talks about the FBI investigating former Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and beyond.
It’s what Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer, texted then-boyfriend FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok amid the 2016 campaign. We tend to dismiss Page as “Strzok’s girlfriend.” But she was far more than that. Comey’s deputy was Andrew McCabe. McCabe’s right hand was Page. What’s more, Page was the FBI’s White House liaison during the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump investigations. And her message to Strzok, a top soldier in the war against Trump: “POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.”
That president, of course, was Barack Obama. And he wasn’t talking about their canoodling.
When Fox News broke the story last week about a criminal investigation into Brennan and Comey, its sources used the word “conspiracy.” Unraveling what that means would take a whole book. But let’s talk about one incident:
On Jan. 6, 2017, Comey headed to Trump Tower to brief the president-elect on the Steele dossier. This now-infamous dossier had been compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, alleging all sorts of Trump-Russia connections, including sordid tales involving hookers in Moscow hotel rooms. CNN had the dossier story but did not have the “hook” it needed to run with the story. Comey briefed Trump on the trashy elements in the dossier.
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