Flynn is a small fish. Never heard of him before Trump gave him a shot. Flynn apparently wanted to audit the CIA and other cool initiatives.
Cohen is a 2-bit NYC lawyer/fall-guy. Trump's lackey. He's no Rudy Giuliani.
Stone is a very old and very small fish. Never heard of him either.
I'm happy that Ivanka and Jarad and Don Jr. and Eric weren't involved in anything fishy.
There are protective bubbles around many of the deep state criminals. Lets say that Comey is not going to be prosecuted, but gets a hand slapped for being a bad manager. The FBI lawyer that falsified evidence gets a short prison term. Trump can't re-open the case on Hillary's illegal server, right? Strzok, Page, McCabe already lied to investigators and aren't indicted like Cohen or Stone.
The most we can hope for is that Operation Crossfire Hurricane is outed as the biggest political scandal in US history and that scandal gets hung around BO's neck. I don't know how many indictments Durham will hand out, I hope a lot. I also don't know if/how the FISA court handles being lied to?? But if the Horowitz report is halfway accurate, Durham should come up with more than a few indictments.
If Durham comes up nearly empty, no big fish, that's life in DC, some people ARE IN-FACT more equal than others.
Flynn was anything but a small fish. DIA is a bit deal. Stone and Cohen were Trump’s lackeys. If you’re lackeys are going to jail for being lackeys, you’d think this reflects in the corruption of Trump. Mueller considered charges for Trump Jr but decided against it because he likely had no idea he was breaking the law when he sought information from the Russian government.
I’m guessing Durham comes up with one indictment against the lawyer who falsified the email and everyone gets administrative punishments or fired. It’s going to be hard to prove intention on a lot of these actions.
Crossfire Hurricane the biggest scandal? Please. Don’t be hysterical. A FISA warrant against a small fish was improperly made. That’s not good but calling it the biggest scandal is absurd.
McCabe probably lied about a totally different matter. What’s not common knowledge is that he voluntarily corrected his testimony A FEW DAYS LATER. Goodness. I’m not aware of any referrals for Strzok or Page for lying. Don’t you think it’s ironic that those two, the most vilified of anyone involved, are really only guilty of improper relationship?
In the end, nothing is going to dissuade you. If Durham doesn’t indict them you’ve already decided why.
Maybe calling Flynn a small fish isn't what I meant. I meant that they nailed Flynn for a process crime and did not get Trump. So how big a trophy is nailing Flynn for "lying"? Small potatoes. The FBI nailed a career military general as collateral damage, like soiled toiletpaper..now bankrupt...Not cool.
Intention is very clear to me from reading the texts between Strzok and Page. Don't forget, if you read the books "Witch Hunt" by Gregg Jarrett and "Exonerated" by Dan Bongino, they cover a lot of misdeeds in detail. But as you say, its tough to prosecute "conspiracy" type crimes without getting them to rollover on the bigger fish to get a reduced sentence.
From those books, especially "Witch Hunt", Crossfire Hurricane was the mother of all scandals. Obama used the power of the Federal government against a political adversary.
1. The CIA hired foreign assets to setup Popadopulous for surveillance and kick off the FBI investigation.
2. The FBI setup Carter Page to spy on the Trump campaign using the "2-hop rule" anyone he talks to or anyone they talk to.
3. The Trump Tower meeting was a setup
4. Manafort was under surveillance
5. Flynn was under surveillance
6. The FBI did not give Trump a proper defensive briefing
7. The texts said that BO wanted to know what was going on
8. There are tons of other items, like wearing wires, and bogus FISA warrants, the Steele Dossier, etc.
9. The topper is letting Hillary off for all of her crimes. Where is her server? What subpoenaed evidence did she destroy? Why wasn't she charged?
10. I'm sure that Durham and Barr will come up with a few good indictments proving the Crossfire Hurricane Scandal for the history books
Strzok and Page were the foot soldiers of OperCrossHurr. They were deep state mid-level FBI functionaries working against the president. Strzok went on to the Mueller team with the other Trump haters, until the texts were outed. IMHO Page would hang Strzok....the woman scorned thing.
If Durham doesn't indict its for lack of evidence, not lack of crime, or lack of scandal.
Wow, all I can say is that this is 99% baloney.
1. Wild conspiracy theory.
Its in the books, so they have hard evidence, unlike the FBI.
2. 2 hop rule does not apply to title 1 FISA warrants. That is a part of the 702 surveillance which is totally different. This is a factual error that I’ve run into often. Which of your sources got this wrong?
Dan Bongino, what about non-FISA, like CIA, or NSA, or other types of surveillance?
3. Sure buddy. Another wild conspiracy.
Feinstein got a heads-up for her Chinese spy driver, Trump got no such warning about his helpers.
4. He was under investigation before ever taking a role with Trump.
Manafort was toast before joining the campaign, see #5, no warning, why?
5. Nope. He talked to people who were under surveillance though.
OK
6. This was explained in the Horowitz report. They give defensive briefings to people they’ve concluded were not participating in the crime. They didn’t know that about Trump.
Trump was on track to be president, and all the coxuckers wanted to do was entrap him?! Partisan FBI bullshit.
7. Out of context. The IG shows that Obama was never told anything about Crossfire Hurricane other than its mere existence.
That's NOT what the text message said: FBI texts: Obama 'wants to know everything we're doing'
8. Bogus FISA warrant you got right. Lots of other stuff isn’t.
We'll see the books are very thick, I can't remember all the details.
9. Has it ever crossed your mind that Hillary wasn’t prosecutable because there was no case?
No. If you or I deliberately destroyed subpoenaed evidence what would happen to us?
10. If they don’t will you accuse them of being in on the conspiracy too? No, I trust Barr and Durham, unlike Wray, and I hope we can trust Haspel and Nakasone.
How can you say that there’s a crime if there’s a lack of evidence? It seems your mind is awfully closed. You decided that a crime occurred and, like the ultra partisan authors you’ve cited, will ignore any exculpatory evidence to the contrary.