{"id":1612,"date":"2019-03-16T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T14:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2019-03-16T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T14:35:56","slug":"the-cover-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/03\/16\/the-cover-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cover Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cover Story<em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><em>\u2028<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Trump Tweets &#8211;\u00a03\/15\/19<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>More \u201cNew evidence that the Obama era team of the FBI, DOJ &amp; CIA were working together to Spy on (and take out) President Trump, all the way back in 2015.\u201d A transcript of Peter Strzok\u2019s testimony is devastating. Hopefully the Mueller Report will be covering this. More So, if there was knowingly &amp; acknowledged to be \u201czero\u201d crime when the Special Counsel was appointed, and if the appointment was made based on the Fake Dossier (paid for by Crooked Hillary) and now disgraced Andrew McCabe (he &amp; all stated no crime), then the Special Counsel&#8230;should never have been appointed and there should be no Mueller Report. This was an illegal &amp; conflicted investigation in search of a crime. Russian Collusion was nothing more than an excuse by the Democrats for losing an Election that they thought they were going to win&#8230;THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO A PRESIDENT AGAIN!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s get this clear.\u00a0\u00a0The story the President wants us to believe, is that the FBI and Department of Justice were aligned against him in the election of 2016.\u00a0\u00a0He wants us to think that an FBI \u201ccabal,\u201d  led by Director James Comey, plotted to stop Trump from being elected, and keep him from serving as President.\u00a0\u00a0He needs us to accept his assertion that the evidence that began the \u201cRussia\u201d investigation in the summer of 2016 was the \u201cFake Dossier,\u201d (or \u201cDodgy Dossier\u201d as Carter Page would say) developed by former British intelligence operative Michael Steele.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In fact, he really wants us to believe that the only Russian collusion that occurred was the Clinton campaign colluding with the Russians through Steele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we accept all of this, then the President concludes that all of the crimes that have occurred since; all of the obstruction, perjury, witness tampering, and bribery; were done to protect themselves from a false premise, and therefore are \u201cprocess\u201d crimes, and, according to the President and his supporters, not important.&nbsp;&nbsp;As we grow closer to the climax of the Russia investigation; the final Mueller Report and what are likely to be a series of indictments of those closest to the President, the din of Trump produced \u201cfake news\u201d will grow even louder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June of 2018, the Republican led House Judiciary Committee had a series of closed hearings with those that they considered \u201cthe leaders\u201d of the \u201cPlot to Stop Trump\u201d movement.\u00a0\u00a0Peter Strzok, former Deputy Director of Counter-Intelligence; Bruce Ohr, former Associate Deputy Attorney General and leading expert on Russian organized crime; and Lisa Page, Justice Department Attorney; each were brought before the committee and questioned for several hours.\u00a0\u00a0The transcripts were kept sealed at the time, and the minority Democrats were bound by secrecy from revealing them.\u00a0\u00a0Republicans \u201ccherry-picked\u201d a few key sentences to try to make their points, but Democrats characterized the testimony as debunking the conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the Democrats gained control of the House, this same Committee brought Trump\u2019s personal attorney Michael Cohen in to testify in open and closed sessions.&nbsp;&nbsp;The impact of the Cohen testimony was dramatic; he accused the President of the United States of multiple crimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;His testimony was telling, and came across as truthful, particularly as much of it was backed with documentation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To counter the Cohen testimony\u2019s impact, Republican Congressman Doug Collins, the Ranking Minority Member on the Judiciary Committee, took it upon himself to change the discussion.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the past two weeks, he has leaked the full transcripts of Strzok, Ohr and Page; each hundred of pages.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unlike the Democrats who respected the Committee rules, Collins did so without the permission from the Chairman or the majority.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obfuscation is defined as making something obscure, unclear, and unintelligible.&nbsp;&nbsp;By dropping hundreds of pages of testimony, Ranking Member Collins tried to bury the Cohen testimony.&nbsp;&nbsp;The problem is that in all of that testimony, the Republican Committee members were unable to prove their key assertions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most important for them, was that the FBI, CIA, DOJ and the Obama Administration were trying to \u201ctake out\u201d Trump from 2015.\u00a0\u00a0The FBI opened their investigation into members of the Trump campaign because they were informed that Trump campaign members had contact with Russian intelligence regarding the hacked DNC emails.\u00a0\u00a0Their first source was the Australian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, who reported a conversation with Trump Foreign Policy Advisor George Papadoupolos, when Papadoupolos bragged about knowing about the emails.\u00a0\u00a0This was long before public knowledge that the DNC was hacked, and long before the Steele Dossier was available.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the FBI began to look at Trump personnel, they realized that there were multiple contacts with multiple Russian Intelligence sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;Papadoupolos, foreign policy advisor Carter Page, Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, and chief foreign policy advisor General Michael Flynn all had documented interactions with Russian sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;We know now that in addition to these, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner met with representatives of the Russian government, as well as campaign surrogate Senator Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President has a fundamental\u00a0\u00a0(and intentional) misunderstanding of the role of the FBI.  They don&#8217;t have to &#8220;know&#8221; that there&#8217;s a crime to investigate.  \u00a0The agency, particularly when acting as the counter-intelligence arm of the United States, investigates to see IF a crime has been committed.\u00a0\u00a0They begin with \u201cprobable cause\u201d that a crime may have occurred, then dig in to see whether there was an actual crime.\u00a0\u00a0When the evidence led to the possibility that the President of the United States might be involved, a Special Counsel was appointed.\u00a0\u00a0We now await his results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we wait, we can examine the fundamental flaw in the President\u2019s \u201cFBI conspiracy\u201d theory.&nbsp;&nbsp;If there was a plot to stop Trump, the obvious way to do so would be to leak the existence of the Russia investigation before the election.&nbsp;&nbsp;Just as the Comey announcement of the re-opening of the Clinton email investigation impacted the election, certainly information that Trump was under investigation would have done the same.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Comey, McCabe, Ohr, Strzok, Page and the others were plotting to stop Trump, why didn\u2019t the investigation leak?&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks to Mr. Collins, we can hear Ms. Page\u2019s answer to that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ms. Jackson \u2013 Lee:\u00a0\u00a0If someone at the FBI was trying to stop Donald Trump from being elected President, yourself or Mr. Strzok or others, do you think they could have publicly disclosed that his campaign was under investigation for potentially colluding with Russian Government actors?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ms. Page \u2013 That\u2019s why you would think.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ms. Jackson-Lee:&nbsp;&nbsp;But to your knowledge, no one at the FBI did disclose this fact publicly, correct?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ms. Page:&nbsp;&nbsp;No, ma\u2019am.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ms. Jackson-Lee:&nbsp;&nbsp;Would you consider this strong evidence that there was not a deep state conspiracy at the FBI to stop Donald Trump from being selected-elected?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ms. Page:&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, ma\u2019am.&nbsp;That and the fact that this is an extraordinary (sic) conservative organization.&nbsp;&nbsp;So the notion that there\u2019s a deep state conspiracy about anything is laughable.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conspiracy wasn\u2019t in the FBI or Department of Justice.&nbsp;The conspiracy today is among the Republicans, from Doug Collins to Donald Trump, trying to undercut the Mueller investigation.&nbsp;&nbsp;It isn\u2019t a \u201ccrime\u201d to conspire to undermine an investigation (though crimes may be committed in doing so) but it is wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans need to know the truth, even though that truth may do the opposite of setting the President and his friends free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cover Story&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2028 Trump Tweets &#8211;\u00a03\/15\/19 More \u201cNew evidence that the Obama era team of the FBI, DOJ &amp; CIA were working together to Spy on (and take out) President Trump, all the way back in 2015.\u201d A transcript of Peter Strzok\u2019s testimony is devastating. 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