Recently obtained FBI emails reveal that James Comey directed the FBI to collude with CNN to destroy the Trump campaign.
New FBI emails obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) proves there was high-level coordination between the FBI and CNN surroundi…
Recently obtained FBI emails reveal that James Comey directed the FBI to collude with CNN to destroy the Trump campaign.
New FBI emails obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) proves there was high-level coordination between the FBI and CNN surrounding the release of he infamous ‘Steele’ dossier.
Zerohedge.com reports: In an April leak of the Comey memos, we learned that the former FBI Director briefed then-President-Elect Donald Trump on the dossier on January 6, 2017 after he wrote in a memo that various news outlets – “CNN in particular” – were “looking for a news hook,” and would soon be reporting on it.
“I said media like CNN had [the dossier] and were looking for a news hook,” Comey wrote of his interaction with Trump.
CNN, on the other hand, considered Comey’s meeting with Trump to have legitimized the document – making it their journalistic responsibility to report on it.
Thus – any coordination between the FBI and CNN surrounding its report on the Steele dossier is highly relevant, since the Jan. 10, 2017 release of the dossier by Buzzfeed immediately after CNN’s report – along with the subsequent firing of James Comey on May 9, prompted the launch of special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation.
CNN’s bombshell report on Jan. 10 of last year includes a claim that Comey gave Trump a two-page summary of the dossier – which Comey denies. Regardless, the fact that CNN knew about the Comey-Trump briefing and a specific claim about a two-page memo begs the question; who leaked to CNN?
New FBI emails obtained by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) provide a look behind the scenes surrounding Comey’s briefing of Trump, as well as what was discussed after the CNN report – suggesting that former Deputy director Andrew McCabe – who was fired for leaking to the press, had specific knowledge of CNN’s plans to publish.
Hours before Comey briefed Trump, FBI chief of staff James Rybicki e-mailed staff that Comey “is coming into HQ briefly now for an update from the ..
