DOJ Will Interview Senior CIA Officers to Review Their Actions in Spygate
Old media mantra: We must investigate everything to make sure that democracy was not subverted
New media mantra: How dare you investigate anyone to find out if democracy was subverted?
The walls are closing in on Brennan and Crapper, the Brennan and Crapper wheels are coming off, we've hit a tipping point with Brennan and Crapper...
The interview plans are the latest sign the Justice Department will take a critical look at the C.I.A.'s work on Russia’s election interference. Investigators want to talk with at least one senior counterintelligence official and a senior C.I.A. analyst, the people said. Both officials were involved in the agency's work on understanding the Russian campaign to sabotage the election in 2016.
While the Justice Department review is not a criminal inquiry, it has provoked anxiety in the ranks of the C.I.A., according to former officials.
Let me quote dozens of New York Times statements about the Mueller inquiry:
What reason hath an innocent man have to fear an investigation?
Senior agency officials have questioned why the C.I.A's analytical work should be subjected to a federal prosecutor's scrutiny.
Let me quote the New York Times again:
No man, no matter how high-ranking in government, should be above the law.
Justice Department officials have given only broad clues about the review but did note that it is focused on the period leading up to the 2016 vote. Mr. Barr has been interested in how the C.I.A. drew its conclusions about Russia's election sabotage, particularly the judgment that Mr. Putin ordered that operatives help Mr. Trump by discrediting his opponent, Hillary Clinton, according to current and former American officials.
Mr. Barr wants to know more about the C.I.A. sources who helped inform its understanding of the details of the Russian interference campaign, an official has said. He also wants to better understand the intelligence that flowed from the C.I.A. to the F.B.I. in the summer of 2016.
The review is unlikely to be confined only to the activities of the F.B.I. and C.I.A. It could also look into the work of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies.
Oh, hello, James Crapper.
The C.I.A. focuses on foreign intelligence and is not supposed to investigate Americans suspected of wrongdoing. It is supposed to pass on to the F.B.I. any information it acquires in the course of its espionage work about the actions of Americans.

Paul Sperry@paulsperry_
BREAKING: In (LIVE) hearing, Nunes just pronounced: "The counterintelligence department over at the FBI is in big trouble."
8:53 AM - Jun 12, 2019

Paul Sperry@paulsperry_
BREAKING: In (LIVE) hearing, Nunes asserting investigation of Trump campaign began in late 2015 & not the official FBI line of July 2016 and that "multiple people" within FBI and DOJ were leaking about that investigation in 2016-2017
8:51 AM - Jun 12, 2019
Meanwhile, the media is buzzing that Trump said that of course he'd listen to anyone, including a foreigner, who had dirt on a rival candidate.
The media is filled with heart-ache at the gobsmacking vileness, and yet keeps deliberately omitting to mention that, Oh yeah, Hillary Clinton did
exactly that, and has never answered a single pointed question about it.

Buck Sexton
✔@BuckSexton
Democrats never have an answer to this question:
How are Christopher Steele (foreigner) and his Russian sources for the dossier (foreigners) not considered “foreign influence in our election”?
Because he got paid AND swindled the FBI like a bunch of clowns?
Michael Tracey
✔@mtracey
The Hillary Clinton campaign paid a foreign intelligence operative to gather damaging information on their opponent -- but you know, whatever
6:31 PM - Jun 12, 2019